making entries in our diaries with all the things they think we say;

in a car underwater, with time to kill

2007-05-24T13:03:53Z

I've, so far, spent every single day this week at le gym. Okay, so that's only 3 days, but today my body has said NO MORE CHLORINE, as I have a headache, and a sore throat of epic proportions.

However, when I was swimming yesterday, I was thinking about pool etiquette, given the fact that I get "pool rage" fairly regularly- I like to swim my 1km (and rising) every day, and I don't like people acting like asshats in the pool. So... my pool rules for well-being.

1. Stick to your "lane".
2. Do not ninja somebody else's "lane". Swimming in a straight line is not difficult.
3. If you are an uber-fast swimmer, please swim in the "fast swimmer's" lane.
4. If you are unbelievably chunky, please do not divebomb into the gymnasium pool next to me.
5. Do not divebomb at all.
6. Control your children. If I wanted to exercise surrounded by screaming children, I would have become a primary school teacher.
7. Do not take up half the pool space.
8. Swim vertically.
9. Please use a stroke that does not splash all and sundry - breaststroke is preferred.
10. If you MUST use backstroke, please watch where you are going.
11. The jacuzzi is not a pool, so please don't sit in it for hours, especially if you are going to do so with your children, as those of us who are actually exercising would probably like to use it.
12. SPEEDOS / FAT WOMEN IN BIKINIS = NO.

So, ranting aside, I've clearly been spending too much time at the gym. I don't feel any thinner though. *sigh* But I want to be slimmer and hawter for the Manchester Evening News Diary Bash that I'm going to - it's like one of *the* celebrity parties for the North West.

I hope people from Hollyoaks are there. Then I can be starstruck.

Fashion is made to become unfashionable.

2007-05-17T21:38:17Z

I've spent the last few days embroiled in as many PR publications I could get my hands on, various websites regarding how to further improve my CV, and varying company websites (of doom).

However, the problem with intensive job-searching, is this:

the more time I spend on the internet, the more breaks I take whilst on the internet (if that makes any sense at all). I.E. I spend a large amount of time surfing sites that are not relevant to any form of career enhancement at all.

Men have pr0n.
Women, or at least most of the women I know and love, have online shopping, or worse: online window shopping.

Window shopping is so much more dangerous with the internet, you can see items that you would love to purchase, but aren't put off by the fact that you can touch the material and therefore be put off by its repulsive cheap texture. You can't try it on there and then for the added "thrill" that turns out to be the fact that the fluorescent orange mini-skirt that looked so hip on the alabaster mannequin actually makes you look like you have three asscheeks, sitting on a pair of treetrunk legs.

However, there are a couple of pros to online window shopping. If like me, you're an avid dieter and want some instant inspiration as to why you shouldn't eat that chocolate eclair, simply access net-a-porter, click on your designer of choice, et voila! The sight of a size 0 model strutting around in "your" Rocha dress is enough to curb the greatest of eclair cravings, regardless of whether you intend to buy the dress or not.

What websites do you guys and gals use for online (window or not) shopping? Asides from the specific fashion houses, my favourites are net-a-porter, asos, topshop online, brandneusense and yoox.

Southern Accents <3

2007-05-13T19:43:20Z

Jen got into business school! Fricking awesome news- she'll be sticking around here in Manchester!

I wrote a long post about Matthew McConaughey's short arms, and LOST, but after reading it over, it was mainly just articulated drooling. So, in conclusion: The Wedding Planner made me cry, like most films featuring Matthew McConaughey [I refuse to believe he's gay, it would just ruin it for me] and therefore I am a total softie [gogo image], and men from the Southern States of America are hot [Sawyer's accent + sexy appearance = win.]

Apart from

Sleepy Hollow at 9pm on E4. Again, Johnny Depp is from the Southern States. I think I'd better book that holiday.

frustratesedate @ 2006-12-18T03:13:00

2006-12-18T03:17:42Z

I know I resolved to write more, but I haven't. Thus, I SUCK.

Not that many of you noticed anyway ;D

Gregory proposed to me last night...

