Update!

I changed e-mail server and forgot to change it for my FFN account so I just got the waves of mail for those of you asking me to finish some stories. First of all I apologize for my lack of updates but this is my last semester before I graduate so I ahve been extremely busy this entire year seeing as I had to write my thesis last semester. As soon as I'm done with school sweat drop a little less than 3 weeks I will be updating all of my stories. And yes I do plan on finishing them it's just I'm extremely busy I've pulled more all nighters this year than I have all three years combined! Okay, enough with my ranting I need to finish that Midterm now. Oh, and before I forget I will be changing my e-mail so I actually get notices from FFN! Also thank you for all for waiting so patiently!

- The Book of Counted Sorrows

Edited: 04/27/09

Hello,

I don't have much to say about myself, I'm just an ordinary weird individual with a few pesky quirks. I've had insomnia ever since I can remember and have spent many a-night reading till the wee hours of the morning.

I first found out about his site when I was DESPERATELY searching for anything that could give me closure for a trilogy I had just finished. I read A LOT, and I'm usually content with an ending, even if I don't particularly like it very much. The Last Herald-Mage Trilogy by Mercedes Lackey was my first introduction to a gay couple, but that's beside the point. I really liked her writing style and she did a wonderful job in her character development, but I was VERY pissed at the ending. She could have done sooo much with it, but instead chose to just end it (cut and dry). Well, like I said, I was far from done with the story so I searched via the internet for anything that could give me some type of closure, and it was then that a friend of mine recommended this site to me.

I have to say, I really liked reading many of the stories here, and after a while I've finally decided to post a story of my own. It's been nagging at me for a while, so what the heck. It's something to do while I'm up at night, it's not like I actually sleep at night. Who does that? ;)

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Interests: Poetry, Chemistry, Mythology (Greek, Roman, Irish), Black/White Photography, Manga, Books, Archaeology, Wolves, Art (Sculptures, paintings,glass), Animals, making my friends laugh . . . ;)

Some Fave Artists: Enya, Nightwish, Trans-Siberian Orchestra, Josh Groban, Marie-Mai, Cirque Du Soleil, Mozart, Brad Paisely, Shania Twain, Nickelback, Puddle of Mudd, Paulina Rubio, Tina Turner, The Beatles, Bond, Nightnoise, Andrea Bocelli, Edvin Marton, Beethoven, Creed, Juanes, The Eagles, Elvis Presley, Heather Alexander, System of a Down . . .

Some Fave Movies: Beauty and the Beast, Forest Gump, A Walk in the Clouds, The Last of the Mohicans, Boondock Saints, Artificial Intelligence, V for Vendetta, Jurassic Park (trilogy), The Matchmaker, Bridget Jones Diary: 1 & 2, Taboo (for any yaoi fans out there, I highly recommend this movie. Its a Japanese video and subbed in English. The original name is "Gohatto" The story revolves around Sozaburo Kano, played by Ryuhei Matsuda, who's the hottest looking uke I've ever seen outside of anime.

The following is a small description of the film that I found on the net.

Set during Japan's Shogun era, this film looks at life in a samurai compound where young warriors are trained in swordfighting. A number of interpersonal conflicts are brewing in the training room, all centering around a handsome young samurai named Sozaburo Kano. The school's stern master can choose to intervene, or to let Kano decide his own path.

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Come away! O, human child!

To the woods and waters wild,

With a fairy hand in hand,

For the world's more full of weeping than

you can understand.

- W.B. Yeats

Now take my hand and hold it tight.

I will not fail you here tonight,

For failing you, I fail myself

And place my soul upon a shelf

In Hell's library without light. I will not fail you here tonight.

- The Book of Counted Sorrows

excerpt from "By the Light of the Moon"

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"The problem is not really in being alone, it's being lonely. One can be lonely in the midst of a crowd, don't you think?"
- Feehan

"Common sense is all the prejudice acquired by the age of eighteen."

- Albert Einstein

"We need to be reminded sometimes that a sunrise lasts but a few moments. But its beauty can burn in our hearts eternally"

- R.A Salvatore

"A gilded cage is still a cage."

- Anonymous

"Convince myself; I seek not to convince"

- Edgar Allen Poe

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Note: Although it may be obvious, I would still like to mention that every artwork here is simply a few pieces that I admire and are by no means my own. (Like I could ever create anything half that good. lol)

As promised the following is the address where you can view Sasuke's pendant. Simply copy and paste.

http://www.jaedworks.com/gallery/blue/triangle-pendant.jpg

As promised the following is the address where you can view the two glass sculpture's Gaara gave Neji's. Simply copy and paste.

“Oceanic Dreams”

http://www.glass-art.com/images/GOTTtempestbg.jpg

Gothic vase

http://www.holstengalleries.com/gifs/art/chihuly/venetians/104_venetian_teal_piccolo.jpg

As promised the following is the address where you can view the two displays I mentioned in Gaara's big debut. Simply copy and paste.

"Dress Impressions"

http://www.karenlamonte.com/zoomimages20Pages/exhibits/_MG_4257.html

http://www.karenlamonte.com/zoomimages20Pages/Figurative/dress_imp.htm

http://www.karenlamonte.com/zoomimages20Pages/Figurative/dress_tulip.htm

http://www.karenlamonte.com/zoomimages20Pages/exhibits/cmvu_13.htm

http://www.karenlamonte.com/zoomimages20Pages/Figurative/vestige.htm

http://www.karenlamonte.com/zoomimages20Pages/exhibits/absence_05.htm

http://www.karenlamonte.com/zoomimages20Pages/exhibits/absence_01.htm

http://www.karenlamonte.com/zoomimages20Pages/exhibits/absence_02.htm

http://www.karenlamonte.com/zoomimages20Pages/exhibits/absence_07.htm

http://www.karenlamonte.com/zoomimages20Pages/exhibits/absence_04.htm

"Sea Forms"

http://accelconf.web.cern.ch/accelconf/f05/PHOTOS/5_TOURS/5_031.JPG