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RL update.
Just a little post on why I fell off the face of LJ/fandom. Exceedingly boring.
Firstly there was the (TWO week) half term - not a bad thing in itself (going to Scotland was lovely), but family time means less LJ time.
Then during the second week my parents arrived for their two week holiday. They are lovely people, but my mother tends to drive me insane in her own particular way...
The reason they came right now, is because Sunday was Impish Girl's First Holy Communion (m-i-l held the party - she is, quite simply, made of awesome!). Everything went very well and there was lovely sunshine all day. :)
Parents left Thursday morning, and then I had a day to sort out the house and get things ready for Impish Girl's 8th birthday, which was yesterday! She'd decided she wanted a sleep-over party, so she had 3 little friends staying over (the 4th couldn't make it), and although they're all lovely girls having SIX children altogether was... trying. Esp trying to get them to sleep! *is very tired still*
On top of all this Darcy has been working flat-out for the past couple of weeks (he likes his job, but it can be extremely stressful), and when he came home Wednesday he crashed, and has been in bed with some kinda flu-like thing ever since.
Still, I know some people have had a much, MUCH worse time than I, and since life is finally returning to normal I'm not complaining. :)
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girlpire is posting an amazing fic that I haven't had time to look at... There was probably more, but I need to go make tea.
Firstly there was the (TWO week) half term - not a bad thing in itself (going to Scotland was lovely), but family time means less LJ time.
Then during the second week my parents arrived for their two week holiday. They are lovely people, but my mother tends to drive me insane in her own particular way...
The reason they came right now, is because Sunday was Impish Girl's First Holy Communion (m-i-l held the party - she is, quite simply, made of awesome!). Everything went very well and there was lovely sunshine all day. :)
Parents left Thursday morning, and then I had a day to sort out the house and get things ready for Impish Girl's 8th birthday, which was yesterday! She'd decided she wanted a sleep-over party, so she had 3 little friends staying over (the 4th couldn't make it), and although they're all lovely girls having SIX children altogether was... trying. Esp trying to get them to sleep! *is very tired still*
On top of all this Darcy has been working flat-out for the past couple of weeks (he likes his job, but it can be extremely stressful), and when he came home Wednesday he crashed, and has been in bed with some kinda flu-like thing ever since.
Still, I know some people have had a much, MUCH worse time than I, and since life is finally returning to normal I'm not complaining. :)
I've been skimming my flist & have missed a ton of stuff - I mean I saw links & things, just didn't have time to join in properly. Also
girlpire is posting an amazing fic that I haven't had time to look at... There was probably more, but I need to go make tea.
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“I will participate in the demonstrations tomorrow. Maybe they will turn violent. Maybe I will be one of the people who is going to get killed. I’m listening to all my favorite music. I even want to dance to a few songs. I always wanted to have very narrow eyebrows. Yes, maybe I will go to the salon before I go tomorrow! There are a few great movie scenes that I also have to see. I should drop by the library, too. It’s worth to read the poems of Forough and Shamloo again. All family pictures have to be reviewed, too. I have to call my friends as well to say goodbye. All I have are two bookshelves which I told my family who should receive them. I’m two units away from getting my bachelors degree but who cares about that. My mind is very chaotic. I wrote these random sentences for the next generation so they know we were not just emotional and under peer pressure. So they know that we did everything we could to create a better future for them. So they know that our ancestors surrendered to Arabs and Mongols but did not surrender to despotism. This note is dedicated to tomorrow’s children…”
Saturday night she wrote this, dedicated to Neda, her 'sister':
Yesterday I wrote a note, with the subject line "tomorrow is a great day perhaps tomorrow I'll be killed." I'm here to let you know I'm alive but my sister was killed...
I'm here to tell you my sister died while in her father's hands
I'm here to tell you my sister had big dreams...
I'm here to tell you my sister who died was a decent person... and like me yearned for a day when her hair would be swept by the wind... and like me read "Forough" [Forough Farrokhzad]... and longed to live free and equal... and she longed to hold her head up and announce, "I'm Iranian"... and she longed to one day fall in love to a man with a shaggy hair... and she longed for a daughter to braid her hair and sing lullaby by her crib...
my sister died from not having life... my sister died as injustice has no end... my sister died since she loved life too much... and my sister died since she lovingly cared for people...
my loving sister, I wish you had closed your eyes when your time had come... the very end of your last glance burns my soul....
sister have a short sleep. your last dream be sweet.
(And from Twitter: "Her name was ندا (#Neda), which means voice or call in Farsi. She is the voice of the people, a call to freedom - RIP, Neda")