Today...or technically yesterday at work, this really annoying mum with five kids came downstairs after seeing a film and spoke to me.
Woman: I have a complaint to be made.
Me: Oh right, ok. What's the problem?
Woman: I had to have my youngest son sat on my knee throughout the entire movie because two kids were sat in the wrong seats. They didn't even have the right tickets to sit in those seats.
Me: Right, ok. Did you not think to come out of the screen and seek a member of staff before the film actually started?
Woman: What, and leave my kids in there on their own? (Note at least two of these kids were young teenagers)
Me: I'll call a manager for you.
What really narked me was that I knew she was after a refund just for shits and giggles. She wanted a free movie. Nothing stopped her from leaving her kids for two minutes in the screen to go find a member of staff to put the acting up kids in their rightful seats. Why should the cinema pay for someone else's liability? It's not our fault these two kids sat in the wrong seats. But the manager took over, and, as predicted, the woman got what she wanted and was given the refund.
It just made me so frickken angry. We didn't do anything wrong. We weren't negligent or liable in any frickken way, and we had to pay for it. Just kids. They ruin it for everyone. If it were me, I'd be like. 'Right lady, there is nothing stopping you leaving your kids for two minutes to seek a member of staff who would have been nearby and would have accompanied you back to the screen to move the two kids. If it really was a problem and you felt you couldn't leave your children, you could have moved and sat in the wrong seats too. Know this for next time. I cannot give you a refund as we were no negligent nor liable for this mistake.' Basically, I would have told her to fuck off in the nicest and polietest possible way. I wouldn't want leeches like her coming her anyway. What an awful example to set on her kids. She should learn how to use a condom as well, popping out five kids. Ugh.
Sunday, 15 November 2009
Saturday, 14 November 2009
Real Bad Luck Friday 13th
It's really late and I have work in the morning at 11, and I don't finish til six. But I really don't care. Hey. That's what pro plus is for, right?
I used to scoff at the idea of Friday the 13th being a day of bad luck. But after today, I've definately changed my mind.
Firstly, my morning dream was about someone trying to try and murder me. In fact, to be more specific, it was Logan's dad in 'Veronic Mars' that was trying to kill me. I'm not really sure why. But there you go. I woke up and realised I wasn't dead. So maybe I was lucky in that way. I mean, imagine waking up dead.
The next thing that went wrong was waking up and realising how late it was. Half 10. I was meeting a member of my single camera group later that day, at half one, in our uni pub called 'The Shed'. Just for a few drinks and a gossip before our Horror and Fantasy lecture. We were both quite excited as we had some college students auditioning for some parts we had on offer for our single camera production of Harvey Dwaynne, a detective set in his 50s ways, but living in present day. Myself and my group are really excited about this production. We've yet to come up with a name for our production. You can visit our blog if you are interested to find out more. Just click Dirty Shed Productions and it will take you there.
Ok, next bad thing that happened today....probably was taking a motivational group email the wrong way. Made me feel like I hadn't been putting as much effort into a group thing when I had. Luckily I got that straightened out though.
Then after that, after nipping to the Spa shop for a drink and some ciggs, I realised that the ten pounds cash back I asked for from The Shed, I did not recive. Humph. So I have no idea if I lost it, or forgot to retrieve it from the bar tender. So now I'm ten quid short. Not good when you have less then 20 quid to live on before the 23rd of November, when I get paid. I suppose I can always go to student services in desperate need when I do run out of money.
The next bad thing - I find out majority of house mates and friends have been out at the Glass House tonight, and didn't think to invite me. Friends who I haven't seen in a while, and the pub is only a two minute walk away from uni. Nothing but not recieveing a text would stop me attending. Ok, I'mm skint, but I don't have to drink. I'd just go to socialize. As I haven't properly in a while.
Okay, the next bad luck thing is kinda embarrasing. I went downstairs to laundry room to do my laundry, and after making a couple of trips to and fro from flat to laundry room, I didn't notice that my keys went in with the laundry, to let after pressing the 'colours' button, activating the washing machine beyond the point of being able to stop it and open it. I had to go see the security staff to give me some temporary keys until my washing was done. Bare in mind, this is at like 2am, and I have work at 11am. So the early bedtime went out the window. It's twenty past 3 in the morning as I write this. I should go to bed, but I am too stupid to go.
And on top of all that, I see Kristina (if you're reading this, you may know her as italktosnakes) on twitter keep tweeting about this thing called 'omedgle' all day, and curious to know what it was, I decided to check it out. So I did. Apparently it's this chat thing where you go and chat to a random stranger. First guy I talk to, after he says hi, and I say hi, he asks 'asl?'. I didn't know what that was at first, but vaguely remember seeing it somewhere before. Apparently it means age, sex, location. So immediately after I put 20, female, England, he disconnected the chat. How rhude!!!
Anyway, that's all of the bad luck stuff. Oh, I forgot I tried to reply on facebook to a group facebook message on my phone, and after replying a long message, my phone turned itself off - twice this happened, and I gave up.
So yeah, I hope Saturday to be a better day. Maybe even a lucky day to make up for this one. We'll see.
Night for now.
I used to scoff at the idea of Friday the 13th being a day of bad luck. But after today, I've definately changed my mind.
Firstly, my morning dream was about someone trying to try and murder me. In fact, to be more specific, it was Logan's dad in 'Veronic Mars' that was trying to kill me. I'm not really sure why. But there you go. I woke up and realised I wasn't dead. So maybe I was lucky in that way. I mean, imagine waking up dead.
The next thing that went wrong was waking up and realising how late it was. Half 10. I was meeting a member of my single camera group later that day, at half one, in our uni pub called 'The Shed'. Just for a few drinks and a gossip before our Horror and Fantasy lecture. We were both quite excited as we had some college students auditioning for some parts we had on offer for our single camera production of Harvey Dwaynne, a detective set in his 50s ways, but living in present day. Myself and my group are really excited about this production. We've yet to come up with a name for our production. You can visit our blog if you are interested to find out more. Just click Dirty Shed Productions and it will take you there.
Ok, next bad thing that happened today....probably was taking a motivational group email the wrong way. Made me feel like I hadn't been putting as much effort into a group thing when I had. Luckily I got that straightened out though.
Then after that, after nipping to the Spa shop for a drink and some ciggs, I realised that the ten pounds cash back I asked for from The Shed, I did not recive. Humph. So I have no idea if I lost it, or forgot to retrieve it from the bar tender. So now I'm ten quid short. Not good when you have less then 20 quid to live on before the 23rd of November, when I get paid. I suppose I can always go to student services in desperate need when I do run out of money.
The next bad thing - I find out majority of house mates and friends have been out at the Glass House tonight, and didn't think to invite me. Friends who I haven't seen in a while, and the pub is only a two minute walk away from uni. Nothing but not recieveing a text would stop me attending. Ok, I'mm skint, but I don't have to drink. I'd just go to socialize. As I haven't properly in a while.
Okay, the next bad luck thing is kinda embarrasing. I went downstairs to laundry room to do my laundry, and after making a couple of trips to and fro from flat to laundry room, I didn't notice that my keys went in with the laundry, to let after pressing the 'colours' button, activating the washing machine beyond the point of being able to stop it and open it. I had to go see the security staff to give me some temporary keys until my washing was done. Bare in mind, this is at like 2am, and I have work at 11am. So the early bedtime went out the window. It's twenty past 3 in the morning as I write this. I should go to bed, but I am too stupid to go.
And on top of all that, I see Kristina (if you're reading this, you may know her as italktosnakes) on twitter keep tweeting about this thing called 'omedgle' all day, and curious to know what it was, I decided to check it out. So I did. Apparently it's this chat thing where you go and chat to a random stranger. First guy I talk to, after he says hi, and I say hi, he asks 'asl?'. I didn't know what that was at first, but vaguely remember seeing it somewhere before. Apparently it means age, sex, location. So immediately after I put 20, female, England, he disconnected the chat. How rhude!!!
Anyway, that's all of the bad luck stuff. Oh, I forgot I tried to reply on facebook to a group facebook message on my phone, and after replying a long message, my phone turned itself off - twice this happened, and I gave up.
So yeah, I hope Saturday to be a better day. Maybe even a lucky day to make up for this one. We'll see.
Night for now.
Friday, 13 November 2009
Rants to Vent
Ugh, having such a frustrating day, and I'm not really sure why. It's all down to a supposed best friend, and I probably really shouldn't be made about it, but I always am in a funny mood.
