My apprenticeship is over since last Friday, and I miss those kids so bad. I had a really fun and relaxed time, unlike that one in octobre. And the kids, the kids, I wanna adopt them all. But especially little Vince. He’s eleven but he looks seven because he’s really small. He’s all tough on the outside, with his red sweater and his black and blue necklace (favourite football team yo). He has a tendency to be lazy but if you make it a little game, he will totally fall for it and be so proud of himself for making the exercises within the “time limit”. And he giggles. Very girly. Remind you of someone? Fuck, if that isn’t little Frankie Iero.
Man, I could’ve kept working there, it was a really nice school.

 Anyway, went to a prom on Friday evening. A very fancy prom, the university of Ghent engineers prom. It was nice, but not actually very different from any other prom. Girls in dresses, dance music, cocktails, hot boys in suits with their collars open, gah…

 I saw Twilight this weekend as well, and I kinda liked it. The first part was rather slow and filled with cliches, but the second part was okay, it kept me entertained. Not a bad movie, but just a little too highschool-y. It could’ve been more dark, more sexy. Maybe they should’ve replaced the girl with a boy.

 And when I’m graduated next summer, I might begin my teaching career with a three month internship abroad. In a European school, as a coordinator of some kind. Preferably Spain or Italy. My mom thinks I’m crazy. But it would be rather cool. And I won’t miss my bands, like I will now when I’m in Africa. And I will have a decent internet connection. And my friends can come and visit me. I’m pretty much sold to the idea already.

Commercial time!

"In search of a great holiday destination? Pick Wroclaw, Poland! Polar bears tend to stay away in October, the vodka will definitely get you drunk and there's always great avand garde music playing around your corner. If you're lucky, you might bump into amazingly nice Polish girls and their housemates. They will introduce you to Supernatural and indulge your immediate crush on Torchwood's Jack/Ianto. Stupid little cars are driving around for your amusement, bars are named 'From dusk till dawn', the french fries will taste just like home and the people will treat you like a god if you bring curry ketchup! Do not hesitate, go now!"

So yep, my trip was pretty awesome. Stress-less and lots of fun. Thank you,battleofhydaspe !

I also saw The Subways last night and they were pretty awesome. The lead singer had no shirt on and he had a lot of charisma. Fuck, he seemed hot on stage. There was this one guy in the crowd who had the same mohawk as Frank once had, I couldn't stop staring at him. Well you know, that's what happens when you remind me of the Iero. And I officially bought tickets to see Alkaline Trio in january. Which I'm so excited about.

Though I'm currently having this crush on Brian/Gerard fics, I give you a very sweet Frank/Gerard story that honours the birthday kid. It's All Just Candy

On tuesday, I'm leaving for the Netherlands for four days - boring school trip. Expect me not to have fun and miss you all.
By the way, my sister is addicted to French movies. I'm willing to trade her for a sweet little hardcore-loving brother, if anyone's interested.

I have a request. There is a picture of Gerard with long black hair, wearing a bordeaux shirt, in a random-street environment. I love that picture, but I can't find it anywhere anymore! If you know what I'm talking about or you actually have it, please, let me know.

To all my awesome and sexy friends on the interweb,
my apprenticeship is killing me (stress!time pressure!deadlines!demanding supervisors!)
I can't seem to get ten minutes free a day to check how you cool girls are doing in the world
so I'm sorry if I don't comment on your posts or reply back
I really want to, but I just have to focus on my apprenticeship (from hell!) first
luckily, it's only 10 more days
then I'm back fulltime
it's not even a fucking hiatus, because who the hell needs hiatusses, it's just a basic survival necessity
till then,

the "I recently re-discovered Brian is so hot in slash stories" one x

And to levitate the cultural value of this entry: my five favourite non-bandom de-stress songs:

MGMT - kids
Parkway Drive - Romance is dead
Does it offend you, yeah? - Dawn of the dead
Gym Class Heroes - My hand in the cookie jar (or something)
Those Dancing Days - Hitten
 

The bad news, no more Buffy The Vampire Slayer. Seriously, they just cancelled the show in the middle of season 3 because the new shows start on September 1. I am not impressed. Luckily, my friend already promised to give me her dvd-box of season 5 so crying has been postponed.

And well, I'm leaving for Italy in two days, so no more television for an entire week anyway. Me and Silke are going camping in Milan and trashing a hotel room in Bologna. We're kind of keeping it low budget, because I'm probably going to Poland in octobre to visitbattleofhydaspe as well. Before I'm off, there is still the concert of Conor Oberst to enjoy (his song Souled out!!! is soooo good) and an art exhibition in Brussels which shows art from musicians like Pete Doherty, Yoko Ono, Patti Smith, Brian Eno, Chicks on Speed, etc. I'm really curious to see if I'll like any of the art.

Yesterday, I donated blood (0+ people, if you wanna have any of it, let me know) because it's necessary to keep hospitals working and also because if, IF vampires do exist and are nice creatures with a soul and get their blood through organisations like the Red Cross, someone needs to provide dinner. I'm happy to help.

