Went to London yesterday to surprise my Mum and Dad with their silver wedding anniversary present from my sister and I. We got them tickets to go and see Spamalot in the West End. They enjoyed it immensely.
However I am going to have a tiny little rant here...okay, maybe two tiny little rants. The reason I had to go to London was because I had to look after Mel while Mum and Dad went into the theatre. If the tickets had been slightly cheaper, and I didn't have to pay an online charge for them, then we might all have been able to go in and see the show.
Secondly, how rare are hole-in-the-wall machines in London? It's like trying to find a needle in a haystack. Mel managed to spot one for me down an alley somewhere - oh, yeah, that's a really helpful spot to put an hole-in-the-wall machine.
Weather is gorgeous at the moment; it was so hot in London yesterday, the tube journeys were a nightmare. Still, I had my trusty MP3 player to amuse me, and amused I was.
Today will be a mixture of shopping - groan - football - nail biting - and worshiping - hallelujah - with a little bit of Where Wild Things Grow editing thrown into it - hopefully.
Laters.
Sunday 29 April 2007
Friday 27 April 2007
Weekend's Nearly Here!
Not that anything exciting is happening in the next couple of days. It's just nice to know I don't have to get up for anything major. Though I do have to go shopping. That's pretty major. Then there's church. That's pretty major too.
Damn it, the weekend tricks us. It masquerades as a couple of work free days and then bam hits you right where it hurts with jobs to do, like buying food and washing clothes and saying, "Sorry Sorry Sorry Sorry!" till you think you've said it enough times to know you're safe from the fiery depths of hell for another week.
Just kidding.
Today was semi-eventful - just the usual lectures, though I did have to watch My Beautiful Laundrette before it. Honestly it wasn't anything fantastic, and I'm not the hugest fan of Daniel Day-Lewis it has to be said. Have no idea who's in the presentation group for this module, so need to contact them at some point - another thing to do in my "uneventful" weekend - hah!
Am writing this whilst pausing from heavy work I am currently doing to my mp3 player; it's time to put some new stuff on it rather than most of the old stuff. I don't listen to it enough and when I do most of the time its to the radio. But at least I have the option, don't I?
Laters
Damn it, the weekend tricks us. It masquerades as a couple of work free days and then bam hits you right where it hurts with jobs to do, like buying food and washing clothes and saying, "Sorry Sorry Sorry Sorry!" till you think you've said it enough times to know you're safe from the fiery depths of hell for another week.
Just kidding.
Today was semi-eventful - just the usual lectures, though I did have to watch My Beautiful Laundrette before it. Honestly it wasn't anything fantastic, and I'm not the hugest fan of Daniel Day-Lewis it has to be said. Have no idea who's in the presentation group for this module, so need to contact them at some point - another thing to do in my "uneventful" weekend - hah!
Am writing this whilst pausing from heavy work I am currently doing to my mp3 player; it's time to put some new stuff on it rather than most of the old stuff. I don't listen to it enough and when I do most of the time its to the radio. But at least I have the option, don't I?
Laters
Thursday 26 April 2007
Presentation Groups
Just got back from 19th Century Dramatic Texts where we chose our groups for the presentation we have to do. I'm with my good friends Steph - who turned 21 today, yeah! - and Rosie. We're doing Oscar Wilde's sinister play, Salome, though the pronunciation of the title leads a lot to be desired. (It's Sa-lo-may, but you'd be surprised how many variations we got out of it!)
Spent a large portion of yesterday editing, re-editing and even re-writing parts of Where Wild Things Grow. I'm trying out a chapter structure this time, though some of them are very short. I may have to group some together. this will help because I'm not very good at thinking up names for chapters - mind you, I'm not very good at thinking up names full stop.
Just read that Jessica Alba has been voted FHM's Sexiest Woman Of The Year. All I can say is, I didn't vote for her.
Am going to spend the rest of today doing a mixture of watching Family Guy, continuing my work on WWTG and starting to write the basic outline for my FYP - the Final Year Project which is basically my 8000-10,000 word thesis. I want to do it on the effects of 9/11 on culture, which gives me a really broad range to choose from. Some have a problem with too broad a range, but I think that as long as I spend the time on it it will work out okay.
Laters.
Spent a large portion of yesterday editing, re-editing and even re-writing parts of Where Wild Things Grow. I'm trying out a chapter structure this time, though some of them are very short. I may have to group some together. this will help because I'm not very good at thinking up names for chapters - mind you, I'm not very good at thinking up names full stop.
Just read that Jessica Alba has been voted FHM's Sexiest Woman Of The Year. All I can say is, I didn't vote for her.
Am going to spend the rest of today doing a mixture of watching Family Guy, continuing my work on WWTG and starting to write the basic outline for my FYP - the Final Year Project which is basically my 8000-10,000 word thesis. I want to do it on the effects of 9/11 on culture, which gives me a really broad range to choose from. Some have a problem with too broad a range, but I think that as long as I spend the time on it it will work out okay.
Laters.
Wednesday 25 April 2007
It's been a loooooong time....
...since I wrote anything here. And that's bad, I know. I just wonder if anyone else is actually reading this - apart from my mother that is. Hi, mum.
Anyhoo, over the Easter break I discovered a terrific series of children's books known as the CHERUB series - if you haven't read them and you're into Alex Rider and Young Bond I urge you to go out and buy them! But they gave me a serious kick on the bottom and made me realise that Where Wild Things Grow - yes, that's right, the first book in the series - needed a major re-write. So, after I had made sure all my essays were out of the picture, I began it. I can't believe I left it for so long. Reading back all the stuff I had written down made me realise just why my manuscript has been rejected so many times (well, okay, only two times, but you get the idea). I'll let you all know how things are going soon.
The break was an incredibly busy one, because my dad turned 50 and my parents also celebrated their 25th wedding anniversary. The party they had for it was amazing - the band were brill and I even got to sing "Sweet Home Chicago" with them whilst Dad played the drums. It felt so good singing in front of a band again - the last time I did that was in year 10 doing my GCSEs in Music.
Tomorrow is my friend Steph's 21st birthday and in a few eeks I will be turning 20; the only word I can say to this at the moment is "HELP!"
Laters.
Anyhoo, over the Easter break I discovered a terrific series of children's books known as the CHERUB series - if you haven't read them and you're into Alex Rider and Young Bond I urge you to go out and buy them! But they gave me a serious kick on the bottom and made me realise that Where Wild Things Grow - yes, that's right, the first book in the series - needed a major re-write. So, after I had made sure all my essays were out of the picture, I began it. I can't believe I left it for so long. Reading back all the stuff I had written down made me realise just why my manuscript has been rejected so many times (well, okay, only two times, but you get the idea). I'll let you all know how things are going soon.
The break was an incredibly busy one, because my dad turned 50 and my parents also celebrated their 25th wedding anniversary. The party they had for it was amazing - the band were brill and I even got to sing "Sweet Home Chicago" with them whilst Dad played the drums. It felt so good singing in front of a band again - the last time I did that was in year 10 doing my GCSEs in Music.
Tomorrow is my friend Steph's 21st birthday and in a few eeks I will be turning 20; the only word I can say to this at the moment is "HELP!"
Laters.
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