Basically, the gist is, I created a little pet nickname for him last year. Ja-Lo, cuz he is quite a kamp guy, my mate Jason. As I know back at home he sometimes got called Ja-Fo back at home, I decided more like Ja-Lo, similar to the singer JLo, but my own way of spelling it. Basically, I'm calling him a girl, but NOT the real JLo. Ok, he says he didn't like the nickname when it first came about, but it's just one of those things that you accept that a friend does, right? Like when Dr Cox calls JD girls names.
A year later, and Ja-Lo and all his friends are sure that a girl called Kate started the nickname that never caught on. Just because she continued to call him the name after I invented it. Which she didn't. I don't even often call Jase 'Ja-Lo'. I often forget. In fact, I only ever call him Ja-Lo on my phone, in which his number is saved under, so I don't get what all the fuss is about. Just because 'brownbear' 'caught on' amongst the rest of his friends because my nickname for him is 'stupid' and 'doesn't make sense'. It's not even the right nickname! The nickname was taken from scrubs, and it's actually CHOCOLATE bear, not brown bear. But of course, he only likes it for the racial humor.
Also, aparently, my spelling is unacceptable. Oh, and these are the comments from when he put up a facebook status saying "bout time I added Brownbear to my name", when I replied "you'll always be Ja-Lo to me" these were the responses from supposed friends:
Jason: spelt J.LO and its the worst nickname in the world it just doesnt make sense and is crap hence why it didn;t catch on... you douche! It never caught on just you and kate... DOES NOT COUNT... and im guessing they dont teach you how to spell?
James: "Ja-Lo" would be pronounced "Jah-Loh" and, therefore, sound nothing like the Jay-Loh" what you're aiming for.
Not only did it not catch on; your phoenetics are lacking at best.
So thanks, supposed best friend of mine, for making me feel so small, insignificant and retarded.
I guess I just hate being ganged up on. I dunno. I can't explain my frustration and ARRRGH and the need to punch things. I shouldn't take it all so seriously. Maybe cuz it's only a name and they are making a big fuss about it. I've been called far worse nicknames by my friends. Can't see why they can''t get over such a pathetic little thing to fuss over.
Rant over. Ended up finally replying after deciding to let them sulk "haha can't believe what a fuss has been made over such a silly insignificant little thing. Quite pathetic really."
Basically, the gist is, I created a little pet nickname for him last year. Ja-Lo, cuz he is quite a kamp guy, my mate Jason. As I know back at home he sometimes got called Ja-Fo back at home, I decided more like Ja-Lo, similar to the singer JLo, but my own way of spelling it. Basically, I'm calling him a girl, but NOT the real JLo. Ok, he says he didn't like the nickname when it first came about, but it's just one of those things that you accept that a friend does, right? Like when Dr Cox calls JD girls names.
A year later, and Ja-Lo and all his friends are sure that a girl called Kate started the nickname that never caught on. Just because she continued to call him the name after I invented it. Which she didn't. I don't even often call Jase 'Ja-Lo'. I often forget. In fact, I only ever call him Ja-Lo on my phone, in which his number is saved under, so I don't get what all the fuss is about. Just because 'brownbear' 'caught on' amongst the rest of his friends because my nickname for him is 'stupid' and 'doesn't make sense'. It's not even the right nickname! The nickname was taken from scrubs, and it's actually CHOCOLATE bear, not brown bear. But of course, he only likes it for the racial humor.
Also, aparently, my spelling is unacceptable. Oh, and these are the comments from when he put up a facebook status saying "bout time I added Brownbear to my name", when I replied "you'll always be Ja-Lo to me" these were the responses from supposed friends:
Jason: spelt J.LO and its the worst nickname in the world it just doesnt make sense and is crap hence why it didn;t catch on... you douche! It never caught on just you and kate... DOES NOT COUNT... and im guessing they dont teach you how to spell?
James: "Ja-Lo" would be pronounced "Jah-Loh" and, therefore, sound nothing like the Jay-Loh" what you're aiming for.
Not only did it not catch on; your phoenetics are lacking at best.
So thanks, supposed best friend of mine, for making me feel so small, insignificant and retarded.
I guess I just hate being ganged up on. I dunno. I can't explain my frustration and ARRRGH and the need to punch things. I shouldn't take it all so seriously. Maybe cuz it's only a name and they are making a big fuss about it. I've been called far worse nicknames by my friends. Can't see why they can''t get over such a pathetic little thing to fuss over.
Rant over. Ended up finally replying after deciding to let them sulk "haha can't believe what a fuss has been made over such a silly insignificant little thing. Quite pathetic really."
Wednesday, 4 November 2009
BBC Scriptwriting Talent Competition
I've just updated my uni media blog for first time in MONTHS. In fact, it maybe my first ever post - huuray!
Follow following link to get to my uni blog so you can read more about the BBC Scriptwriting Talent Competition and my interest in it as well as possible involvement.
BBC SCRIPTWRING TALENT COMPETITION
Follow following link to get to my uni blog so you can read more about the BBC Scriptwriting Talent Competition and my interest in it as well as possible involvement.
BBC SCRIPTWRING TALENT COMPETITION
Monday, 24 August 2009
Updates!
So, I've been uber busy lately.
Been working hard and running around like a headless chicken trying to get sponser money in from my sponsered midnight walk as well as being fully dedicated to rp posts on the Michael Emerson Fan Board as I've been behind recently and needed to catch up on it seeing as pretty important scenes were about for my character in particular.
So as well as work, sponser money collecting, rp writing and tidying houses, I've also been working on my novel trilogy of Grace Miller's adventures. I believe I mentioned this before if you are dedicated enough to look back through my archive of posts to see where I posted about my Grace Miller series, but there have been some significant updates on it which I feel worth saying on here.
So, I now have the names for the trilogy, but I shall only reveal the name of the first, otherwise, if it turns out to be worthy of publishing pubically and becomes popular - don't worry, I'm not being a big ego here, I did use the significant 'IF' word. So yeah, if it is successful, then I need to keep my audience in suspense for the following books.
So the first book is going to be called "Grace Miller: Otter Odyssey." The first book is going to establish the main character - Grace Miller. Just turned 18 years old, and finished college, preparing for uni, and her adventures over the summer which leads onto a better journey of self discovery compared to that of going to university in the first place. She learns more about her missing father, her Uncle whom resides in South Africa (that is a hint for the second book).
Anyway, I don't want to give too much away, but I have been working on a file to keep myself up to date on new and changed areas of the book as well as scribbling down ideas for it I may get randomly. It also helps plan chapters, character personalities as well as their animal alteregos. The only other thing I'll give away is that part of the plot involves Grace Miller getting certain powers, one with the ability to morph into a particular animal....
Been working hard and running around like a headless chicken trying to get sponser money in from my sponsered midnight walk as well as being fully dedicated to rp posts on the Michael Emerson Fan Board as I've been behind recently and needed to catch up on it seeing as pretty important scenes were about for my character in particular.
So as well as work, sponser money collecting, rp writing and tidying houses, I've also been working on my novel trilogy of Grace Miller's adventures. I believe I mentioned this before if you are dedicated enough to look back through my archive of posts to see where I posted about my Grace Miller series, but there have been some significant updates on it which I feel worth saying on here.
So, I now have the names for the trilogy, but I shall only reveal the name of the first, otherwise, if it turns out to be worthy of publishing pubically and becomes popular - don't worry, I'm not being a big ego here, I did use the significant 'IF' word. So yeah, if it is successful, then I need to keep my audience in suspense for the following books.
So the first book is going to be called "Grace Miller: Otter Odyssey." The first book is going to establish the main character - Grace Miller. Just turned 18 years old, and finished college, preparing for uni, and her adventures over the summer which leads onto a better journey of self discovery compared to that of going to university in the first place. She learns more about her missing father, her Uncle whom resides in South Africa (that is a hint for the second book).
Anyway, I don't want to give too much away, but I have been working on a file to keep myself up to date on new and changed areas of the book as well as scribbling down ideas for it I may get randomly. It also helps plan chapters, character personalities as well as their animal alteregos. The only other thing I'll give away is that part of the plot involves Grace Miller getting certain powers, one with the ability to morph into a particular animal....
Wednesday, 24 June 2009
Abrams Inc. Convention - Cancelled! :(
22nd June, 2009 I received the most depressing news I've heard in a long time, which was the news of the Abrams Inc. convention being cancelled that was supposed to take place in the second weekend of August. It is a real shame and quite depressing as I was so looking forward to it, I had also forked out a lot of money on it to get the top gold pass that came with lots of privileges such as getting to meet the guests, drinking cocktails with them and autographs.
