8 down 6 to go...

I've now done 8 exams and have 6 more to go. This means there is still revising to be done but also that I no longer have to learn Music, English lit (although that was actually o.k), R.E or I.T.
I've still got another Maths, Science, French, English and a Business studies exams to do but I'm feeling o.kish about them aslong as I do some more revision.

I don't really have alot to add, well I think I did but I've forgotten again, my mind is all confused at the moment with all the exams and funny days.

A mini-party, street teaming and a lot of walking, all in 3 days

Friday, I got an invite to a mini party/ get together/ whatever you want to call it, involving a few friends, 2 people I hadn't met before, one of which being rather good looking and alot of drunk people hugging each other. I did get chance to see who was evicted from Big Brother before I went, as despite not wanting to watch it before it started (well apart from Big Brother's big mouth with Russel Brand, obviously ;-D) I have ended up watching and was pleased to see Sezer go out this week.
Saturday- I woke up feeling kind of calm and happy, I opened a package that I had been sent, see that it has next day delivery on it, I'm thinking 'why was it so urgent it got here when I don't need it to the 3rd July?' and therefore decide to check that it was the 3rd July, so I check the email I was sent, that says it is, so I calmed down a little after the intial uh oh feeling but decided to check the venue site just incase. There it says 3rd June. It is the 3rd June. Arghhh! I was supposed to be street teaming for a band called Larrikin Love (who I hadn't actually heard of before I got the email from the site but who were actually quite good) and I wasn't prepared. I had never done it before, I didn't even have a clipboard. So after going dancing and having some lunch and doing some revision as yes there are still 2 weeks of GCSE's left, I go on a shopping trip to buy a clipboard and as I just couldn't resist some skinny black jeans ( I have since tried them on and well they don't look as good on me as they seem to other people IMO soI am yet to decide whether they will be going back). I then went of to visit my nan whilst trying to find someone to come with me to go street teaming and getting a little nervous at the prospect.

A little later on, friends, clipboard, mailing lists and free badges all in the car I was ready, well as ready as I could be having only found out that morning. After a little bit of worry that we weren't going to be allowed in (I hadn't been put on the guestlist as I had been told but when who I think was their tour manager found out we were the street team we were allowed in, free for me and one friend). I was a bit nervous but got into it and when my friends who both smoke deserted me to go to the shop and to smoke various times I was left to actually talk to people by myself, which if you knew how quiet and shy I can be, is scary yet I did it and felt proud of myself and afterall I choose to do it and I wanted to and I did enjoy it and would like to get the chance to do it again. I was a bit dissapointed that my friend deserted me at the end but hey I know to choose someone else to help me if I do get a chance to do it again. *To be continued, It's nearly 11pm y'know *... I think I got quite a few people (about 46) but I haven't done it before and don't know how many people were there, it wasn't completely packed, so don't know if that is good or not. I've now typed them up and sent them pff to the relevant person. It is all run by people on a website's (http://www.ukundercurrent.co.uk) forum which I originally joined so I could be a part of Paolo Nutini's street team although I haven't yet had a chance to do much for apart from ring up for his video on The Hits but I'm hoping I will get to somewhen.

Today, I have completed a 6 mile (I think) sponsered walk for Animal Aid in London.

Tomorow, a maths GCSE which I don't feel prepared for and The Feeling's album comes out, have I mentioned I'm hopefully going to see them this week?.

Another quick update

Hello to anyobdy who hasn't got bored of reading my blog (when I do actually get round to posting) oh and to anyone who may just be having a nosey around for the first time. I've been busy recently although I've not done alot, I've had my first few GCSE's which I think prob went o.k ish, but some of the important and harder ones are yet to come so still lots of revision to do, but before my exams I've got my half term. Last wednesday I did get to go and see The Feeling do a free short acoustic set in a record store in Soho which was very good and very small and intimate lol, I also got a poster signed by all of them. After that had finished I walked all the way (partly in the rain) to The slaughtered Lamb where Paolo was performing he was good as usual, as was the other artists. I got a Paolo tour poster from there allthough I was too shy to go and speak to him and get it signed. *rollseyes* Tonight I'm off to see Alchemy at The Bedford so hopefully that should be good. Oh and before I go (my train leaves in 45 mins and I'm not quite ready yet!), wanted to mention that I've got into Big Brother and like to watch BB's big mouth althought that's mainly because I think Russel Brand is sexy. ;-D lol I wanted to get in the audience but you have to be over 18 which annoyed me as I can watch it on T.V so I don't see the problem of me going there, I also can't got to any more of Paolo's gig at the moment as they are mostly over 18's. Something I should be able to go to though is the London Film and Comic con who have recently announced photo's sessions to be held with Elijah Wood which should be good, as long as I can get tickets, as I'm planning on being dressed as an elf from LOTR lol. They have also now announced John Barrowman (O.k that could be wrong, it's something like that, he was in Dr Who andI think that Dancing on ice thing). I still need to get my cosutme or make it yet though! One more thing before I go I've joned up on undercurrent.com so that I can be in paolo Nutni's street team whichlooks like fun and it's helping him which is good, he has a video on The Hits and The box at the moment if anyones interested, check it out...shameless plugging lol. :-D Anyways best be off, should get round to reporting on tonight somewhen tomorow or the next day, maybe :-)

ps. This has just been typed in a bit of a rush so sorry for any spelling msitakes. :-)

Paolo Nutini

I went to see Paolo Nutini in Islington last night and I'm copying the post I made on his forum onto here for now, I shall try and add more of my feelings of the evening tomorow but as my GCSE's are scheduled to start on Monday and I don't feel ready yet I may not get chance. I will just say now incase I don't get round to blogging tomorow I've managed to get tickets to T4 on the beach so am hoping to see The Kooks, The Feeling, The Zutons and Embrace. There's lots of others announced, to be announced but so far I think they are the ones I most want to see.

Anyway here's my report from Paolo's forum -

I did manage to get to this gig last night. It was packed out although it was only quite a small venue. I think that most people were there for the last group (they got the largest cheer to start with anyway lol) but they did seem to like Paolo's set(who wouldn't?). I in the 2nd row from the front and right in the middle so got a good view and I did sing along to a few songs although as noone else was I didn't too much as I didn't want to look stupid. Paolo sung (I think, might get a name wrong) Alloway Grove, (one song I can't remember, thought it might have been rewind but not sure now), Million faces (?), New shoes, Loving you, Last request, and Jenny Don't be hasty. He was great as usuall and I think he prob gained lots of new fans.The other two acts were good, although only saw half the 1st as my train was delayed because of vandilsm (we had the police on and the doors were locked so noone could get off!) and the last group weren't really to my taste but they were good. It was very smokey though which is a shame and I noticed how much people talk all of the time, throughout all the performances. Much better at The Bedford where they have to shut up lol The eventfull journey and smoke was made worth it to see Paolo though Oh and the fact there were many good looking men about might have helped too Just a shame they were prob all much older, I think I was prob the youngest there and I think Paolo might even have been the 2nd youngest in the room lol More younger people need to go to these things I feel a bit out of place. Damn being a teenager.

