I got one of these emails by Amazon.fr, giving me ideas of what to buy ... what "they think I might be interested in"

Here:
I didn't know they were doing guides and I really wonder what's in there. Tips to get to the fanciest parties? Haute Couture addresses? Hilton reviews?
I'm apparently uncultivated because they've been around for quite a long time...

(Oh and I almost forgot, I think they proposed it to me because I looked for a French translation of the rough guide the other day.). 

Title: Things we had to say
Author: scolastik
Beta: None. If I don't post it right away I would never do it.
Rating: PG-13
Pairing: House/Stacy
Spoilers: None
Disclaimer:  House MD and its character don't belong to me. But for once the -no so great- title does.

Summary: "Breaking up is never easy, I know but I have to go. Knowing me, Knowing you. It's the best I can do."

N/A: Well this is dedicated to anyone feeling like crap tonight. And especially to someone who I hope would know I'm talking about her.

( She couldn't recall how long she had sat on this bed. )

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Now playing: The Mountain Goats - Sometimes I Still Feel The Bruise
via FoxyTunes    

Oh this is MY question. Some of you will agree, it's better I ramble about fairy tales here than in endless conversation with you. 

I've always been kinda fairy tale obsessed, obsession which didn't fade when I had to studied the "Contes de la Mère L'Oye" (Charles Perrault) in my last year of high school. I'm obsessed by them but I also find them sexist and stupid in a lot of ways. I remember writing trashy versions of some of them. 

And the funny thing is, I've never really dreamt of a wedding or being a bride or anything.

My favourite one as a child?
It's really tight between "Diamonds and Toads" (Les Fées in French), and Donkeyskin (Peau d'âne in French) both by Charles Perrault. 

I think I fell in love with the first one because of the magnifiscient illustration in a book I used to read at my grandparents'. I like the second one because Donkeyskin was active and did things, she wasn't just waiting for the prince to find her, she's the who "kinda seduce" him.

This is for the happy ones. 
Because when I was 8 or 9 I discovered my mother's old book of fairy tales by Hans Christian Andersen.

And I fell in love with "The little Match girl", this one of the saddest bedtime story I've ever read. 


Anyway that will do. 
But before I  go back to serious things. (I'm so obsessed with fairy tales I have a full playlist about them in iTunes)

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Now playing: The Killers - A Dustland Fairytale
via FoxyTunes    

Well I speak French quite well (with all the it's my mother tongue thing). I speak a very broken English (I think you can tell by now).
I've got some pretty solid basis in German but never practising makes it hard to really speak it.

And after 3 years of studying Italian in High School I know practically nothing of the language xD.

I was a nerd in elementary school ... and everything was my favorite subject, except the Sport lesson (which I dreaded so much). 
But I guess what I really loved was the reading part ...
And as I'm still reading nowadays I guess it has something to do with my life.

Early in high school I became obsessed with Mathematics and Physics to the point I wanted to become an Astrophysician or something like this.  

Then I developped my crushes on English and History and one might say it has something to do with what I'm studying now. (Though Political Sciences can hardly be linked to anything you do in High School).

I don't believe in the concept of second chances. 

To explain it simply, people I love the most, got a unlimited set of chances attached to my undying love.
No matter how badly they screw up, I'll always be there for them. And for me to turn my back on them they would have to completely cease to be themselves.

Bottom line is ... there're not many of them.

For the rest of the world I don't have expectations so generally they don't need a second chance because I don't care.

And if you're talking about crimes and such things I don't think individuals can judge what society hardly can.

EDIT : Plus, I'm always the one needing second chances ...

1920's: Les Années Folles, as we called them in French, or for that matter Die Goldene Zwanziger.
Just before everything got screwed up and completely wrong ...
I think I would have love to be an American living in Berlin. Germany was the place to be at this time, despites the big problems due to Versailles' Treaty ...
Philosophy, Psychology, Political Science, Sociology ... Cinema, Theater everything was in German.

I think my crush on this specific point in history is somehow linked to my love for Marlene Dietrich

Today is the International Women's day ... Not that I'm all for the concept. Like Men have all the other days let's give one to say it's bad discriminate against someone because of gender.

But Man!

