Live Alone - Franz Ferdinand.

(And I should write a proper post instead of this writer's block things)

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Now playing: The Mountain Goats - Michael Myers Resplendent
via FoxyTunes   

University and their stupid habit of not telling us when and where is the meeting I'm supposed to attend on the 14th.

A friend and I made a sport out of it, when we were going out in straight Clubs ...
When drink was bought and half-drunk, the other one came "rescued" us, when it was a little bit too much, saying she needed us somwhere (preferably very far away).

Edit: But I've also got very nice people buying me drinks :-) ... And actually, that's always nice.

And I haven't. (booze is expensive, I keep my money to buy my drinks)

*LJ is working again ... YAY!*

Don't know whether there's gonna be people to play or not :-) But it really sounds like fun.

1 - I once had a chat with a presidential candidate.

2 - My biology teacher in my 3rd year of middle school happened to be my mother.

3 - My first boyfriend took me to Sin City on our very "first date" and I couldn't go in because I'd left my ID at home.

Title: Ten (slightly stupid) uses for toilet paper.
Author: scolastik
Beta: vicodinaddict0o 
Rating: PG
Spoilers: Until 511. (not using events which happened after this one)
Disclaimer: Everything is David Shore's property, and I'm just playing ;-)

Warning: (some serious stupid humor is required) None
N/A: Written for the house_of_fanfic  contest, with no intention to win at all, just playing and having fun. Thanks for the feedback I got along the way.
Prompt was Cuddy: 274. 10 uses for toilet paper.

( 10 (slightly stupid) uses of toilet paper )

Title: Shoes etc.
Author: scolastik
Beta: vicodinaddict0o 
Rating: R
Spoilers: Until 511
Disclaimer: Everything is David Shore's property, and I'm just playing ;-)

Warning: The scene which makes this fic R is the start of an agression, so just be warned
N/A: Written for the house_of_fanfic  contest, with no intention to win at all, just playing and having fun. Thanks for the feedback I got along the way.
Prompt was Cuddy: Five great pairs of shoes she’s owned.


( Shoes etc. )

Fantômette ! And I don't think this has ever been translated into English.
Straight A student, athletic and big reader Françoise has also a secret identity. 

When needed she becomes Fantômette and chases vilains. 
She doesn't have superpowers except she's really really really clever ...

God I loved these books ! (though the serie technically stopped two years before I was born)


( Bonus ! )

My favourite part of her costume? Her dagger!

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