...

...

...THAT we move to Oxford.

I said hell yes.

The reason I'm up so late is that I'm jobhunting.

Why do so many employers want me to have two referees? If I don't put a tutor down, it's obvious I slacked, and if I do put a tutor down, well, here's the kind of reference I get:

"Fa is very lazy, never turned up, never handed in anything on time, never really bothered, but by some miracle managed to get a 2:1, and therefore is an undeserving little sod."

But more eloquently, with more polysyllabic words.

And probably not "sod."

>_>

ERM.

What is everybody doing? I can't trawl through months on end of LJ stuff, so if you could update me here, I'd like, love you.

I saw The Pogues last night. They were wicked. Although, unsurprisingly, I couldn't decipher 99% of what Shane McGowan was saying.

sad things have to happen sometimes.

2006-07-28T13:28:42Z

random update.

i'm just feeling pretty low, really.

somebody who i considered my best friend in first and most of second year appears to want nothing to do with me anymore and i have no idea why. i've been trying to meet up with this person all year, but he never seems to want anything to do with me anymore - he has a new circle of friends, some of whom i know for a fact dislike me, and, despite multiple "let's do something" agreements over my final year in oxford, he always managed to cancel or "get sick". so i wrote a facebook message a few days ago, saying that i was sad that we'd never got to see each other before i left and that his friendship had meant a lot to me. did i get a reply? nope.

i just can't see how people can be so hurtful, and change so much. he obviously isn't the same person i was best friends with two years ago. i hate losing friends that mean so much to me, and i hate that i can't just let it go without getting ridiculously upset.

frustratesedate @ 2006-07-13T12:54:00

2006-07-13T12:03:29Z

SOOOOO i've not been online because my phone line went funny in the lightning storms t'other weekend, but I have surprisingly little to update people on apart from the biggie that I GOT A 2:1! And nobody was more shocked than I. Except perhaps Lucy, who told me her future advice to students is to see as little as possible of her ;)

But yeah, life is good and it's my sister's birthday tomorrow so may well drag myself out to fifth ave. Ho-hum.

After a week of relative boredom, i've been inundated with invitations out. i'm poor dammit =[

also my itunes is refusing to open =\ this displeases me.

congrats to everybody else who's got their results! due to massive backlog i've not had chance to check everybody's pages, but i've checked everybody who's got results and well done! everybody appears to have done grand =)

frustratesedate @ 2006-06-19T01:46:00

2006-06-19T00:55:59Z

Thought I'd write a quickie-ish update as i've not written one in ages, and yeah...like...yeah...

Saw the Goo Goo Dolls in London avec ma soeur. It was fricking fantastic, and we saw Robbie and John (separately) hanging around before the gig. I swear, that Rzeznik is actually the sexiest man on the planet, aside from being one of the best frontmen in the verrrld.

SO the setlist, for those of you that like those things:
Stay With You
Slide
Feel The Silence
Big Machine
Black Balloon
Smash
Tucked Away
We'll Be Here (When You're Gone)
Iris
January Friend
Broadway
Better Days
Listen
Without You Here
Let Love In
Become
Give A Little Bit

Although it was possibly the best gig i've ever been to, it wasn't the best gig i could have ever been to. if that makes any sense. they could have played MORE. and actually something from "A Boy Named Goo" or "Superstar Carwash". I mean, I know they had an album to promote and all, but bah!

Not really been upto much as i've been feeling a bit ill recently, blah blah blaaah and most Manchester friends are either still in term (yup, rncm doesn't finish til JULY insania) or are dahhhh saaaarf. going to reading for the first weekend of july for one of felix's mammoth parties though, so will get to see him and my beloved coop. how i miss her =[ and everybody else. home is boring.

i've brushed out all the backcombing in my hair, and about half of my hair came out with it. i feel bald and flat of head. don't like it.

job interview tomorrow at airtours for a role as a commercial analyst. i would like the job because HI AMAZING BENEFITS PACKAGE (including CHEAP holidays - seriously, like 50quid for a week's break) and HI MONEY. but i'm also not too bothered because the salary isn't that amazing (14-15k), and it's in Rochdale. ew. also, i know absolutely nothing about finances. so it looks highly unlikely that i'll get it. OH WELLLL.