I also found a girl who's willing to go with me to Bullet For My Valentine! She's the girlfriend of a friend of my friend and we went pooling together and laughed at the two boys playing pool and she likes metalcore and we get along. It was a nice evening.
But even nicer was the hard core festival where I had to work behind the bar for two days. That was such a crazy experience. Awesome music (Parkway Drive, Sworn Enemy, A Wilhelm Scream), funny co-workers, lots of hot guys to serve, tattoos to admire. And I got a hug from the frontman of an American hardcore band. Without even asking for it. The band just stood behind the bar and he started talking to me and I just kept smiling youknow. Those were two amazing days. Especially because when I first entered the festival, I didn't know anybody and I was so overwhelmed by all those tough looking people and I was thinking 'fuuuuck, why am I doing this to myself'. :)

Okay, enough rambling, I got packing to do. Take care xxx

Back from the holiday in France and my festival. Both were amazing. 

I never chilled so much in my life as those two weeks in France, it was really stressless. The highlights of our day were diving in the swimming pool and going to the grocery store. We also took four days to visit Carcassonne, which is a castle that normally takes only one day. The camping was a lot of fun, but we got a little too much love from musquitos and ants though. There is a whole story about some loserish Dutch guy giving us a lift and expecting more than grattitude, but we never got into any real trouble. Locals and other campers helped us out a lot, without even having to ask, so my faith in humanity has grown some more.

The three-day-festival "Pukkelpop" on the other hand was filled with excitement and energy. There were 8 stages and a lot of various music styles, so we never ever got bored or needed to wait. We watched bands play punk, electrorock, death metal, pop, hardcore, dance, and whatever. My favourite shows were of Anti-Flag, Less Than Jake, Hadouken!, Killswitch Engage, Pendulum, Sigur Ros and Mxpx. And the guitarist of Anti-Flag resembles Frank Iero so much! Charming and trashing around on stage, gah, I wanted to marry him. 

Now I have to spend three whole weeks at home and then there's another trip to Milan, Italy. To avoid dying of 'nothingtodo' I bought tickets to see Conor Oberst, made dates with all my girlfriends and boyfriends, planned a meeting about Africa, agreed to go to a huge electro party on friday, and volunteered to work at a local festival in september. And my ex-boyfriend kissed me yesterday. Silly world. 

Off to watch some vampire and demon's asses get kicked! x

Only a few more days before I'm going hiking in the south of France. I need some sunshine and rest desperately. So from august 1th till about the 17th, I'm going on internet vacation. Man, I'm gonna miss my Frank/Gerard love so hard. Poor girl that goes with me, she'll be introduced to the entire bandom chronicles. After my trip, I'm immediately off to Pukkelpop, where the Killers and so many other fucking good bands will take over my head.

Summer has been good to me so far, which I'm thankfull for considering the boring, clouded-by-schoolstress year I had.
I've been filling my summer days with lots of working in the kids clothing store but I also did some more exciting things, like going to the movies with my ex-boyfriend, who is still the cutest thing. I went to see some hardcore bands playing because I met the lead singer of one of those recently and he wears this awesome bat belt buckle and he smiles real pretty. I laughed at my male best friend repeatedly because he failed his photography classes and worried about his future at the same time. I went to see Presidents of the USA at a local small festival, they are awesome! I watched LOTMS for the first time in the safe company of a non-slash-obsessed friend so I wouldn't just die because of how amazing Gerard really is. I danced to Shameboy and Tocadisco on 10 Days Off, a big electrofestival in Belgium. I rented a whole lot of movies, and my favourite is Wassup Rockers, by Larry Clark, about seven Mexican boys who listen to punk and skate in South Central. I met up with 

battleofhydaspe

Three days of being surrounded by people wearing band-shirts and having amazingly long hair and acting tough but being really friendly: my first metal festival was kind of awesome. I'm glad I went. I'm glad that having no female friends who are into metal didn't stop me from going. Guys are nice. 

The best shows I've seen were Bullet for my Valentine, In Flames, At The Gates and 36 Crazy Fists. I needed some time to get used to all that roaring of lyrics and trashing of guitars and headbanging, but then I really enjoyed both the music and the atmosphere. And there was so little violence! There was more respect than I remember from any of my previous festival experiences. Plus, pretty boys all around.

Yeah, this was just what I needed. I feel like I'm more relaxed now. There are always going to be challenges in life, and new stuff to try out. And yes, I kinda freaked on the inside when one of the boys I met talked about his conversation with Gerard Way back when they were still relatively unfamous in Europe, but I also feel like there are a lot more bands to discover than I ever thought possible. Even in my hometown. I'm certainly looking forward to going back next year.

Me and a whole lot of guys and some girlfriends of guys, it will be fun! Worshipping the devil, starting a few forest fires, drinking till you see Ray! and Gerard! everywhere, laughing at my friend wearing his kilt (and not subtly either), and screaming my throat raw. Lazy summer fun indeed. 
Also, permission granted, next year I'll be teaching in Africa for three months. A little elementary school in Gambia. From januari till april. If only you could see my smile...

If you haven't read these, you should. Because they're awesome, original, exciting, pretty and alive.
Trust my judgement, people! Or don't and check them out anyway...
All Frank/Gerard because that's just who I am.

If late, get fired One-shot, office AU, Gerard as sexiest boss alive

Blue glitter One-shot, early MCR, Frank sees the band play for the first time

The lines you amend 7-part story, third series of an AU where Brian finds two streetkids and takes them home
                                         You better start with the first series, things will make more sense. 

Jersey is burning WIP, two parts out of three already posted, MRC is on tour when Frank bites his tongue

Chickens fic WIP, up to chapter 5, Frank lives in rural Virginia, loves his baby chicks and meets hot and mysterious Gerard 

Nothing WIP, chapter 6, college AU, Frank finds out what's wrong with him


Of course, there are a lot more amazing stories and authors out there, so this is just a selection. x