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Post by En on Jan 7, 2004 0:18:23 GMT -5
Really Sphi? I tell people stuff like that -- that my memories are of a sense of things, not of the things themselves -- and they get all weirded out.
I have very few specific memories, unless I've been reminded of them suddenly and strongly (usually by a smell) and then wrote about them right away. So my memory collection is... I dunno, artificial in a sense, in that I have to work to keep the ones I have, and half the time my most vivid memories are of scenes I imagined from books I read as a kid. Wow. And I'm always nervous about being friends with people who have really good memories, because I can never keep up with what they remember.
Wow. *squeaks* I didn't think anyone else did that.
*recovers*
The rabbit thing sort of trips me out, but in a happy way.
Oh, I know what mine is. It's a horse. I have a lot of theories as to why, but there's absolutely no doubt. Um -- the great-grandfather I mentioned was steady, dependable, really quite Hufflike (even had a 3-acre garden), and he kept horses; another great-great-grandfather was a horse breeder; Mr. Forsythia, my favourite teacher ever, also had horselike qualities; Lumiekins is a closet meara (long story); I have a big nose, very long thin limbs and move a lot like a horse (and eat like a horse); they're strong creatures with close ties to humans, but they're not quite human (I feel that way a lot -- like I'm trying to be a help in a family/group, but never quite feel like the sort who gets invited in for tea either); Boxer was the only character I could relate to in Animal Farm... see, it's a long list, because those are only the odd ones that just popped into my head just now.
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Calantha
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My name is Luck, this is my song, I happened by when you were gone
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Post by Calantha on Jan 7, 2004 12:58:50 GMT -5
Hmm... I've been thinking about the rabbit coincedence, and it very might be because I mentioned it some other time or something? I don't know.
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Post by potterknowitall on Jan 8, 2004 0:50:10 GMT -5
I finally found it!
*is quite pleased with herself* Since En asked what everyone's Happy Thoughts were *checks back* on Dec 22, I've been fighting with myself to try and figure it out. I really couldn't find what mine was until two seconds ago and I must announce before I forget what it is for another 2 weeks ((Though I can't believe I didn't think of these things til now))
Two Happy Thoughts: (1) Rowing (2) An amazing night on my sailing trip
I'm a bit of a water freak. I just have this weird need for it ((not like drinking it , large bodies of it, like lakes or oceans)), which is weird because I'm petrified of deep water. It's the only thing/place where I feel completely safe. I really can't express how much I miss rowing besides saying that I tear up whenever I think of it. No joke. I am right now. It's an amazing experience, being out on the water at sunrise, freezing your a** off and not feeling your fingers or toes but not caring because it feels so good to be out there just rowing. Whenever I think back to one night on a sailing trip I went to (it was on a 40 ft brigatine with a 18 person crew) I get that pull in my stomach for wanting to be there again so bad. It was a perfect starry night, and I was alone at the front of the boat, sitting in the man-catcher (the veryvery bow, lying on a pole of wood with only a net between you and the water), wrapped up in a blanket. No noise besides the water, and then there was a shower of shooting stars.
Yeah. Colleen's very-happy thoughts
*edit: *is having a flood of happy thoughts, strangely, all involving water** *edit the second: i just realized that i never thanked you for my patronus, n. i loved it - it's wonderful and perfect. merci beaucoup
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Post by En on Jan 8, 2004 12:38:44 GMT -5
Hmm... I've been thinking about the rabbit coincedence, and it very might be because I mentioned it some other time or something? I don't know. Very well could be. Like I was saying to Sphi, I remember things in impressions, not details; so I may have got a Rabbit impression off you from you mentioning that story or something, and then later it popped into my head for your patronus.
Water, yay. I take really long showers because I love it so much, and for years and years I swam a lot, canoed every chance I got, and daydreamed about rivers and oceans and sailing. (No surprise: Voyage of the Dawn Treader was my favourite Narnia book.)
When I took the ferry across the Irish Sea, and then another on Galway Bay, sure I was on commercial ferries which don't move so much with the water, but I loved it -- the salt spray on my face, the great grey-blue rolling expanse. Mm. And then when I am in actual boat boats, with no engines, just sails and oars and a rudder -- it's perfect. The sound of water slapping the keel, the rocking motion, the way the sails snap in a breeze. Also, for some odd reason, it's really easy for me to get sea-legs; I even enjoy that bit.
And once I went kayaking in Alaska, which was grand -- such scenery, seals and orca in the distance, and so close to that bitter-cold salt-smelling water full of salmon and... jellyfish. No joke. Loads of them. That was the only un-fun part though
oo, I shut up now
I'm glad you liked it, dear heart. You know me, I was worried you wouldn't take it for the compliment I meant it to be, but I did mean it to be... and there, you get to be near water.
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DonnieDarko
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Why do you wear that stupid bunny suit?
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Post by DonnieDarko on Jul 30, 2004 13:08:24 GMT -5
i think the deer/stag thing came only because potter is like his father in many ways. the otter because hermione is JK the swan because it shows cho's nature.
but who knows, maybe there is something about the patronus that we still dont understand.
im not sure what it is, but there has to be something.
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Calavera Diablos
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Post by Calavera Diablos on Sept 26, 2004 4:24:22 GMT -5
En- Heh, reminds me of my trip on the mastship during Senior year of highschool. We students got to live on this immense ship named the Touley Moore for about two weeks, raising the sails and scrubbing the decks, etc. We circled around Catalina, docked in some remote bay and went out to the santa barbara islands. There, we took a smaller motor powered boat out to the island, where a huge colony of sea lions were living at the time. It was really cool, seeing all these little heads pop out of the water, then going under. I had been on these trips before, so I was allowed to have a weight belt on. I spent most of my time (as much air as I could hold anyway) underwater doing barrel rolls with the sea lions and playing with them. It was really amazing, their eyes remind me of those of a horses'. They can look right into your soul.
I think my Patronus might be a snake...
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