Michael Emerson whom portrays Benjamin Linus in the popular tv show 'LOST' was going to be there and I was going to use the event to aid my research and work for my dissertation question to do with fandom in my dissertation essay for third year of university, which would have made a really valuable direct primary source.
Furthermore not to mention that I could have used something really good to happen in my life this year to put towards making up for the crappy past year I've endured with the illness and passing of my Nanna which had put me (and my family) through much painfully distraught and languishingly devastating. This summer has already been depressing enough for me with lack of money and job as well as being away from uni and uni friends being brought upon me.
It's not just the fact that the con has been cancelled either that has depressed me, I also had planned tp meet my friends there too. Friends whom I befriended on the internet and have known for years now, and we were using the con as our big thing to finally meet each other in person. What was also disappointing is how ill-treated some of the customers were treated, including myself, whom felt the need to express their sorrow, and disappointment on s/m and m/e forum. I myself got banned for asking revlevant and important questions, which in the end, were ignored. After much emailing them and other forum posters on my side pointed out the absurbity and unfairness of banning me, I was unbanned.
The only positive thing coming out of the cancellation is that I will get a full refund, and I am lucky that I didn't commit to travel and accomodation expenses, so at least I''ll have more money for my final year at university. I actually got my refund days after the announced cancellation, which is the one good thing s/m and m/e have been able to scrape out of their quality of customer service,
But what has made the cancellation of the even worse is that the organisers of the event 'showmasters' have blamed the uncommited fans who had not yet/would not buy tickets for the con, which has some truth in it, but customers shouldn't be blamed, and the reason there was reluctancy from more customers were that there was only one guest announced, and there would have been more interest if more guests were announced. Not only that, there was a severe lack of advertising, I myself only found out about the event through word of mouth. It's simply outrageous for potential customers and the fans to be blamed for the lack of ticket sales.
To be fair, the man that was out of order to customer's expressed disappointment and significant and relevant questions was a man called Jason, who verbally attacked, accused and slandered customers whom expressed their valid oppinions that so much more could have been done to prevent the cancellation, such as better advertisement, better organised budgeting, gaining more announced guests etc.
I, among many other people, have publically announced that it is very unlikely that we will have enough trust in showmasters and massive events to be fully committed into purchasing for an event for a long long time.
Michael Emerson whom portrays Benjamin Linus in the popular tv show 'LOST' was going to be there and I was going to use the event to aid my research and work for my dissertation question to do with fandom in my dissertation essay for third year of university, which would have made a really valuable direct primary source.
Furthermore not to mention that I could have used something really good to happen in my life this year to put towards making up for the crappy past year I've endured with the illness and passing of my Nanna which had put me (and my family) through much painfully distraught and languishingly devastating. This summer has already been depressing enough for me with lack of money and job as well as being away from uni and uni friends being brought upon me.
It's not just the fact that the con has been cancelled either that has depressed me, I also had planned tp meet my friends there too. Friends whom I befriended on the internet and have known for years now, and we were using the con as our big thing to finally meet each other in person. What was also disappointing is how ill-treated some of the customers were treated, including myself, whom felt the need to express their sorrow, and disappointment on s/m and m/e forum. I myself got banned for asking revlevant and important questions, which in the end, were ignored. After much emailing them and other forum posters on my side pointed out the absurbity and unfairness of banning me, I was unbanned.
The only positive thing coming out of the cancellation is that I will get a full refund, and I am lucky that I didn't commit to travel and accomodation expenses, so at least I''ll have more money for my final year at university. I actually got my refund days after the announced cancellation, which is the one good thing s/m and m/e have been able to scrape out of their quality of customer service,
But what has made the cancellation of the even worse is that the organisers of the event 'showmasters' have blamed the uncommited fans who had not yet/would not buy tickets for the con, which has some truth in it, but customers shouldn't be blamed, and the reason there was reluctancy from more customers were that there was only one guest announced, and there would have been more interest if more guests were announced. Not only that, there was a severe lack of advertising, I myself only found out about the event through word of mouth. It's simply outrageous for potential customers and the fans to be blamed for the lack of ticket sales.
To be fair, the man that was out of order to customer's expressed disappointment and significant and relevant questions was a man called Jason, who verbally attacked, accused and slandered customers whom expressed their valid oppinions that so much more could have been done to prevent the cancellation, such as better advertisement, better organised budgeting, gaining more announced guests etc.
I, among many other people, have publically announced that it is very unlikely that we will have enough trust in showmasters and massive events to be fully committed into purchasing for an event for a long long time.
Monday, 22 June 2009
Katharine House Hospice Midnight Walk
July the 4th I am attending the Katharine House Hospice Midnight Walk, which involves me walking 12 and a half miles starting from midnight to raise money for Katharine House Hospice.
My main reason for doing this is because sadly, my Nanna passed away end of January after enduring about 6 months of a big fatal brain tumor in the middle of her skull which was inoperable and impossible to remove.
She spent a little over three months in the care of the Katharine House Hospice, and they looked after her very well, and made her last moments liveable as well as being more then helpful to her family, they were very accomodtive.
Now it is my turn to help them as the Hospice depends on charity help to run so successfull and efficiently, which is why I am doing this sponsored walk, and why I am asking you to sponsor me!
It is really simple to donate. You just go to my sponsor page and donate at least 2 pounds - or $3-ish - or more if you like!. I am pretty sure you can sponser from abroad too anyway. Don't forget to claim gift aid!
My sponser page is http://www.justgiving.com/zoedkt
for more information on the Katharine House Hospice, http://www.katharinehouse.co.uk/
If you would like to know any more information, just let me know, if you want to ask me privately, just give me an email at zoedkt108@hotmail.co.uk (note this isn't an address I use for msn)."
Sunday, 21 June 2009
Father's Day
(Written Sunday, 21st June)
It has been a tiring day. I woke up earlish - for me anyway, after recieveing a phone call from my mom (I am calling mum 'mom' now cuz I am just too used to the American phrase of it, and find myself having to stop myself from saying it, and am too tired to stop myself any longer.) letting me know her boyfriend and my good friend Duncan will be picking me up 10ish to bring me back home from my dads, whom I had spent the night at. Guilty for now after waking up late at 9am - to my dad that is late anyway, I forced myself up and went downstairs, a little annoyed with myself that I was only spending an hour with my dad on fathers day, so I made myself subconciously promise I wouldn't touch the laptop until I got home. Cyberspace could wait.
When I got downstairs, my dad was already awake, watching some celebrity show on one of the sky channels and playing on my sims 3 game, losing his temper a bit cuz he couldn't figure out how to type the cheats him, despite me telling him a thousand times how to do it, as well as how to build and modify the houses. I shook my head watching him, he was still unable to do it properly without making a fool of himself, so I sighed and told him to give it to me and I did what he wanted done on there for him, making sure he watched so he could carry on with the game later on in my absence.
Duncs didn't get back into town to pick me up til 20 past 10, so it was nice to have a little over an hour to spend with my dad, of course, ideally, I would have preferred to have spent more time in his company on his special occasion, but he doesn't have any helpful transport to take me home at a better time, so I have to rely on my mom or Duncs.
When I got home, of course, the first thing I did was pop on the internet to catch up with emails, rp post and internet friends as well as checking facebook, dailybooth and twitter. All was fine there, not much had changed. So I hung around the house a bit, had a shower and walked the dogs, bumping into my neighbour Julian who's wife has justa about a month ago had two twin babies, girl and boy Matthew and Charlotte. Lovely babies, so very cute and sweet. He asked me about how my job interview went, and I told him about how nervous I was in the interview, that some of the questions seemed qutie hard and I was told I wouldn't hear anything until Wednesday, Julian then excused himself as he was still organising moving stuff from one house to another, as he had been staying in the house opposite the pub while his house was being renevated and extended. I continued on with my walk and went straight back onto the net for a bit when I got back, the walk being fairly un-eventful as I only had Tarka to walk with Tabb having a bad leg.
About an hour after returning from my dog walk, the phone started to ring, and I answered, recognising the number straight away, my heart skipped a beat as I hoped I was right to who was phoning. The phone call went along these lines
"Hello?" I answered.
"Hello, this is **** from the Odeon. Is Zoe there?" A formal voice answered.
"This is Zoe." I replied, now tense.
"Hello Zoe, I'm calling to let you know that your interview was successful, and would like to offer you a position on our team." He explained.
"That's brilliant!" I replied with great and possible over enthusiasm. I really did want this job afterall, and was so sure I was too nervous in the interview and somehow mucked it up.
"Can you start Friday, 6pm?" He enquired.
"Sure! That's not a problem." I replied blissfully.
"We'll just need account information and your p45." He informed me.
