W.B. Yeats - I have spread my dreams under your feet

HAD I the heavens’ embroidered cloths,
Enwrought with golden and silver light,
The blue and the dim and the dark cloths
Of night and light and the half light,
I would spread the cloths under your feet:
But I, being poor, have only my dreams;
I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.

W.B. Yeats (1865–1939)
"He Wishes For the Cloths of Heaven"
from The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats

Dr. Seuss - How Did It Get So Late So Soon?

How did it get so late so soon?
It's night before
it's afternoon.
December is here before it's June.
My goodness how the
time has flewn.
How did it get so late so soon?

Theodor Geisel
also known as Dr. Seuss

The Answer

Well done to Dermo, the 'poem' below is actually from an Apple ad from 1997! I was surprised when I read that at at first because, well it was quite a skillful poem. I expected some comments about me being crazy...but...thanks for not writing that, people!

I think I'm going to post more poems because I found a good site that has a handful of really nice ones.

Task for today...

Do you know where the quote below came from? Leave me a comment if you do. Warning: be prepared to be branded a geek if you know the answer! All will be revealed in a few days time!

Here's to the Crazy Ones

Here's to the crazy ones.
The misfits. The rebels.
The troublemakers. The round
pegs in the square holes - the
ones who see things differently.
They're not fond of rules and
they have no respect for
the status quo. You can praise
them, disagree with them,
quote them, disbelieve them,
glorify or vilify them.
About the only thing that you
can't do is ignore them.
Because they change things.

Cute...

I hope Karen doesn't mind me stealing this and putting it up here! I just thought it was really sweet and a cool picture! I think it's an ad for converse or something!

Paris Photos

Well, our Flickr account is now up and running. So for Paris photos click on this link: www.flickr.com/photos/paris2006/

Well I've finally mustered the energy to recount some things from Paris - I'm off work sick today (I know it sounds suspicious since I'm only back from my holidays, but I really am, I almost threw up in the shower!!). Some highlights from our trip:

Brian who wanted us to spend an hour in the park with him (we didn't by the way)

Antonio who made fun of my french but he said my name nice so he's forgiven

The old man on the train who was a source of all knowledge, showing us where Diana had her accident etc, but who then told us to 'have lots of white children' :-?

Our friends from America/Mexico who said we were the first girls they had met who didn't like to go clubbing

Sudden gusts of wind at Versailles which almost blew up my skirt - it took three of us to hold it down!!

Ok they were the funnies, now for some of my favourite places:

Versailles/Palace of Versailles. If you are in Paris for any more than a few days you HAVE to go here. The house is amazing (where the Treaty of Versailles was signed) but the gardens are the best. Versailles itself is also nice although we didn't see much of it. It takes a whole day but it's so worth it!

The top of the Eiffel Tower. I didn't like the journey on the lift much but the top was great, espcially the view. I don't understand why people propose up there though (aparently Tom Cruise did), I didn't find it that romantic, it was quite industrial looking! Romantic would be a cruise on the Seine (which we also did and it was fab too!)

The Metro. It's fantastic and so easy to use. We are now experts having taken at least two journeys a day so if you want to know how to use it, just ask me, Gayle or Lisa!

The Hobby Horses at Sacre Couer, they were just so old, and double-decker too!

Galleries Lafayette: our local department store was amazing. My favourite shop of all time, I spent most of my money there! To be honest our wee area (the Opera) was much better for shopping than the Champs Elysees (although you still have to go there for the experience). The Champs Elysees mainly consisted of cafes, car shops, cinemas, at the most 5 designer shops and about 6 or 7 shops like Virgin Megastores and Gap.

My other favourite shop was Sephora, a wee perfume/makeup/bodycare shop. When I say wee, it was actually massive (at least the Champs Elysee one was) and they sold every brand even Stila and such, but their own brand was the best, very reasonable as well!

Where I didn't like:

The restaurant where we ate on Sunday night, Lisa's chicken had blood in it and the waiter was very rude. I can't quite remember the name but I'll tell you where it is if you're going to Paris - avoid it like the plague!

Climbing up to the dome of the Sacre Couer. Don't attempt if you dislike any of the following: narrow enclosed spaces, winding staircases, dark places, dusty places, grafitti, spiders. To be fair i didn't actually see any spiders but it will be your constant thought if you are scared of them. I almost had a panic attack on the way up i think, and the stairs just kept going up and up! The view from the top was good and I took the time to recover and take some photos before running back down!!

Flickr address

Ok, we've got a flickr address (there's nothing on it yet so don't be rushing to check it!!). But when we do post our photos the address will be: www.flickr.com/photos/paris2006

Our Fantastic Holiday

I just got home from Paris yesterday, it was amazing! There's too much really to write about in my blog but I'm sure I'll tell you all about it when I'm talking to you! The plan is to put all our photos together and create a joint flickr site about our Paris trip (with captions!), so I will let you know when that's up and running. I'll put a wee taster photo up here tho!

Bushmills Photos

Ok, so this is actually being posted on 14 June but just to keep things in chronological order (that's a big word for my blog!) AND SO THE PARIS STUFF GETS AT THE TOP, I put this date on it!! So here we go, the photos from our wee birthday North Coast trip:

You might not be able to see it but I'm wearing the sparkly thing from our icecream in my hair! This was saturday night in Morellis, was far too cold and windy to go near a beach!!

I really enjoyed my icecream sundae, even though I only ate a third of it!!

Sunday morning at the beach

I love the beach...

doing the Baywatch run... (shoes in tow!)

Lisa and Gayle at the wee cafe in Ballintoy - believe it or not there were more photos of lisa than this one, but she deleted them before they reached my computer.

