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3Jul/09

Harriet, no, Elliot Minor + The Mission District.

What a fun day it's been.

After what I believe was a night of no sleep, I arose from my room around 12, and cleaned my room some more. Spent about an hour trying to get my books to stay on my shelves right, but they're still constantly falling off. How persistent and annoying.

Anyway, got dressed and ready for the gig tonight, which would be Elliot Minor + The Mission District.

Had McDonald's.

Queued.

Saw David from The Mission District. He was awesome. He gave us a leaflet.

Then we were inside.

It was oh, so very hot. (Almost like there has been a heatwave recently.)

Anyway, The Mission District came on. They were awesome for many reasons, mainly for they sang awesome songs (including the best Lady Gaga/Rihanna/Michael Jackson mix you ever did hear), and they were awesome. They were also sweaty, as jumping + thrown water + bad ventilation + lots of lights was true.

Elliot Minor were on next, obviously, as they were headlining. They came on to Jessica, which somehow caused me to go from basically the back of the room to essentially the front. Which made the evening a lot more enjoyable, I must say, Played some good songs, a few new songs, maybe a few too many, but they were still very good.

Also, fun merchandise. Signed Elliot Minor poster for £5 was a bargain and is awesome. Also got David from The Mission District's signature. May go see them live in September, if I can drag my self away from Fresher's fortnight at Derby.

Then McDonald's again, but only for a drink this time.

Then we were on the Last Train Home, (Lostprophets in 2059 hours baby).

That was an experience, I must say.

So we're (Aimee, Adam and I) sitting around a table, as you do, then Calvin comes to sit with us.

And we were terrified by his speech, the self harm marks, the fact that he was smoking, was drunk, and was talking about being nice.

He also didn't believe us about Elliot Minor (or as he kept on saying, Harriet Minor), though we had three tickets, about ten flyers and a big poster.

Which scared us all. Thankfully, he left at Tame Bridge.

Then Aimee drove us home, which was nice, and now I'm finishing this blog post after having a shower to remove the sweat from my person.

Farewell!

14May/09

Lost.

Oh my.

I won't say anything, but that was a bloody amazing season finale of Lost there. Better than Heroes and The Big Bang Theory. Hmm, pretty much on par with Scrubs, as that was also bloody amazing.

Eight months to wait until there are any new episodes.

And even then, will I be able to get them at university? I doubt so, but I will die inside without Lost, My Name is Earl, Heroes, The Big Bang Theory, Mythbusters, Ugly Betty and Desperate Housewives. Actually, about all but three are available fo' free on Freeview, pretty close to the US airings.

Still, missing the Lost finale would piss me off.

Oh well, twelve months to work that situation out.

However in other news: EUROVISION YAY and FREE REALMS YAY!

13May/09

Now.

I was right!

Nothing much else to say really, though this week is a bit of a season finale week of some of the last American TV shows, with Lost, The Big Bang Theory, My Name is Earl (joining Scrubs (what a lovely ending - I did nearly cry), Heroes, Better off Ted and Samantha Who?) ending for a while.

Should be okay for a while, I do have a whole season of Desperate Housewives and half a season of Ugly Betty to carry me through until Big Brother UK and US start. Might keep me a bit interested during revision, which I have officially started with my ICT timed exam now finished. Yayy.

And with good grades on the second M1 mock I did, I'm feeling not so bad about the exams I have next week.

Well, the practical should be no problem at all, M1's going alright, but the lack of me seeing a PA02 paper in a year may limit my progress there. Doubt I can do any worse on 25/90 UMS, though.

To be honest though, you never know. Ah well, time for some Free Realms, The Apprentice, and I may watch Semi-Final One again.

If you didn't see it, IT WAS AMAZING I'VE MISSED EUROVISION SO MUCH YAY.

30Dec/08

Whoops.

I fail at this posting malarchy. Now it's been like, nine days since I posted properly.

Okay, I'm quite worried about my January exams now. I've left revision far too late, so on my schedule I've got four exams to revise for and two big pieces of ICT work. To be honest, I think I'm going to have to leave the ICT until my exams finish, as getting those marks now are much more important.

Sorted out my exam timetable for Summer also, three exams the week before we break up, two the week we come back and two the week after. I feel sorry though, for the people who took Maths and continued General Studies to A2, as the final General Studies exam is the morning of C4. I'm so glad I dropped that one.

Anyway, yes, failure to post for a week or so again. Anyway, since that day, I did nothing for most of the week. On Christmas Eve, everyone (parents, sister, her husband and I) was round eating. Christmas Day was everyone round again, eating more. Boxing Day was more of the same.

Presents I got consisted of Elite Beat Agents, Rock Band 2, The World Ends With You, The Black Books collection, The Blackadder collection, the missing Futurama movies, and a phone that works.

Room is clean and tidy, and has been for a while. I'm impressed with myself.

Went out for a meal with my parents, Adrian and his parents earlier today. Food was nice, burnt poppadom however.

Going to Birmingham tomorrow. Don't know what to buy. Might buy some cheap Vodka so I can make some Appletini's on Thursday. Might buy some new games too. Who knows. The world, to be honest, is my oyster.

Well, let oyster = £40. And let world = Birmingham.

Oh well.

The lack of any American TV shows this week has disappointed me. However, there will be new stuff in like two weeks time, which will be nice. Like LOST, Ugly Betty, Desperate Housewives and The Big Bang Theory. Quite excited for LOST, to be honest. Can't remember what happened in Season Four, but I'll catch up somehow.

Best thing on TV this past week was obviously The Big Fat Quiz of the Year, obviously. Might watch it again tomorrow. Well, later on today.

And best thing this next coming week is NEW JONATHAN CREEK. I am quite excited. I may even watch it whilst other people are enjoying themselves. As I really want to see it. Really really bad.

Might pick up the DVDs I'm missing tomorrow if Zavvi haven't a sploded yet. Here's hoping. Mom probably wants me to go to The Pier to pick up some wine glasses. And I think that's it for stores in administration, being as Woolworths is like dead now.

To take a tangent to that conversation, I haven't really downloaded much new music this past week. Just a few, like Decode, The Loco-Motion, Alphabeat, and Busted. Good old party cheese.

I think that's it for my weekly wrap up.

...

Oh!

I got an offer from Huddersfield!

Which makes Derby: 260; Huddersfield: 260; Sheffield Hallam: 260; Staffordshire + Teesside: Interviews.

Don't really want to attend those. Mainly because of the fact I'm in New York, Las Vegas and because I have exams, but also because I don't want to go there.

Harsh, I know.

However, that is definitely it. See you on Sunday. =)

30May/08

Jeremy Bentham

Wow.

If someone starts watching the next series without watching the past four seasons, they're gonna be quite confused.

But, wow.

Exciting ending to season four. And now the season three finale fully makes sense!

Damned eight months until season five. =(

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