"Great, I'll see you Friday." I replied.
"See you Ffriday, bye!"
I then proceeded to scream with glee and ran to my laptop, spamming all my statuses, msn convos and chat boxes with 'I GOT THE JOB!' before running downstairs, through the back garden and to my grandparents, yelling happily at my Poppa 'I got the job!' to which he congratulated me before I headed home again to call my mom and let her know, and I was greatfully happy that she told me she was happy for me - mom was away at the time with Duncan, visitng Duncan's mum, hence why I had been left with dog walking duty among other chores which by chance I hadn't completed before we went out for our meal at the Huntsman in Dunchurch, nr Rugby.
So while still in awe over the phone call, I thought I'd quickly pop down to visit Julian and tell him the good news after he was so nice into checking how my job interview had gone. I was going to be quick as I knew he still had plenty of packing and unpacking to do, however, when I knocked on the door, he invited me in to share the news with his lovely wife Emma, which was great, especially seeing the twins again. They both congratulated me too and I stayed for a bit, his father and brother and brother's partner were there too. I helped feed baby Matthew as both Charlotte and Matthew were both demanding feeds at the same time, and Julian and co, bar Emma were busy with the packing, so I offered - or rather accepted willingly and happily to help feed baby Matthew while Emma fed baby Charlotte.
It's amazing really. It's true what parents say, you really can get lost for time when staring at such a tiny yet brilliant life form, although I did manage to snap my attention back to reality to make sure I got home for latest at 5pm, plenty of time to get ready to go out for our family meal at half 6. It was lovely, seeing my aunt, uncle and cousin Rob out of the twin cousins, Rob and Jake - Jake was away on deployment for the Royal Navy, so sadly couldn't attend.
After the journey back, it dawned on me quickly how tired I was, so after some coffee at my Poppa's at which I didn't drink anyway for my dislike of coffee, I went back on the internet again for some quick little catch ups, and so here we are! And I really need to go to bed cuz I've got an early morning walk to attend to! So this is me over and out, as I am shattered too. Night night for now!
It has been a tiring day. I woke up earlish - for me anyway, after recieveing a phone call from my mom (I am calling mum 'mom' now cuz I am just too used to the American phrase of it, and find myself having to stop myself from saying it, and am too tired to stop myself any longer.) letting me know her boyfriend and my good friend Duncan will be picking me up 10ish to bring me back home from my dads, whom I had spent the night at. Guilty for now after waking up late at 9am - to my dad that is late anyway, I forced myself up and went downstairs, a little annoyed with myself that I was only spending an hour with my dad on fathers day, so I made myself subconciously promise I wouldn't touch the laptop until I got home. Cyberspace could wait.
When I got downstairs, my dad was already awake, watching some celebrity show on one of the sky channels and playing on my sims 3 game, losing his temper a bit cuz he couldn't figure out how to type the cheats him, despite me telling him a thousand times how to do it, as well as how to build and modify the houses. I shook my head watching him, he was still unable to do it properly without making a fool of himself, so I sighed and told him to give it to me and I did what he wanted done on there for him, making sure he watched so he could carry on with the game later on in my absence.
Duncs didn't get back into town to pick me up til 20 past 10, so it was nice to have a little over an hour to spend with my dad, of course, ideally, I would have preferred to have spent more time in his company on his special occasion, but he doesn't have any helpful transport to take me home at a better time, so I have to rely on my mom or Duncs.
When I got home, of course, the first thing I did was pop on the internet to catch up with emails, rp post and internet friends as well as checking facebook, dailybooth and twitter. All was fine there, not much had changed. So I hung around the house a bit, had a shower and walked the dogs, bumping into my neighbour Julian who's wife has justa about a month ago had two twin babies, girl and boy Matthew and Charlotte. Lovely babies, so very cute and sweet. He asked me about how my job interview went, and I told him about how nervous I was in the interview, that some of the questions seemed qutie hard and I was told I wouldn't hear anything until Wednesday, Julian then excused himself as he was still organising moving stuff from one house to another, as he had been staying in the house opposite the pub while his house was being renevated and extended. I continued on with my walk and went straight back onto the net for a bit when I got back, the walk being fairly un-eventful as I only had Tarka to walk with Tabb having a bad leg.
About an hour after returning from my dog walk, the phone started to ring, and I answered, recognising the number straight away, my heart skipped a beat as I hoped I was right to who was phoning. The phone call went along these lines
"Hello?" I answered.
"Hello, this is **** from the Odeon. Is Zoe there?" A formal voice answered.
"This is Zoe." I replied, now tense.
"Hello Zoe, I'm calling to let you know that your interview was successful, and would like to offer you a position on our team." He explained.
"That's brilliant!" I replied with great and possible over enthusiasm. I really did want this job afterall, and was so sure I was too nervous in the interview and somehow mucked it up.
"Can you start Friday, 6pm?" He enquired.
"Sure! That's not a problem." I replied blissfully.
"We'll just need account information and your p45." He informed me.
"Great, I'll see you Friday." I replied.
"See you Ffriday, bye!"
I then proceeded to scream with glee and ran to my laptop, spamming all my statuses, msn convos and chat boxes with 'I GOT THE JOB!' before running downstairs, through the back garden and to my grandparents, yelling happily at my Poppa 'I got the job!' to which he congratulated me before I headed home again to call my mom and let her know, and I was greatfully happy that she told me she was happy for me - mom was away at the time with Duncan, visitng Duncan's mum, hence why I had been left with dog walking duty among other chores which by chance I hadn't completed before we went out for our meal at the Huntsman in Dunchurch, nr Rugby.
So while still in awe over the phone call, I thought I'd quickly pop down to visit Julian and tell him the good news after he was so nice into checking how my job interview had gone. I was going to be quick as I knew he still had plenty of packing and unpacking to do, however, when I knocked on the door, he invited me in to share the news with his lovely wife Emma, which was great, especially seeing the twins again. They both congratulated me too and I stayed for a bit, his father and brother and brother's partner were there too. I helped feed baby Matthew as both Charlotte and Matthew were both demanding feeds at the same time, and Julian and co, bar Emma were busy with the packing, so I offered - or rather accepted willingly and happily to help feed baby Matthew while Emma fed baby Charlotte.
It's amazing really. It's true what parents say, you really can get lost for time when staring at such a tiny yet brilliant life form, although I did manage to snap my attention back to reality to make sure I got home for latest at 5pm, plenty of time to get ready to go out for our family meal at half 6. It was lovely, seeing my aunt, uncle and cousin Rob out of the twin cousins, Rob and Jake - Jake was away on deployment for the Royal Navy, so sadly couldn't attend.
After the journey back, it dawned on me quickly how tired I was, so after some coffee at my Poppa's at which I didn't drink anyway for my dislike of coffee, I went back on the internet again for some quick little catch ups, and so here we are! And I really need to go to bed cuz I've got an early morning walk to attend to! So this is me over and out, as I am shattered too. Night night for now!
Saturday, 20 June 2009
At My Dads
Well, as I write this, I am at my dads, having good old silly times and so I can see him tomorrow for father's day before I have to go off to the Huntman wiith my mum and her family for a father's day dinner.
My dad is brill. When I arrived unexpectedly, he went out and got my dinner and sweet treats, and now we are just chilling together watching Hotel Babalon and me prattling away on the computer, which he is very good about cuz I know he gets frustrated with me being on the internet constantly.
So yeah, I took some photos of my dad being silly and thought I'd put them on here for a laugh, with captions explaining the photo.
- My dad doing an impression of a sheep. Yeah, I know, looks nothing like a sheep! Try telling him that! I am always arguing with him about the difference between mutton and lamb too. This is where I get my bad habit from of biting my nails! He was being silly about it too, I caught him doing it and kept on asking what he was doing cuz he was frozen in position and wouldn't answer me, then stuck out his tounge with a bit of fingernail hanging on the end! Gross! But funny pose.
lol, gay pose!
Novel Writing!
I have been a keen writer for a very long time, and writen stories for as long as I can remember. I am currently writing a novel that I've been working on since I was about thirteen, however, I keep on making changes, whether it be structure or continuously re-writing the first couple of chapters as well as getting distracted in spreading the novel over three books and making an additional book for another character and the making of the book from the project file I have on the book. I used to have a title of the book, and even illustrations, but this too has changed over the years, and now I have still yet to come up with the title.
Anyway, as I mentioned, I am keeping a project folder to keep track of my progress, and hopefully aid in me disciplining myself into finally finishing the novel. I hope by keeping newsy updates on here will help, despite no followers, lol. I don't want to give too much away in case anyone steals my idea, even though I've got the legal copyrights for it already, but I might give some hints to my plots and characters etc.
