Paranoidly Posted

Greetings intrepid readers,

My name is Orla and I will be the narrator of Sundays. Sundays are good because I'll have the whole week to worry about how my post is terrible compared to everyone else's!

I write poetry and I just finished a three week writing course, so now I have some ridiculously high standards. There were some very talented prose writers in that class.

I am fifteen, so I'll probably be the youngest contributor to this collab blog. People tell me I come across older than that, most likely due to a reasonable vocabulary and general sensibleness. I am generally not silly about important things. Projects, however, are the bane of my life.

I like to write. I write poetry mostly but I have a couple of short stories in my head and, as they say, everyone has a novel in them. My poetry is apparently quite dark. It just seems honest to me, mostly. I guess I could be accurately described as an angsty teenage poet.

I also like to read. I don't read exclusively in one genre, but I do tend to read a lot of fantasy, and, more specifically, a lot of high fantasy. I'm sort-of-not-really reading James Joyce's Ulysses at the moment. It's...an experience.

I am currently teaching myself Chinese. 我 不 是 很 好

I like music a lot, but, unusually, I'm very easy going about what kind of music I listen to. I can enjoy basically any music a lot.

I play video games. Not too much at the moment because I am inexplicably busy. I find that I don't have enough time for them even though I don't have a lot of other things going on. It's the summer holidays goddammit, when am I going to have time?

I have a horrible habit of over-thinking things, which I am doing right now. It usually takes me a while to get to the stage in a friendship where I'm not analysing everything I say. And everything they say. And general body language. And all sorts of other completely irrelevant information.
Making new friends is a tiring experience.

Hopefully it won't take me too long to get comfortable writing this blog.

- Orla

Ramblings

Hi Everyone,

I'm Aoife, Host of this Saturday's Ramblings.
Please forgive me if my post is an unmitigated disaster.
I'm new to the wonderful world of blogging and haven't got a clue what I am doing.

Anyway, here goes nothing...
I'm sixteen years old. I'm short(ish) and seem to be shrinking by the year.
My favourite thing to do is either to curl up with a good book or doing something crazy like climbing,kayaking or exploring new places.
I'm not a big fan of crowded places but I love meeting new people.
I'm a country girl at heart and can't stand being away from it for too long, although I could do without the cows, which I'm terrified of ever since one chased me across a field.

I love writing and seem to spend most of my time lost inside my own head, inventing stories.
Most of the time people who don't know me very well think I am fairly quiet but most of my friends know that I am nothing of the sort. In fact most of them would gladly say that I am totally insane.

I tend to came up with crazy ideas and stories. Most of the time they just pop into my head and I just blurt them out to whoever is unfortunate enough to be standing nearby.

What else should you know about me?
Hmmm
Well, I love sports. I've done a lot of adventure sports; sailing, surfing, abseiling and a few others over the years. However my all time favourite is basketball, which I am reassuringly mediocre at. I probably will never make the national team but I just enjoy playing it regardless.

I tend to either drastically over think thing or do the exact opposite and run headlong into things with thinking at all. Take this blog for example; yesterday I spent ages worrying about what I would say but today I decided to simply go wherever my mind takes me.
Hence the reasons this post is the "Ramblings"

So cheers,
Hope you didn't die of boredom when you read this,
- Aoife

P.S:
This sums me up pretty nicely,
Thanks Google!

Mission 001: Invade their Privacy

I’ll have you know, this is the fifth attempt I’ve made at writing an introduction because each time it has just turned into a damp sod of misery.

So this time I plan to take a double Cheery-pacino and show how much fun I am!!!!!!!!!!!

The exclamation marks rate how fun I am out of 10. As you can see, I'm an eleven.

WOOOOOH! introductions! Are you excited? Cos man, I’m so fucking excited.

Hi I’m Kate and I will be your guide today and every Wednesday until I lose the temporary motivation my imaginary coffee has given me and decide I just want to watch re-runs of Malcom in the Middle and eat ice-cream. (I totally forgot how much I love that show.)

You think this has gotten depressing already? You should read the first four, they’d make you want to eat junk food and watch 90’s comedy shows. (On the topic of 90’s comedies - why are they so much better than Naughties comedy?)

Anyway I don’t want to list out my interests and whatever because that doesn’t make for a very entertaining read unless you write like a God, which I don’t.

Also I don’t particularly like how people are defined by the things they like rather than how they think about stuff, which I think is more interesting. But then again it’s more difficult to introduce someone to your way of thinking. That sort of just happens over time. Maybe that’s what I’m trying to do right now as I ramble on and avoid the actual topic of introducing myself.

Let’s throw you a bone, shall I?

My current obsession is supernatural goings on and ‘real’ magic.

Last weekend I went to a haunted house, Loftus House in Wexford - a fun day out for all the family! (I promised you fun didn’t I?)

The devil himself allegedly visited the house in 1756. Hopefully I will post a blog about it soon on my personal blog insearchofthought.tumblr.com.

(First blog post and I’m already shamelessly self-promoting. Whoop whoop! btw brackets also represent fun lolololol. I need to stop this.)

I’m also sort of stalking Keith Barry at the moment, who if you didn’t know is a world renowned Mentalist, Hypnotist and Magician hailing from my beautiful country Ireland in the county of Waterford. So I’m trying to make up my mind on how much of this crazy shit I believe in because it’s clear that some really freaky stuff goes on in the world.

So there. I think I’ve sufficiently covered the topic of introduction without revealing very much about myself, so it seems my work here is done for the week.

MISSION............................................COMPLETED


Edit: I just discovered Malcom in the Middle was actually from 2000-2006. Who would've guessed? Probably anyone bothered to Google it.