precarious pandemonium

What's your favorite heartbreak song?
Submitted by esta86.

This is probably not very original, but "Mad World" from the movie "Donnie Darko". The first time I heard this song it truly broke my heart and I shed a tear or two...
Even more so, Don McLean's "Starry Starry Night".

*gets all mushy and sad*

Show us the person who knows you best.

My cousin Shani. We've been best friends since age zero and she's the person I can tell anything to and that knows all my little embarrassing weirdnesses and idiosyncrasies. We share a silly sense of humor, and think alike.
We live about 120 km from each other and see each other about once a month. From an early age (about 7) we have been writing each other funny letters, a tradition that lasted about 10 years.

These pictures were taken last Passover. Goofing off in front of the camera.

I haven't seen her since September... :(
But I'll go visit her soon.

Show us something dangerously cute.
Submitted by Indy Bunny.

On a slightly happier note than my last post --
It's...

I used to be so gosh darn cute... when did it all go wrong? :)

It's been 3 years since my cat died, and I still remember that morning we found him. I remember it exactly... every detail. I can't forget- it has been imprinted in my mind forever.

My mom and brother left the house early in the morning and found him lying on the street. They brought him in and we all cried. It's not often I see my dad cry. We held him and cried over him for what seemed to be forever. The fact that I had school that day, and a major History test, completely blew off my mind. His eyes were foggy and lifeless. He was cold.
We sat there, grieving, for such a long time. Then we buried him. I haven't been so crushed in my entire life. But then, 5 months later, my grandmother died.

It still makes me sad today. Even after all that time.

I kind of feel like I created this Vox blog to be the place where I can write more freely about the things I deal with... meaningful, personal thoughts and experiences... And it's like I had them all lined up and waiting until my "application" for Vox was finally answered, so I could hurry on up and write them all down. Now I have nothing to write. Which is weird, because none of it has gone away.
So, without feeling guilty or without giving it any further thought- because, seriously, feeling this obligated is stupid- this is also a place to write the mundane happenings of day-to-day life that might rank just a little bit more interesting than "woke up, brushed my teeth and went to work."
I shouldn't make such a big deal of it, it makes me feel really stupid.
That's it.

Anyhoo, I don't know how the fanfiction community is here at Vox, if it exists at all, but there is a story that I started reading and it's very very good. Yep, it's a Harry Potter fic. It's called After the End and it's unbelievably long. Which is terrific. It's very well written, and takes up a lot of my time... ;) To anyone familiar with the series, I recomend it.

Today, October 25th, is World Pasta Day. So my friends and I decided to have ourselves a pasta night. Daniela, who just returned from a little trip to Italy, had this multi-colored airplane- and teddybear-shaped pasta. Daniela, Ksusha, Shanny and myself got together at D's house and prepared a Tomato and Cream sauce and the funny pasta. I ended up having more than I can handle, resulting in a fantastic stomach ache. But that's ok. That's how we do it. ;)

Introducing my two babies to Vox:
the intelligent, swift Lola; and fuzzy-brained, slow Meg...

Give 'em a hand... :)

I recieved my high school diploma today. More than 2 months after I already finished. It's... well, interesting. Marks range from average to excellent, so I'm pretty happy about it.

Well, it's getting pretty late, even though I don't have to work tomorrow! Yay!
"Teaching" English to obnoxious high-schoolers might not be a lot of fun, but it sure is great that I do it only 4 days a week.

G'night.

Hoorah, I have a Vox account!

Guess I'm not the only one- but I also "transferred" here from LJ. Only, I haven't really transferred. I'm actually kind of looking forward to writing a journal where the people who read it are people who I do not know in real life. It should be a refreshing change... Though I kind of feel like I'm abandoning LJ. Ah well, guess not. Both LiveJournal and Vox belong to Six Apart, so I guess I'm staying "in the family"... ;)
Plus, Vox is really cool...

Ok well. Moving on.

Today I started working again, after 18 days of holiday vacation (18 days of freedom!). I thought my confidence around the students would drop after such a long time, but I actually came there with a little boost of confidence, and was able to control them a bit more. Teenagers are so wild. And I'm a teenager myself! Some of those students (the seniors) might even be older than me, but they wouldn't know it since I don't want them to know that I'm not even 18 yet. Oh well, it's hard work, but it's getting better.

I invited my friends Daniela and Limor over to watch a movie tonight. We saw "The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou". It was very interesting and refreshing to see something so different, and creative. I'm not sure how much the girls liked it, though. Anyway, I recommend it to those with an open mind who seek change from the regular movies we see all the time.

I am currently reading "Surviving the Extremes", which is an excellent book so far (only page 62!) and I silently congratulate my cousin for giving it to me and getting my taste right.




Well here it is, my first Vox post. I see there are a lot of interesting things around here that I still haven't fully explored.

I'm off.