Colossal

goblinredeyes @ 2006-07-20T10:11:00

2006-07-20T09:15:48Z

Hello! This will be my last entry here for a while. Why? Well in honour of my year in Iceland, I decided to start a whole new journal to chart my experience. It can be found here: http://lifandi.travellerspoint.com/
Obviously I'm not there yet, but I can updae my progress towards ny dream...soon, for example, I should be able to tell you my address in Reykjavik when my landlord replies to me.

Bless bless!

goblinredeyes @ 2006-06-01T20:52:00

2006-06-01T19:54:17Z

Ok, I don't really update any more no, but this is just to post details of an event:

My birthday BBQ, Saturday 10th June, 7pm, Sandsfoot beach.
Bring anything you like (within reason).

There, now I have somewhere to direct everyone when I send out a mass text.

goblinredeyes @ 2005-11-18T11:15:00

2005-11-18T11:27:55Z

Lots of things have been happening, some good, some bad! I could probably write several small essays on each, but for your easy digestion and to prevent your eyes from going square perhaps I'll just present the information in some kind of list.

The Good:
- Nick n Jo came to see me, which was FAB! Very comforting, and a lot of fun. Tho we all almopst died from overtipped fireworks
- I went to see Elbow and they were amazing, the second-best band I've ever seen live (after the Manics of course). I also discovered I have a tendancy to fall in love with lead singers during concerts no matter how ugly/sweaty/old they are
- Me n Will joined the latin dancing society and attend classes weekly. It's great - really energising and fun
- I went home to visit Ree for her birthday, and it was really comfy and eay being back, despite the long commute
- Will is cute
- This is the last day of my last 24-hour week. Next week: only 18 hours!

The Bad:
^ Work is a whole heap of gay, but I'm a sucker for money
^ I had an exam which sucked
^ I did a presentation which sucked
^ I have a whole heap of work to do before I can enjoy Christmas

The Ugly:
The Sandford-Road bug is in fact some food poisoning that's been lurking in Harry's body since he came back from Thailand in the summer. He had bugs in his bum. But he's better now!

I'm really looking forward to Christmas now, I mean, I'm trying not to get caught up in the whole early Christmas thing, but it'll be nice to see my bro again and to spend one last family Christmas in my home, I really want it to be special.

Well I better foxtrot oscar, I'm sitting in the Earth Sciences department and there are people doing actual work all around me :-/

Buh bye for now!

goblinredeyes @ 2005-10-28T17:12:00

2005-10-28T16:41:00Z

Here I am, second year of university, and yeah, it's tough. I have a 24-hour week, and now with two extra tutorials every other week, plus assignments etc. But that's only because I'm doing 4 units in the first 6 weeks...it gets less after that luckily.

I got a complete breakdown of my marks for level 1 the other day, and they've now started doing this thing where for each unit they give you your rank out of all the students that took that unit.
This was a bad thing to do for me. Why? Well, as you may have observed I am actually horribly horribly competitive. How did I do? I did get one 1/55 for the Easter field class to Arran, which is pretty good really, shows I have great field skills or something But they also give you your ranking for all the units. For geology I was 19/73 and for environmental geoscience I was 7/65, which is pretty good. But I have the misfortune of being the friend of one Thomas Griffiths, who was 2/73 in geology and 1/65 in geoscience. I mean, that's seriously amazing! How can I compete with that this year? Why couldn't I be friends with someone a bit dimmer? Curses!