So yeah, keep a look out on here if you are remotely interested!
Anyway, as I mentioned, I am keeping a project folder to keep track of my progress, and hopefully aid in me disciplining myself into finally finishing the novel. I hope by keeping newsy updates on here will help, despite no followers, lol. I don't want to give too much away in case anyone steals my idea, even though I've got the legal copyrights for it already, but I might give some hints to my plots and characters etc.
So yeah, keep a look out on here if you are remotely interested!
Friday, 19 June 2009
Updates?
I've been back home home for the summer holiday, and after all the c.v's I've given out and the possibilities of getting jobs were better than I expected, and out of all the c.v's I've handed out, I've only had one interview, to be fair, it was the one job I really wanted, but I am pretty sure the interview was at the type of level where you can tell if it went well or bad, as the conversation was really friendly, but some of the questions asked, I really struggled with, and of course came the all important speech at the end 'we have more people to interview yet, but we'll get back with you as soon as possible.' I often take that as a bad sign, and now I have to wait till at least Wednesday to hear anything back. I really would like this job - it's at the Odeon cinema chain, as it would hugely benefit my media course, as well as I love going to the cinema, and would be interesting to see how it all works behind the scenes.
So while waiting for a job, I am stuck at home, doing chores and getting really bored. I half wish I was back in Lincoln. Well, full on wish I was back in Lincoln, but lack of monies has made that impossible for this summer. It is nice being back home, seeing people I haven't seen in a while, but when you've lived away from your parents, live independently, you notice a real difference when you move back in with your mum. Rules are suddenly in place, and, well, suppose it is dependent on the mum, but I think mine sometimes forget I'm no longer a child, that she had a 20 year old living in the house, not a 16 year old.
I can't believe how long summer holidays are for university students. Beginning of May until the end of September. It's so long. I remember when college would finish at the end of June, officially, and I thought those summer holidays were a large amount as it is, being used to school at secondary and primary years not finishing until mid July, and then you would go back second week or so in September. I suppose it helps having longer holidays for college and uni students so they have more of a chance to make more money over the summer, but it does drag on...and on...and on.... I am probably finding it must frustrating because of my addiction to the internet, and my current lack of access to it, I am lucky at the moment being able to be online now, but I have so many youtube videos to upload which I can't, cuz this internet isn't reliable enough to do so, so I guess I'll have to wait until September.
Anyway, that's about it for now, with the same boring routine everyday, there isn't much interesting news to put up on here atm, so I'll return when the situation changes!
Over and out.
So while waiting for a job, I am stuck at home, doing chores and getting really bored. I half wish I was back in Lincoln. Well, full on wish I was back in Lincoln, but lack of monies has made that impossible for this summer. It is nice being back home, seeing people I haven't seen in a while, but when you've lived away from your parents, live independently, you notice a real difference when you move back in with your mum. Rules are suddenly in place, and, well, suppose it is dependent on the mum, but I think mine sometimes forget I'm no longer a child, that she had a 20 year old living in the house, not a 16 year old.
I can't believe how long summer holidays are for university students. Beginning of May until the end of September. It's so long. I remember when college would finish at the end of June, officially, and I thought those summer holidays were a large amount as it is, being used to school at secondary and primary years not finishing until mid July, and then you would go back second week or so in September. I suppose it helps having longer holidays for college and uni students so they have more of a chance to make more money over the summer, but it does drag on...and on...and on.... I am probably finding it must frustrating because of my addiction to the internet, and my current lack of access to it, I am lucky at the moment being able to be online now, but I have so many youtube videos to upload which I can't, cuz this internet isn't reliable enough to do so, so I guess I'll have to wait until September.
Anyway, that's about it for now, with the same boring routine everyday, there isn't much interesting news to put up on here atm, so I'll return when the situation changes!
Over and out.
Sunday, 7 June 2009
Oh Crap
Well, I am now back in Oxfordshire, my home shire. And I have no internet except for when I visit my dad, which probs will only happen at weekends, but as I spend majority of my time at my Mum's house, I am cut off from the internet until I get a job and can afford my own internet. Sucky sucky suck suck, but what am I going to do? Not much I can do, I guess I'll just have to pray this summer will go quickly.
I am getting into more bad cycles with being home too. Mum wakes me up at half 9, I pretend to get up, but as soon as she leaves for work, I sink back into bed for another hour. Then I get up, lazily, and watch vids on my laptop, then watch Gilmore girls. Walk the dogs, rush housework I was asked to do before mum and her bf Duncs get home, tease the birds. Mum comes home, I watch more TV, eat dinner, more tv, read, go to bed. Then the same thing the next day and the day after that.
I feel bad when I come to visit my dad too, because I spend majority of it on the internet, and I think he might secretly get upset about it, cuz it is hard to pull me away from it, but that is because I am catching up and making up for what I have missed while staying at mums. He subtley tries to get me off the computer, but I simply don't bite his bait. I'll have to find a way to make it up to him. Bless him, he does do a lot for me, and he had been looking out for oppertunities for me to get a job around my hometown.
Anyway, thats about all that has happened since I've left Lincoln, so when I next get back on here, I hope for it to be more full filling.
Chao for now!
I am getting into more bad cycles with being home too. Mum wakes me up at half 9, I pretend to get up, but as soon as she leaves for work, I sink back into bed for another hour. Then I get up, lazily, and watch vids on my laptop, then watch Gilmore girls. Walk the dogs, rush housework I was asked to do before mum and her bf Duncs get home, tease the birds. Mum comes home, I watch more TV, eat dinner, more tv, read, go to bed. Then the same thing the next day and the day after that.
I feel bad when I come to visit my dad too, because I spend majority of it on the internet, and I think he might secretly get upset about it, cuz it is hard to pull me away from it, but that is because I am catching up and making up for what I have missed while staying at mums. He subtley tries to get me off the computer, but I simply don't bite his bait. I'll have to find a way to make it up to him. Bless him, he does do a lot for me, and he had been looking out for oppertunities for me to get a job around my hometown.
Anyway, thats about all that has happened since I've left Lincoln, so when I next get back on here, I hope for it to be more full filling.
Chao for now!
Friday, 29 May 2009
Wednesday, 27 May 2009
Ferrero Rocher Challenge
In celebration of my birthday, I decided to take up the recent raging world record challenging of eating as many ferrero rochers as possible, with the current record being 7, and the guy whom took up the challenge in this year's 'Britain's Got Talent' got up to 4, and me being cocky thought it would be easy to get past 7 of these nutty chocs, certainly 4. So I streamed the challenge live, and here it is:
Lol, this is my first attempt, and I plan to try again later. People are right, this is a lot harder then it looks!
Lol, this is my first attempt, and I plan to try again later. People are right, this is a lot harder then it looks!
Saturday, 23 May 2009
The Three J's and What to do when your Friends Break Up.
Hi.
Myy blog posting time might beg to differ at the time that I am writing/posting this blog, as I live in England, and blogspot tend to run on American time, which, to be honest, I might as well be American with how my biological clock works. It is 02:25am as I am writing this, and I am due to be up at 04:30/05:00am as I have a fully planned weekend ahead of work experience, the only problem is that despite being very aware of the time, I can't seem to be able to sleep. This makes me sad, because I know how busy I will be tomorrow, and I will be exhausted, as well as knowing I have two other early morning starts to look forward too! I am hoping by writing this blog that I will get tired enough to fall asleep.
Anyway, a little update of something that happened a few weekends ago. Which, conviently, I was away from Lincoln on a similar work experience placement. During which, the drama was mad back at home. My housemates, whom for discretion, I shall call them Joe, Jan and Jack.
Anyway, it all started when Jack wrote a status that was aimed at Joe and Jan, whom are in a committed relationship. The status was about how Jack was upset/angry and felt that Joe and Jan had lied to Jack, namecalling them and accusing them of being 'lying snakes'. After learning what stemed the dispute, it was all to do with invites. Jack was angry/upset because Joe and Jan hadn't invited Jack to a day out at the park when it was really sunny, and the BBQ that had been arranged to have at the house in which we all live in. Me (Fal), Joe, Jan and Jack. Invited to the Park and BBQ, which I may point out were seperate events, were old flatmates from the previous year Sarah and Adrian I shall call them. Well, myself, Joe, Jan and Jack lived with Sarah the previous year in off campus halls of our university, and Adrian lived in the flat above ours.