Revision

I don't think I've done enough and with only one week left until my exams start, you could say I'm starting to get nervous, trouble is I just can't seem to get motivated and when I do revise I'm not sure if I'm actually remembering any of it.

We got given our timetables for when our exams are going on last week which includes any revision sessions we're supposed to attend (as they wont let us have proper study leave off) which has confused me rather a lot and I'm not really sure where I'm meant to be and I'm thinking when am I going to get time to eat and where would I go to have y lunch and some things go on to when an exam should start so I'm rather confused and would be much happier if it was a bit clearer, the exams are stressfull enough without the added pressure of knowing where I'm supposed to be before and after. Thankfully after the first couple of days the revision sessions get less so I shall be there less and wont have that problem.

Although technically we'll still be at school for a couple more weeks, it's officially the last proper school day this friday which although I don't always like school and am always moaning that I'd prefer not to be there is still quite a scary prospect. After being at school most of my life, not being at school will prob be a bit weird although I do think I will prob enjoy college as I will be doing sunject that I have chosen rather than ones we are being made to do. There is the fact that I will be leaving alot of my friends behind as most are going to other colleges but in some cases I do think that this may be a good thing as some of my so called friends aren't great friends really and I'm hoping that I will make some new ones as I don't really have any close friends at the moment. There are some that I'd like to keep in contact with though and I do plan on having a leaving book with messgages from whoever wants to write in it.

Aswell as all this school stuff going on at the moment (what with Prom outfit/accesories to be sorted too) I can't help but find other things that I want to be doing like going to/planning trips to gigs/conventions, musical and celeberity football matches. *rollseyes* I'll hopefully have less things to think about once my exams have finished on June 16th, I think.

ps. Not sure if I said but my impersonation wasn't played on the second part of PotterCast's impersonation contest whichalthough I was dissapointed, there were lot's of better ones. :)

These are a few of my favourite things...

I've only just got round to updating you all on my eventful weekend, it started off with me doing a dance exam which although a little bit scary went fine I think and I enjoyed it anyway which is afterall the most important thing. On Sunday, I had to get up at about 7am to get to Milton Keynes at about 9.30ish but by the time we'd actually found the right place to park and where the actual event was taking place it was almost 10am and there was rather a Long queue for the Phelp's twins (aka the Weasley twins) and I was a little concerned that we would not get to meet them before I had to leave especially when I was told that it would be about 2 and a 1/2 hours and considering it was then just gone 10am and I needed to leave by about 12.45/1am that was leaving it a bit late thankfully it didn't take that long and it was our VT numbers that were on the board so we could queue up and meet them. They both seemed friendly, sadly being the shy person that I am I didn't say a lot although my dad asked if they were currently filming and they said they were, he also asked which was which, I wonder how many times they get asked that. Anyways we talked for a bit, I had my photo taken with them and then we went off to meet Afshan Azad, who was very friendly. She wasn't over busy and did have an open queue so she asked me questions about what my favourite character was, what I was looking forward to seeing in the next film and which book was my favourite, unfortunately I had a sort of mind blank and wasn't sure what to say which is annoying as I can usually talk for ages about Harry Potter once you get me started but this time I didn't and kind of said In don't know and sarcastically said that she ofcourse was my favourite character, how could I forget to mention the lovely Neville who is infact my favourite character. After I'd managed to prob make her think I was boring and had my photo taken with her we went off to get some lunch before leaving to drive to Peterborough to get the train to 'Boro. Before that I had got to meet Warwick Davies as he had an open queue also, he was very friendly and I had my photo taken with him. He really is small like Flitwick it's not any camera trickery. I might post some of my photo's on here if I can cut me out easily :P and work out how to do it.

So after a train journey to 'Boro, some tea and getting ready we headed off to the crypt, we got our tickets from the box office and could hear that they had infact already started although I think only just as the first act was being introduced. I have to admit the 1st 3 acts aren't really to my taste but they were all their for the good cause (It was a Brian Clough memorial concert) and I'm sure others did enjoy their sets. I did get the feeling the hall would have been a bit emptier had it not been for Alistair and his band though. He came on about 10.15 and the hall had to be cleared at 11pm so it did feel a bit rushed but he was great none the less, not so much chatting in between but I feel that's only because he was aware of what would be appropriate and this event although I may ofcourse be wrong. I loved the newest song and am looking forward to *hopefully* having their album to listen to somewhen this year. After and during, I did get to talk to lots of people from his site which was lovely as I hadn't seen some of the since York in December and some even longer ago (Hi Gayle and Corinne is you read this, it was nice to speak to you, and hi to anyone else who was there who happens to read my blog :-)).
Once the gig had finished and we'd been 'chucked' out of the venue we went back to the hotel, does sound like I missed out on some fun by not going to a particular hotel first but I had a good time anyway and it was nice to have a chat with some people back at the hotel we were staying at and I didn't want to go to bed too late as I was already shattered, it'd been bit of a busy day, but definitely worth it.

I think I will go to Collectormania 10 at MK if I can and if they have any HP actors there but before that I'm planning on going to a similar event to try and meet Elijah Wood and some people from Lost. Before that though there is that little problem of exams so although tempting I will try not to go to any more gigs between now and the end of them, well apart from maybe going to see Paolo Nutini in the half term, and I'm quite tempted to go and see The Feeling again aswell. *rollseyes* ;-)

I am glad I decided not to stay at Collectormania all day although I haven't heard anything about the Mugglenet podcast yet which I thought might have been put on itunes for us to listen to, hopefully it will be somewhen soon, I would have liked to have gone but i'm hopefully for a leakymug in 2007. Talking of podcasts, I sent in some impersonations of Rita Skeeter, Hermione and Sirius (head in fire moment) to Pottercast for their impersonation contest but it wasn't played in part 1 but it might still be included in part 2 as I did send it in quite late on although it might not be included at all as there was alot of better ones played already in part 2.1. :-D

Now...have I packed everything?

Well I decided and ordered/sorted tickets/travel/hotel, and as I'm extremely organised and decisive I did this about 2 days before I'm actually meant to be going. ;-D I shall hopefully be going to 'Boro via Mitlon Keynes for reasons I think I've prob blogged about several times before. I think it might be a bit of a rushed day and there will prob be an earlyish morning (which does make me wonder why I'm still awake and posting my blog now). I think I've got everything packed/ready although I'm not sure what to wear, whether to wear my black skirt or not and which top to wear there.