Well, now I have that out of my system...
My house is lovely lovely and my housemates are cool and my room has a pretty blue sink and I bought this totally gorgeous Indian Tree of Life throw which I've hung up behind my bed, and Hotwells is a completely marvellous area juuuust next to the river...
Except I think our house is cursed! So far the list of problems are such:
1. On the first night, me and Sarah had to re-pressurise the boiler with a spatula
2. The radiator in the bathroom didn't work, and when a man came round to fix it he said there was a gas leak in our boiler and we could've all died
3. Reception is crap
4. The washing machine blew a fuse, and then a replacement fuse mid-wash. This led to several things -
a) Me and Sarah had to take our clothes out and rinse them in the bath when they were all soapy
b) The 2 blown fuses meant that it was something inside the machine that was faulty, so we had to call someone out
c) It was a week before he could come
d) When he did come, the problem couldn't be fixed, so we had to order a new washing machine, which took a few days to come
e) I had to handwash my underwear in the intervening period, and buy extra socks
5. There's a mysterious Sandford-Road-Bug going around, all but Sarah have suffered and she felt dodgy yesterday. Vomitting, diarrhoea, that kind of thing. Although, it may be unfair to blame the house, Harry just might've bought back some tropical disease from Thailand.

Mind you, having said all that, I would still like people to visit me!!

Oh yeah, my mum's bought another house.
Don't worry, it's not as ridiculously in-the-sticks as the last one, and it doesn't have a horror-movie-scene dirt track leading up to it as it either. And it looks a decent size.
It's actually off Dorchester Road, near the turn-off to Nottington (so that the back garden actually backs on to fields), so I'll still be around.
That doesn't mean I'm not upset of course, I'll still miss number 26 like crazy. I can cope now, but on moving day I have no idea what's gonna happen to me, my stiff upper lip trembles now just thinking about that house being empty of all our things, all my life.
Don't cry Hayley, you're such a baby!

Anyway, enjoy your halloween my pretties. Oh, I don't know if I'm going to be able to come home at all this term because I'm working weekends at the Argos here now, and I already had to take a day off for the Sandford-Road-Bug, and I'm one of those people that's normally too shy to ask.

Miss you, whoever you are!

goblinredeyes @ 2005-10-01T14:26:00

2005-10-01T13:29:25Z

Back off to uni tomorrow! I have no idea when we'll get our asses round to settin the internet up, so ifya wanna get hold of me, er text me! I do have a house phone but I dunno what the number is yet....

So, er...Seeya when I seeya!

Hope your summer's were great.

goblinredeyes @ 2005-09-13T19:54:00

2005-09-13T19:22:20Z

I'm not quite sure what to say, except...Mum and Dad have decided to turn down The house in Warmwell! Thank goodness for that, it really was a very silly place. Sorry to all those I took along that track and half-scared the life outta you. God knows what wretched place my mother'll pick next, but I can rest a little easy knowing it won't be for a little while yet.
One day I will have to leave the comfort of this room, but not yet.

I had another dream about dancing last ngiht, I don't mean any sort of dancing, I mean my old ballet school. I did it for so long, about 12 years, but it still never seemed a real important part of my life. But there's something in me somewhere that must really miss it, I've had so many vivid dreams, and I think the oddest thing about them is that they all contain somebody from my life as it is now, who I didn't know while dancing. I want to pihrroette!

I've got interested in a couple of things lately that could be seen as 'jumping on the bandwagon', but were actually quite by my own making. For example the cricket, lots of people watched it because we had a chance of winning, but I came into about the third test because, well my parents went away so I spent a lot of time in the living room playing crib with my brother with the cricket on in the background. As it was there I became interested. I knew quite a bit about the rules anyway (more than some foo's who didn't even know what an lbw was or what was meant by 126-4), but asked my brother lots more and got real interested.
But no, they won, so I'm a sheep like the rest of Britain who'll forget about it as soon as they did the rugby victory...!
Still, I am thrilled the team managed to reclaim the Ashes, it was a brilliant moment to watch, when Vaughn lifted that tiny trophy, leapt in the air, and the crowd roared...
The second bandwagon I apparently leapt upon with swiftest ease is that of the musical outfit Antony and the Johnsons, who recently won the Mercury Music Prize. Actually, Will's roommate played us one of the tracks months ago and I became haunted by it, not really knowing what it was and really beyond hope of finding it with only a rough tune and a beautiful voice to go by. But, it happened to be that very song that they decided to perform on the eve of the Mercury Prize giving, to which I shouted at the TV "That's it!!" The album is now in my possession.
Oh, by the way, the song was 'Hope There's Someone' by Antony and the Johnsons. Get it now. From anywhere, I don't care, just get it, you deserve to have your spine tingled by his astounding voice.

I want to go back to Uni, right now! I'm beginning to comfort-buy Things to stave the boredom. Plus I realised the other day while on the Collection counter that 'I'd rather stab this person than serve them.'

goblinredeyes @ 2005-09-02T19:30:00

2005-09-02T18:33:25Z

I haven't been sleeping properly lately, I keep waking up.
Had a strange dream last night, that my mother had a baby and forgot all about me and my brother. Ok, it's not that weird, it's a pretty obvious metaphor where 'baby' means 'new house'.
Hm, went to the beach for the first time all holidays, down to sandfoot. Was good until it thunderstormed the hell out of us. But it was all good (wet) fun! And now it's september, so that'll probably be my last visit too.

goblinredeyes @ 2005-08-28T22:59:00

2005-08-28T22:01:55Z

A short update just to say, anyone free Wednesday??

Grab your towels, inflatables and bathing suit! Me n Will were thinkin we could all hit sandsfoot beach, it's nice and secluded and pretty and we can run around and make havoc and maybe have a BBQ in the eve, it'll be great.

Lemme know if you can come! Weather report looks good.

goblinredeyes @ 2005-08-11T22:43:00

2005-08-11T22:01:04Z

Well, that's that then.
I'm moving house.
I'm not sure when yet, but some people have accepted my mum's offer on a house in Warmwell, and my mum's accepted someone's offer on our house, so the ball is rolling.
All there is now is all the legal stuff, then it'll be moving time.

I don't want to go I don't want to go, I don't want to go a thousand times I don't want to go!

I live here.

I've always lived here.

I can't live in a room where the bed isn't walled on 3 sides, the drafts drove me mad at uni.
My toes were so cold!
I'll have to live in a loft room...how am I gunna put all the things hanging in my room on sloped walls?
It's the little things that really stick out like that.

I don't wanna live in Warmwell, it's so far away from everyone, and Will, I won't live round the road from him, we won't be able to meet on the corner and go for walks in the park until stupid o'clock when he'd walk me home and linger on the doorstep.

I don't wanna live out in the country with just fields around, might sounds nice, but I'm too young for all that, I barely get to spend any time down here with my Weymouth friends as it is let alone being a 20-minute drive from everyone.

I love this house.
I've lived here all my life.
My entire life.
Even when I was a feotus.

goblinredeyes @ 2005-08-04T19:57:00

2005-08-04T19:13:15Z

Ahh it's been a really nice couple of days, not stunning amazing days, but days that are just different enough from the daily grind to make you feel nice n easy.

Yesterday I weren't workin till 1 so I went into town with my bro which was nice, mooched for a bit, bought a new indie compilation CD, a good 'un.
Then went to work and spent the last stint in the stockroom on my own so I put on my new CD and sang along at the top of my voice.
And it was Will and I's 6th month anniversary, so he was waiting outside ARG with a fat bunch of roses, which was nice =) N we went to the Sea View and I had my favourite meal and we went to the beach and looked at eachother lovingly for a while before going to the cinema to watch a silly film and walked home to put the roses in some water.

Today we went on a family walk around Portland. I don't just mean we wondered around a bit, we circumnavigated the circumference of the Isle, which was quite pleasant, was a good outing. Took some nice pictures, chatted a lot with my bro.
Then went into town and got a tattoo, jus a itty bitty recycling symbol on my right hip. I'd show pics but Will has my digicam! Soon my friends, tho by then you'd all've seen it anyway.

Ahh I'm off to float around somewhere.

goblinredeyes @ 2005-07-18T23:48:00

2005-07-18T23:12:35Z

Gosh! An entry.

The summer has simply proceeded lazily, ah'm workin back at Argos and when I'm not doin that I'm chillin with baby-blue-eyes himself or my lurvely laydees.
The only problem with life being okay is that there's nothing really much to look forward to! The nearest thing I can think of is my 'rents goin t'Canada for a coupla weeks, tho I can't quite remember when they're goin, end of august I think.

Gunna buy a new phone at the end of the week, jus a cheap camera phone coz some of the buttons are goin duff on my old one. Mobile phones are crazy, the new one I want is cheaper than my old one was, even with a camera. And they just aren't built to last these days, the ealier models were but nowadays it's such a throwaway market that my last two fones have only lasted a matter of months.
Rubbish.

I wish I could go back in time. With all the people that must think that on a daily basis, why haven't any of them invented a time machine?

goblinredeyes @ 2005-06-14T00:43:00

2005-06-14T00:00:05Z

Ahh what a cool day. Well, I say cool, actually it was pretty hot. Ree had a rare day off so we decided to spend the day chillin. Went down to check out the new fish in mah pond and ended up chattin for 2 hours there.
Problem was, we both got painfully sunburnt.
I blame my mum for not having any sun-tan lotion. Well, ok, me n Ree jus didn't realise how long we'd been out there in the midday sun. With all the mad dogs.
But still it was relaxing and fun ya know, and soon it'll be time to get the Quail out again and camp it up in the garden.

Hello British Summer!

goblinredeyes @ 2005-06-09T19:10:00

2005-06-09T18:11:21Z

It's my birthday tomorrow!

For those of you who didn't get my text...tomorrow, 6.20-30 at the Gurkha. Yum!

goblinredeyes @ 2005-05-24T14:00:00

2005-05-24T13:01:33Z

I hate those stupid sodding long survey quiz things, I HATE THEM!

You always read something you didn't want to know.

Something about the election

2005-05-06T13:32:20Z

Hm, it was fun to vote, I got really interested in it, as I think everyone should! And just to show you make a difference, I voted in my area in Bristol for Lib Dem and they won the seat from Labour, jackpot! And Labour beat the Cons in Weymouth, nice.
Sure Lib Dems didn't win the whole thing, but nobody expects that. But then, nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition...

Oh, and I do have glandular fever, gay!

goblinredeyes @ 2005-05-04T16:19:00

2005-05-04T15:43:30Z

Blimey that was my last entry? Forever ago!

The speech I had to present 'tomorrow' was a roaring success and our group won with the best presentation which I gave all by myself, but if I start to feed my ego it'll spiral out of control and devour you all so I'll move on...

Easter was pretty spiffing, saw some ol' chums and a couple o bands, namely British Sea Power and the wonderful brilliant excellent Manic Street Preachers...ahh! This gig, in terms of musicality and performance was even better than the last (tho nothing can compare to the euphoria of seeing your favourite band live for the first time). It was labelled a 'Greatest Hits' tour, which was basically an excuse to play whatever the hell they wanted, which was a very good thing in my opinion. They played some absolute beauties; opening with Of Walking Abortion, filling the crowd's lungs with The Everlasting, tearing at our souls with 4st7. I think the highlight tho was a first-half-acoustic second-half-in-your-face-all-guns-blazing rendition of Archives of Pain. And on personally, when they surprisingly played a bit of a fave of mine, the angsty teenage anthem The Girl Who Wanted to be God. And Roses in the Hospital. Sublime!

Then to the Scottish Isle of Arran. It was ok, they worked us seriously hard for one little week, but I got one of the top 5 marks and well...it was nice being in the great outdoors ya know? I love being muddy and not really caring about it. And it makes you feel like you deserve that shower/cheesecake/drink in the bar all the more. Course there were some high-japes but I wouldn't want to mention Tom voluntarily dressing up in my PJs would I? That'd be cruel.
(Some beautiful, and some disturbing, Arran pics http://photobucket.com/albums/v14/Colossal/Arran/ )

Things were goin well then, back to uni, doin some revision, great. Until some time just over a week ago I began to get a bit of a cold. This esculated somewhat.
Things I haven't done in a week:
Eaten anything near my Recommended Daily Allowance of anything
Slept for anywhere near the recommended 8 hours a night
Breathed through my nose
Walked for more than 10 minutes at time without feeling the need to sit/lie down
Tasted or smelt anything except mucus.

Nice! Went to the Doc last week, got diagnosed with tonsillitis, yummy. Chomped down 40 penicillin tablets with no affect. Went back to Docs yesterday. He says:
"You've either got a very resistant strain of tonsillitis....oooorrr glandular fever. Take a blood test!"
One pin-prick later and I'm sittin in my flat swallowing 9 new tablets a day and waiting on the results.
The good news tho was I got a sacred Doctor's note which means I can escape boring/difficult practicals and lectures, and that my lack of health will be considered alongside my exam result, hurrah!

Being ill makes me want to go home tho, to see my mum and my friends, people who really know and care about me. Bristol's still a little alien I guess!

Yes, well, that is all.

goblinredeyes @ 2005-03-14T13:48:00

2005-03-14T13:58:05Z

DATE..............TIME.....HOURS..UNIT
17 May 2005....14:15....3.........EASC-10002B /Environmental Geoscience 1
18 May 2005....14:15....3.........MATH-48A /Mathematics 1ES: Paper 1
19 May 2005....14:15....1.30.....MATH-48B /Mathematics 1ES: Paper 2
24 May 2005....09:30....3.........EASC-10001A /Geology 1
25 May 2005....09:30....3.........EASC-10001B /Geology 1
27 May 2005....09:30....2.........EASC-10002A /Environmental Geoscience 1

There it is, 15 n half hours of exams packed into 6 days...fun!

Well, I'm back for Easter this saturday, but it looks as if I won't have nay time for fun, must make a revision timetable...

I keep meaning to make proper eloquent entires and write things about how beautiful the crocuses are and how cruel it is that staring at the sun is prohibited, but I think I'm suffering from 'end of term fatigue', a general unwillingness to move brought about by the lack of half-terms.

Nevertheless, I'm feeling slightly wordy today, might write a sonnet, or just work on the speech I have to present tomorrow.

Adeui!

goblinredeyes @ 2005-03-05T19:54:00

2005-03-05T20:09:11Z

It's funny how conversations go.
Me n Harry started a conversation about how he puts chilli sauce on everything.
Me: "You musta been created as my opposite cuz I hate all hot stuff"
Harry: "You're as cold as ice"
Me: "You're willing to sacrifice"
Harry: "Ah it's like Never Mind the Buzzcocks. Tho Mark Lamarr's a knob"
Me: "Yeah but he's funny, I mean, Clarkson's a knob but he's still hilarious"
Harry: "Yeah but Clarkson's great coz he likes Isambard Kingdom Brunel"
Me: "I still think Darwin shoulda been the greatest Britain, I mean the concept of evolution is just revolutionary!"
...And so began a debate about life the universe and everything really.
Brilliant!

Otherwise nothing really happens around here, hm, the Queen came to visit (she was wearing a green coat and a black furry hat), it's kinda snowed a bit tho nothing's really settled, been to an Ordinary Boys concert...

Goin to two formals next week, get to dress up in puuuurtey dressies...

Kinda gettin slow now, term ending slowly, feelin sleepy, gettin a cold.
Still, Bristol's a nice place to be, if it weren't for all the work!

goblinredeyes @ 2005-02-03T19:43:00

2005-02-03T19:55:23Z

Stealing from Matt...ruthlessly....