Me and Gayle in the cafe

This wee dog was so funny! We had stopped in Cushendun after navigating Torr Head (not as scary as people made it out for the first half of the journey, but there were some hairy moments when passing cars on a hill later on!). Anyway the pooch trotted alongside us as we were driving out of the harbour, the poor wee thing was struggling to keep speed with the car but it kept going till the end of the road. Bless!

Girls on Tour

I was in portrush at the weekend. I FORGOT MY CAMERA!! So will have to wait until lisa and kerry send me their photos and then I will post photos and related stories!

Because I had to write an essay this weekend, I went a bit mad with my camera (go figure). I just thot I'd post some of my photos for the fun of it!

And, just to prove I have a colour camera...

I didn't want to make a big deal of this...but...I'M 21 NOW!!!! As of last thursday I became a proper grown up. Just don't expect miracles where maturity is concerned. ;)

I went out for dinner on Friday night with my family to Tony Romas. The food was amazing, I even tried a rib and it was nice! But the cheesecake...ooh it was to die for, but please don't, cos I love you people really! Here's some pictures, I'm afraid you'll have to be content with looking at me, because noone else would let me put the pictures on the web!!




















in the cocktail bar waiting for a table.















At dinner

I thought this was really artistic - fanta orange and soda and lime.

Yet again I'm up late doing work. This is not because my work has taken me extra-long to do (although at the rate i'm going it will) but because at 11oclock this morning i went to shop for a new top for the spring concert on Thursday nite and didn't get home till 5, then it took me the usual 4 hours to get started (if i was home at 12 that would have been 4 oclock ...) so here I am. I actually think i'm going to leave the assignment now for a bit and do all the other bits and pieces so ALL I have to do is juggle assignment and Cinderella practices. So right now I'm away to make a crown. Starting to be glad I'm Prince Charming now as my costume requires a lot less work than, for example, the ugly stepsisters.

Hairy Hightown

My fear of the Hightown is completely rational, see here for why...

Right this is the part where I tell you what's been happening in my life recently. I haven't been writing much about that for a while, because, well my life's been really boring and I wouldn't want to subject you to that, I also haven't got LeeAnne's knack of making the mundane sound really interesting!! But I haven't been that boring this week so I'll tell you about it.

For one of my modules this semester we have to put on a short play that could be performed by Key Stage One pupils (that's P1-P3 for all of you not in the know!!) Our group consists of me, jenny f, joanna, julie, jenny k, and steph so we hadn't really much of a chance from the start of being motivated enough to work until the last minute. But we did have enough randomness to make a very interesting play. We decided very early on what we were doing, so make way for the ALL singing, ALL Dancing, VERY Artistic and RHYMING CiNdErElLa!! I'm now very excited. Two days ago all we had was a script for rhyming Cinderella off the internet, and we had decided who was who etc (by the way I'm Prince Charming, not sure how I'm going to pull off the macho look, but we'll see...) but since then everything has just fallen into place and we have a whole play with lots of dances and songs and (a few overenthusiastic [in a good way] ugly sisters, a pair of most annoying blisters - jen and juls ;-) ) So anyway, we all decided yesterday afternoon that we'd go to Jenny F's about 9 to make some props and practise. Surprise surprise EVERYONE was free (which is very rare in our group). Bear in mind this was very last minute and inbetween I had to be in stran until 4 then do 4 hours work and manage to feed myself into the bargain. Anyway I got there about 9.30 with some gravy chips, Jenny was also in the middle of cooking delicious naan bread pizzas and we got the whole thing almost sorted. So we decided to keep working on and just stay over at Jenny's (with no pjs, no clean clothes, no anything in fact i slept in the same clothes I wore for the first half of today - hate that like!) You're probably getting bored by now so I'll take a new paragraph.

Result: I think i had at the most 3 hours of sleep on a settee. Interesting event from the night - driving over the Hightown road in the fog at midnight. Especially on the way back as the guy in front was driving really slowly and at the start of the road kept turning back and looking at us. This was really spooky as you can guess and it got even worse when we got into REALLY REALLY thick fog......which turned out to be smoke.......anyway, it turns out the guy wasn't trying to be freaky but just didn't know the hightown, at least we assumed that because we're still alive!

Today I went down to Claire's wee school to play piano for them. I love that school, there's only 3 teachers and one of them's the principal and everything's just so informal. If I ever get a job i want to work in a school like that.

I Won A Photography Competition Once

I think this picture is genius (if I do say so myself)!! You won't really understand the true genius until i explain what it is. It is a picture of the sea taken through a drainage hole in the wall around the carpark opposite Ballygalley (is that how you spell it?) castle. You can imagine the way i had to sit to get that picture (the hole is at the bottom of the wall) but i just felt like doing it. The only thing I don't like is that there isn't enough sea (because I just couldn't lie down in the middle of a carpark) and the background isn't in focus. This is a question for any photography experts... I know that to focus on the object that's not the automatic focus of a picture, you point the camera at it, focus, and then move before taking the picture. But in the case above, would I have had to put the camera on the other side of the wall, focussed, and then brought it back to take the photo??

Thicket's New Website

It's not quite finished but now we have one - click on the link to keep up to date with our happenings!!

Was trying to get the actual photo but it was a bit small when I copied it off the website!!

I promised photos of us at Springsteens last Thursday night so here is the only one worthy of putting up - the one of me and gayle is censored cos it's not a good photo of me, I'd rather you kept thinking I always look as good as in the photo below!! So here are my two good friends Lisa and Gayle. The three of us are going to Paris in June - how exciting!!! So they'll have to put up with me for a whole week, can you imagine it!! (Put up - hah! Who wouldn't want to spend a week with the sugar plum fairy who never stops talking...) Anyway, must go here I have to clear my bed before sleeping in it. Always. I just can't keep my room tidy and would love some tips on how to do this without too much effort...