Also just a quick mention of my dance exams that I did today, I was a bit nervous but I think they went o.k, don't know how well I did dance wise but I didn't fall over and don't think I did anything too embarressing so I'm happy that I actually did it. :-) Anyway as it is late and I will need to get up earlyish if I'm to get to Milton Keynes in time to meet who I want to (the Harry Potter actors apart from Robert Pattison who I have already met, in Manchestor :P ) I should really go to bed now as I need sleep :-D :-)

Gigs, conventions, and more gigs... Oh and exams

I seem to have a lot of things planner, how much of it I'll actually do is another thing but the fact I've got all these things planned (several of which on the same day, samish time in different places) leaves me a bit confused as to what to do and when. I've mentioned the things concerned beofre so wont go into to too much detail although I will mention than Ian Somerholder (aka Boone in Lost) has cancelled. Also I've not had much detail about the Mugglenet podcast and didn't pre-order talk tickets which makes me think I may well not be able to get any. Also Alistair hasn't announced any other gigs yet... although I'm not really sure what decision this leads me to, I do really want to go and see Alistair. It is something that is familiar, I'm not sure if that makes sense but the whole HP thing is newer, I wouldn't know anyone at that event like I would the people at Alistair's gig and I do feel the need to go away somewhere and see Alistair and everyone again, this has alot to do with the stress I'm beginning to kind of feel for a few reasons, one of which being my pending exams, which of course are gettng my full attention at the moment despite the various other things I'm thinking about at the moment *ahem*.
I have a French oral Wednesday which I'm hoping to do o.k in and I can sort of remember everything but I'm still a bit nervous about it, I also am re-recording my composition for my music GCSE and I'm quite aware I need to be revising for my main exams that start in about 3/4 weeks. Oh and there are various other gigs I'd like to go to, prom accesories to find and buy and other things that I'm currently thinking about... busy, me? Well I suppose you could say that.

PotterCast

Just a quick post to say the second part of the PotterCast call in is up and has my question on it, I don't really like how my voice sounds but hey it's cool that it's on there. If you really have the urge to listen to me (you'll have to skip through to find me, the one that says I'm Jenny, from England, although I suggest you listen to it all if you like HP) you can find it on itunes, go to www.leakynews.com for more info. I'm off out now hopefully as it's the last day of my Easter holidays so might post about that later or might not depending on what time I get home and where I go although I do expect I'll end up playing crazy golf at some seaside resor, not sure it's quite warm enough for a awim yet though, maybe a paddle. ;-P :-)

Mini Dilema

A certain HP fansite have announced they will be doing a live podcast at an event I was planning on going to for a bit before heading off to 'Boro, but I've left it too late to get the cheap train tickets and if this podcast is in the evening it means it's nearly impossible to do both (depending on days/times), this leaves me with even more of a problem as to which I want to go to more. *rollseyes* :-)

This holiday is for revision not fun

Well this is what we were told, in a way, by our headmaster before the holiday started. One week in, I have done some revision, but I think, probably not enough. I went out monday, shopping and decided that the revision could start on tuesday, it did but then thursday came and I went off out to The Bedford to see The Story's. I did want to go to Leeds to see Riccardi but as that would have involved a much longer train journey and staying over I thought that was probably not a good idea. As it happens I had a good time at The Beford, I thought The Story's were great, (I have seen them once or twice before when going there and other places to see other people).

On other subjects, today a Podcast all about Harry Potter (run mainly by Americans from www.leakynews.com / www.pottercast.com) is having a call in show so I downloaded skype and have it all set up. They have one at 3am but they also had one at 6pm. Why then am I waiting for the one in the midde of the night/morning? Simply because they have Chris Rankin on it (who plays Percy Weasley in the HP films). I might not even get through to them but I'm planning on waking up at this strange time to try.

One slightly negative thing to mention, I found out that The Feeling were going to be at the XFM big night out in London next week but... it's over 18's only! Never mind, hopefully I shall get another chance...after seeing them the week before last I do want to see them again live somewhen. :-)

Edit: I got through to the Pottercast call in show and got to talk to Mellisa, John and Sue and Chris (aka Percy) I got up especially at 3am but I think it's been worth it, I don't know when it will be put online for al lto listen but I'll hopefully let you know if anyone wants to listen to me prob sounding like an idiot, didn't say alot apart from Hi, my question and a bit of laughing. Still lot's of fun though even if I was shaking and shy lol, I'm too excited to sleep now. *rollseyes* lol ;-D :-)

April Fools Day

I've had great fun today even though I couldn't think of anything good enough that I could actually do in time but finding out about others has been fun, although one is still saying it is not a joke which is getting slightly worrying although I'm sure it is an aprils fool, I think...

(Another blog to be continued, I will do this one and the other one tomorow hopefully but I seem to remember to do this at some ridiculas time and am too tired to write much *rollseyes* lol)

Edit: I'm back to edit it, well it was an aprils fool but it was also funny, if you're confused then look at www.leakynews.com and scroll down the news for something about arpil fools or a marriage or leakymug. If you don't like HP or have not visited Leaky or Mugglenet I would suggest it's best not to look as it may just confuse you. :-D

Last minute plans

I was rather disappointed when I couldn't get tickets to go and see The Feeling at a local venue but my mum put my name on the waiting list and we waited without much hope as apparently the list was quite long but yesterday (the day of the gig) at about 6 I got a phone call saying that they had two tickets! So, after quickly having a bit of tea and texting someone else to see if they could get here in time, I had to get ready. I decided to wear the same as I wore to the Bedford last week but I did feel a bit self conscious in my skirt and had a bit of a problem finding any black tights that didn't have holes in them or patterns on them and actually fitted which meant I was later than I wanted to be but as it happened The Feeling weren't on until 10.15 and most people seemed to know this as their weren't many people there at first.

Edit: I'm back to edit this, a little bit later than planned but hey... So 2 support acts, both good, Lorraine (the 2nd) the best out of the 2 imo and then it was time for the main act. I'm so pleased I actually managed to get tickets in the end as they were great, sound even better on the cd which is a good sign. Some bands/artists sound worse as they're voices are so manipulated on cd's, some sound the same and some sound even better which I think can be the sign of a great band especially when they already sounded great on the CD. They were on for about 45mins I think, and then it had ended, no encore so went out to text my dad but then Lesley (who I was there with) went off in search of The Feeling and she was gone for a bit so I thought i'd go back in to the place where the gig was held and there she was with Dan the lead singer so I got to meet him, have him sing my half ticket (why do they feel the need to tear my ticket in half, I wasn't sure what else to get signed) and have my photo taken with him which was really cool and then I went off home to try and get some sleep as I had school the next day. :-)

Weekly updates

I've decided to try and do weekly (ish) updates as I rarely get round to blogging during the week and I've almost forgotten today so will just make a quick few points which I will, probably, expand on tomorow.

*Monday went to see Alchemy at The Bedford, lovely place, had a good time - train delayed on way back got home about 1.10am so didn't get as much sleep as I would have liked.

*Was proud of myslef for having the confidence to wear a skirt and a slightly 'un-conventinal' outfit instead of my normal boring jeans. :-)

*Otherwise only school stuff going on this week.

