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that is ABSOLUTELY AMAZING! :stunned: you need to start selling your stuff, alyssa. seriously, we'd all make you rich on this site! :D

i reaaaaaalllly want one, but i shouldn't :confused: i need to save money, and i already have two barack shirts. but CHRIS has it too, and i loved it from the beginning even if it wasn't chris martin wearing one... decisions, decisions.

^i'd love to take a class in british culture! :D

Inní mér syngur vitleysingur is my favorite song off the new album! :dance: and heima as a b-side? that's my OTHER favorite new thing they have! :nice: i'm on such a sigur ros binge these days. i can't stop listening to takk...

11 is morrisey. how did no one else get that?! :P (watch me be wrong...:uhoh:) 5 & 9 are really bugging the crap out of me, though. i wish i saw this thread earlier!

i feel like it's always better to trip or fall when you're walking with a friend or someone, because then you can laugh about it with them and make it seem like nothing. the other day, i was walking alone to class and tripped, clumsily catching myself before falling, and i must have looked like an idiot to the people behind me. yet i had no one to laugh about it with or anything, so i just had to walk on like nothing had happened, even though about 10 people must have seen me :P my worst tripping and falling story is this, though: i had just been appointed prefect of the high school back in my old school, and it had been something i really really wanted. needless to say, i was really happy. the school's headmaster, who was key in giving me the job, had just shook my hand and i thanked him, and then i had a minute to myself, so i started to jump around the gym and dance like an absolute idiot, even though my entire grade was still there and could see me. i didn't really care until i landed funny and fell flat on my face, yelping a bit and making a huge crash so everyone got quiet and looked over at me on a heap on the floor, including the headmaster who i had just so cordially and maturely spoken to. it was rather hilarious, and i was so happy that i wasn't really that embarrassed, but the worst part was standing up and realizing that both my knees were absolutely gushing blood, to the point where i probably should have gotten stitches because they took ages to heal and i still have the scars :lol:

^ aww, yours is so cute, though! i can't draw half that well, and you definitely nailed guy's hair and jonny's face in a cartoony way! :D

i was just in the student union getting my mail, and the building was basically empty because it was friday. but all of a sudden, "lost!" comes on the college radio station and made me really happy. what was even better was that two girls were walking toward me down the hall, and one turned to the other and said "ohhhh, i LOVE this song!" i love how coming across coldplay in unexpected places even makes crappy days better :nice: i'm also tending to agree with grace a lot recently :D i'm more in love with the idea of coming home back to the person and things you love, but that's one of the many reasons i love them too :nice: and i'm writing a short story too. i've never actually written a short story before, per se, but coldplay songs usually inspire ideas in my mind. i haven't come across how this one is related to coldplay, but i figure it is somewhere :D and that is my favorite song off parachutes, and probably my favorite line in that song :heart: goosebumps, definitely.

i got it. the only thing that i find that's different is the "genius" option, which is pretty cool, i think, but there's quite a bit of room for improvement. apparently it'll get better and better, though, as the software gathers more and more information about peoples' libraries. sometimes i'm a bit baffled by the playlists it puts together, but i'm also currently loving the one it made based around sigur ros's "hoppipolla," so who knows. i don't need another ipod, but i kind of really really want the touch. actually, what i really want is the iphone without the phone (namely the camera and the ability to surf the web anywhere, not just where there's a wifi network), but if they ever add those two features to the touch, i'm getting one ASAP :P (or if they make my college campus wireless, either one).

this girl doesn't look like the average coldplay fan, but maybe! oooh, if they sell them at the shows, i might just have to get some! especially if they go to charity!

THIS IS SO CUTE. i love the shared daddies thing :nice: and i would kill for a video of fran and chris trying to put up a teepee! :lol:

there's a girl in my american studies class that i don't know, but she has about 5 bangles on her right wrist that look EXACTLY like the colorful ones that chris has taken to wearing these days. i kind of really want to know where she got them, but she looks like the rich bitch type, so she'd probably think i was insane for asking in the first place, and they're probably designer and really expensive :dozey:

ahhh, i was there tooooo :heart: [/pointless_comment] and i was there just over a month ago, and it was fine to take pictures of anything, even the mona lisa. they tell you not to use flash, but everyone does anyway. and when i saw it, i was stunned by how huge it was too. i wasn't even looking for it in "large scale french paintings," yet i turned around and saw it and went :wideeyed:

ahhh, i was there tooooo :heart: [/pointless_comment] and i was there just over a month ago, and it was fine to take pictures of anything, even the mona lisa. they tell you not to use flash, but everyone does anyway. and when i saw it, i was stunned by how huge it was too. i wasn't even looking for it in "large scale french paintings," yet i turned around and saw it and went :wideeyed:

i knew clocks and thought it was good, but at that time i was young, stupid, and preoccupied. in may 2005, my friend had been saying that that coldplay band had a new song out and it was really good. i was walking through a room in my house one day where VH1 was on, and i saw the name "coldplay, speed of sound" in the corner of the screen, so i decided to sit down and check it out to see what she was on about. i was sold by the end of the song. my brain literally went "so this is how it's going to be, then?" and here i am :P

completely and wholeheartedly agreed. i have this thing about the word "home;" it just makes me completely melt and go all wiggly and long to go home. i love how often coldplay uses that theme in their lyrics, because it really fits me. the line from "clocks" has always been my favorite, particularly. i also am in an obsession for sigur ros's "heima" for the same excact reason.

