I HOPE THAT YOU'VE HAD A LOVELY DAY, BBS. ♥

Kaitlyn: You wanted to see Figwit? I'll give you Figwit! (well, you'll have to click on links so that I don't feel unbelievably bad for hotlinking, but the point still stands)

For those of you not ~in the know~, Figwit is a character in Lord of the Rings. He appears for about three seconds. His name stands for 'Frodo is great! ... Who is that?' He is played by the lovely Bret McKenzie (of Flight of the Conchords fame). (My love of Bret McKenzie is rather well-chronicled over here.)

ANYWAY. BACK TO THE ~MEAT OF THIS ABSURDLY MEATY AND IMPORTANT AND NOT SPAMMY AT ALL POST (just giving all of my new friends a taste of what they've gotten themselves into):
Here's a Figwit, there's a Figwit, everywhere a Figwit.

THIS IS THE TYPE OF REALLY LIFE-THREATENING STUFF WITH WHICH I CONCERN MYSELF.

Have some Albie the Racist Dragon for your time:

BRB, STALKING MY NEW FRIENDS. (snazzygiraffe, wheresmything, bluecrystalsky, slowlyturns, plasticsoull, poison_heart_xx, and joannacullen)

BECAUSE, AFTER A LONG DAY OF ROWING AND WATCHING LORD OF THE RINGS WITH THE EPITOME OF AWESOME THAT IS KAITLYN, I ENJOY NOTHING MORE THAN A GOOD SPURT OF STALKING.
AS DOES EVERYONE.

AND YES, THAT IS A VERY ~INSIDE JOKE~ TAG RIGHT THERE.
THANKS FOR NOTICING.

eta, FML, MY PHOTOBUCKET BANDWITH HAS ~EXCEEDED~ ITSELF.
WHY DO KRIS APPRECIATION POSTS ALWAYS KILL ME?
AND NOW I HAVE TO STARE AT THOSE STUPID PHOTOBUCKET SIGNS INSTEAD OF MY BACKGROUND.
GROSS.

eta2, ADDING NEW FRIENDS IS EXHAUSTING.
FUN AS ALL HELL.
BUT EXHAUSTING.

(ALTHOUGH THAT MIGHT BE THE FACT THAT IT IS ~LATE AND I NEED TO GO TO ~BED)

HEY GUESS WHAT.
I HATE EXERCISING.

I ALSO HATE THAT MY TEACHERS SEEM INCAPABLE OF SAYING SOMETHING NICE ABOUT ME WITHOUT REFERENCING MY ~PAST~ OR WHATEVER. SERIOUSLY, GUYS. IT'S OK TO SAY 'Kim is a wonderfully attentive student' INSTEAD OF 'Kim has learned how to temper her insatiable desire for knowledge with respect for her classmates' feelings and has progressed greatly in classroom ethics in the past year.' SERIOUSLY. NO ONE IS GOING TO SHOOT YOU.

OH GOD, THE ANGST.
IT IS FLOWING FROM MY EVERY PORE LIKE PARTICULARLY NASTY PIMPLE-GUNK. (EW, GROSS.)

I'MMA GO FIND A CORNER IN WHICH I CAN SIT AND MOPE.
SEE YOU LATER.

Just watched two people get engaged. (John Green's BlogTV show, if you're curious)
It was hilarious and sweet and lovely.
♥

ps, John unbuttoned the top two buttons of his dress shirt and said: "This makes me feel like a Los Angeles entertainment lawyer in 1988." WHY SO HILARIOUS. I DO NOT UNDERSTAND.

pps, HELLO TO grim_lupine AND glitterglamgirl. I HOPE THAT YOU WILL BE ~VERY HAPPY~ HERE.

I AM GETTING A HANKERING TO WATCH SOME LORD OF THE RINGS.
WHO WANTS TO COME TO MY HOUSE AND WATCH WITH ME?

WE COULD DO A JUNK FOOD RUN FIRST OR SOMETHING SO WE ACTUALLY HAVE FOOD TO EAT, BECAUSE MY FATHER SUCKS AT SHOPPING AND WE THEREFORE HAVE NO FOOD IN THE HOUSE.

