tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-118047962011-04-22T10:49:55.081+12:00Just like it says in the title, folks. Also home to some fiction (fan and otherwise) and photography. And just to get this out of the way early: Severus Snape is hot.laurenmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03085951713884700323noreply@blogger.comBlogger761100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11804796.post-1128908359483120782005-10-10T14:39:00.000+13:002005-10-10T14:39:19.490+13:00

YEAH, NUDE DAY!!!!!!! 

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In case any of you had any doubts that I am still just a child, here is me, playing in the water........ 

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Freedom! 

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Yeah, OOPS. 

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We found this cool sand quarry and decided to jump off the rim of it - here I am flying through the air. Woo hoo! 

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Billy the Kid's Flying Leap of Death! 

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This shell is sweet as! 

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Us on the beach - wish you were here, laramae!! 

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Gorgous freaking new zealand baby! doesn't it look almost tropical? We were wearing down jackets when this was taken, haha. 

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This was fun - we were testing out claus' sports mode on his NEEEW Canon Digital Rebel, and I attacked the camera. The whole series is hilarious, I'll have to show you all when I get home - but isn't this an attractive shot of me? 

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My birthday meal! Aren't we so civilized? 

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Me being my beautiful self, as usual : 

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claus and me looking very heroic with edoras mountain in the background 

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claus and i trying to look heroic, but just looking retarded 

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me being attacked by the uruk-hai 

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claus chillin' with the uruk-hai 

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claus struggling across one of the twenty rivers 

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me orgasaming on viggo's rock 

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ME LICKING THE ROCK WHERE VIGGO MORTENSEN GOT DRAGGED OFF THE CLIFF!!!! yummy viggo molecules! 

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cool sanddune 

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gorgeous mountains in the edoras valley 

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beautiful freaking new zealand - the typical countryside 

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more beautiful new zealand..... am i making anyone drool? 

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claus on a bridge 

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a fence 

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cool spherical rocks - the moraki boulders - neeeeat. 

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milford sound oooooh 

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EDORAS MOTHERFUCKERS!!!!!!!! 

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danielle and me looking beautiful! 

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a goat who decided to stand on the hood of our car! omfg! 

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me in a kayak - woo hoo 

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The remarkables - where the people of rohan were fleeing edoras 

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There comes a time in every person's life when they really truly know that they are alive. Usually this sensation follows the time in their life when they really truly think they are going to die.I feel very alive right now.It was 3 o'clock in the afternoon, in an isolated and lonely valley somewhere in the middle of New Zealand. The sun shone down upon the snowy peaks that surrounded us, and

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The first version of this paragraph was much different than this one is. Upon its presentation to the subject which it portrayed (namely, The Claus), it was rejected on the grounds that it was a pack of lies. This author was subsequently beseeched to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. The masterpiece that resulted from this had to be entirely deleted in the name of good

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we freaking kayaked through this!

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don't we look so sexy??

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don't we look hot?

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somewhere in milford sound (fjord)

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Milford sound, where we went kayaking:

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these are only pictures of outside our house. i haven't gotten my film developed yet from any of the good pictures i've been taking around town (having a photography buddy and everything which makes it more fun!), but when i do, y'all can really see the area that i'm staying in. but in the meantime, here are some pictures of my neighborhood and of the flat!

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Here are some pictures of the flat itself: it's pretty nice inside, considering. it's got a heater and that's really nice, though the kiwis don't really want to use it as much as i do :-)

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WHERE THEY STOOD AND WHERE I LICKED!!!!! 

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I think that this is the doorway harry escaped through to find the mirror after almost interruping a steamy encounter between snape and quirrell, just before it became a hot threesome (when filch happened upon the two lovers). 

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Her skeleton will lie in the chamber forever! 

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One of the hallways of hogwarts (yahoo!) - they were walking here!!!!!!!!! 

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A picture of me trying really hard to not completly lose it and start screaming and crying inside gloucester cathedral. I'm touching the stone where alan rickman stood. Hallelujah!!! 

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Love Calculator by EbonyScythe1st Person Name2nd Person Name1st Person Gender2nd Person GenderCompatibility Percent56Time TogetherForeverQuiz created with MemeGen!My life is complete now. Huzzah!And a short, unfinished work by the immortal genius of B.B.ShihIn short:Now is the winter of our discontent. Lo’ look yonder at the dismal dawn breaking o’er the wintry fields. And yet there is hope for

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A dream that I had and a couple of paragraphs on following your bliss:I had a really peaceful dream last night. My dad and I were in I think Chile, where I want to study abroad. We were chillin’, backpacking or hiking or something, and just drinking in the absolute beauty and peace of the place. I was following my bliss, and my dreamself, my regularself, and dad all knew it. There were some cool

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The Subtle Science and Exact Art* of Interviewing for Personal Information, as written by a Young and Inexperienced Philosopher.People construct walls and barriers between themselves and other people to protect themselves from embarassment, ridicule, criticism, and rage. For many people, it is hard to open up to others, because they fear that the others will not accept them for what they truly

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The multicolored balloons have lost all of their helium and are now waving limply in the breeze, shriveled and forgotten. Their colors, which once were bright and hopeful are now blackened, mere remnants of their former beauty. They are still tied to the bricks on the floor, as if they had enough life left in them to float away, though they are going nowhere. The carnival is long forgotten.Empty

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...and now it's time for some good, old-fashioned harry potter fanfiction. What website would be whole without it? This is a depressing, angst-ridden heart-to-heart between Voldemort and Wormtail on the night of Harry's birthday.Finding Solace in Oblivion***The pub was almost completely empty by the time he finished his third pint. Sighing, he let the empty flagon drop to the polished hardwood

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Sidewalk TrafficThe rhythmic and orderlypattern of sidewalk stonesand of my thoughtwas interruptedsuddenlyby two forlorntrampledwetgreen billslying folded on the red stones.I had been looking upinto the skyhedged in by towering buildingssquare giants looking down at me.The misplaced greencaught my eyeand I had to look twice.The insignificant pieces of paperhad the power to stopmy sentient bulk of

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