HOW IS EVERYBODY ELSE?

LOVE TO MA PHILIPPE.

as for me, i am watercolour. i wash off.

2006-06-02T23:45:27Z

i have been verrrrry quiet of late. oh goshlings. oh i like that phrase, it's very twee, i shall use it more in current conversation.

SO i finished last week, it were great, we all got drunk, but i was so tired from my night of hard revision that i left the cellar after about 30 minutes and came home to bed! NICE ONE. weekend was spent ill so i couldn't see anybody that i wanted to see, but i think they all understood.

monday was my last night in oxford and i couldn't have asked for a better send-off - a few of my favourite people (and their favourite people) came over to mine, we drank, headed to the pt, fi, joe and i ended up at felix's, and then at mine, throwing waffles out of windows and erm i woke up to answer the door to my parents who had assumed that 3 of us had been in bed together, with pizza on my forehead.

it was a weird night.

i cried on tuesday.

big brother is soooo good.

goo goo dolls tomorrow - but that means i r missing teh party of martin. siberia with steph on wednesday.

my sister may start dating a guy older than me - nick griffin who actually dated my best friend at school, whilst we were at school. HOW ODD.

so it looks like i'm back in bury life. it's odd.

frustratesedate @ 2006-05-25T02:40:00

2006-05-25T01:43:35Z

SOOOO i am on the caffeine in a wholehearted attempt to revise, well there's no real RE about it so rather i'm attempting to VISE, the Romantics.

i'm going SO slowly, it's not even funny. thank god for pro+ and diet coke.

i think because it's the last exam, i have all this motivation to get the work done, just not done QUICKLY.

(gets skates on)

IN LESS THAN 10 HOURS I WILL (hopefully) BE A GRADUATE!

frustratesedate @ 2006-05-19T13:22:00

2006-05-19T12:25:21Z

didn't have time to revise jonson last night and had a semi-breakdown.

only had half an hour's sleep.

but the exam was surprisingly fine.

am well pissed off i didn't get to do jonson as a satirist though BECAUSE IT CAME UP. i managed to work in my eloquence essay though to a completely inappropriate question.

i have a horrible feeling i didn't specify, with my last question (which was a pile of tripe), whether i was doing part a and b. and as they are similar i'm a bit worried, so i'm ringing college for help soon.

god i am so tired.

and WHY are all the exams that i've expected to be DIRE turning out only semi-dire? and WHY did the one i expected be able to do turn out to be horrific?

WHAT IS WRONG WITH THE WORLD?

jesus where the fuck is my pro plus?

2006-05-18T14:53:24Z

WEEEEELL commentary wasn't too bad, although i traditionally fucked up my timing so my first one was double the length of the second. d'oh. luckily it's not a case that the second one was abysmally short, the first was just really really long.

i have so much to do today i may actually die - read several jonson plays, noting violence / the comic (satire & festival wooo =\), go over blason and learn some quotes for that, revise religion.

OH JOY.

and i've only had like one hour's sleep. ballllls.

but i MUST NOT SLEEP until i've done jonson.

woohooo i've found the pro plus. all is not lost.

frustratesedate @ 2006-05-18T02:44:00

2006-05-18T01:49:23Z

today's exam was much better than yesterday's thank fuck.

although i was late and sauntered in as everybody else was opening their booklets. hahaha.

came back, pissed about, SLEPT FOR FIVE HOURS, pissed about some more and am currently going through my texts just so i'm aware where things ARE within the texts so i can contextualise them in commentary tomorrow.

i was looking at old commentary papers, and apparently, people used to have to translate middle english passages into idiomatic current english. i well would have preferred to do that.

i'm so glad it's nearly the end of the week, after tomorrow's exam i will have done the three exams i was most worried about (theory, and the two middle englishes), and surprisingly they are the ones that have gone, well not so much okay as NOT AWFULLY.

i'm actually weirdly looking forward to next week's papers =\

NOT looking forward to renaissance on friday though as i've not done anywhere near enough. fuck fuck FUCK. i need to learn representations of the female body, religion AND read jonson's plays and learn about those. ah gash gash gash.

frustratesedate @ 2006-05-15T20:43:00

2006-05-15T19:50:21Z

SO it was the first final exam today.

