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Friday, March 23, 2012

Delirium

Right, it's almost 1am and I'm bored out of my mind. So I thought I would post a load of nonsense. I am fully aware that this will not make sense, but I just started writing about the first things that came to mind.

 


 

Oh dear, the floor has gone.

And yet there's no sensation of falling. Instead I'm floating, bobbing happily along in zero gravity. Like space. Only with oxygen. (How else would I breathe, silly?) I can see each individual particle of oxygen. They don't look like they teach you in school, they aren't in pairs. They float around in space on their own, occasionally brushing against other lonesome particles, but they don't bond. They're a happy blue.

Oooh, but there's a shiny particle over there. Now what is this one called? For the life of me I can't remember. Oh hello, it's winking suggestively at me. I try to swim through the oxygen particles to get to the...whatever it's called. I've almost reached it and my hand is outstretched when gravity decides to kick me up the arse. And I fall.

Oh yeah, I do know what it's called. Now I remember. Whilst I greet the floor with a faceplant. Groaning, I pick myself and realise I've made a me-shaped dent in the floor. Giggling at the funny shape, I sit down at the bar and order a bottle of purple absinthe. Now I ask you, is a drink too much to ask for? I mean, god knows I need it after making that goddamn dent in that bloody hard floor. But no, the puppet bartender decides he wants to play tug-of-war with the absinthe. I do not believe it. I'm tired, achy, and here I am fighting for a drink with a bloody puppet!

Eventually, after a lot of swearing and tug-of-warring, I win my bottle. It was rather satisfying watching that good-for-nothing puppet go flying. "And don't think I'm paying for either, puppet!" I call out, laughing.

Oh, wow. All that absinthe gone already? There's only half left! Hmm...is it half empty or half full? Stupid question really, it's both and it's neither of course! A better question is: why the fuck am I still sober?! I've drank half the sodding bottle. It's probably because it's purple. Should have got the black stuff, much more potent. Although, the purple does look rather pretty. Damn companies: tricking us into buying weaker alcohol by making it look prettier. I may as well just look at it. I mean I'm not getting any drunker here. So I hold it up to the light and marvel at how the swirling liquid captures the light and keeps it, how it changes colour. Purple to green to yellow to blue to red and orange and it stays a fiery, hot, orang. Wow, it's not just fiery anymore, it is fire. I have fire in a bottle.

I look closer at the blazing, twisting flames. I touch the base of the bottle and it's pleasantly warm. I smile and hug it to my chest. I feel my heart stir and start beating. Funny, I forgot it was even there. The beating feels so odd that I can only sit there, bottle to heart, mouth and eyes wide open like a moron while I try to decide if I like it or not. My entire body is drumming, thumping, pulsing.

OW! Fuck sake!

Out of nowhere this tiny shoe hits me in the back of the head. I almost dropped my bottle. So I turn around, ready to swear at the cheeky bastard. It's that goddamn puppet again! I pick up the shoe and chase after it, a torrent of hair curling obscenities falling from my mouth and turning into angry bees that join the chase.

Lucky that thing has such short spindly legs because me and my bees catch up pretty quickly. I tackle him to the floor. But my bottle goes flying and smashes on the concrete floor. I don't hear the puppet's protests because my heart stops and the silence deafens me. But the fire doesn't go out, instead it turns black and flares out from the broken bottle. I look around me and the room has shrunk and I am alone with the angry black fire reaching for me.

My heart starts hammering again and I'm beating at the walls, trying to break them apart. Fear tastes like blood in my mouth and I try to spit the blood on the fire to out it out, but that only makes it worse. Now it fills the tiny room and looms over me like a panther, snarling and feral.

Just as it pounces on me, I close my eyes and hold my hands out in a feeble defense. But instead of feeling searing heat, a cool wave of water drenches me.


Saturday, February 25, 2012

Real Women Have Curves

This post was inspired by a friend of mine whose college teacher said that "real women have curves".

I hate that statement. Absolutely hate it. You know why? Because it means that thin women like me are apparently not women at all. I get it that curves are desirable, and curvier women want to feel good about themselves while confronted by thin models everywhere. But it pisses me off when people insult and belittle others just to feel better about being themselves.

