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| Sunday, September 28th, 2008 | | 11:36 am |
Still alive. I'm getting a tonsillectomy on Thursday after years of repeated bouts of tonsillitis. Anyone had them out, and care to share? As an indicator to the pain I'm going to go through. I've been looking through internet forums about it and have scared myself a bit. 2 months, 2 weeks and 5 days left in Scotland. | | Wednesday, August 6th, 2008 | | 1:50 pm |
Le sigh
Breaking Dawn was a bit of a disappointment. It felt completely seperate from the first 3 books and the characters had changed but not through development or progression. They were just different. It felt like I was reading a very long fan fiction. I was so excited about reading it and now just feel totally put out. Apparantely the author, Stephenie Meyer, was allowed free reign on this book due to the sales of the prior novels. I'm not even sure if there was an editor. I'm just going to pretend that I didn't read it and look forward to the film that comes out in December. Can't believe Cedric Diggory is playing Edward though.. Current Mood:  sad | | Sunday, August 3rd, 2008 | | 2:12 pm |
Not written anything for a while
I'm going to endeavour to start writing in this more often as I do actually check Livejournal most days to see what everyone is up to. I would have loved it if I had written more frequently in the past couple of years. It's nice to look back at past thoughts even if it is mostly cringeworthy nonsense. So quick update for now. Living in a nice flat with Nadia + Amy in the east end of Glasgow. Have my last semester of Uni starting back in September and I am emigrating to Canada on the 14th December which I have excited and nervous butterflies about. I have pre ordered 'Breaking Dawn' which is the 4th book in a series of teenage fiction books about a vampire falling in love with a plain ordinary girl. It is such a trashy read, overly gushy and 'teenage girly'. Which is probably why I love it so much. Anyway that is due to come tomorrow morning and I am squirming in anti-ci-pation. So, farewell for now. God bless. Be safe x Current Mood: soreCurrent Music: nada | | Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007 | | 5:38 pm |
Jai guru deva om
Go to Wikipedia. In the search box, type your birth month and day (but not year). List three events that happened on your birthday. List two important birthdays and one interesting death. Post this in your journal. 27th February Events 1594 - Henry IV is crowned King of France. 1900 - The British Labour Party is founded. 1996 - Satoshi Tajiri creates the hit media franchise Pokémon. Births 1902 - John Steinbeck, American writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1968) 1932 - Elizabeth Taylor, British-American actress Deaths 1892 - Louis Vuitton, French luggage maker (b. 1821) | | Monday, September 24th, 2007 | | 2:15 pm |
| How to make a purpledaydream |
Ingredients:
5 parts pride
3 parts ambition
5 parts |
Method:
Add to a cocktail shaker and mix vigorously. Add a little wisdom if desired! |
| | Friday, September 7th, 2007 | | 5:07 pm |
Woo, watch out Scotland!
Last night in Canada! I'm going out for a meal in like 5 minutes with my family and our next door neighbours. This whole summer has flown by too fast for my liking but it looks like I'm going to have to face the real world now. I'm feeling much healthier than I was before and I think I have a good life perspective at the moment. Looking forward to seeing you all again :). Hope your summers have been good too x Current Mood:  bouncy | | Sunday, September 2nd, 2007 | | 12:12 pm |
1 week left.
I shall be returning 2 stone lighter and with 7000 more freckles. Feel free to count them. Or join the dots. Does anyone want to come see 'The Winter's Tale' with me in Edinburgh between the 20th September and the 20th October? It's about 20 quid a ticket. If Shakespeare's your thing, give me a message back :) | | Wednesday, August 29th, 2007 | | 3:26 pm |
This summer has flown by so quickly. I think I am ready for next semester. I think, I am. I have to repeat a semester due to crappy health from last semester. Which means I won't be graduating at the same time as everyone else in my year, this also means I don't have to do my dissertation until Autumn 08. 11 days. I don't want to leave my mum and sister. This is like leaving for first year all over again, except this time they're not 45 minutes away. It'll be nice to see everyone again. I've missed my girls alot and I'm looking forward to living with Kev, Neil and Louis this year. It's gonna be a gid one ;) | | Monday, August 27th, 2007 | | 8:22 pm |
| | Tuesday, August 14th, 2007 | | 11:42 am |
I just sorted out the delivery of my belongings in storage and I'm really starting to stress that it's not going to fit into a tiny room in Fraser. I have 14 boxes :S and that was with me chucking out about half of my stuff. How can I hoard so much shit? The more I think about my room in uni, the smaller it seems to become. Can someone clarify that the Fraser rooms aren't really small? Or is my neurotic side right for a change? *stresses* Current Mood:  crazy | | Sunday, August 12th, 2007 | | 3:33 pm |
Less whining...