*I did miss out on the oppertunity to see The Feeling perform near me though, as I didn't find out about it until recently (although my mum reckons she told me ages ago lol) so they had sold out and although my name was put on a waiting list thing I think the list already had a few people on it so I'm not holding out much hope that I'll get any for this so will have to wait for another oppertunity which I don't know when that will be.

Edit: Well it's tomorow, and I've come to expand on the things I blogged about yesterday but can't actually remember what else I was going to write.
I'm still trying to decide what to do, after reading the reports of Alistair at Blakey (sp), I do want to go to 'Boro but it's a long way, costs quite a bit and I really want to go and meet the Weasley twins and dress up as Luna to go to Collectormania 9 at Mitlon Keynes. Yes you did read that write, I want to dress up as Luna. I seem to have bcome somewhat of a Luna/Neville shipper recently since I discovered that Neville was one of my favourtie characters and I spent 5 hours queueing in London to be Luna, needless to say I didn't get the part, didn't even get through to the next round but if you remember reading my report at the time you'll know that I thought it was worth it anyway. So anyone, I digress (have I spelt that right.. it sounds like an impressive word and I've been waiting for an oppertunity to use it), for the benefit of anyone not up on the terms used in the Harry Potter fandom, shipping comes from the word relationship, so me leaning towars a Neville/Luna ship means that I think they would be good together, although that does not mean I think they will get together in book 7. On the subject of book 7, I've decided that I would quite like to go to Edinbrugh for the release of the last book and as I found out it is only a 6 hour jounrey which when you think it has taken me 5 hours to get to 'Boro is not much further and they often have things going on there aswell as the place supposedly being a nice place too. Annnnyway back to the Neville/Luna thing, I decided to write a fanfic but I'm taking my ship one step further...I want to dress up in ful Hogwarts uniform (don't yet know where I'm going to get a Hogwarts robe from though) and got to meet matthew Lweis (aka neville) for the second time. The only problem with this plan is, Matthew Lewis,a lthough he was announced as coming on the Collectormania webstie and forum, his parents revealed to Leaky (www.leakynews.com) that he had not yet been approached to attend. The same is true for Devon Murray (aka Seamus Finnigan). I think I will find a hogwarts uniform costume as I'm sure that if not this time, I will find an oppertunity to wear it (don't necessairly have to get a blonde wig and be Luna). I'm not too bothered about seeing Matt again, I would like to meet Devon somewhen but I am hoping that the weasley twins will definately be there, although as they are busy they are only scheduled to be there on Sunday which thinkI mentioned the other day. This is just one of those really annoying things, if it was saturday there would be no problem but it's not, it's sunday. I want to go to 'Boro on sunday, now I have looked into, technically I could do both but it's not exactly an ideal situation and I don't think my dad thinks much of my idea. If I was tyo get there early enough and could get the twins and I would also like to get Boone from lost's autograph within about 2 hours (events start at 10), then I can get lunch and leave at about 1 to drive to Peterborough at about 3 and get the train to 'Boro which should arrive at about 6. I would then have an hour to dump my stuff in a hotel room and wash/change before finding the venue. I've not allowed a time for tea in this plan though, unless I got something no the train, I suppose I could get something hot at lunch and then have a sandwhich or something on the train. Now you see thing would work but it would be a rush and if we got delayed in traffic we could miss out train and not get there. Now Alistair isn't on until about 10 so I have plenty of time to get there but I don't really want to turn up half way through. We could drive to B'ham though which may give me more time... I think I might be spending some time looking at different train journey details. Oh joy!

Why is it that you always find lot's of things you want to do/go to when there is something else you need to be doing?

I'm currently in my final year at school - year 11 ad doing my gcse's, which as the teachers like to keep telling us at every oppertunity, are very important. I have coursework, homework and revision to do, yet I also have lot's of fun things I want to do. I blogged about the Collectormania event that I wanted to go to, well now more people have been announced that I would lik to meet, but they are all scheduled to be only appearing on the sunday, which considering I was tempted to go to 'Boro to see Alistair Griffin is a bit annoying as I just don't think I can do both, then again going to 'Boro would cost alot of money and be quite along journey and when Alistair is only doing a 45 min set, it think perhaps the sensible thing would be to wait for antoehr gig that I can get to more easily. My worry is though, that the next one either wont be for ages or will be during my exams or someother thing that I have already planned to go to.
I was also rather excited to discover that Elijah Wood aka frodo in LOTR, which although I haven't actually watched that, I think he's pretty cool and I would like to go to this Film con to meet him. I'm also keeping my fingers crossed that 'Charile' in Lost is announced and as this isn't too far from me and is after my exams, that shouldn't be too difficult to go to.

I'm hoping to be able to go to the Bedford to see Alchemy today which should be good although I've decided to go on the train as it is quicker - means I can leave later - which inturn means I have more time to watch the Harry Potter & Gobelt of fire dvd that has been released today, which being the Potter nerd that I am, makes me quite excited.

Bells about to go so better go, not that I have many other sites to go on as they seem to ban more very few hours. *rollseyes* :-)

What to do...

Decisions, one of those things in life that can make me confused although I in some cases having a decision to make, makes life fun and interesting. I have a prom coming up in the summer and have been thinking that it will be fine, I have awhile yet but I went shopping for some and quickly realised getting/ ordering and altering dresses takes time and that's without the time it takes for me to decide which I want. I have been to several shops and so far have found 2 that I really like. One is turquoisey (not sure if that's even a word) and sort of 'hippy' chick with elegance mixed in and apparently was seen on a 'celebrity' in a different colour...not that, that would influence my decision at all :-P. The other is dark purple and is very elegant and lovely but I just don't know which I prefer. The first suits my eye/skin colouring and the hippiness is probably more me but this is a prom and the lovely deep purple that is so nice is tempting me rather a lot but I just don't know. The problem for me, as well as deciding which I want, is getting one that actually fits, the purple one will have to be ordered in a size 2 (which is a size 0 is American sizing!) but the turquoise one would just need altering even though it is a size 10 which to me makes no sense but... There both quite expensive which is also making me wonder whether I should try and find a cheaper one as it is likely that I'll only wear it once and I'll also probably be the one at the Prom that sits in the corner feeling self conscious and out of place. *rollseyes* I think I really need to have another look around this weekend and decide by next week so I still have time to order the Purple one if I decided it is that one that I want.