I just spent 15 minutes reading a selection of the most misogynist remarks in French medias this year. And I'm utterly amazed/revolted by this.
God knows there were women in the light this year ... Hillary Clinton and Sarah Palin on an international view and some Ségolène Royal, Martine Aubry powerfight in a French point of view. 
I don't agree with most of these women, some of them I hate the image they're trying to give of themselves.
But I will never accept someone saying "Go back to your oven and children and let's men do men's jobs!". To be frank I sometimes forget there is such a thing as misogyny nowadays. I'd like to be able to say to my children if I ever have some "Misogyny? Yeah that's an old concept. Nobody thinks like this anymore"

But ...

I won't translate the article who made my blood run cold: but using words such as sow, boudin (= blood sausage, but in this context ugly woman), talking about the way one woman was drag into mud while refering to a human being is not OK, it should never be ok. 
I don't remenber reading an article about a man against whom the only accusations would have been his looks.

Maybe this is a French thing (as scandaloussteph  suggested it last night), maybe not. But I'm just sick of it all, sick of having to fight twice as much when I want to propose my ideas than the average guy. Sick of seeing my ideas dismissed because I'm not as pretty as the girl next to me ... (who gave the same ideas, but happens to have long legs and cleavage to go with it).

To anyone who speaks French, I strongly advise you to go and read this thing. They classified the attacks by types, showing very clearly you can read articles without noticing the strong gender stereotypes they're using.

They gave the Oscar to Paris' Bishop...
Someone who dared say something like "The problem is to find educated women. The thing is not to wear a dress, it's to have a brain."
And yes there was a context to this sentence ... but even in context it's not justified ...


Oh and my favorite :
"Feminists are not only bossy women or frustrated bitch, they're also lesbians!"

So true to myself ... I'm going to ask this nice man, and what's the problem with that?

Anyway ... I apologize for this non-related to fandom post. But I just had to get this out of my system.
(and in a way, after my late conversation with lauriestein  last night, I think some people in House fandom are really women haters, which is weird considering fandom is made of 99% of Female writers/fangirls/artists)

(Title doesn't have anything to do with the title post => I was tired last night).

I'm playing with my computer because sleep just doesn't kicks in.
And here is the result:

     

These were a no-brainer ... But I had fun doing them.
Feel free to pick one, or to steal the idea if you can make them look better or have another idea.

A few years ago, one of my closest friend answered the question "Why are you friend with me?" with such a powerful answer, I cried for a little bit.
Compliments don't usualy touch, because I might be too self-loathing to take them seriously but this time I just ... I wrote down what she told me, and I think I still have the piece of paper somewhere at my parent's house ...

Anyway I love people telling me I'm smart and brilliant it's always pleasant to know some people don't take you for a dumbass. I don't give it too much credit though. I have high standards to judge myself and nowhere near meeting them ...

Anyway this one was really fun to do.

I hate calling someone I don't know very well. I'm more comfortable texting but I do prefer the quick answer calling give you. And you're sure the person get your message.
The thing I hate is voice mail ...
Anyway I think text way more often than I call.


(ok now I'm off doing something productive)

1- Les Liaisons Dangereuses, Laclos
2 - Politiques, Aristote (in case I find some other human being to start a new society)
3 - Orlando, Virginia Woolf
4 - Metamorphoses, Ovide (a lot to read and more entertaining than the Bible)
5 - La Bete Humaine, Emile Zola

I have to say: chosing only 5 is heartbreaking. I had twenty more at least.

- The Kid
- Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
- Goodbye Lenine
- The Hours
- The Great Dictator

No a real story ...

My fourth first name (Yes! I have four first names) is Scholastique (I've been given this name for my Great grandmother, she was 89 when I was born and all of my other great grandparents were dead).

Anyway all my childhood I had to explain what was this weird word on my ID, to teachers, sports animators, friends ... I didn't really like it. (I didn't like my first name at all but that's not the story).

However a few years ago I developped some kind of pride about this name (to the point I would have loved to name me Scholastique ^^'). I had been berenicia on the web for a while but I found it boring and I wanted to change. So I transformed Scholastique in scholastik and here was my new online ID. 
When I suscribed to lj scholastik was already taken so I took out the h ... 
And here I am :

scolastik.
(and I love it!)

Title: Halitosis... Remember?
Author: scolastik
Beta: vicodinaddict
Pairing: Huddy
Rating: PG-13
Genre : Humor/Romance
Spoilers: None. (I mean until Top Secret maybe xD)
Disclaimer:  House MD and its character don't belong to me. And that's sad, sooo sad ....

Summary: Cuddy’s dating and House can’t leave her alone.
                   I guess you could say it's set in late Season 3 after the Tritter stuff.