I AM OPEN TO SOMEONE POPPING BY TODAY. SERIOUSLY.
OR SOME TIME THIS WEEK.
MAYBE THIS WEEKEND? I DON'T KNOW IF YOU DO STUFF FOR THE FOURTH OF JULY, BUT I THINK THAT LOTR IS PRETTY DAMN PATRIOTIC.

WHOEVER INVENTED THE CONCEPT OF RUNNING FOR FUN WAS A SADISTIC FUCKHEAD.
I WANT TO KILL THEM.

AT LEAST IT'S RAINING NOW, I GUESS.

(I DO IT ALL FOR YOU, FIELD HOCKEY. ALL FOR YOU.)

GUESS WHAT.
I'M BACKKKKK.

So yes. Trip was overall pretty fabulous. BLOW-BY BLOW:
1: we crashed. Exciting
2: D-Day Museum and an aquarium
3: ZOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO (expect pictures to follow. I took over 300)
4: drove to London and was dropped off with my cousins (Jake, Gus, and Amber and their mum, Deborah)
5 (26th): HOLY FUCK, THE GLOBE THEATER, WHAT WHAT. (more laterz) We also walked around St. Paul's Cathedral, to the free bit of the Tate, and basically just wandered around London. There were these random pianos everywhere, so that was cool
6 (27th): totally forgot about the London Gathering, but that's all cool. Jake, Deborah, and I went to the Natural History Museum, which was WONDERFUL AND HUGE AND STUFF. I also became a pro at the Tube. Seriously. I was GOOD at it. I could read while standing with minimal support from one of the poles! Kick awesome. I also started reading newspapers left and right because people left them on the seats.
7: went to the airport. Wasn't very exciting.

SO YES. Very exciting, eh?

GLOBE THEATER: We saw As You Like It, which was amazing. We were groundlings (5 pounds for standing tickets! It was a STEAL.) and it was AWESOME. The weather was really nice, the standing wasn't an issue, the writing itself was, obviously, amazing, and the actors were incredible (it helped that some of them were GQMF, namely Orlando [Jack Laskey (and those are actual pictures from the actual production of As You Like It; Rosalind (Naomi Frederick) is pretty attractive too)], Oliver [Jamie Parker], and Touchstone [Dominic Rowan]). They threw some of poems that Orlando pinned to the trees for Rosalind down into the audience, and I got two. They're lovely.

It was seriously amazing and the absolute highlight of my trip. If any of you ever go to London, you HAVE TO go to the Globe. I don't care if you don't adore Shakespeare quite as much as I do (and if you don't like him at all, gtfo). It's an amazing building with an interesting thatched roof and shit tonnes of history. The atmosphere as a groundling is one of the coolest things ever (they point to you! they fight right in front of you! they run through you! they act like you're staring at their ass/crotch [well, only Touchstone, but the fact that he covered his front, turned his back on my part of the audience, realized that we could still stare at his backside, and tried in vain to stop us by covering it too, all while acting out the scene was HILARIOUS]! you can see their facial expressions! you can see when Celia does her hilariously sarcastic blabbing-hand thing whenever Rosalind talks about Orlando!). Standing for three hours is seriously not bad if you get a wall/the stage on which you may lean (and it's probably more comfy than the hard wooden benches they give for seats). And being right there when they do their closing dance (DANCE, GUYS. IT WAS LIKE HIP HOP. SO GOOD.) and their absurdly energetic bows (they LEAPED ACROSS THE STAGE LIKE FIVE TIMES SO THEY COULD GET EVERY GROUP OF THE AUDIENCE TO SEE THEIR FACES. IT WAS SO SWEET AND LOVELY AND STUFF) and everything ... It's incredible. It really is.

Shakespeare, you lovable rascal. I love you. And I love The Globe, and I love everyone in As You Like It, and I love Orlando and Rosalind, and I love Oliver and Celia, and I love Touchstone and Audrey, and I love Silvius and Phebe, and I love EVERYTHING, IN CASE YOU HAVEN'T NOTICED.

♥


(I also love Cadbury Roses, but that is a topic for another post entirely.)

HI.

I AM ALIVE.



BYE.