Au revoir, mes amis.

Well this is the last blog post for a while as tomorrow I am off to France (Provence) and have to get up at 5 AM to get some early flight at 9 or something. Which just sucks. But I think this is probably the sixth time I have been to France. It is my most visited country. I am actually looking forward to it though since we haven't been abroad for a summer holiday for three years now (we did nothing last year and went to Devon the year before) although we did go to Tunisia in October last year and I went to America in the Easter holidays on the school ski trip which I did blog about. But anyway I have this mental image of me in France watching Fort Boyard whilst eating BN biscuits. Oh yes, they have BNBNs there. Haha all of you who miss them. And Fort Boyard I only saw a couple of times when I was younger but it is amusing watching adults do silly and sometimes icky games. I also plan to take a lot of reading material (including some Terry Pratchett, as I have never read any of his stuff and so feel wrong. Also need to finish off Lolita which I found in my Dad's cupboard whilst looking for HP7 and have been meaning to read for a while but never knew we owned a copy of it) as a lot of the time we just laze around. But the place we are renting out has a swimming pool which is cool (no pun intended). Um I don't really have much else to say, I just wanted to warn you of lack of blog posts over the next two weeks because I doubt there'll be a computer where we are staying. But you never know...

Party.

I have just got back from Hannah's party. But I will tell you all about my day from the beginning. My last day of work experience and I was sad to go (manager is now in hospital after repeatedly passing out and "seeing blue" yesterday evening). I got to print off my car brochure thing which I may upload here (that means I never will) and also got to leave early. Since I had no reason to go back to my own house I headed off to Hannah's which was near my work experience and was therefore rather early. Hannah was making cake and I got to eat some of the cake mix. Hannah's present was series 2 and 3 of Peep Show (I couldn't get series 1 because it was an 18), which I have never seen before *shockhorror*. Hannah put Series 3 on and I saw about 3 episodes of that, during which people began to arrive. I met Hannah's friend Scarlett which was nice. We then put on Extras because Scarlett was bored of Peep Show (I preferred Peep Show). Also the theme tune for Peep Show is Flagpole Sitta by Harvey Danger which I used to hear quite a bit in my XFM days but now... well never. But it's cool. We went to Hannah's room and chatted, then went downstairs and chatted some more, mainly about the new Harry Potter movie which only Hannah and Scarlett had seen. I will be seeing it after I return from France, as my Dad will take me because he really wants to see it. Then we cooked food and ate it, whilst playing "most likely to". We like this game. Hannah's cake had marzipan bees on it and was a very rich chocolate cake. Then it was time for Eun Young, Amy and me to leave. So we left, and then Divya ran to catch up with us. Once on the train we chatted, and I learnt that Amy shares a birthday with my sister and that her mum shares her birthday with my Dad. and now I am here blogging.

News: my new first cousin-once-removed has been named "India". I don't really like it as a name, but then that's my taste.

Bored at work experience?

Yeah me too. Hence why I am writing this blog during WEx hours. It is my second week at the same company and the manager is not here so I don't know what to do, and the other person who was helping me has gone on holiday to the Benicassim festival. There is hardly anyone in the office (more people arrive later) and I have finished my car brochure thingy. The reason why the manager isn't here is a long story (everyone just says to visiting people that he is "ill"). Basically he went on a bender over the weekend, but was found in the bins on Friday night. Monday he had to be locked in his flat, but smashed the window, escaped, got money off people and bought more alcohol, then went missing. Tuesday he was in bed being looked after by someone, and now he is just "ill". (It's so weird typing this because on a Mac the " and @ have swapped around so I keep typing @s instead of "s). And another person tore his muscle trying to lift something. It is all very interesting and dramatic here. I think it should be turned into a television series... a sitcom perhaps. Well I only have two more days here, and tomorrow is Hannah's birthday party so I am going to buy her present after WEx today.

Still reading HP 6, as per usual I have forgotten most of what happened. But what annoys me is the fact that we have lost the seventh book, and I really cannot remember what happened in that book, apart from a load of people die. I've looked in all the usual book places (our books are scattered around the house in bookshelves everywhere) and it's not there. We keep all the books in Dad's room but nyah, not there!

Also I don't know if I will actually get my ears pierced again, I get all confused thinking about it. I think I may wait a year and then see if I still want it done.

I have had a few odd dreams past couple of nights. Including:

• I was returning from WEx and walking to my house from the train station when a little girl appeared (about 9/10 years) and wanted me to be her friend. But she wouldn't tell me her name or what school she went to. By the end of the walk she had sort of turned into my sister, and had really chocolatey hands, then hugged me getting my green checked shirt (which I had been wearing that day. It's a new one, from H&M and it's really nice. I want more shirts now) all chocolatey. As usual I thought my dreams were real life and got really stressed out.
• I was going to the river with my friends (cannot recall which ones, they may have been made up ones) and one of them had got a pile of fish, which I felt sorry for (even though they seemed dead) so I got my wand out (been reading too much HP you see) and with a flick returned them to the river. The one who had got the pile of fish was really angry and said she would starve. I then had to help get more fish, using my wand and some elaborate arm movements. and then some people fell in the river. But we had a laugh about it.
  
• I did have other dreams but all I can remember is random fragments. I think the one I just described (the fish one) may have had flying in it, but I was the only one that wanted to. I love flying in my dreams, except usually I cannot fly properly, as I usually descend after taking off, so usually have to find a high point in my dreams and take off from there.
  

I like having dreams, especially as my ones are crazy. I wonder what my dreams mean.

The people in my office have said "fucking hell" about 10 times in a row now.

Argh what to do!? People haven't blogged in a while, well Jess has after ages but still.

Should go back to pretending to work now. Bye.

Bits & Bobs

I haven't updated for a week and so I have a lot to tell you. But first: my blog's very first poll:




Last Sunday we (Hannah, Jess, Livvi and I) went to the park for a picnic and hung out in a tree like wild nature children. I heard the crazy stories that Jess and Livvi had made up which included Andy Murray and tennis rackets made of evil and cows and kidnapping and making out. I have such wonderfully normal friends. I will talk about the picnic since people actually understand picnics. Hannah brought along chicken legs and sandwiches and homemade shortbread which was nice. Jess brought along homemade gingerbread which was also nice. I brought along homemade brownie which obviously was fantastic. and Livvi just failed. She brought along non homemade stuff. There was other food too. After having our picnic we went to some trees and Jess decided it would be a good idea to get stuck up one for twenty minutes (it was more like ten, but we like to exaggerate). Afterwards we looked for a better tree to climb and I knew of one so we got up that one and read Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. We also phoned up friends and asked questions. Hmm, I guess that was last Sunday.

Then onto Monday. This was the first day of my work experience (at a graphic design place - AD Creative Consultants) and so I woke up at 7:30 (later than I have to for school) and was at the train station by 8:35 ish. What made me smile was the fact that they were already advertising the Torchwood series 3 DVD before any Torchwood had actually aired. Anyway I got the train to Clapham Junction, then got the bus to my work experience placement. I got off and headed towards the big gothic castle-house thingy (it is pretty awesome). I nervously stepped through the door and made my way into the actual office place. The manager John (who is crazy) was all crazy and wavey. Anyway I soon started on my actual work which was to design a logo, carrier bags, tags and shop front. The sheet said I had to do it for either David or Victoria Beckham but apparently I wasn't allowed to do them so I had to choose someone else. After quickly looking at a classic rock website I chose Bruce Springsteen. (they also use Macs there! I hadn't used a Mac in years. Our very first computer was a Mac but of course now IT HAS ALL CHANGED. Since it's all new and different from our old Mac. But it was easy getting used to.) The logo was a guitar but the body said Bruce... the body was made up of the letters of 'Bruce'. I might upload one day, but that would mean scanning stuff in. Over consequent days I designed the other stuff. and ate baguettes and drank tea. One thing I learnt there was that every other word the people seem to say there is either "fuck"/"fucking" or "shit". Usually "fucking". It's amusing. It's good there even if your wrist does kill after seven hours of using the mouse. and when I come home I get all confused because we have a PC at home and I have been using a Mac all day and try and press the wrong buttons. and go to the top corner to make everything smaller and it just doesn't work.

I should get a Mac emulator so I can play Scarab of Ra again. For purely nostalgic reasons. Although that game did really creep me out when I was younger. Especially when the mummies came when you got the Scarab (I didn't know how to defeat them then. I do now. Ha ha). Strange how a game with extremely basic black and white graphics can be creepy. Now I just remember all the creepy creepy sounds that our old Mac made when doing stuff. and the creepy voice that would talk to you if you wrote a text document and wanted it to play out loud. Also Dr Brain 3. That was fun and educational. There were also some other random eighties games that we had. Our Mac was second hand - originally one of my Aunts had it (who coincidentally lives in Clapham) hence all the crazy games (because of her kids). We also had some Disney games too: a Lion King one which was awesome, a Aladdin one which was even more awesome and a Toy Story one that was shit - there were no games on it. I swear it was one of those stupid demo CDs you get. The other two were cool though. (this just reminds me I haven't seen any Disney for a very long time. I would like to Wall E though. But that is Pixar). We also had Civilisation! 1 and 2! Except I usually played on 2 because 1 fucked up a lot. and 2 had better graphics. But now I have Age of Empires 2! That's the only computer game I still play on. I still have the Sims installed on here, but that's no fun, you can't create a huge army full of infantry and cavalry along with trebuchets and siege onagers and then go kill the enemy. It's fun killing people (in the game!). I usually have my army killed off as well so have to create a new one. But I don't use the cheats anymore.

Torchwood - I could tell you all about it but there is no point because those that wanted to see it have seen it and know everything and those that didn't want to see it couldn't care less. But Iantooooooo!! and it seems like they've pretty much wrapped up Torchwood - little chance for a fourth series. But maybe a possibility that Harkness will appear in Doctor Who? I don't know. I don't really keep up with Who news. (oh I just edited the Torchwood Wikipedia page! That's a first, never edited a page before (they had forgotten on the page that Jack also blamed himself for the death of Suzie, so I added that in).

Anyway, onto Saturday. This was Livvi's birthday party. For a present I got her Labyrinth (went after work experience on Thursday to get it) and a card. Labyrinth was ideal because she got obsessed with it after seeing it at my party. So at around six-ish I got to her house. First of all she opened her presents (mainly books and DVDs) and we sat around and chatted. Divya (as per usual) said some legendary things:

• "Can you have sex with your clothes on?"
• "Can you get pregnant with your clothes on?"

(No she wasn't joking). But we do love Divya. We also played some table tennis, with normal table tennis bats, books and spades (due to lack of bats). After a while Jess, Hannah and I left to have a Torchwood discussion, where we basically decided the ending was shit after the first four good episodes. and there was Ianto mourning. We're going to miss our gay bulldozer driving tea making Welshman. After eating crazy stuff (including smiley faces) we headed to Blockbusters where we spent ages (as per usual) deciding on a movie. Trouble is, we all have different tastes and Livvi's Blockbusters is tiny and hardly has any DVDs in it. Well compared to mine which is scary huge and has loads of scratched broken DVDs. We finally got out Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist (only because Imogen really really wanted it), In Bruges and something else. We only ended up watching Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist which I could stand but did find too indie and cutesy. I just don't really like romance movies in general - I find them a bit boring. Any other genre is alright, apart from maybe chick flicks. and I haven't seen much horror, only Alien, which wasn't scary at all. After this we tried watching In Bruges but no one was in the mood for it, so the classic "The Princess Bride" was put on. Which Livvi fucking adores. But now it has competition from Labyrinth! 80s kids movies wars! But she has a shiny new Princess Bride DVD which has shiny better quality. Which was awesome. At this point Jess tried to get to sleep and Zoe did get to sleep, and we chatted whilst Princess Bride played in the background. We did a quiz Imogen had made for Livvi, and then chatted about random shit, as teenage girls do. But we aren't normal teenage girls. We found out Livvi has a fetish for purple men dressed as oxen. and likes to be "plowed" by them. I can assure you, there were no drugs at this party. We did get to sleep in the end. In the morning we played more games and one of them was "most likely to" where someone says something and the other people have to decide who is most likely to do/have/etc that. So we decided Livvi probably also has a foot fetish. and according to Zoe, I would make a "fit aeroplane pilot". The Eight Ball was also asked questions. I managed to get home pretty quickly since the buses were there when I got to the bus stop (that happened on the way to Livvi's house as well. I just have psychic bus powers). Got home, managed to finish off some art so now I only have to do two paintings and then started to reread the sixth Harry Potter (for the third time) because the movie is coming out and I cannot remember what happens in the book. or any of the books for that matter. I get all angsty when it mentions dead Sirius though.

Also, I don't know if I should get my ears pierced again. I probably can't be bothered, I just want to be like all those crazy rock star people. I'm so deluded. Mum says I may regret them in the future, if I let them close up and get scarry ears. But multiple hoops in one ear would just be so pirateish. I want to have a pirate headband and wear pirate boots. Except the pirate look wouldn't suit me, I love my jeans. but argh, I am confused.



This has probably been one of the longest blogs I've written. time-wise. It's taken me about an hour. But there is Hannah's party next week to look forward to! and I am going to France soon! I need reading material. I have stuff from the library I haven't read yet, because I fail. I also need to see more movies. I've sort of lost my "to see" list in my head. So now I have two lists. "really want to see!" and "would quite like to see, but don't really mind". I haven't actually gathered much movies for either list.

(the spell check on this is very stupid. It says words don't exist but when I go to correct them they are exactly the same. silly).

I should go now, I desperately need sleep for more work experience at crazy graphic design place tomorrow. But do vote for what types of blog posts you like. It will affect this blog!

You sometimes drive me crazy, but I worry about you

I have been doing art all week long. I am quite proud of myself, even if the copy of the painting I am doing at the moment (The Crowd by Wyndham Lewis) in pencil fails a bit - due to the fact that I don't have the correct colours so have to blend colours and always end up with the colour a bit off. I have however done my Per Kirkeby research, my photo page and a painting of Arvin the squirrel (who represents the green spaces found in the cities, the calmer, more peaceful side of London; since the topic is Essence of the City). I have already written up my definitions and done a copy of The Cyclist by Natalia Goncharova (which I quite like, even if I didn't have all the pencil colours). I don't like The Crowd because it looks quite easy but then it's got all these little complicated bits in it. But I'll survive.

I have also realised that I do actually like Bon Jovi (shh!) and that there is no point in trying to pretend I hate them. It's annoying though, I have waaay too many guilty pleasures in music. I'm not going to attempt to list them here. I think I may have gone off Mötley Crüe though which is good. Well I only knew three songs in the first place. But yays for me anyway. (oh dear I am listening to Whitesnake.) >_<

I guess I've gone completely past the stage where I care what people think about my music taste. As long as I don't like Poison I'm happy. and since they don't play them on the radio I'm all good. Also, Rush have been growing on me. There are still some songs that I really quite dislike (Spirit of Radio and Closer to the Heart to name a couple. Mainly due to Geddy's voice being really annoying in certain parts. But I don't usually find his voice annoying unlike some) but there are some songs that I like (now listening to Distant Early Warning. I think his voice is adorable in this song. No idea why.)

In other news:

• Torchwood is back next week! Yaaays. But it's only five episodes long... but an hour each instead of 45 minutes! I need my Torchwood due to lack of Doctor Who this year.
• I have just made brownie. I make so many brownies all the time that my Mum has started to get slightly annoyed with me. Also due to my incessant brownie making I have grown very used to the taste of brownie mix and no longer find it as awesome as I once did.
  
• I've been catching up on That Mitchell & Webb Look due to watching the current series (3), liking it and then deciding that I needed to see the old series since I haven't seen them.
• Pirate Facebook makes me so happy.

Arrr. Off ye go now.