N/A: I want to thank for vicodinaddict the bêta work and soraa for her thoughts and time she took to answer me.
There has been pessimism around the fandom lately and I haven't always beeen optimistic ... So here it is ... My love letter to the ship because I love them so much. It's some kind of old-fashioned Huddyness ... Don't get me wrong I love Season 5 for the most part ... But that's what came to my mind.

Feedback is more than welcomed ... I'm looking forward to them more than the chocolate cake I just cooked.
English is not my mother tongue ... I hope I didn't mess-up too much.
This was prompt by a line of Accidental Babies by Damien Rice and I mention Camembert, Snails and Frogs but this was written while listening to songs like The Bad Touch (Bloodhound Gang) and eating strawberry jam buns (just like cinnamon buns except you put strawberry jam instead of the cinnamon stuff).
Here ... you know everything!




( I bet he's making you brush your teeth )

J'ai retrouvé ça sur mon ancien disque dur ... Je l'avais fait à l'époque (y'a environ deux ans ...) Le voilà actualisé avec des chansons neuves.

Les règles sont les suivantes :

* Allumez iTunes sans sélection au préalable et pressez le mode « aléatoire ».
* Appuyez sur « suivant » à chaque nouvelle question.
* Utilisez le titre du morceau apparaissant comme réponse à la question, même si cela n’a pas de sens. Pas de triche !
* Commentez ces réponses pour expliquer comment elles se relient à vos questions.

(c'est un peu faussé étant donné que y'a pas mal de trucs que j'écoute sur CD qui sont pas dans mon itunes ... mais bon toute façon 26 chansons ... c'est peu)



MDR, la prochaine question aurait eu le droit à Special Needs ... spécial c'est le cas de le dire.

Not being able to sleep is a good thing (SOMETIMES)

It allows you to :
- have a relatively normal social life
- have relatively good university results
- write awkward texts
- follow too many TV-shows ...

Anyway here is this week's TV recap ... by me and me only. Don't expect big long reviews (I'm not good at them), it's just my feelings although Grey's might get something big ...

BEWARE SPOILERS FOR THIS WEEK'S EPISODES

( My true love ... House )


( The L Word )

Just seen a video with Eicca Toppinen which made me laugh, if you're a Apocalyptica fan here it is.

I won't say anything about HIMYM ... the episode left me cold ... (didn't buy it at all)
Without a Trace was good, but not really good, good.


( Damages )


( Big stuff coming : Grey's or why I should stop watching and why I know I won't )

Don't have many things to say about ( Private Practice )


And we're reaching the end of my crazy week =)

( Bones or (?) )
(I've decided I'll watch all the "United States of Tara" this summer ... no time to add one more show :D)

So that was my week ^^. I'm not ashamed of anything I watch xD
(Have I ever told you I can sum up the plot of The Young and The Restless btw let's say 1990 and 2003 ?)
I'm off doing something productive ... like studying or cooking or ..

sleeping.

One more thing ... if somebody give a love life ... I'll happily trade my TV-addiction for the lover :)
(should take me the same amount of time ^^')

Soooo ... At first I wanted to do this RPF thing between HL and LE. I had the plot bunny and all. But it didn't work out.
Instead I ended up writing this. I think I won't post it anywhere else (I'm soooo ashamed).
The idea came from the spoiler pictures which have been flooding the internet since last week but even if you haven't seen them you can read this ... there's no real spoiler in this.

Oh and I got to mention it : This is a birthday present for lauriestein 
(They say it's the feeling which counts not the present itself ... I hope it's true)

Title : The day David Shore ask them not to write about the show.
Author : scolastik
Disclaimers : I do not own House. And all the events which are depicted here are purely fictional. 
Spoilers : As I said it's inspired by the pictures which have been flooding the spoilers sphere lately
Rating : PG-13

Warning : No beta, all mistakes are mine ... and there might be some since nobody betaed this.

Summary : No summary, the title is expressive enough.



( The Day David Shore ask them Not to write about the Show )


7 minutes after midnight GMT ... (not that bad ...)

My parents are already there so I don't have much time (already listening to my mother's alternative medicine theories ...)

I stole this from lauriestein  :

THEVALENTINE'S♥DAYPOSITIVE♥FEEDBACKMEME: MY THREAD

I think this is a great idea. You always need some love. So just =) spread the love.
And I think I'm gonna go to bed ... My parents are so exhausting ...

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