So yes, back on topic. Myself, Joe, Jan, Sarah and Adrian all decided spur of the moment - a spontaneous thought, to go to the park on one occasion, on the day of said event because it was hot and sunny, and as we were all free for that day, it would be nice to do something to enjoy the sun. So we arranged to go to the park! Something that unfortunately Jack wasn't around at the time to invite. I had already noted he had left the house early that day, so assumed he was either at uni all day, or had plans. Ok, in his defence, we could have given him a text I suppose, but none of us expected him to get upset about it, afterall, it wasn't an invitation event. There were no facebook event set up with a guest list, nor did we send out handwritten invitation with strick instant RSPV response cards. It was just a whoever was around, lets go to the park! Type of thing. Anyway, it was a good day out for all whom went.
The next event was a BBQ at my house. I knew nothing about the BBQ until I noticed nibbles being layed out on the table, I asked Joe and Jan what they were upto, if they had people coming over, and they said yeah, Sarah and Adrian were coming over for a mini BBQ, and asked if I cared to join? I accepted. Jack was in his room, and his girlfriend arrived, and they both went up to their rooms for a while. Shortly after, Sarah and Adrian arrived and we all settled in the living room, and got the BBQ outside working. Moments later, we heard a very loud and disturbing slam of the front door go as Jack and his girlfriend vacated the house, making the whole house shake. This is normally a trait of mine that I do when I am quite pissed off about something, so I immediately knew something had pissed Jack off, everyone else, however, wavered their hands, and insisted it must be the wind, as it was particuarly windy that day.
If I had known any hint of what Jack was mad about, I would have gone after him, and demanded to know what his behaviour was about, but I shrugged the thought off and carried on with the BBQ. I wanted to do something fun before going off for my photography work experience the next day.
So yes, these were the events that Jack got upset about. No invitation. Which, is quite silly in heinsight, as for one, he isn't that keen on Joe and Jan in the first place, so I don't see what all the fuss is about, he avoids them whenever possible. I dunno, maybe he just wanted to make a fuss because he could. Maybe he was feeling too sensitive at the time, as I know he can be at times. I know he has exams to be stressed about too, which was why he wasn't invited to the BBQ, because it was on a Friday, and I knew he had an exam on the Monday, so I presumed he would want to use the time to revise. Reason for this was that last year he was willing to sacrifice missing my Birthday for two days of revision before his exam which was two days after my brithday, so therefore, you would assume he would be doing the same for a BBQ, which on a scale of significance, is no-where near the same importance of attending a friends birthday. Of course, after much nagging, I did get him to come to my birthday last year, but thats not the point, hehe.
Anyway, so the next day, the Saturday, the day I left for Yorkshire for my work experience, the facebook status transpired, and all hell broke loose, leading to big house divide up. Joe and Jan now not speaking or even achknowledging Jack's existance, and vice versa. I only found out about the whole drama when I got back that Sunday, and after carefully listening to both sides, I tried my best not to be more biased to one side more then the other, although I do have stronger sideing oppinions towards one side then the other, I could never admit to either party, as it would be unfair as they are all my friends. I do feel partly at fault somehow, and tried to give both parties reasonable oppinions, but one is more stubborn then the other, and just admits to little fault.
Anyway, I was wondering if anyone who might by chance read this post comment back, tell me what you think, and if you have been in similar situations, or felt caught in the middle of your friends disputes??
Myy blog posting time might beg to differ at the time that I am writing/posting this blog, as I live in England, and blogspot tend to run on American time, which, to be honest, I might as well be American with how my biological clock works. It is 02:25am as I am writing this, and I am due to be up at 04:30/05:00am as I have a fully planned weekend ahead of work experience, the only problem is that despite being very aware of the time, I can't seem to be able to sleep. This makes me sad, because I know how busy I will be tomorrow, and I will be exhausted, as well as knowing I have two other early morning starts to look forward too! I am hoping by writing this blog that I will get tired enough to fall asleep.
Anyway, a little update of something that happened a few weekends ago. Which, conviently, I was away from Lincoln on a similar work experience placement. During which, the drama was mad back at home. My housemates, whom for discretion, I shall call them Joe, Jan and Jack.
Anyway, it all started when Jack wrote a status that was aimed at Joe and Jan, whom are in a committed relationship. The status was about how Jack was upset/angry and felt that Joe and Jan had lied to Jack, namecalling them and accusing them of being 'lying snakes'. After learning what stemed the dispute, it was all to do with invites. Jack was angry/upset because Joe and Jan hadn't invited Jack to a day out at the park when it was really sunny, and the BBQ that had been arranged to have at the house in which we all live in. Me (Fal), Joe, Jan and Jack. Invited to the Park and BBQ, which I may point out were seperate events, were old flatmates from the previous year Sarah and Adrian I shall call them. Well, myself, Joe, Jan and Jack lived with Sarah the previous year in off campus halls of our university, and Adrian lived in the flat above ours.
So yes, back on topic. Myself, Joe, Jan, Sarah and Adrian all decided spur of the moment - a spontaneous thought, to go to the park on one occasion, on the day of said event because it was hot and sunny, and as we were all free for that day, it would be nice to do something to enjoy the sun. So we arranged to go to the park! Something that unfortunately Jack wasn't around at the time to invite. I had already noted he had left the house early that day, so assumed he was either at uni all day, or had plans. Ok, in his defence, we could have given him a text I suppose, but none of us expected him to get upset about it, afterall, it wasn't an invitation event. There were no facebook event set up with a guest list, nor did we send out handwritten invitation with strick instant RSPV response cards. It was just a whoever was around, lets go to the park! Type of thing. Anyway, it was a good day out for all whom went.
The next event was a BBQ at my house. I knew nothing about the BBQ until I noticed nibbles being layed out on the table, I asked Joe and Jan what they were upto, if they had people coming over, and they said yeah, Sarah and Adrian were coming over for a mini BBQ, and asked if I cared to join? I accepted. Jack was in his room, and his girlfriend arrived, and they both went up to their rooms for a while. Shortly after, Sarah and Adrian arrived and we all settled in the living room, and got the BBQ outside working. Moments later, we heard a very loud and disturbing slam of the front door go as Jack and his girlfriend vacated the house, making the whole house shake. This is normally a trait of mine that I do when I am quite pissed off about something, so I immediately knew something had pissed Jack off, everyone else, however, wavered their hands, and insisted it must be the wind, as it was particuarly windy that day.
If I had known any hint of what Jack was mad about, I would have gone after him, and demanded to know what his behaviour was about, but I shrugged the thought off and carried on with the BBQ. I wanted to do something fun before going off for my photography work experience the next day.
So yes, these were the events that Jack got upset about. No invitation. Which, is quite silly in heinsight, as for one, he isn't that keen on Joe and Jan in the first place, so I don't see what all the fuss is about, he avoids them whenever possible. I dunno, maybe he just wanted to make a fuss because he could. Maybe he was feeling too sensitive at the time, as I know he can be at times. I know he has exams to be stressed about too, which was why he wasn't invited to the BBQ, because it was on a Friday, and I knew he had an exam on the Monday, so I presumed he would want to use the time to revise. Reason for this was that last year he was willing to sacrifice missing my Birthday for two days of revision before his exam which was two days after my brithday, so therefore, you would assume he would be doing the same for a BBQ, which on a scale of significance, is no-where near the same importance of attending a friends birthday. Of course, after much nagging, I did get him to come to my birthday last year, but thats not the point, hehe.
Anyway, so the next day, the Saturday, the day I left for Yorkshire for my work experience, the facebook status transpired, and all hell broke loose, leading to big house divide up. Joe and Jan now not speaking or even achknowledging Jack's existance, and vice versa. I only found out about the whole drama when I got back that Sunday, and after carefully listening to both sides, I tried my best not to be more biased to one side more then the other, although I do have stronger sideing oppinions towards one side then the other, I could never admit to either party, as it would be unfair as they are all my friends. I do feel partly at fault somehow, and tried to give both parties reasonable oppinions, but one is more stubborn then the other, and just admits to little fault.
Anyway, I was wondering if anyone who might by chance read this post comment back, tell me what you think, and if you have been in similar situations, or felt caught in the middle of your friends disputes??
Thursday, 21 May 2009
Bad Cycles
As it is everyones dreams - well, sort of, after I explain. Hang on, I'll rephrase, as it is everyone's dream who are in a job they really can't be arsed with, or go to school and really can't be arsed, they would prefer to be able to be at home with no commitments.