On another totally un-reletted subject but another thing involving decisions is whether or not to go to 'Boro town hall to see Alistair Griffin in April. I do want to go but I am not sure whether to wait until he comes a little further south, that's if he does do a gig further south anytime soon. Also I need to find out more information about Collectormania 9 (which I really want to go, the actors who play the Weasley twins are going to be there, and come on, who doesn't love the Weasley twins ;-) Also Robert Pattison is scheduled to be there and even though I have met him already I'm not going to say no to seeing him again ;-P (I am hoping other HP actors will be anounced and I wouldn't object to the lovely Matthew Lewis or Tolga Safer* being there. ;-) I've also got to decide whether to go and see Alchemy and (although I do have awhile before having to) whether to go and see Tabby again although I'm hoping for an easier to get to gig to be announced before the other one happens. I do have a Uni Summer school and hopefully a trip to see Riccardi to look forward to probably but... I do also have these things called exams, GCSE exams tro be exact and they need to be revised for and Coursework needs to be completed/improved ect. I now which is more important so that is what I am going to try and concentrate on. I also need to sort out other aspects of my life such as the amount of time I spend on my computer and the time I go to bed (too late!) I also want some spare time to read more of the J K Rowling (auto) biography (I'm never sure which it is if it's one that's been written by someone else?) I have been reading and to add some more to my fanfic amongst other things. Oh and ofcourse there's the minor fact that the Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire DVD comes out on monday so hopefully I will be able to get a copy although I don't know when I will get time to watch it all through with my mum (who hasn't seen it yet, whereas I have seen it 3 times) and to watch the special features. :-)

*aka Bob **

** Don't ask***

*** No really don't (in truth I'm not sure I could tell you the true reason as I'm not sure of it myself)... although you could check out his fansite - www.kingofhogwarts.proboards51.com ;-D

Myspace address

http://spaces.msn.com/mysecretsinside/PersonalSpace.aspx?_c02_owner=1

Hope this works :-)

Edit: If anyone tries it, can you let me know if it works, thanks :-)

Myspace

Just a quick post from me (mainly because it's nearly nidnight and I'm tired and would lie to go to bed) to say that I now have my own space. I'm still getting used to the stuff and I also can't seem to add people as friends as when I try and log in it tells me it's wrong and it won't send me my password so I can't work out what to do or who to ask but if anyone wants to add me as a friend that would be cool. :-) It can be found at the normal bit/ secretsinside or mysecretsinside I think, I'm not actualy sure, i'll prob look it up and post it tomorow. :-)

I'll try and come on here and blog tomorow, I have stupid size stories to talk about - how can you have sizes 2 and 0 and why am I prob a 2 in dresses when I'm usually an 8! I do have a busy day tomorow though with homework, more dress shoping prob and practicing for a Gcse music practical on monday which I have to have 3 pieces learnt (I play keyboard).

Busy, Busy, Busy

I seem to have a hundred and one things to do this week and in the coming weeks but I am trying to keep my blog updated (which means usually doing it at school, not always a good idea depending on what I'm writing, nobody knows I have a blog and I don't really want half the people at my school to read it incase I mention them ;-) lol ).

I'd mentioned that I'd had a college interview coming up and I don't think i've mentioned it since so I went to it and I was a bit apprehensive but it was fine, not heard anything yet though, so hope I've been accepted, I'm going to the college's open evening today as I want to look into the subjects I want to do and make sure I'm happy with it all.

I've recently been shopping for a prom dress which I wasn't going to do yet as I thought it would be too early but it seems they are already running out of lots of the nice ones which means I need to hurry up and find one as I found out when I went that even size 8's and too big and some of the size 6's were aswell! I was looking for a deep purple but after seeing the choice I think I might have to change my mind and go with what ever I can find. I'm hopefully going to go to this particular shop again this week with my mum, hopefully I won't get stuck in the dresses or rip them (this nearly happened when I went before...I think I need more practice of putting dresses on and a bigger changing room would be helpful I got in a right muddle the other day *embarrassed* lol.

Aswell as the reasonably o.k things I also have a Gcse Science exam today, music practical on Monday, a application for a uni summer school to fill in asap, science coursework to improve, 12+ pages of French to learn for April, a practice English exam on the 23rd March, and we are supposed to have started revision for our main gcse's. Now I understand what the teachers meant when they warned us Year 11 might be a busy year!

* I was going to go and see either Tabby or Paolo last week but in the end I decided not to but thanks to someone I got a copy of Paolo's cd which is great. There is even a song with my name in it. I/m hoping I will get another chance somewhen to see them both. I'm currently still considering going to see Alchemy but it is on the same day as the harry Potter dvd comes out...when will I get time to watch it lol.

A break down in communication

I was without my computer on Tuesday as it was booked in to go to PC World. I had tried to change the screen resolution as it wasn't all on the screen but itwent blank and we had to ring a helpline to fix it which meant that we had then fixed the other problems we had but the graphics card was not working properly so the icons and everything were huge. It is now fixed which is good but I wasn't pleased when told that I couldn't have the computer back that day. I did manage without it though but I realised just how important my computer and the internet is to me.

On a completely different subject, something that doesn't require the internet, well only to research certain details, is writing my very own fanfiction, which for anyone who doesn't know is when you write your own story using characters and other details from an already written book. Mine is a Harry Potter fanfiction, unsurprisingly ;-), and it features one of my favourite characters - Neville aswell as Luna as it's main characters although I expect it will include most of the others at some point. I decided to write a fanfic about Neville and Luna because I love Neville and I think that him and Luna would make an interesting couple. The HP books are told from Harry's point of view, hence the name, but I decided to write mine in Neville's, I'm trying to keep the story of the book the same but from Neville pov rather than Harry's which means any points that Harry is not with Neville in the actual book I can invent although I may not get all my facts right. I think mine makes most sense if it is fitted along side GOF as I don't think at that point neville as met Luna properly and the stuff at the ministry hasn't happened yet and neither has the graveyard stuff so the tone is reasonably cheery at this point. :-) I'm not really sure where I'm going with it, I started one before but didn't finish it. I started a couple of my own stories when I was younger, about ghosts mainly because they were the sorts of books I read then although now I enjoy reading a different genre and I'm hoping to get further with this than I did any of those that I attempted before. I'm currently reading an autobiography of JK Rowling which is quite interesting and was talking about her childhood home which sounded to be in a lovely rural area, which is what I imagine Neville to live in so I'm hoping to add that detail into my fanfic at some point, but I'm not sure where to put it yet.

On another completely unrelated subject, I went to the Latin dance group again this morning as I have been doing for the last few weeks. It's called a Latin group but I didn't think the waltz was a Latin dance although what do I know? lol, we have also learnt bits of other dances that I did consider Latin dances and I am really enjoying it and I was proud of myself because I did go there by myself at first which for a quiet, shy person like me is an achievement. :-) I'm now considering applying for a place on a summer school at a university, either Oxford or another one that I can't think of at the moment when nearly all of my friends are going back to one that we went to last year for a few days (Winchester), I've not decided for definite but as I have already been there before I thought it would be more beneficial to take the opportunity to experience another university this time but it would mean probably being the only one from my school there which is quite scary considering it would be a little way from home and for a week. I think I have until Monday to decide!

Resolutions renewed

I thought I'd posted al my new years resolutions but I can't find them so I can't have done but I will post a bit of an update to them. There are a few that I have achieved which are -

*Joining a Latin dance group
*Going to lots of gigs and other events (Alchemy, Collectormania, Tabby so far...hopefully/maybe Tabby again somewhen, Paolo and Alchemy again next month and I'm hoping for a chance to see Alistair, Riccardi and The Story's somewhen :-) )
*I sent my college application off (I now have an interview to go to next weeek which I'm a bit nervous about)

I have failed with one though - spending less time on my computer, going to bed earlier and getting up early enough to get to school on time. I really need to start spending more time on school work and revision rather than on the computer and I need more sleep, so this is a end of feb resolution. I have a Science modular biology test on the 8th so I need to start revising a bit for that and I have a english practice test on the 23rd.

A passing hello

Hello. I've been meaning to post but I've not got round to it, I'm hoping to soon though, as I want to have a look back at the new years resolutions I made, see which I've acheived/failed and which I still can do and which need to be changed or updated. :-) So hopefully I will blog about that (and maybe even an update on my Harry Potter obsession *ahem* I mean interest) soon :-)

ps. I went to see Tabby and The Tsars on Saturday and they rocked. :-) :-D

A kind of sucessfull week

Well I've managed to go to Manchestor, meet some of the Harry Potter cast, join a new forum (for Tolga Safer) and buy a skirt for £3 that was originally about £20ish, oh and I've done a bit of revising too ;-) :-D I'm off to see Tabby (1st X-factor) performing soon so that should be good, back to school tuesday though. :-)

Should I stay or should I go?

I've been neglecting my blog a bit recently and i'm afraid it will be atleast another day until I can make a proper entry. It is half term next week so I should get time to post although I have quite a bit of revision/homework to do,I am hopefully going to see Tabby (x-factor) perform next week though and maybe go to a few other places aswell :-) I'm currently debating whether or not to take the long journey to Collectormania (www.collectormaingmex.co.uk) tomorow.

Not going today meant I could go Latin dancing this morning which was fun, it was my 3rd week, I am hopfully going to continue going as I enjoy it.


Edit: I went to Collectormania, it was great, I got to meet all of the Harry Potter cast members that were there and have my photo taken with them and their talk was funny. I've written more about it over on Alistair-griffin.co.uk in the highlights thread, may write more here tomorow, too tired now lol :-)

Tuesday's child

I have now finished a 2nd Louise Bagshawe book, after I enjoyed reading Monday's child I thought it would be good to read Tuesday's child and although not as good as the first, it was still an enjoyable read. Whereas in the first book, you knew really what was going to happen quite early on but in this noe although, to an extent you did there were a few surprises, for instance I did not think Todd would end up in court for Fraud or something along those lines and I actually didn't see the Victoria thing coming, I thought he didn't like her lol, but I did correctly guess who Lucy would end up with. As was the same in the last book though, when I got to the end I wanted more, although I can imagine what would have happened I wanted to read about Victoria's reaction and Lucy's family and read about their wedding and everything. I know some people prefer things to be left like that but I'm one who loves to read all the little details.

Not sure what to read now, I get confused if I go to the library with all the rows of books and no idea where to start looking or what I'm really looking for, yet I really enjoy reading but never know what to, I think I need to find something soon, before I start to re-re-reading the Harry Potter books ;-) lol

If anyone's got any suggestions for books that they think I might like going by what I've posted about the others that I have read or just has some that they really like, leave a comment :-)

Pottering

O.K, sorry I have just taken the title from the title used on DA for my contribution to the DA birthday blogs but I couldn't think of anything better and it sort of fits.
My computer has been into PC World again today so I'm a bit behind with everything and am late to bed and tired but wanted to post this quickly while it is more relevant.
A website I visit www.leakylounge.com celebrated it's birthday recently and had many fun ways of celebrating this occasion on the site. This site also has a podcast - www.pottercast.com, which recently revealed a project/plan it/leaky was working on and then left us to theorise as to what this could be, we still do not know for sure what it is although I'm thinking some sort of search/ better site, new layout, archive type thing perhaps, anyway back to Pottercast, if you like Harry Potter I think you should listen to it, it does have lots of interesting discussions on it but also it nearly always makes me laugh, and I enjoy listening to it, so much so, I contacted someone who ran a fansite for it when they mentioned perhaps setting up some forums and she said I could be a super mod on this fansite for Pottercast - www.pottercastfans.com/forum. Go and check it out, if you want :-) (O.K shameless plugging going on here ;-) )

*I'm sure there was also something else I was going to mentione but can't remeber what it was, might not have been anything lol :-)

Late as usual

So I'm late again, (although technically it's only an hour since Saturday actually ended) and I've already seen what others have blogged about in celebration of the wonderful blog that is DA's birthday, to be honest they're all too good to compete with, I couldn't choose what to blog about and I talk rubbish most of the time so I'll keep this short and try not to talk about anything too complicated, especially not when it is about half 12 at night and I'm about to fall asleep on my keyboard.

I'm not sure if I'd have started blogging at all if it hadn't have been for DA, I happened to stumble across it one day and have been reading it regularly since then. I was relieved to find someone who blogged about Harry Potter, someone older and more intelligent As well, which made me think it was O.k for me to mention it, quite a bit I must admit (there's more HP related stuff to be blogged about tomorrow, *oh goody I hear you cry*) in my blog. I can see why the fascination with Snape aka Alan Rickman is there but I prefer the good guys ;-) (hmm, yes Snape may still be good but that's a much too complicated issue to go in to now). So anyway better get to the point to this blog as I said this would be short. You can blame DA for me starting my blog or if you like my blog you can thank DA...i'll leave you to decide which you'd rather do ;-) :-)

Oh how I love a happy ending...

Well, I have finished reading the book - Monday's child by Louise Bagshawe and it does have the happy although quite predictable ending that I was hoping for.

I haven't really read many books recently with the exception of Harry potter books, which I've read and re-read and maybe even re-re-read. I used to get a lot of books from the library, mostly teen murder mystery books, I think most of them were series type books (point something perhaps, not sure) and really all I have read before has been children's books (I know Harry Potter is no longer purely a children's book but it was originally so that kind of counts) so this was a different type of book to which I'd read before (although it did have two references to Harry Potter in it which was amusing to me) and I loved it. I wasn't sure at first but I really got into it. I felt a connection to the main character 'Anna Brown' as I am, like her, the not so pretty one amongst much better looking friends who get all the boys attention, there's quite a few differences as she is in her 30's and thinks she's fatter than lots of people which is the opposite to be being skinnier than most people, which is not always an advantage as some may think. I don't usually mind my friend having more interest from boys but I have to say this week because I do actually quite like someone at the moment so I noticed the fact that they all seem to manage to quite easily get boyfriends more and reading this book was quite interesting, I wonder if I'll get a similar happy ending (although perhaps not the possible marriage bit ;-) )

Anyway I did really like the book and now I'm actually disappointed that I've got to the end, I wanted to read more about Anna and Mark Swan and be told all about their marriage, which she'd have invited Kitty and all the other people who laughed at the thought of her and Mark, just so she could show people you don't good looks aren't always everything, I'd also liked to have read more about how her job as a screenwriter went, now I know this is meant to be left to the imagination but I just wanted more to read. I think I may start reading her next book 'Tuesday's child' I'm wondering whether there is/will be books for all 7 days, having read the back I'm not sure if it'll be as good, sort of sounds like it's on the same lines as the other one but I didn't[t known ow much I was going to enjoy 'Monday's child' when I read the back so I think I'll give 'Tuesday's child' a try.

* Hope this all makes sense, I've left it until the evening when I'm tired again, although having spend too much time on the computer last night and getting up to listen to Alex Zane (one of my new obsessions, O.k well not really an obsession, I just think he's great) on Xfm (although turned out he wasn't presenting the show this week for some reason, not sure if we were told what it was, was concentrating more on my book than I was listening to the radio for most of the time and then I went Latin dancing which was fun, I wasn't the only one, although there were two people I sort of know from school which was a bit embarrassing but the shy quiet person that I am, was proud of myself for going even though my friend couldn't come so I went by myself and actually talked to someone :-D I'm hoping to go again :-)

Is it wrong to fall in love with a fictional character?

O.k so I've not really fallen in love with this particular 'character' but I think I like him more than is probably normal. Has anybody read Monday's child by Louise Bagshawe? I'm really too tired to write anymore at the moment so if anyone has read it and got any comments or guesses as to who I may be referring to, leave a comment (although no spoilers please as I haven't finished the book yet :-)), and I'll read them and write more tomorrow when I'm *hopefully* more awake :-)

Why does the computer insist on telling me that something is not responding?

I have to admit I got rather annoyed yesterday when my computer would not let me watch the Bedford webcam however I tried, not even after I re-started the computer. I wanted to watch Alchemy (www.alchemylive.com) but I wasn't able to. My computer is low on memory and very slow so that could have been the problem but I'm not sure, I've not dared to try it and see if it works today as annoyingly whenever I tried to play the webcam on the site it just made everything go slow and I had to try and close it and it took ages for it to close, but it doesn't just close when I go to the task manager and press end now- oh no, it displays a message saying 'This program is not responding'... really!, and I suppose I hadn't noticed that and that wouldn't be why I'd resorted to pressing 'end now'? My computer and the Internet are the things that can make me very annoyed, which probably shows just how dependent I am on it and when it goes wrong, I get rather angry, although I think yesterday all the things that were/are in my mind and all the stresses of gcse's revision, coursework and other non-school related stuff culminated (not sure if that's the right word?) so I got more upset and annoyed than I may have done normally, thankfully today I'm o.k again and the computer, although still slow seems to be behaving itself. My dad's ordered new memory and it will be going in sometime next week to get that put on and my DVD-RW sorted (we had that installed but as soon as we turned the computer off and on again it disappeared of the icon menu so apparently there must be something that's not co-operating with it which will have to be sorted) and I should then be able to put some internet security onto the computer as it has none at the moment as it needs an update but we can't use the DVD drive and we probably don't have enough memory anyway however I don't like not having anything to stop viruses as I don't want it to get one and for me to lose everything I haven't been able to back anything up yet as the DVD-RW won't work yet *rollseyes* Oh the wonders of technology ;-) :-)

* Hope this all makes sense, it's late, I'm tired :-)

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This is a bit random but I wanted to tell somebody lol, I'm hoping to go Latin dancing tomorow, which was one of my new years resolutions, to go to a dance class/group, so as I have so far failed at keeping some hopefully this is one will be one of the ones* I manage to actually stick to :-)

* The other resolution that I'm sort of sticking to so far would be the 'go to lots of gigs (and just go out more, do something different and have fun in general)' one ;-) Not a very difficult resolution, but it's fun one to try and keep to ;-) I've so far seen only seen Alchemy live (guildford) but I did go to a casting call in London which must come under the 'do something different' part and I've got tickets to see Tabby live and I'm hoping to go and see a few other people at some point (Alchemy again, Riccardi, Paolo Nutini) if I am able to, the problem is that they are mostly on school nights the day before gcse pratcice exams or at places that will most likely be over 18's.

All for the experience

I've had a busy couple of days, if there is an oppertunity to go to something that I want to go to, I usually take it if I can as I think life is for living and I'm trying to enjoy it.
I'm very tired at the moment so will just copy some of the stuff I've posted on other sites and might add more tomorow at some point. :-)

I went on an english trip friday with 11 others to Poetry Live at Portsmouth Guildhall, some of the poet's poems didn't interest me but others did - Simon (?) Armitage was very funny Also int he evening I went with a friend to see Alchemy in Guildford which was good, and we met some girls that had ended up with just the two of them or something like that so we hung around with them for a bit.

Today I went to London but I didn't go with high expectations and it was more just for the experience. I was one of the 15,000 girls (you may have heard about it on t.v/radio - although I think I managed to avoid all camera's ) queued around the streets of London (for 5/6 hours) to audition for a part in the next Harry Potter film. I think I may have skipped a bit of the queue as we joined it somewhere that wasn't the end, but we couldn't find the end as it was winding all around different streets lol and I don't think me and my friend would have made to much difference to anybody behind. We joined the queue about 10.20 and got into the hall about 3ish - when we got in we were told to fill in some details (you had to be between 13-16 and be able to prove it and where you lived, had to be in the U.K, one gilr had queued for longer or about the same time as me and got to the venue to be told that she wasn't allowed in as she was two young even though she didn't look that young) and then (40 at a time) stand infront of two of the casting people and say our name and where we were from and then they choose the few people who they liked (and I think they had their photo taken and then they get back to whoever they like most for actual auditions), neither me or my friend got picked to have our photo taken but as I said before I didn't expect to (if I had I think I'd have been so shocked and nervous about being called back for a proper audition ) and it was still a good experience.

Edit: I was going to add to it today (sunday) but my computer has got to go into PC world so I've not got time now, hopefully it will be back with me tomorow evening and I can add stuff then :-)

A new year, a new beginning?

Well, I've just got round to posting about my Christmas and new year, I had a good Christmas, I didn't do anything much but I did got to our little annual boxing day 'get together' which was fun.
On new years eve, I did something I've not before (as far as I can remember anyway) - I went out. Usually I stay at home with my mum and dad and watch it on T.V, and then go outside and watch the fireworks going off. However, this year I went to a party at a friends house and well although it was good it didn't seem 'right' or like it was new year, I guess because it wasn't my normal 'routine'. Also a friend tried to get this boy out with me and it didn't work so I was left wondering whether I should have stayed home - we didn't get to sing Auld Lang syne (sp) either :-(
I'm still feeling a bit confused at the moment - I've been back to school and kindly reminded that I've got my gcse's coming up shortly and I'm just feeling a bit confused at the moment with lots of things going on. I need to get things sorted - work in neat piles, room tidied and start getting into a better routine as at the moment I spend too much time on the computer and go to bed too late, I think I'm going to have another new year tonight (without the staying up until 12 bit) as in having a new, more organised start (the one I planned last week but this week seems to have been the same as last years so far). I have lots of things that I'd like to do this year and quite a few things I'll have to do this year (gcse stuff/applying for college ect.) so I'm hoping that 2006 will be a busy but enjoyable year.
Hope everyone else has had a good start to 2006. I'll try and keep my blog updated as much as I can. :-)


ps. I can say that I've already gone and seen the new Harry Potter film this year (for the 3rd time lol) and am planning on going to a gig in the next few weeks so in that respect I'm starting the year as I mean to go on ;-) lol.