It wasn't absolutely horrific.

Hopefully I'll get more sleep before Shakespeare. Whoever decided it was a good idea to put exams every morning FIVE DAYS IN A ROW needs a serious smack.

Oh well, soon it will be over and I can get really REALLY drunk.

Today I have done an exam, gone to tesco, read More! magazine, slept [having only had 2 and a half hours last night due to too much caffeine] and watched the Monday 90 minute soap-a-thon.

Ben in Eastenders is such a little tosser, I hope Courtney knocks his block off.

Now for the Moors Murders programme. I'm such a good finalist, me.

God, I cannot wait til Friday afternoon, and four blissful days of non-exams [or four nasty days of revision, depending on how you look at it.]

frustratesedate @ 2006-05-13T22:25:00

2006-05-13T21:34:56Z

SO instead of going out and shooby-doo-wopping with most of you lovely people, what am I doing instead? Revising? NO. I had a sleep. And now it's nearly half ten. So I really should get on with something. Oh the joy - for paper one I'm doing genre, standard & non-standard english, and english as a literary language.

how exciting.

this has, otherwise, been an okay week, apart from dislocating my knee on monday, which still fricking wrecks. narc on wednesday was, as usual, dead good, made even more so by the loverly company that dragged me out - i.e. het &dewi.

does anybody know if it will be acceptable for me to wear a blank tank over my white shirt, sub-fusc wise?

even though i don't know anywhere NEAR enough, i'm actually getting quite "bring-it-on" about finals. roll on monday. [i'm actually in total denial - if i stopped to think about the severity of the situation, i would probably throw myself out of the window. denial is a preferable state.]

if i eat any more pineapple, i may become one.

frustratesedate @ 2006-05-08T14:35:00

2006-05-08T13:44:05Z

this weekend was a bit strange.

hmmmmmmm.

saw suitable case for treatment on friday - they were fucking immense. then went to somerville bop [and reminisced about gill's birthday bop in 2nd year], but didn't hang around to get pissed in indie corner because i was stressed about, well, everything, and le coop and i headed back to new and chilled out. and ranted about life.

i can't remember what i did on saturday. oh yes. greg and i rambled into town, harrassed laura in lush for a bit, she gave us lots of free stuff [i love the flying fox. SO MUCH]. in the evening i zombied up because i was so bored:

kim called yesterday - i miss her sooo much! but she's coming to leeds fest with our crew now. awesome.

last night was really funny, greg and i just randomly decided to get ratted in his room, and somehow we managed to waste like almost 5 hours. we're going to vegas together in october. i have visions of us getting drunk and actually getting married. i will never find a better husband, i suppose.

i must get on with stuff - i told jen i'd be at hers half an hour ago. oops. and tonight le coop and i are going to dance away our troubles and i get to see my brooksies. wooooo.

OH AND I'M WELL PISSED OFF CUZ HOT CHIP ARE PLAYING ON MONDAY AND THERE'S NO WAY IN HELL I CAN GO.

fucking finals.

hear her calling.