anybody know what time off the top of their head? i think i'll miss it, since i'm in class till 4:15, but i'll work on getting an answer too.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, JONNY!!!!!!!!!! :heart: :dance: :guitarist:

i also remembered something else today. when we were all listening to it happening live on radio in my math class, suddenly the reporter stopped talking and the radio connection dropped or whatever. a few seconds later, someone back at the station had to take over and start talking from the safety of some building. but we all freaked in class, because we were so sure that the reporter had just died. i still don't know if that's what actually happened or if the connection just completely dropped, but i don't think the radio station at that time was sure, either, since they acted like it hadn't happened.

ugh, well being in america, it was in the morning when i found out. all of us in the middle school had a scheduled break or recess at the same time every morning for breakfast, but instead all the teachers told us to go to this one room immediately. we all thought we were in trouble. but eventually our pastor at the time told us there had been an "accident" in nearby NYC and a plane had crashed into the world trade center. no one knew what the WTC was at the time, but i knew they were the twin towers because i'd been in them, so i whispered to everyone in my row what they were. but at that point it still could have been an accident, even though our pastor told us that there might be other reasons behind it. it was a bit funny, actually: at the time i did wonder why they were making such a big deal out of all this by TELLING us so gravely, because i truly thought it must have been an accident, but then i figured they were telling us because the headmaster of the middle school was a pilot and i thought it must have been him that crashed and i started freaking a bit, but then i saw him by the door so i began to understand that this was a bit bigger than they were making it seem to a bunch of middle schoolers. but about half an hour later, we all walked into our math class, talking as usual (though about planes and crashes and all that stuff, because most of us believed it to be a freak accident), but our teacher told us to shut up upon entering because he had the radio on...and it was live from the scene. we heard the second plane hit. that's when i started to get it, because once you HEAR bodies hitting the ground and people jumping from windows screaming, you realize what's going on. i have never wanted to throw up so much in my life. we didn't have class, we just sat there listening. and then the second tower fell, and we heard that live too. we didn't even get up to change classes like we should have, didn't care about anything but listening to the radio. and even though i was only 11 at the time, and in retrospect i didn't fully understand much about this at all, hearing all that live and having NYC only be a matter of miles away from where i live made me get it much sooner than i think a lot of other people my age did. the other problem with being pretty close to NYC meant a lot of my schoolmates' parents worked in the city, some even in the WTC themselves, or were NYC firefighters. it was an absolute madhouse at school that day with people throwing fits (rightfully so) and frantically calling and going off their heads...it made it all even more real. my school was actually very lucky and didn't have any major personal losses in terms of parents, but lots of cousins and uncles and aunts and friends died that day, lots. this is super long, but the thing i remember most about that day is waking up, before any of this even happened. it was the most beautiful day outside, so beautiful i actually noticed the second i woke up, before i even put on my glasses and could see properly. i had U2's "beautiful day" stuck in my head upon waking, and two canada geese flew right by my window, which made me smile (not something i do too easily in the morning). i had this gut feeling that that day was going to be significant. i just thought it would be more perfect, too.

^that's exactly when i remembered this morning that i was "supposed" to be dead: when i was straightening my hair in the mirror :lol: though i do suppose that we could have been sucked into some alternate universe or something that is surprisingly like ours and we just haven't figured it out yet...:P

hahahaha, that was NOT even a possibility that i thought of/heard anyone even worrying about. i thought the main worry was the black hole thing, which at least sounds realistic, and perhaps a wormhole, but a wormhole that could actually be USED? jeez, it's not like it would be THAT easy to use, really, or that we'd put out the welcome mat. all the worries just crack me up.

^haha, that would be rather useful, the englishenized form! i've just been using the thing in microsoft word where you go into symbols and double click the letters to put them in. its rather nice because it links up all the right letters properly so you don't have to do it. and thanks for the offer of practice! :D once my vocabulary actually gets somewhere i might take you up on that. for now, we know next to nothing! we're basically still just learning how to read, or should be if our professor didn't insist on skipping ahead. right now we're learning the different cases and how to make things agree so you can say things like "the boy's sister" and "my neighbor's chicken." the thing is, our vocabulary is so limited and most people in the class still can't read properly, so it makes it doubly hard to remember everything. i get a bit frustrated sometimes :rolleyes: its also just a bit of overload since we have lessons every morning, whereas all other classes are only two days a week!

awww, that google thing is cute! :lol: i asked these two questions in the other thread in the lounge, but i thought i'd ask here too: 1. do we have an exact date when they're going to start colliding things? i want to at least watch the live 2003 DVD the night before :P (nahh, i don't actually believe that anything will happen to the earth :D) 2: are all sorts of religious groups freaking out that the judgement day is upon us? i haven't heard anything, and i would imagine this is kind of their gig. unless the end of the world can't be man made...:rolleyes:. but seriously, i think they'd all start getting really vocal about it around now so everyone can get prepared and pack their suitcase for heaven and go to the top of a mountain or whatever they do. i don't mean this to be offensive; i'm just wondering because i would have expected to hear something, but maybe i'm naive.

^oooh, good point! the hunt is on :sneaky: i find this one kind of funny: