http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/nov/14/birmingham-christmas-lights-crowd-surge

I was there. Not as one of the screaming teenyboppers, mind you, but I WAS keen to see the other acts, apart from JLS. There was such a good lineup, so I was gutted when it was cancelled. I can see why, but still.

I want to know why they let so many people in, if they only had provision for 5,000? Looking back, I can definitely see evidence of them only providing for a small number of people - the sound system was terrible, you could barely hear unless you were nearish the front; the 'big' screen was neither big, nor high enough up for most people to see it, etc, etc. I can't believe they didn't expect that many people, considering it involved the UK's top acts...what genius decided that?

*pout* I wanted to see Taio Cruz, Sugababes, Tinchy Stryder, Little Boots, Pixie Lott and everyone :(

mood: disappointed music: When The Stars Go Blue - Lee Mead and Hayley Westenra tags: concerts, music, omg news, real life

I really wish I could be in multiple places at once. ALL my groups of friends have decided to do something different on the same weekend and invite me... argh!

1) My best friend from London is coming up to visit me (this is definite, as she's already booked the train tickets). She's coming to see the sights and the nightlife and meet my uni friends

BUT

2) Half of my uni friends are going on a trip to Amsterdam. A different one from the one I mentioned before. (not so up for this anyway, as most of them are just going to get stoned)

3) The other half of my uni friends are planning a road trip to somewhere else (would be quite tempted by this, if not for my besty visiting)

4) My Christian union friends are going on a weekend away together, which sounds like so much fun (desperate to go to this, but can't. Will happen again next year, though)

Why??? It's going to be soo quiet that weekend, and I wanted us all to hang out together! Ah well. I guess there'll be other times, but still.

In other news, I went to see Up! the other day. Soo funny, and cute, and sad - all I want in a film! Seriously recommend going to see it if you haven't. Pixar is back on form, roll on Toy Story 3!

mood: disappointed tags: films, friends, real life, uni, up

Aww. Some of my flatmates just came into my room to save me from working by feeding me angel delight and mars bars. Mmmmmm...

mood: touched tags: little things, real life, uni

I don't normally do much for Halloween (England isn't really big on it) but as I'm at uni and we're having a MASSIVE block party on the landing between my flat and the flat opposite us, me and my flatmates are dressing up! My friend and I are going as stereotypical geeks - you know, big, back-combed hair in bunches, big round glasses, clashing colours, knee-high socks, calculators, the lot. It's gonna be awesome, and it's the cheapest costume ever, you just have to raid a charity shop and pick up awful clothes for like 10p each :D I wish I could get hold of a lab coat, though.

Basically it's going to involve a lot of alcohol, as does most of our social gatherings. Can't wait, cos we have a week off of lectures next week as well (reading week) so it doesn't matter about getting my work done straight away.

Maybe pictures will get posted. Who knows. I'm always a bit wary of posting my pic on the internet, in fact, I've never done it before. But if our costumes are good, I might not be able to resist!

mood: relaxed tags: halloween, real life, uni, writer's block

Apologies for the disappearence - I've been pretty ill for the past few days, so most of the time I wasn't in lectures/doing uni work/doing chores I was sleeping to try and get myself well. And it worked! :D

So yeah, life is trundling on as usual, not much to report. Except I'm really proud of myself, because I cooked and entire roast dinner for 5 by myself for all my flatmates, and I'd never done it before. It was yum, and now I'm so full and sleepy I don't want to work!

Excitingly, me and my flatmates and other uni friends are planning a trip to Amsterdam in December, partly to see off one of our flatmates whose sadly moving back to the States, and partly just to sightsee (and for some of my friends to get stoned, but I'm not into that at all). I've never been to the Netherlands though, even though it's just across the channel from me, so it's another country to put on my list of places I've been :)

Also, late to the party though it is: FRANKIE BOYLE IS LEAVING MOCK THE WEEK??? Why??? I found out whenever ago but I forgot to post about it. I... can't really imagine it without him, tbh. He kind of 'is' MTW, and it'll just be too tame without him. And who will do accents that all sound the same now?

This, coupled with the fact that the BBC has quietly cancelled Dead Ringers, without even showing the new season that they filmed and have advertised, makes me very sad indeed.

It is a grave time for British satirical comedy.

mood: working tags: dead ringers, mock the week, real life, uni

Ahh. Still loving university. I've made firm friends very quickly, and I'm so happy. I met a fellow anime geek today (seriously, we're like the same person in all our tastes - films, books, clothes) which is cool. I've never had a RL friend into anime. We might go to the Expo in London together at some point :)

My flat is mega-shitty though. Pretty much all our appliances are broken; we're 2 weeks in and have complained about 5 times each (there's 5 of us) and still nothing is being done. Oh sure, they've come and looked at them a few times (then taken them off the complaints list, wtf?), but no closer to actually being able to cook in our flat, or shower, or anything. Luckily we've got friends in other flats so we haven't starved/stunk the place out.

I've started at orchestra now as well, which isn't students-only, so I've made more adult friends. Orchestra was haaard though, I haven't played in a couple of years so I was really rusty! With a bit of practice I should be alright, hopefully.

Last, exciting thing. There's a guy who looks like ROBERT PATTINSON on my course!!! I don't fancy RPattz, but it still amuses me in lectures :D

mood: happy tags: lookalikes, music, real life, uni

So so so tired. But having the time of my life.

Tonight's the 6th night in a row that I'm going out (gotta use all my free tickets for the clubs!) and I haven't made it to bed before 3 since I got here. Somewhat deaded.

Everyone in my entire building is awesome, there's 9 flats of 5 people and we just live in each others' flats all the time. Most of my friends are guys though (what does that say about me? lol tomboy). And loads are exchange students, which is great. Loads of Americans, Germans, Frenchies, Colombians, a Bulgarian, a Spaniard... the list goes on. My flat's the party flat!

I'm loving being independent, buying and cooking for myself only, what I want to eat, when I want. I've had a few inductiony things but most of it's just socialising :DD

Will write a more coherent entry when I've had more than 4 hours' sleep!

mood: exhausted tags: real life, uni

Just a quick note - I'm off to university in the morning so I have spent the last million years packing up my life into suitcases and boxes. I'm not sure what the internet will be like where I am, so sorry if it seems like I'm ignoring you, I'm honestly not!

Hopefully should be back soon :D

mood: optimistic tags: eeeeee!, real life, uni

Stolen from emm_see

Anyone can fill this out! S'il vous plait? (yes, I know there's a hat on the i but I can't be bothered to find the right symbol)

1. Name:
2. Birthday:
3. Where do you live:
4: What are you studying/What are you working as:
5. What makes you happy:
6. What are you listening to now/have listened to last:
7. What is particularly good/bad about my LJ:
8. An interesting fact about you:
9. Are you in love/have a crush at the moment:
10. Favorite place to be:
11. Favorite lyric:
12. Best time of the year:
13. Weirdest food you like:

RECOMMEND
1. A film:
2. A book:
3. A song:
4: A band:

FANDOM
1. Favorite Fandom:
2. OTP/OT3:
3. Icon/Fic Journal (so I can join):

PLUS
1. One thing you like about me:
2. Two things you like about yourself:
3. Put this in your lj so I can tell you what I think of you?

mood: thirsty tags: memetime

There is some fun in tidying. I've just been tidying my memory boxes, and I love going through all the crap that I've hoarded! Yes, you read right, memory boxes. I keep anything and everything that reminds me of good times, so I have letters, random doodlings my friends have done for me, tickets, posters, you name it, I've got it.

Way to procrastinate, self. It's not like you're moving to university in 4 days and you should be packing, or anything :p

I'm waiting for The Choir to come on now. I love that program, everyone pretends to be really hard and then is all like "Well, I s'pose it's sorta fun, innit." by the end. True though, I can't wait to get back into singing when I'm at uni. And plus, Gareth Malone is quite dishy, in a David Tennant sort of way.

mood: nostalgic tags: real life, the choir

Have one of my favourite adverts. Ever. Seriously, just watch the sheer awesomeness. You can tell I'm English.

mood: stressed tags: advert, postman pat, randomly funny

Ended up going to the cinema with some friends very last minute last night. I didn't know anything about District 9 before I went, because tbh, I probably wouldn't have gone if I had have known! Not that keen on aliens, violence or action films, but meh.

Turns out it was actually really good! I really like Peter Jackson's films (I'm such a big fan of the Lord of the Rings ones, I've seen them so many times!).

( Some District 9 ramblings... )

Twas a good evening. Now I need to do some more of my never-ending housework :(

mood: mellow tags: district 9, films

I'm now officially all set for university! I have acquired all the things I need, found a choir and and an orchestra to join and picked my extra module. I picked Advanced French I&II, which should be pitched about my ability, maybe a bit below, who knows.

I just want to go now, I'm so bored stuck at home. All my friends are on holiday or working, so I have hardly anyone to hang with during the day :( Hence the extra posting.

Going out for a big one at the weekend though, at least there's that to look forward to.

mood: frustrated tags: hurry up time, real life, uni

Last post today, I promise.

Here's the last chapter of 'The Drinking Contest':

 

( Chapter 3 )

 

mood: energetic tags: fanfiction, gakuen heaven

Sorry for spamming, but meh. No one reads my journal anyway.