Well, I am like that at the moment for the past two weeks. Because of my amazing oppertunities of work expereince on two weekends which have been over three weeks, it has meant I may as well stay in Lincoln until I finish work expereince in Lincs, as well as stay in Lincs for my b'day to celebrate with my friends. So, during the days when I am not working, and with uni being over for me, the majority of my last three weeks have been filled with not waking up till 11.30/12am and then not falling asleep till 2/3am. Sometimes 4am. And then most of my day is wasted. It really is quite bad, and all the packing I need to do is ridiculous. Makes me feel really lazy, especially when then I spend the majority of my day in my bedroom watching TV.
Anywho, I'll come back to write a more worthy post later, as I have to go buy meat and veg and cook a fabulous lunch for myself and my friend Charlie who's coming over, as well as either buy or make a birthday cake for her as her birthday is on the 23rd of May, and reaching the final great young birthday of your life before the dreaded 30s, 40s, 50s etc arrive. 21st birthday. Which is young of course, but I know when I reach it I will feel old.
Well, I am like that at the moment for the past two weeks. Because of my amazing oppertunities of work expereince on two weekends which have been over three weeks, it has meant I may as well stay in Lincoln until I finish work expereince in Lincs, as well as stay in Lincs for my b'day to celebrate with my friends. So, during the days when I am not working, and with uni being over for me, the majority of my last three weeks have been filled with not waking up till 11.30/12am and then not falling asleep till 2/3am. Sometimes 4am. And then most of my day is wasted. It really is quite bad, and all the packing I need to do is ridiculous. Makes me feel really lazy, especially when then I spend the majority of my day in my bedroom watching TV.
Anywho, I'll come back to write a more worthy post later, as I have to go buy meat and veg and cook a fabulous lunch for myself and my friend Charlie who's coming over, as well as either buy or make a birthday cake for her as her birthday is on the 23rd of May, and reaching the final great young birthday of your life before the dreaded 30s, 40s, 50s etc arrive. 21st birthday. Which is young of course, but I know when I reach it I will feel old.
Wednesday, 20 May 2009
Still in Lincoln...
Well non-existance followers, as you can tell, I am still on the internet, and therefore still in Lincoln. As my previous blog said, I was meant to be back in Oxfordshire weekend just gone, but plans changed when I got offered some work experience this weekend to come!
And you know what today is? A week until my birthday. It's scary at how fast it is coming. I am quickly heading towards the tunnel of leaving my teen years, and I never realised turning twenty would seem like a scary thought and age to me.
Anywho, I went to the cinema tonight, to see Night at the Museum 2, and it was bitchin. Loved it, and pretty good for a sequal film. Had a good giggle with my housemates anyway when we went to see it.
But yeah, thats the most of what I have to say. Look out on youtube for some upcoming vids I'll be uploading soon.
Sorry, short blog, just a quick update really. Not much happening...yet.
And you know what today is? A week until my birthday. It's scary at how fast it is coming. I am quickly heading towards the tunnel of leaving my teen years, and I never realised turning twenty would seem like a scary thought and age to me.
Anywho, I went to the cinema tonight, to see Night at the Museum 2, and it was bitchin. Loved it, and pretty good for a sequal film. Had a good giggle with my housemates anyway when we went to see it.
But yeah, thats the most of what I have to say. Look out on youtube for some upcoming vids I'll be uploading soon.
Sorry, short blog, just a quick update really. Not much happening...yet.
Wednesday, 13 May 2009
Almost Third Year Student!!
It's been a very full-filling year, my second year at university. A lot has gone on, I know I've definately put more effort into this one in terms of my work ect, and now third year awaits me. Graduating year. This time next year I will be finishing University for good. This time next year I will be doing my best to search for a job. Scary stuff. Student loans gone (well, 'cept for paying my loan back!), mortages, bills etc here I come! Argh, why can't I be a student forever? LOL.
I am going back to my hometown at the weekend - where I will be out of internet! Argh! So don't know how I am going to cope with that! I am going to have to beg my mum to get internet! At the moment though, I seem to be doing my best to avoid packing my room, ready to be picked up at the weekend. My room is a tip and I need a big sort out in crap I don't need! I have to decide what stuff to keep in Lincoln and what stuff to take back home, just too much to do in the space of a few days!
This weekend just gone, I was in Yorkshire on a photography work experience, taking photos of Landrovers who were on a off-road experience, and I would take photos of them splashing into mud, it was great fun, I had some photos on my digital camera which I was going to put up on here, but unfortunately on a birthday night out with one of my best friends, I re-formatted my camera, not realising that it deletes my photos in the process! Which is really frustrating as I had some nice photos with my dad on a day out in Skegness too! Never mind....I'll get hold of copies of my work somehow.
Then there is my youtube work - I am so behind, and I know there is no-way I am going to get majority of what I want done, done by the time I have no access to internet. The second part of my 'Deception' video, completing my John Locke 'omg I can't believe it' as well as other projects I've yet to start.
I don't start third year to the end of September, so I have a long summer ahead, and a couple of things in this summer to look forward to. Midnight walk in June, LOST convention in August and a holiday in the Lake District early September. In between all these events I need to find paid work and plenty of work experience to contribute to my experienced in the media as well as looking flashy on my CV.
Next year at university I am studying single camera, so hopefully this means I can display more regular work I do at uni online on youtube. If my vids are good enough! Hehe.
Fal out xx
I am going back to my hometown at the weekend - where I will be out of internet! Argh! So don't know how I am going to cope with that! I am going to have to beg my mum to get internet! At the moment though, I seem to be doing my best to avoid packing my room, ready to be picked up at the weekend. My room is a tip and I need a big sort out in crap I don't need! I have to decide what stuff to keep in Lincoln and what stuff to take back home, just too much to do in the space of a few days!
This weekend just gone, I was in Yorkshire on a photography work experience, taking photos of Landrovers who were on a off-road experience, and I would take photos of them splashing into mud, it was great fun, I had some photos on my digital camera which I was going to put up on here, but unfortunately on a birthday night out with one of my best friends, I re-formatted my camera, not realising that it deletes my photos in the process! Which is really frustrating as I had some nice photos with my dad on a day out in Skegness too! Never mind....I'll get hold of copies of my work somehow.
Then there is my youtube work - I am so behind, and I know there is no-way I am going to get majority of what I want done, done by the time I have no access to internet. The second part of my 'Deception' video, completing my John Locke 'omg I can't believe it' as well as other projects I've yet to start.
I don't start third year to the end of September, so I have a long summer ahead, and a couple of things in this summer to look forward to. Midnight walk in June, LOST convention in August and a holiday in the Lake District early September. In between all these events I need to find paid work and plenty of work experience to contribute to my experienced in the media as well as looking flashy on my CV.
Next year at university I am studying single camera, so hopefully this means I can display more regular work I do at uni online on youtube. If my vids are good enough! Hehe.
Fal out xx
Friday, 10 April 2009
Banbury Rambles.
As nice as it has been being back home in Shenny and at my Dads in Banbury - yes, I said it, nice being in Banbury, I must be mad, but if I am with my Dad, I don't care where I am.
But at the same time, I am missing Lincoln loads, for many reasons. For starters, I came home to find my mum had perchased two new additions to the family. Granville and Dillon. A cockateil and budgie, and they are an absolute nightmare. Of course, I knew my mother had already got them before I came home for the Easter holidays, she was the one who informed me that I would be great at training them to be more tame. But seriously, I've never had such a difficult time!
For starters, Granville, the main birdie I am training, it took me a couple of days to get used to the fact that he bites, but not only that, that his bites don't actually hurt. After that, I keep giving him my finger to step onto, but he keeps running away from me! Even when I try just to stroke him, he runs away. I swear, it is impossible to train him! The budgie is even worse, you can't even get close, he is even too timid to bite.
Next big annoyance since being back home is the incredible difficulty I've had getting access to the internet. My neighbour normally allows me access through my wall, but I can't get any signal due to his progress in renivating his house. My mum has no internet, and the internet at my grandparents is kaput. The only time I can get onto the internet is when I am at my Dads, like now. Even then, the internet is dicey. So thats one of my main reasons for missing Lincoln, because of how amazingly tollerent my internet is, and how I don't get woken up by my mum every morning instead of letting my lie in just cuz she has to go to work and wants me to do a ton of housework, which is fair enough as I am staying rent free, but at least give me lie ins while I still can!
I am also getting stressed at how close end of uni year it is getting. I have tons of assignments and live assessments to prepare for, which I know I can get done, but end of year means summer, and I don't want there to be a summer, I want to skip to September so I can start third year, even though it is scaring me that this time next year I will be about graduating around about now. Scary thought.