I just perused through some of my earlier posts and realised that all I've really done is post to whine, bitch and complain. Maybe it's just in my nature to do so. So in lighthearted news, I am having a kick ass time in Canada. I like clean things and I'm definitely going to make more of a proactive effort into keeping my flat next year clean. Even though I am living with boys :S. That is one thing I am slightly nervous about. I'll be coming back to the merry land of Scotland exactly 4 weeks today! So get your party hats on and start working on all of those sparkly banners. Today I lounged about the pool and burnt my tummy, read Harry Potter to my little sister, watched The Sopranos (which is so friggin fantastic btw) and played Monopoly with my family. These things are a nice escape from my regular social routine back in Stirling. I'm still enjoying a relaxing feeling of displacement at the moment being over here, and although I have met some really cool canadian folk to chill out with, I think I'm going to concentrate on family orientated things. I'll save up all my socialising and partying til I get back. I really really have to start reading my books for next semester. This summer has flown by and all that 'loads of time' I've had has just dissolved before me like nothing. If anyone is interested in hooking up in September to recite Shakespeare, I'm your girl ;). | | 3:26 pm |
Why do parents insist on piercing their babies ears? I find it grotesque that they're shoving hunks of metal into their innocent little baby girl's ear. Is it in an effort to start them off early to a life of socially pressurised vanity? Being female sucks. I saw a baby girl in her buggy yesterday with gold hoops in her ears, which no doubt her mother thinks is so cute, it just repulsed me. She was about 6 months old. Ugh. Being female sucks. I think I would get alot more respect in this life if I was male. Actually, I know I would. | | Wednesday, August 8th, 2007 | | 1:11 pm |
Last night a Canadian dude asked me and my sister what our hobbies were. We replied 'Drinking' and he couldn't stop laughing. Apparantely no Canadian girl would ever reply with that answer... What kind of country have I come to? | | Sunday, June 3rd, 2007 | | 7:49 pm |
| | Friday, May 25th, 2007 | | 10:48 pm |
Piwee pwease?
1. Your Middle Name: 2. Age: 3. Single or Taken: 4. Favourite Movie: 5. Favourite Song or Album: 6. Favourite Band/Artist: 7. Dirty or Clean: 8. Tattoos and/or Piercings: 9. Do we know each other outside of LJ? 10. What's your philosophy of life? 11. Is the bottle half-full or half-empty? 12. Would you keep a secret from me if you thought it was in my best interest? 13. What is your favourite memory of us? 14. What is your favourite guilty pleasure? 15. Tell me one odd/interesting fact about you: 16. You can have three wishes (for yourself, so forget all the 'world peace etc' malarky) - what are they? 17. Can we get together and make a cake? 18. Which country is your spiritual home? 19. What is your big weakness? 20. Do you think I'm a good person? 21. What was your best/favourite subject at school? 22. Describe your accent 23. If you could change anything about me, would you? 24. What do you wear to sleep? 25. Trousers or skirts? 26. Cigarettes or alcohol? 27. If I only had one day to live, what would we do together? 28. Will you repost this so I can fill it out for you? | | Monday, May 7th, 2007 | | 5:43 pm |
'May blessings be upon the head of cadmus, the phoenicians or whoever it was that invented books'
Books I have been meaning to read forever but have never had the chance or put it off. I shall read them this summer. Aesop's Fables - Aesop Never Let Me Go – Kazuo Ishiguro Slow Man - J.M Coetzee The Thousand and One Nights - Anonymous Elizabeth Costello - J.M Coetzee Fingersmith - Sarah Waters Survival - Margaret Atwood Love in the time of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez The Satanic Verses - Salman Rushdie White Teeth - Zadie Smith City of God – E.L. Doctorow How the Dead Live - Will Self Super-Cannes - J.G. Ballard Everything You Need - A.L. Kennedy The Poisonwood Bible - Barbara Kingsolver Cocaine Nights - J.G. Ballard Alias Grace - Margaret Atwood Posessing the Secret of Joy - Alice Walker I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings - Maya Angelou Written on the Body - Jeanette Winterson The English Patient - Michael Ondaatje Wild Swans - Jung Chang Sexing the Cherry - Jeanette Winterson The Melancholy of Resistance – László Krasznahorkai The Swimming-Pool Library – Alan Hollinghurst Foe – J.M. Coetzee The Cider House Rules – John Irving God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater – Kurt Vonnegut Gravity's Rainbow - Thomas Pyncheon One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich – Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn The Quiet American - Graham Greene After the Death of Don Juan – Sylvie Townsend Warner Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck Tarzan of the Apes – Edgar Rice Burroughs The Time Machine – H.G. Wells Kidnapped – Robert Louis Stevenson Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There – Lewis Carroll Confessions – Jean-Jacques Rousseau Dangerous Liaisons – Pierre Choderlos de Laclos and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows(obviously) There's lots more, I also need to read Grame Gibson's books for when I go to meet Margaret Atwood as he is gate crashing the event apparantely. | | Friday, May 4th, 2007 | | 5:46 pm |
*whine*
I want my blonde hair banter back. This whole crappy dark hair isn't good for my health. | | Tuesday, April 3rd, 2007 | | 1:18 am |
You gotta love the portrayal of women in the bible....
Leviticus 15:19-30 And if a woman have an issue, and her issue in her flesh be blood, she shall be put apart seven days: and whosoever toucheth her shall be unclean until the even. And every thing that she lieth upon in her separation shall be unclean: every thing also that she sitteth upon shall be unclean. And whosoever toucheth her bed shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even. And whosoever toucheth any thing that she sat upon shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even. And if it be on her bed, or on any thing whereon she sitteth, when he toucheth it, he shall be unclean until the even. And if any man lie with her at all, and her flowers be upon him, he shall be unclean seven days; and all the bed whereon he lieth shall be unclean. And if a woman have an issue of her blood many days out of the time of her separation, or if it run beyond the time of her separation; all the days of the issue of her uncleanness shall be as the days of her separation: she shall be unclean. Every bed whereon she lieth all the days of her issue shall be unto her as the bed of her separation: and whatsoever she sitteth upon shall be unclean, as the uncleanness of her separation. And whosoever toucheth those things shall be unclean, and shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even. But if she be cleansed of her issue, then she shall number to herself seven days, and after that she shall be clean. And on the eighth day she shall take unto her two turtles, or two young pigeons, and bring them unto the priest, to the door of the tabernacle of the congregation. And the priest shall offer the one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering; and the priest shall make an atonement for her before the LORD for the issue of her uncleanness. Yeah, I get it. Better not sex the menstruating woman or you'll get the plague. Plague = Super Aids. | | Monday, April 2nd, 2007 | | 3:29 pm |
Dreams of Africa - cell 46664
The past few nights, in the midst of hazy and restless tonsillitus sleep. I have been dreaming of Robben Island. I've visited the island about 6 or 7 times since I was about 6, since it's about half an hour by ferry from the waterfront in Cape Town.  But, in my dreams I've been talking to Nelson Mandela as a 6 year old version of me. For the life of me I can't remember the most likely bizarre conversation that occured. I was doped up on throat medication and paracetamol. However, now I seem to have in the back of my mind this innate spiritual connection with Nelson Mandela. Go figure. Also, as a side note. I was 6 the first time I visited South Africa, and watched The Shawshank Redemption on the plane. So from the age of 6 to about 13, I thought that Nelson Mandela was actually Morgan Freeman.   They sincerely do not look anything alike. But both are sexy as. obvo. | | Wednesday, March 28th, 2007 | | 10:39 pm |
I think work has fucked up my shifts. I got paid £70. This makes no sense as I have worked so many bloody hours in the union the last month. I'm pretty pissed off actually, I've not written down the shifts I've worked - so I don't know what I should do.. |
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