A Curious Girl: An escapist entry... but we like escaping, don't we boys and girls?

A good but very escapist day.

Must do some revision.

Read most of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire this morning and part of the afternoon. The cool thing about it is there's enough evidence to muster up a case against anyone you wish to suspect of foul play. I love that book. Yet another thing the church (as represented by the internet, anyway) disapproves of... I think that Harry's great. I guess that parent should just be careful. Don't get hysterical. It's fiction.

Boy, I really do need an opinion on everything, don't I?

Anyway, after finishing that utterly brilliant (and just mildly terrifying) book, I went over to Nicky's to drop off Archie the chick, given to her by Jonathan. It was nice to go there. I walked, there and back. Made quite good time. It was weird. Nicky's bedroom was amazingly messy. I mean, I thought my room needed sorting. :-) It just struck me how I looked over Nicky's bedroom almost like a first-time visitor (not quite, m'dears, but I haven't seen it often) and she's seen my bedroom and knows it almost as well as I do! Strange. We read through some of her old story book that she wrote about ten years ago. It was hilarious. I love kids' stories, in a way I think they say more about human nature than adults' ones. They had more character, I think. Course, I couldn't read them all the time, but it's nice once in a while.

It got me thinking about the stories I wrote when I was little. They were all weird. There was 'The magic cornfield' - I told Nicky about that one. I think it began 'Katy the Cat...' and that was it. You see, I'd been planning to publish it, because I had a typewriter, but got bored. And then there was Tidy and Mess, two cats I invented in year 3. Mess was a water loving cat, which was why he was so dirty. It was seven year old psychology. Mess was dirty because he wanted people to try and clean him. I think Tidy never got much of a say, because Mess ended up doing all the interesting stuff in that story. I'd planned to make them a series and become famous. I don't change much, evidently!!

Chris and I always had an obsession for story-writing. We were always inventing worlds full of elves and dragons. I think Chris was madder about it, although I wouldn't say that now, because she told me that the only reason she really wanted to write was money and she had a job. I don't think that's all of it, and she's probably writing something she hasn't told me about :-) Chris and I used to play various weird games (stop using the word weird!!!) that usually involved fantasy lands and fairies and stuff. One of our favourite cartoons was always Dungeons and Dragons, and then there was Narnia. Actually Narnia wore thin on me first, but ironically I like it much more now than she does. (See poll. And vote, why doncha?!!)

So I guess I started out with fantasy and science fiction. And comedy. I still have my Cinderella play from when I was twelve and I still love it :-) The plot is so stupid. Fantasy produced dragonslayers, mainly, and science fiction produced a Buck Rogers rip off. Although I wouldn't call it a Buck Rogers rip off because in the end I couldn't be bothered to introduce Buck Rogers into the equation. I already had a hero. I'd nicked him from Deep Space Nine. You see, I had a crush on him. Do I tell you? It's embarrassing.

I know you came to be entertained, so I will tell you, but don't tease me or I'll be forced not to tell you the Anglo Saxon swineherd story.

Dr. Bashir.

Yes, I had a crush on Julian. It lasted quite a long time, too, as most of my crushes tend to. And he was the star of my very-nearly-Buck-Rogers rip off. It was a story about this alien princess of a planet called Yymyra or something and her struggles to save her planet from the Zogians who were attacking them by making an alliance between Yymyra (I'm becoming more and more certain that was how it was spelled) and Earth. Her father the emperor was meant to be running the planet only he was really ill. Anyway, Julian (I think I changed his last name) was a top doctor and also spying on the Zogians. He fell in love with Alien Princess (her name was Sara, I got the idea from A little princess... I was trying to remember the name of the princess on Buck Rogers but I think I failed) and went to see if he could do anything for the Emperor. He discovered that the only thing wrong with the Emperor was that he was a meglophobe, i.e. afraid of power and I think I gave up that story a little later on the grounds that it was rubbish. Shame, really. But I think Emperor would have got his act together, the Yymyrans and the Earthlings would have fought the Zogians off together and Julian married the alien princess and everything was fine. There was another woman in the story but I can't even remember what her name was. I think she ruled Earth or something. I had to stick with Julian because in my story he flirted much less than Buck Rogers did even though on DS9 he was practically just as bad.

And then there was the exceptionally peculiar and slightly dodgy story about a female dragon slayer that was funny in my innocence but I could never publish now as it's rather suspect. Erm. I'm not going to say any more about that!! Although it's odd that the main character was named after Julian Bashir's main fascination on DS9 at the time... Jadzia. I watched too much television.

I still have that story. In fact, I just removed it from its hiding plce and I'm chuckling at it right now. If I find anything not too embarrassing I'll share it with you.

Oh yes, I used the word misogynist in context and didn't actually have a clue what it meant. Blame Pratchett's Equal Rites.

"Send down the band, there's a good butler."

'I won't go into the evening in detail, basicly because I can't be bothered, but they had a dinner like one you might find in any medieval castle except there were rather more potatoes.'

'"Anyone would have thought Wotsisname was in here." (Footnote: A dragon. Its original name was too long to remember, so this is the alternative.)'

My terrible time travel story is also around, somewhere... If I can work up the courage, I'll put it on my Scribble site for you all to gawp at.

And that's my day. I borrowed a couple of Point Horrors from Nicky, as I find them quite funny and I'm not really a literary snob anymore. I gave that up when I realised that loads of children's books are actually better than adult ones... and I can respect those teeny books for the rather miniscule power they possess now. I read The Homecoming Queen and guessed it was Celeste first, then Izzy, but then Celeste poured on the evidence for Izzy so then I knew it was Celeste. There was strong evidence for Seth but in Point Horrors the girl never ever goes out without a boyfriend. Number 1 rule. Although Point Horrors really only have two rules for who the culprit is. It isn't any of the people they suspect, and it isn't their boyfriend. Narrow it down to that and you've got it. Reading those books again is weird. Why is everything weird today? It just is, I guess.

Haven't said anything about God yet, so I'll just say this.

He loves you, you know.

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