Other things are on my mind too. Like my Doctor [code word btw, if you are my close friend you'd know who I meant). I miss him terribly, and as much as I love him, I hate him too, hate what he has done to me, and wish I didn't feel this way anymore, because I am sick of it, and seeing things everyday that I'd rather not doesn't help. What is worse, that if the situation ever arose that could go the way I would want, I'd have to refuse, because I don't want to settle for being picked second best, and it pains me that I think this way, yet, I know there is some sense to it, and feel it is the right way to go about things. Ugh, why does life have to be so complicated?
What I have enjoyed so far of being back home is the dog walking in the hot weather, being in town browsing the shops and bumping into old friends that I had planned on having big catch ups on. Its been nice catching up with my family too, and finally getting access to the internet, even if it doesn't always work and I can't get my youtube videos uploaded. But oh well, I guess I'll have to cope.
Something else that hasn't gone to plan is trying to loose weight over the Easter holidays. I was planning on being really good and hope to shift some for when I go back to Lincoln, but no luck. Summer I plan big time to get fit for when I start third year, maybe then some nice guys will actually NOTICE me, as not much of that seems to be going on now for some reason I cannot decifer. Anyway, am out as it is quite late now, and I am quite tired. Night folks!
But at the same time, I am missing Lincoln loads, for many reasons. For starters, I came home to find my mum had perchased two new additions to the family. Granville and Dillon. A cockateil and budgie, and they are an absolute nightmare. Of course, I knew my mother had already got them before I came home for the Easter holidays, she was the one who informed me that I would be great at training them to be more tame. But seriously, I've never had such a difficult time!
For starters, Granville, the main birdie I am training, it took me a couple of days to get used to the fact that he bites, but not only that, that his bites don't actually hurt. After that, I keep giving him my finger to step onto, but he keeps running away from me! Even when I try just to stroke him, he runs away. I swear, it is impossible to train him! The budgie is even worse, you can't even get close, he is even too timid to bite.
Next big annoyance since being back home is the incredible difficulty I've had getting access to the internet. My neighbour normally allows me access through my wall, but I can't get any signal due to his progress in renivating his house. My mum has no internet, and the internet at my grandparents is kaput. The only time I can get onto the internet is when I am at my Dads, like now. Even then, the internet is dicey. So thats one of my main reasons for missing Lincoln, because of how amazingly tollerent my internet is, and how I don't get woken up by my mum every morning instead of letting my lie in just cuz she has to go to work and wants me to do a ton of housework, which is fair enough as I am staying rent free, but at least give me lie ins while I still can!
I am also getting stressed at how close end of uni year it is getting. I have tons of assignments and live assessments to prepare for, which I know I can get done, but end of year means summer, and I don't want there to be a summer, I want to skip to September so I can start third year, even though it is scaring me that this time next year I will be about graduating around about now. Scary thought.
Other things are on my mind too. Like my Doctor [code word btw, if you are my close friend you'd know who I meant). I miss him terribly, and as much as I love him, I hate him too, hate what he has done to me, and wish I didn't feel this way anymore, because I am sick of it, and seeing things everyday that I'd rather not doesn't help. What is worse, that if the situation ever arose that could go the way I would want, I'd have to refuse, because I don't want to settle for being picked second best, and it pains me that I think this way, yet, I know there is some sense to it, and feel it is the right way to go about things. Ugh, why does life have to be so complicated?
What I have enjoyed so far of being back home is the dog walking in the hot weather, being in town browsing the shops and bumping into old friends that I had planned on having big catch ups on. Its been nice catching up with my family too, and finally getting access to the internet, even if it doesn't always work and I can't get my youtube videos uploaded. But oh well, I guess I'll have to cope.
Something else that hasn't gone to plan is trying to loose weight over the Easter holidays. I was planning on being really good and hope to shift some for when I go back to Lincoln, but no luck. Summer I plan big time to get fit for when I start third year, maybe then some nice guys will actually NOTICE me, as not much of that seems to be going on now for some reason I cannot decifer. Anyway, am out as it is quite late now, and I am quite tired. Night folks!
Monday, 6 April 2009
Show Me the Way to go Home!
Easter holidays are finally here, and I get to go home for two weeks. I am now jobless and have lost my source of income due to me quitting my part time waitressing job at ASK, but it needed to happen, as next year accomdation is really pricy, and I need a job for over the summmer that is going to pay more then £4.35 an hour despite including tips or not.
After being used to paying between the price of £65 - £73 a week for accomodation, bearing in mind that in first year you had to pay extra for laundry as we had a laundry room, not our own laundry machines compared to when living in a house with washing machine and dryer, and for third year going back to the accomdation...
AND OMG RICHARD FROM LOST IS ON SCRUBS!!!
...sorry, got distracted. But yeah, next years accomodation is gunna be costing me £82 quid a week, and on top of that I am having to pay each time I use the laundry, hence I need a better paying job! Already got 300 quid saved for the 3,000 and something for the year. Then I'll use whatever I get spare from my next loan installment after Easter hols.
Anywho, I am distracting myself by being on here instead of tidying my room in time for when my mum's partner picks me up to give me a lift home. Should really stop. Should really really stop...like now, yeah. I really should just...go... :D
After being used to paying between the price of £65 - £73 a week for accomodation, bearing in mind that in first year you had to pay extra for laundry as we had a laundry room, not our own laundry machines compared to when living in a house with washing machine and dryer, and for third year going back to the accomdation...
AND OMG RICHARD FROM LOST IS ON SCRUBS!!!
...sorry, got distracted. But yeah, next years accomodation is gunna be costing me £82 quid a week, and on top of that I am having to pay each time I use the laundry, hence I need a better paying job! Already got 300 quid saved for the 3,000 and something for the year. Then I'll use whatever I get spare from my next loan installment after Easter hols.
Anywho, I am distracting myself by being on here instead of tidying my room in time for when my mum's partner picks me up to give me a lift home. Should really stop. Should really really stop...like now, yeah. I really should just...go... :D
Sunday, 5 April 2009
Projects & Stuff
Wow, been a while since I've been on here, but I've had much difficulty trying to sign back on with forgetfulness of login details and what-not.
Anywho, much has been going on! Second year of uni is very demmanding with work load and I've been working very hard to achieve good grades this year - and actually been sucessful! Yay!
Anyway, busy busy busy! With my love for youtube and vidding, I've been busy making vids and uploading them. Some fanvids of Doctor Who, LOST and Torchwood. Check them out and click on my youtube link in the sidebar which will take you to my account. There are also some of my vlogs there too if you care to check them out :) More projects on the way too!
Also, new aim. To post up on here more frequently.
Am working on a new story. It's also kinda related to real life events. It's a love story, and as I write each chapter, I'll be posting it on my live journal, so check it out!
Anywho, much has been going on! Second year of uni is very demmanding with work load and I've been working very hard to achieve good grades this year - and actually been sucessful! Yay!
Anyway, busy busy busy! With my love for youtube and vidding, I've been busy making vids and uploading them. Some fanvids of Doctor Who, LOST and Torchwood. Check them out and click on my youtube link in the sidebar which will take you to my account. There are also some of my vlogs there too if you care to check them out :) More projects on the way too!
Also, new aim. To post up on here more frequently.
Am working on a new story. It's also kinda related to real life events. It's a love story, and as I write each chapter, I'll be posting it on my live journal, so check it out!
Monday, 19 January 2009
My Best Friends Birthday
It is my best friends birthday. Officially today. But I was meant to write this earlier, cept I couldn't get logged on and I was busy most of the day.
So what have I planned for his eternal sunshine of the spotless mind? A birthday cake and a present, big present which I've arranged to go fifths on.
The birthday cake is amazing. See, he has this crazy obession with the Dark Knight - in particular the Joker. So I made him a chocolate cake, and covered the top with icing before drawing the Joker's face on it. Had to take some pictures before it got demolished too. If you are reading this, you'll have to let me know what you think.
I've also yet to make the birthday video. Don't know what song to put with it though. He is obessesed with this Paramore song at the moment. "Misery Buisness" but I don't think that is the direction to go in. Need something birthday-ish. I'll work it out sooner or later and upload.
Anywho, gotta go!
So what have I planned for his eternal sunshine of the spotless mind? A birthday cake and a present, big present which I've arranged to go fifths on.
The birthday cake is amazing. See, he has this crazy obession with the Dark Knight - in particular the Joker. So I made him a chocolate cake, and covered the top with icing before drawing the Joker's face on it. Had to take some pictures before it got demolished too. If you are reading this, you'll have to let me know what you think.
I've also yet to make the birthday video. Don't know what song to put with it though. He is obessesed with this Paramore song at the moment. "Misery Buisness" but I don't think that is the direction to go in. Need something birthday-ish. I'll work it out sooner or later and upload.
Anywho, gotta go!
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