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I can't believe I posted this yesterday on my own profile! *cracks up* What I wrote was..

No no, that would scare the wildlife too badly, as least my part of it. BF's a good singer though. He'll join you.

Do you think Raja would mind terribly?

"Honey, I'm off!"

"Where you going, Beth?"

"Oh, just to ii's BF's summer place."

"What for?"

"Nothing. Girl talk. Ice-cold grasshopper drinks. Finnish lessons. Watching topless hockey players engaging hard physical labor. Later!!"

And I appreciate this completely random information that you have decided to send me, totally out of the blue. *laughs too hard to type* Thank you. I needed this to distract me from my current "let's figure out the events of Tuesday night" email conversation I'm having with my friend The Law Boy. It's not exactly a pleasant conversation, so I need all the distractions I can get. Although I think I managed to turn the focus into George Clooney, which is always good, no?

Ooh, sounds really good! I recently got (finally!) a copy of Nineteen-EightyFour, which, for some reason, I didn't have. Which Orwell did you get?

Good Morning!

With 'social circuit' I basically meant the whole see-and-be-seen, parties, charity events, wearing-the-right-designer thing. Had I stayed nead DD I would have been roped into playing hostess to his parties and going to all the social events he needs me to go, and I just didn't want to do that. I mean, I do that, on occasion, but I now get to have my pick on what to attend and I quite like that.

Haha, I know what you're talking about, I have an exam tomorrow! And as I knew I'm busy elsewhere today, I did manage a lot yesterday! *laughs* ... I wasn't really that active. I was studying the whole time (it's not really that difficult material, just a lot of vocabulary and definitions) but I had the forum open and I kept my eye on that too. I'm glad we managed to entertain you!

I'm all messed up over days and such because of the travelling, so I have no idea what happened to the weekend. I've been wondering the same thing...

Hope you have a nice day at work!

A bientôt!

I deleted your post, as I'm sure you won't want your personal details on public display on the Internet.

I'll send the three books to you as soon as possible.

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Morning!

I like Où es-tu. It's a bit different, and it always takes me a while to get used to Levy's style of writing, especially after reading English/American texts (and even more so after Scandinavian or Asian!). I loved his Et si c'était vrai... I'm still at the very beginning, but I'll keep you posted. Have you read it?

Awww, good luck!! *laughs out loud* I'm thinking of just taking it easy for today, reading, knitting, thesis work... (what?? I consider thesis work as fun! *laughs*) I just wish I had alpine skiing coverage...

I'm much better, thank you. I'm lucky, I have some seriously good meds for it, and they work 99% of the time. I'm just all sleepy and foggy and chatting with little pink elephants for the rest of the day...

Oh no!! *laughs* You should rename the one that doesn't like the tree Grinch. I mean, who doesn't like Christmas tree?? Even I like it, and I had one fall right on top of me when I was year-and-half! Is it a real tree?

As you're into fashion, I'm starting to write my blog again, and as can be expected, there's quite a lot of fashion talk coming. So in case you're interested, you're more than welcome to have a look around! The link should be in my details.

Yes well... some of us are into older hairy men with dirty beards, beer guts and callused hands and whisky-breath... some are into hot young Norwegian athletes. It's all just what makes us special! *cracks up*

Of course! In fact, I outdid myself, dong way more than was in the plan. *laughs* I'm slightly worried about the depths of my theory, I'm not sure I'm going 'deep' enough, but I'll share more about that tomorrow...

*kisses*

Ooh, I haven't heard much about that, so I'm interested to hear what you think of it!

We read 1984 (can't bother to type it out) and Animal Farm in school, too, but I didn't have my copy of the 1984 anymore. Animal Farm I have, in Finnish, but 1984 we read back in the States and it got misplaced somewhere.

I'm off in a flash, too.

Good night!

*kisses*

Oh, no worries! I know how scary your mother can be... *grins*

It's good to know we won't be fighting over the same men. *laughs*

I know, and therein lies my problem. I'll PM you about it...

Thank you! I hope you have a good day too! (I doubt I will, I can barely walk. Every muscle in my body is hurting, especially my legs. There's no hope of wearing heels today, or driving...)

*kisses*

Good morning, Mac! And welcome back.

Glad you enjoyed it, it was indeed meant to be a tongue-in-cheek reminder that there's a new book coming up for a discussion. Unfortunately it now seems not all are seeing it that way at all. So even more so, thank you for your message.

I am fine, thank you. I hope you've caused plenty of trouble of late and are now here to catch up on gossip and drama. We do try our best, you see!

Have a lovely weekend!

Hi!

How are you?

I saw you're reading Tikkanen's Manrape, and it made me think of a quote from a friend years back. As it's in Finnish, I didn't want to post it on the thread. Rape is a very serious thing, of course, and I don't recall how we got to talking about it. Anyways, we were talking about raping a man, and the friend exclaimed: Mut eih

I guess all mothers are... And I was just kidding.

I'm so sorry to hear about Glen's dad. *big hugs*

*laughs* No harm done, don't worry!

Isn't this just the kind of conversation you want to start the day with?? *cracks up*

You do realise, that now your comments are the only ones everyone else can understand? So I cannot be blamed for this! *evil laughter*

Actually, I'm still not back. *laughs* Stopped by in Beaver Creek (it was close enough) for some skiing, now back at BF's again. I'll have to go home soon, he'll get sick of me...

The thesis is doing great, thank you. And yes, final stages, you could say. There's just a small thing called "entire economic theory -bit" missing! *cracks up* It's doing good. I just enjoy working on it too much, I don't want to stop.

How was your weekend?

*uncontrollable laughter*

this is going to be a really good day... This and the Shiptare Boys on the background, perfect start... *laughs*

Hi!

I've a lot on my plate right now, so I haven't had the time to visit here as much as I'd like. I still check it out, though. It's like a habit, really. *laughs*

Do take care of not burning yourself too badly!

It's alright.

My day's been good, thank you. I've mainly chatted with friends, took care of paying some bills, checked the nhl.com for final trade news... finished the book I was reading. Nothing too amazing, I'm afraid. I should continue working on my thesis, and do some other school-related things... Figure out what to have for dinner...

Did you get your hot chocolate?

Yes, we should. *laughs*

Well, I'm sure the next time you want to talk about something dirty, you'll come and do it on my profile just so that I get blamed for it...

Hi!

Thank you, yes, I'm great! I just spent some time in Paris and then flew over to see BF. Plus there's the thesis still... I'm working on it, I swear!!

How are you? What have I missed while I was away?

TV's boring. I prefer actually being there. The parties are usually better. *laughs* It was a completely crazy thing to do, as the best ideas usually are.

I'm trying to get into some healthy sleeping pattern, so far no good. Maybe today I'll get inot bed in time... And I think every kid did that! I remember "needing" extra bathroom breaks just so I could read a little bit more after 'lights out'. Unfortunately both my parents and my nanny were up to my tricks, and eventually just took to taking the book away. Evil people! *pouts... and starts to laugh*

I'm hungry too... do you think we could sweet-talk your mom to cook us something nice? *laughs*