Maybe those who say it aren't intending to insult us thin women, in which case I suggest you think about what you say. I don't get offended too easily, and this statement may not offend me as such, it just irritates me because it's just downright ignorant. As far as I'm concerned, what defines a women lies between her legs. Other than that, our weight, our height, our choice of clothes, our lifestyle choices do not affect our identities as real women


Friday, February 24, 2012

Beautiful Day

Yesterday was an absolutely, completely beautiful day. After months of dreary, overcast, raining and snowing, it made me so happy to see the sun again. It's funny how we don't notice it so much in the summer, but a beautiful day in February stands out so much more than a beautiful day in June.

Today it rained. I actually got my hopes up thinking it'd be lovely weather throughout the weekend now. Luckily the sun is shining again. I hope it's there to stay a while. I'm getting sick of seeing the clouds and feeling the cold. I want warmth again. There's a certain hope and happiness for me that comes and goes with the sun. Everything looks better, the people you talk to seem that much brighter and alive. Beauty is intensified.

What can I say, I've always been a summer girl.

 


Saturday, February 18, 2012

Pussying Around On A Train

Our eyes meet once again across the table for the tiniest second before nervously looking away again. I stare fixedly out of the window at the landscapes passing me by. We have been doing this for a while now, ever since I sat down opposite him at the table seats on the London train. We look at each other and then pretend not to when we get caught in the crime. Our eyes have boldly held the connection for an entire 3 seconds a few times before losing resolve and shying away again. I alternately stare out of the window or intensely analyse the perplexingly boring pattern on the table, maybe pick up my book and attempt to read the compelling poetry written inside. Unfortunately the poetry is not enough to hold my attention.

Perhaps I’m reading too much into this whole situation. Perhaps our eyes only meet because we are in each other’s line of sight. Perhaps he is only looking to see if I have stopped looking at him. Perhaps I’m bored of this train journey and I feel like imagining things and pulling substance from air. All the same I fancy I see him out of the corner of my eye, looking at me again. I run my fingers through my hair in case he is. I chance another look at him and once again his eyes flick away.

I wonder if I should say something to him. Start a conversation. What could I say? Something stupid but irresistibly funny and cute? “Hey, I noticed you noticing me and I wondered if you noticed me noticing you too?”

Maybe AA meeting style? “Hey, my name is Zara and I think too much.”

Or just the tried and tested “Hey, where are you headed?”

What if he doesn’t want to talk to me? Would he even be able to hear me over the chatter of the annoying couple next to us? Why couldn’t they have chosen a different table? At least if he snubs me then I won’t lose face in front of them.

You see this is what happens when I don’t just dive right into things. I over-think, over-analyse and then eventually talk myself out of it. I should have said something before my mind started working again. Right, the next stop is Leicester, I’ll make a deal with myself: If he doesn’t get off at Leicester, I will strike up a conversation.

When we slow down and pull in at Leicester station though, he picks up his bag, and gets off without a backwards glance. I’m both disappointed and relieved that we didn’t get a chance to talk. As the train judders into life again and trundles off to Market Harborough, I switch on my iPod, put on some Hollywood Undead and wonder if I had missed out on something remarkable while I was pussying around asking my insecurities what they thought.


Saturday, February 04, 2012

Just an Update

When I look back at before Uni, I'm so glad I got away from this crappy town with its boring-ness and yet the constant drama that people seem to involve everyone in. I do come back at the weekends to see family (with mixed reviews, it's not always rainbows and sunshine of course). My life as it is, is not perfect, and I never for one second expected it to be, but it's so much better. I got the freedom I wanted, I've settled in, made friends, acquired a new and surprising hobby, my course is interesting, I'm being kept busy, I have two concerts in March (Emilie Autumn and Black Stone Cherry) for which two old friends are coming up to my city for and I cannot wait.

There are things that I still want that I don't yet have. A boyfriend for example, I don't need a guy in my life to be happy, but I want that connection with someone, even if it does mean eventual heartbreak. I want to feel something more. But again, this is down to me not having the balls to reach out for what I want. I'm trying to be a fearless, risktaking, impulsive kind of person, but it's not working that well so far. The guy I still kind of maybe possibly might like isn't giving me enough to go on and I'm still too scared of getting hurt.

I just hope I do grow a pair before I die. I don't like the idea of me growing old alone, replaying all the missed chances and opportunites in my head.

But moving past all that negative crap, life is good, actually good. This may not be perfect, but it's enough.



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