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Aislingeach: I would really like to see / read an alternate version of Star Wars...

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I would really like to see / read an alternate version of Star Wars where Leia never gets captured by Vader, where she makes it to Tatooine and personally goes and finds Obi-Wan to ask him to join the Rebel Alliance. Because he would know it was her. He would probably come up a with a similar story to the one he gave Luke, but Leia wouldn’t be so easily fooled, she’s not as naive or trusting as Luke is, and she’d start asking questions. Soon, they’d go pick up Luke and leave the planet. They’d never have to go to the Death Star because Leia would never have been captured, so Obi-Wan would have lived and Alderaan probably would have been fine, and before you know it the Skywalker twins would be training as Jedi together and not making out.

“before you know it the Skywalker twins would be training as Jedi together and not making out.”


*snicker*

“Why do I keep on falling in love with the same things all over again, all over again?”

Damn good question, Mr Dempsey.

Over the break, a friend asked me to have a Star Wars marathon with her. She hadn’t seen all of the films (how is this possible?), and certainly not all in the one go, so wanted to get a better idea of what it actually was all about.

From the username, it can be gathered that I am a Star Wars fan. I was a fairly large one, until about Year 12, when school became manic and when Ep III came out. Afterwards, there didn’t seem like much to look forward to, so the fangirl died a bit.

After the marathon, I’ve fallen in love with SW all over again - reading the blogs, satires and the EU books (although I have a little more perspective on these this time around though - some of them are definitely terrible!). It’s also nice to have a film to look forward to, but at the same time not really be sure if you’re actually looking forward to it, too.

Any remaining followers, you now know who to blame for the rekindling of the obsession and the resulting picture spams.

It’s 2 in the morning, but I just can’t sleep.


I can’t possibly imagine what it would be like to lose almost an entire class full of children from your school. For them never to sit in that classroom again. To never again see one or two in your phonics program withdrawal group, or your reading recovery group. To never again rejoice at them having made great progress, and to never again see that huge grin in their face when they know they’ve done well too.

To have to strike off their names from your school database. To read that letter sent home notifying all the parents what has happened, and to have not only 1 student’s name on that list, but half the page taken up by names. Names not only of students, but teachers and support staff as well.

We lost a student at our school this year. A wonderful, bright, young and talented girl who took ill that morning and died less than a day later, from still-unknown causes. I turned up at school one morning ready to tutor a Maths class. All the middle school kids were wandering about the school, so I went to student reception to find out if there had been a (commonly occurring) change to the timetable. It was then I found out why the students were aimlessly wandering around the school like a bomb had been dropped. Because one had.

That was just one student. I can’t imagine what the feeling would be like around the school and the community after losing 27 people so imperative to your life. The waves of grief radiating from the students and staff felt so intense after Zoe’s death. It was so incredibly difficult to feel that you had to keep it together for the students around you and support them when you felt like completely withdrawing and curling up into a ball on the floor yourself. I can’t fathom the grief that the school community in the US are feeling after such a massive loss.

Even worse than losing the lives of 20 little kids is that they’ve also lost 7 staff members - people that don’t curl into a ball when things go wrong. The principal, the psychologist, teachers…the very people who hold the school and the students together in horrible situations. We had counsellors on school grounds for over a week, just listening and caring for the kids when they needed help most. Especially comforting were the regular school counsellor and chaplain - people they were already familiar with, and people they trusted. Without these people, I don’t know how they would have managed. The principal is an amazing woman who held herself and the school and the parents, who were also part-time employees and essentially family in such a small school, together in a time of huge crisis. Keeping the school community informed, involved, counselling the staff, visiting with the family and assisting with funeral arrangements and food rosters for the family…she did an amazing job. I also can’t imagine a school losing these people, the very people they need most for leadership and guidance, during such an awful time.

I hope and pray that the families of the little children and staff lost are supported by the school community as our family was, and that, with time, they can eventually move through their grief, and find comfort in the amazing lives that those lost lived, however short.

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