2006-05-03T23:25:01Z

saturday = boat party. it was a lot more fun than i expected, although due to wearing my ridiculously high shoes that i usually reserve for narc and therefore lack of drinking, there was much falling over. my knee still hurrrrts. i'm a birrova gimp.

gayve came up on sunday and we spent most of the day together. i left him to go and get a shower and stuff, and returned to him two hours later to find him practically paraletic. he passed out in bc's room. OOPS. because it was throwing it down and therefore mud was guaranteed in port meadow, tj and i went to the pt. the team girl was out in force, plus lots of the brooksies that i'd not seen in ages.

vertigo last night was fricking immense. bit empty towards the end which was a shame, because felix & tj's set was awesome. not that i had influenced their choice of songs at all, cough... it was a fairly dramatic night, including some girl tongue-raping me [and i mean against my will] in the ladies. NOICE =\

today i went to reading. and decided that i actually really like reading.

frustratesedate @ 2006-04-29T01:44:00

2006-04-29T00:51:17Z

the last few days have been awesome. they just have...i don't usually feel this content...!?

thursday = the horrors. the slits & the ivories were also good, but the horrors are damn amazing. then we dashed to the cellar for the last hour. it was a really good night.

twas bc's birthday today (and my dad's) and we had a party at new and got a little happy.

tomorrow = boat party avec le coop. sunday = brief outing with gayve and do a fuckload of work.

i'm fucked off because my ipod has gone insane and now when i turn it on i get a bizarre ipod/exclamation point icon.

i hate fights. especially when fighting gives the impression to the fightee that you give a damn, as opposed to being somebody who, simply, likes to win arguments.

i miss my ensuite. at least it's seb living there, i.e. a friend of mine as opposed to some person i could actually bitch about and feel little remorse.

i heart the new tbs. ennit.

i'm generally confused about everything and everybody. at least you livejournally people don't [on the whole] cause me any stress =]

i have utilised sentences that commence with "i" far too often in this entry . therefore, i conclude that i am self-obsessed. oh well, somebody's gotta be.

frustratesedate @ 2006-04-20T08:11:00

2006-04-20T07:12:40Z

just a quickie to say phone is up and running - got a 7360 in the end, in coffee brown as they didn't have my sex phone anymore at orange full stop. have the same number, but haven't managed to transfer all the numbers yet, so if you text me and i'm like "who is this?", that's why.

revision going ok.

am in the cutest room ever in isis. IT HAS A SLOPED CEILING. but i miss my ensuite. greg is now in isis too. best thing ever? almost. we could have been neighbours if durface here hadn't requested a "quiet" room.

cellar tonight. yurrrhuh.

frustratesedate @ 2006-04-19T02:54:00

2006-04-19T02:12:16Z

Tonight I have written two entries.

And deleted them both before posting them.

I obviously have a lot to say. Hmm.

Back in Oxshite now. Want to go back to Manchester, to nice clubs, cheaper beer, and pretty boys.

OH MY PHONE IS BROKEN. SO IF ANYBODY'S TRIED CALLING OR TEXTING ME TODAY - I HAVE NO IDEA THAT YOU'VE DONE THAT SO COMMENT ME, OR CATCH ME ON MSN OR MYSPACE / FACEBOOK. hopefully getting a new one tomorrow, if oxford orange have it in.

frustratesedate @ 2006-04-11T14:12:00

2006-04-11T13:26:28Z

le weekend was fabulous. greg, bc, ben and i went to plastic surgery at the late lounge, and it were greeaaaat. some random guy bought us ALL drinks, even the boys.

photos to follow on facebook.

watched "the rules of attraction" on sunday - amazing film, i must read the book.

bc and i saw orlando bloom in town yesterday, near paperchase. we got very excited.

my WOW subscription is currently run out, i can't update it until student loan day, which is friday, and then i'm back in oxford on tuesday, so there is no real point.

i discovered today that MAC is available online, this pleases me.

tomorrow [hopefully] i am acquiring my new phone [thank you orange upgrades] - I r getting the nokia 7370:

wooo!

2006-04-08T04:15:53Z

so... matt, bc and i are watching films, at 3am, my mobile goes off.

it's greg. cue crazy plans for him to come to mine as soon as transport starts, seeing as we live in the same county and all! He'll be arriving in 2 hours XD

today is going to be a good day: we're all meeting up with jen & adam, then going shopping in town, then going out to Plastic Surgery at Life Cafe. Should be fuuuuuuuun!

il caccciatore

2006-04-07T09:56:54Z

BC is arriving any minute yayyyy!

We're not going to The Smiths night, we're going out into town probably tomorrow- maybe to Smile, or 42s instead, so if anybody fancies it, get in touch!

Instead the evening is going to be a horrorfest! And Matt's coming over too - I've not seen him in like FOREVER. I'm trying to get hold of Jen but we keep missing each other - so if you're reading this - answer your phone! Or call me ;]

Placebo on Wednesday was amazing. There are no other words. I loved the slow rendition of 36 degrees especially. Philip and I almost froze to death in Blackpool. I decided that for all it's tackiness, I want to go to Blackpool for a day. I must visit my Greg.

My mum was in our tesco yesterday, and a boy from our old neighbourhood who had a big crush on me when we were 16 works there now. Apparently he's become "absolutely gorgeous". This I have to see...oh what's that, I'm out of milk? I'd better ~~get ready, showered, made up &~~ nip to tesco ;]

frustratesedate @ 2006-03-27T01:00:00

2006-03-27T00:07:15Z

I hate that our wireless router is being a complete and utter twat.

Greg and I have found an even better way to waste time...by playing World of Warcraft TOGETHER. HURRAH.

Apart from that I'm just really REALLY bored. Everybody keeps having birthdays & parties when I'm in Manchester - be born later, dammit.

Got my bank balance yesterday... nowhere NEAR as bad as I feared. Still not good, but my ole friend ebay will sort that soon enough. I hope.

I may watch the Thundercats film [original, on VHS, none of this shitty "emo" omgz i remember the 80s tv programmes they were SO COOL even though i was born in like 1990 or somet] in bed...

What a rivoting entry this has been. The highlight of my ensuing 24 hours is EASTENDERS HOUR LONG EPISODE WITH GRANT. GRANT GRANT GRANT.

Apparently somebody tried to break into our house a few weeks ago when my brother was in. My dog went psychotic at him and the teenager ran screaming down the street. Hahahahaha. For those of you that have not heard about my dog, I'll just say this: "dog" is a loose term. "Bear" would be more accurate. My brother went to the door and hurled abuse at the teenager: "Come and try that again, ya scrubber! I DARE YA!"

My brother is a duuuude.

I have panic!atthedisco in my head. shoot me now.

hilary duff was much prettier before she had those veneers put in.

2006-03-23T00:59:12Z

oh it's great to be home. with my family and my pets ~~and world of warcraft~~.

this holiday should be nice, apart from all the stressful revision, or, considering the problems i had with my health last year, all the "vision". There is no "re" about it. However, it's going to be a fairly sociable holiday- i'm hopefully seeing matt at the weekend if he's not too busy, lozza and i are supposed to meet up, steph charlie b. and i are going out over easter to create havoc in town, i'm seeing placebooo with philippe, jen's coming up next week to stay and felix is going to be visiting some friend in manchester hopefully so we should get to see him, and bc's coming to stay with me the week after, and greg is ascending upon me at some point too, and i'm going to blackpool to see him. and go on the pleasure beach. hahahaha. And i'm supposed to be going to chloe's birthday on saturday, but i don't really feel upto it... I need to RSVP, I've just realised. oh it's a social whirlwind.

i need to ebay stuff. as in, actually take pictures and upload them instead of hoping that the items will do a disney's "sleeping beauty" style come-to-arms and sort themselves out.

this was a completely pointless post. oh well.

i cannot wait for eastenders. grant is coming back grant is coming back oh i love him so !

frustratesedate @ 2006-03-18T17:06:00

2006-03-18T17:11:03Z

saved! is a wonderful film. i adore macaulay culkin. he's such an oddball.

given the "success" of my last entry, i am saving my bizarre artistic deviations for deviantART. are any of you members? i only have one piece up at the moment, as i don't really want to put up my old stuff. if anybody wants to read it, you can reply / msn me, and i'll send you the link, but i'm not going to stick it up on livejournal because 1. i don't think it's particularly good and 2. i don't really want the world and his wife looking.

jen is going to cook mexican for me, adam and jess tonight. mmmmm.

i should be reading, not discussing the finer points of slash and boarding schools on msn.