( Meme - have a nosy if you want to know a bit more about me! )
Why was the appearance bit there? Random, haha. Well, that was a waste of time diverting! I hope you're enlightened.

mood: bored music: She Walks Beautiful - Amy Studt tags: memetime

Party was good, although I'm so tired now. It was a long drive to and from. Darn friends that live so far away!

Danced with a few different guys, two French (yay), none I would consider dating, sadly. Guess I'm just too picky!

Did some more writing this morning. Chapter should be done today, I'm reckoning. I'm going to have a slobby stay-in day to do that and also do some gaming with my brother, and maybe watch a film with the 'rents, seeing as in less than two weeks I'm moving out again.

Unfortunately, nothing more interesting to report (when do I ever!).

Oh, btw: Notice the new icons? Baby-sitters' Club/ Digimon/ Beyblade/ Gakuen Heaven FTW.

mood: tired tags: icons, lol boys, parties, real life, writing

Just did another half-hour's worth of writing. 800 words now, yay!

Got to get ready to drive to a party now. What colour shoes do you wear with a dark green dress? Hmm...

mood: cheerful music: Let's Make Believe We're In Love - Footloose tags: parties, real life, writing

Seriously brain, why, whenever I'm trying to write, I get writer's block? But when I say I'm not writing anymore, THEN I can write?

Yeesh. And it's always when I'm about to go off and do something that leaves me very little time to write, so I end up starting stuff, and then taking forever to finish it D:

But yeah, you know what this means. 'The Drinking Contest' might actually get finished - I'm on the last chapter, I'm thinking, and I've written 400 words of it this morning. Which is a lot considering usually I just stare at a blank document for ages.

I think I struggle because there's so many characters with their own little mini storylines that I'm fitting into a main storyline which can't really last very long. So it's attempting to shove them all in there somehow.

And I love the Gakuen Heaven characters, so I want to do them justice. There's so little fic, which makes me sad.

mood: busy tags: gakuen heaven, writing

I have had a very constructive day for once, although boring as anything. Tidied and hoovered my room, did a couple of hours voluntary work, posted some presents and letters, listened to some French podcasts... and now collapsed in a heap.

Am thinking about going icon hunting, I'm getting a bit fed up of the few I have. I want one for each of my fandoms at least, and maybe some mood type ones as well. And I really need to finish my Gakuen Heaven moodtheme at some point.

Shopping for uni stuff tomorrow, yay :D

music: Tambourine - Eve tags: icons, real life

And the reason I'm back is... my job! You see, I'm a part-time research/IT assistant, and my latest assignment was to convert a massive pile of tapes to CD/MP3 format. 'Unfortunately', you can only do that in real time, so I've got permission to bum around on the computer for as long as I need per day!

So, I'm hoping to get better at commenting, etceteraaa.

The past few days, I've been preparing myself for university. That means a lot of time spent on Facebook making new friends over the Freshers groups and the accommodation groups (I'm in the party animal one, apparently, lol). Also, I've made a list of stuff I need to get like bed linen and towels and what have you, so I'm off to Primark in the near future. Sadly, this is quite exciting for me, as I've never been allowed to pick out my own bedding (geeek). What else? Well, I bought my Freshers Fest Pack, so I have access to the ball/prom, all the clubs and all the events. Can't wait, haven't been out in SO LONG! I'm seriously like some sort of hermit at the moment, I want to go dancing so badly!

I guess I'm more excited than nervous about going, because I've been waiting for it all year. Although my Dad's now thrown a sulky fit because he's away when I move in and he wanted me to delay it, but I can't because that's the only specified moving in date. I'm not going to be the weird one that comes late and no one gets to know for anything.

Some thing else that EXCITES ME GREATLY. Well, actually two things.

Firstly, two of my RL friends are interested in going to an anime convention! I didn't even know they were into anime :) I introduced one of them to Yugioh TAS a while back, cos she was into Yugioh and the like way back when. Apparently she still likes them, although I don't think she's into fandom.

So yeah, she was like "I want to go and see Little Kuriboh at the convention he's at. But it's too late, it's already started, so we're going next year, mmkay?"
Other friend: "?"
Me: "She's talking about an anime convention, you wouldn't want to go..."
Other friend: "That sounds really cool, when/where is it? :DDD"

Second thing. I HAVE FOUND AN ACTIVE-ISH GAKUEN HEAVEN RP FORUM!! It's in French, but that's ok by me, I can deal with that. I'll just pick up loads of random words that I didn't learn in school. They have quite a few scenarios already written, and looks like they're done pretty well. The website is here

mood: happy music: Boom Boom Pow - Black Eyed Peas tags: conventions, gakuen heaven, real life, uni, yugioh:tas