Choose a band/artist and answer only in song TITLES by that band:
Manic Street Preachers (natch)

Are you male or female: Miss Europa disco dancer
Describe yourself: Eating myself from the inside
How do some people feel about you: Drug drug druggy
How do you feel about yourself: Condemned to rock 'n' roll
Describe your ex girlfriend/boyfriend: Damn dog

Describe your current girlfriend/boyfriend: My little empire
Describe where you want to be: Natwest-Barclays-Midlands-Lloyds
Describe what you want to be: S.Y.M.M. (South Yorkshire Mass Murderer)
Describe how you live: Ready for drowning
Describe how you love: Faster
Share a few words of wisdom: Freedom of speech won't feed my children

Heh that was fun...!
Manics update too, they're tourin' again in April! And actually coming to Bristol! But it's the Easter hols, and I'll either be in Arran or Naples...
Buuut I'll go see em in Southampton on the 3rd April, last train back to Weymouth 22:53, should be able to enjoy most of the concert :)

Off to fecking Wales this Sunday for a small field trip.
Weather forecast Rain/snow
Lovely!

I'm scared

2005-01-27T19:35:55Z

I'm scared. Because I've skipped 7 classes in the past two weeks. And I'm not sure if I care or not.
Strange, but I've always done things because I had to and as long as there was a clear direction laid i front of me I accepted it as inevitable. Now...I'm not so sure. I'm not enjoying the course as much as I thought I would.
'Geology allday everyday, wicked!'
But I suppose it's just not the subject I thought it was! It wants me to calculate too much, to be particular and write short answers and draw various graphs. I've lost all enthusiasm.
And I don't wanna do that. I wanna KNOW stuff. I mean, like how and why the deserts are expanding, how salty the oceans are, and just how far we're living beyond our means in a collapsing global climate.

So, really I shouldn't moan, I should just change my course to Environmental Geoscience and get on with it.

_______

In other news, Sarah left Team 51. She wanted to change course but couldn't till next year, so she went home. I'm pretty sad about it, tho she came to visit yesterday, which was nice.
There's a new guy in her room called Bruno; he's Brasilian. He's ok.

I think I'm getting fat.

goblinredeyes @ 2004-12-23T18:10:00

2004-12-23T18:14:39Z

At last! I have passed that comfounding driving test and now the roads, and my mum's car, are mine.
It's all going according to plan...

STOP PRESS!

2004-12-17T20:16:08Z

Mmmm, just got news that the Mnaics gig in Cardiff was postponed till 11th January...and there's tickets on sale...that's a Tuesday...
I could get there, only a 40 minute train journey, and sure, back could be a bit difficult, trains at 22:50, cutting it fine, or like, 4:50am...but...but...Oh god I want to go so much, I mean, Cardiff is their home town...

*sighs dreamily*

goblinredeyes @ 2004-12-17T19:02:00

2004-12-17T20:00:08Z

So how were the Manics?
And why haven't I written about them yet?
Well, the second is explained by the fact that...I have serious Manics withdrawal. I mean, most concerts, I'm like 'Yeah ok, now I'm satisfied, I've seen them. Might go see 'em again if they're in my area, but probably wouldn't amke a special effort'. But after the Manics my thoughts run more like 'I MUST SEE THEM AGAIN OR I'LL DIE!!!' I want to see them again soo much...
Well, for those who're interested (which I know you're all not), the tracklist of 21 songs went like this:
Motorcycle Emptiness
You Love Us
La Tristesse Durera
Faster
Yes
PCP
No Surface All Feeling
Small Black Flowers That Grow in the Sky
Design For Life
Australia
Enola/Alone
If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next
Tsunami
You Stole The Sun From My Heart
1985
Empty Souls
Solitude Sometimes Is
I Live To Fall Asleep
The Love of Richard Nixon
A Song for Departure
Massess Against the Classes

And, how was my brother for company during the gig. Actually, surprisingly good company, better than a lot of stiffs you get surrounded by at concerts. Some times I just feel like screaming "WHY AREN'T YOU MOVING? IF YOU'RE NOT DANCING OR JUMPING YOU'RE CLEARLY NOT AS BIG A FAN AS ME AND I SHOULD BE IN FRONT OF YOU!" But of course I don't, coz I'm a nice girl. But my bro was cool, and the making of my favourite moment. See, the first two lines of the song 'Tsunami' are "For you my dear sister, holding on to me forever", and as James Dean Bradfield sang them, in an extremely rare show of affection my bro actually gave me a hug, ahh!
Ah, JDB, before playing 'Small Black Flowers' you said that Frank Sinatra's harp player strummed on the original recording, and that was the closest you ever got to heaven. Well, sir, your gig was the closest I ever got to heaven.

Enough! raving about the Manics!
What *else* has been happenin'
Well, I've left Team 51 for the winter and returned to dear Weymouth, to the ARG, and to another driving test haha! Although, I did go to Birmingham t'other day to see Sarah B and Tom-Tom and to see Ocean Colour Scene. I mean, I'm not their biggest fan, but they do sing my favourite song ever, so I had to go really, you see. And I wanted to see where Sarah lived and the little flower shop she works in and her mate Stacey (yes he's a guy, no I don't know why his mother called him that) is pretty cute. Hehe!

Hm, I always run out of steam, and kinda say 'yeah, well, text me sometime, err bye'
One more thing though, I'm reading a book called 'How We Can Save the Planet' by Mayer Hillman. It's not hippy-crap, before you say it, it's serious politics and environmental issues, and it may just change my life.

goblinredeyes @ 2004-12-08T20:42:00

2004-12-08T20:44:37Z

Haha! Usually I wouldn't bother to post so many quiz things but htis one definitely deserved a post:


manic street preachers are love
brought to you by the isLove Generator

The Manics are my love of course, one which shall be requited when I go see them on Friday for those of you who haven't been driven mad yet by my excited burblings.

I'm too excited.

It's gonna be the best night.

EVER!

Period.

goblinredeyes @ 2004-11-11T19:18:00

2004-11-11T19:33:46Z

Hmph! Didn't want to do the stupid quiz anyway...

Anyway, an entry!

Uni, how is it really? The social side is fantastic, we go to Propaganda every week (www.thepropaganda.co.uk , some odd pictures of us rockin' out there), Riley's every friday, Subway every wednesday. We watch films, we go to gigs, we go shopping and have lounge parties.
The course? If I'm perfectly honest, which I don't think I have been with anyone yet, I'm not entirely enjoying the geology side of it. Of course the maths is (2x + 3)(4x - 6)(7x + 2) times worse (to the log4), but still. I wish I hadn't done a science...at this level geology is very scientific. There's nothing...to imagine. I dunno, maybe it's just that we've been doing igneous processess, I mean I always enjoyed sedimentary more, cliffs to interpret, climates to guess at and such. But at the moment I wish I was doing, well, geography I think. I could do with writing a good essay. I shoulda gone back to my dream of childhood and been a travel writer.
Well, I'll give it a year...and if it still sucks I'll change. Maybe. I just really want to go to Iceland...

Rant over, gotta mention the highlights, namely the 2 gigs I went to this week, heh! Firstly The Polyphonic Spree on Friday.
These dudes are crazy, but so cool, I wish I'd been right in the thick of it, swaying and singing about growing trees.
"Together we're heavy!"
Then, monday, Mercury Rev. I'll go right ahead and say it, I spent the concert falling in love with the lead singer. I don't know what it was, he was intense but dreamy, with a voice that seemed distant but rained right into your bones. I've just never encountered anyone like him before, I guess I was just enchanted.
The gig was fantastic, I'd love to see them again! Oh, they're on Jools Holland this friday actually, take a peek!

Anyway, I'm home this weekend for Ree-Ree's birthday, lookin forward to it a lot, I miss Weymouth a lot sometimes. No turning back now tho, I'm out in the world!