Merry Christmas

Well it's Christmas eve and I would be in a very happy mood if it weren't for my aching legs and headache but never mind. I don't have a lot to say today so I'll just post this -

Thanks for reading my blog and I hope everyone who reads this has a brilliant Christmas and an even better new year!

Jenny :-)

Space suits, fire alarms and bears - it could only be an Alistair griffin gig!

Well I've had lots of things to keep myself occupied these last few months but one of the best things has got to be going to York to see Alistair Griffin last weekend. It was on a Sunday so I traveled up on the Sunday morning and went back on the Monday. It was about a 3 1/2 hour journey on train but well worth it. As always it was an eventful gig, what with the out of this world entrance ;-) and an evacuation, not forgetting a fond farewell to the much loved bear (although in my opinion the time was right for this particular goodbye so I do hope it really is farewell). The gig was great, it made me laugh and want to get up and dance about (although I couldn't) and I love what he has done to some of the old songs and the new songs are brilliant - even my dad was very impressed with 'something's going on' (I think it was that one he meant, he didn't actually know what it was called) and the way Alistair had performed it, my dad had heard it previously at The bedford but thought it sounded much better with the band backing. On the sunbject of the band they were good although Riccardi - Alistair's previous backing band where mich better looking ;-).
I had decided beforehand that I was not going to let my dad drag me away as soon as it finished and so I waited around talking to people from Alistair's website and getting my dad to ask people if they were who I thought they were (I was too shy) until Alistair came out and started signing things, I have things signed so felt no need to get anything else signed however I was yet to have my photo taken with him, at first I told my dad to wait and let people go first but it soon became clear that they were in a hurry to get him and everyone else out so I let my dad go and ask him if I could have my photo taken with him - I don't think I said anything, not even a thank you,(Thanks Alistair lol) I'm a bit annoyed with myself actually as I didn't really think about it much if that makes sense,I just went up had the photo taken and went off, I had been so intent in getting one but when I did it wasn't, I don't know how to explain it but it just wasn't something. That may make sense to some but then again it might not. I guess because I have followed Alistair for two years or so (not literally, I'm not a stalker lol) that I thought actually standing next to him would be more exciting, I don't know if I'm making sense but I can't really explain it, looking back and seeing the photos, I'm think OMG I was standing next to Alistair Griffin but at the time I just didn't have time to think that and I didn't have much time to think of anything actually. Anyway that may not be making any sense I'll change the subejct slightly. I was quite surpised at how much I said to some people as before I have just nodded and smiled in response to people as I've not been confident enough to actually speak to them, I think I prob did still do this but not as much and I did have conversations with some people. I'm very glad you came over and said hello to me btw Corinne if you read this, I had thought it was you but at the time was trying to get a photo with Alistair and then we were being hurried out so I was glad you asked me if I was who you thought I was before we got chucked right out of the building lol, hope to get to speak to you for longer another time.
After I had returned back to my hotel, I found there were lots of Alistair fans in the hotel bar area so I stayed down there for awhile, I now have an apology to make although I doubt they will read this, I don't know if there are many people from Alistair-griffin that read this (if there are leave a comment please as I'd be interested to see who does, I may have to be careful what I say - only joking they're nearly all lovely lol). Anyway I wanted to aplogise for prob being quite rude, I did listen in to some people's conversation, although in my defense they were right next to me and not talking quietly so I'm not sure if they did not want me to hear or not but sorry anyway. I was just trying to try and join in with conversations as although I speak to many people on site, I feel that you don't really get close friends unless you speak a lot at gigs and on msn and thigns like that. I don't have many people that I talk to on msn from site and in the past I've only briefly spoked to people at gigs so this time I was trying to join in more although I think the thing I achieved was looking nosy. However I did talk more and meet some lovely people thatI hope to speak to again in the future.
I have to add and this is where I'm not sure if I should as I don't know who reads this (although probably nobody, in which case I'm talking to myself and I feel like an idiot - nothing new there then) but I will say it anyway. I have heard rumours about certain people who have a lot to do with the site and I guess they have influenced my views towards the site and people in question but I shouldn't have done as I now do not believe the rumours were true and have a different and much better opinion of certain people so I am sorry to them for my previous assumptions. I came awayfrom this gig with different views, and I like these views much better :-D

ps. I'm sure there is something else I was going to mention but can't remember what it was, I'll have to come back and edit it in if I do remember.
Also if anyone actually manages to get to the end of this without getting bored and going off to do something more interesting and actually understands any of the stuff I'd be interested to hear people's views if anyone has one on some of what I've said. :-)

Feeling down

I'm not sure why but after feeling quite happy most of the time I've started to feel down today :-( I felt a bit unwell and low. I did go shopping with my mum after school though and bought some pretty tops, a wrap around black stripy top thing and I saw a coat that I really liked in Topshop, it was £50 so I didn't get it today but I think I might ask my mum to get it for me the next time she goes into town, I have my birthday money to spend :-D I'm looking forward to seeing Alistair griffin at the weekend but I've still got lots of coursework, a Science mock and other things to do get arranged before then so not getting really excited yet :-( Hopefully I'll feel much happier tomorrow :-)

Tis the season to be jolly

Well it's getting closer to christmas, I only have one more week at school, I've done my French speaking exam, and handed in my Biology Coursework, however I do still have Physics and Maths coursework to finish, English homework and a Science mock but never mind, will hopefully have a half day Friday and I hear there is going to be an ice rink so I might have a go on that one day and finish my Christmas shopping as well , I've done nearly all my cards, I just want to get my mum and dad something, do a few more cards and hand them all out to my friends at school. Next Sunday I'm off to see Alistair griffin so that should be good, I have a little get together to go to on another day,I'll be getting my tree and putting all the decorations up next weekend/ week, I'm creating a filkcast (where you change the words of an original song -I'm doing Jingle bells- to something in this case Harry Potter) to send to a Harry Potter podcast and i'm going to make myslef some christmas banners/avatars for the many forums I go onto so it's all getting very christmassy :-) lol :-D

Scrictly Come Dancing :-(

I have become quite interested in SCD this series but mianly because of Patsy and Anton so I was very sad to see them go last night... it does mean I won't have to spend lots of money voting for them now though lol.
I seem to be quite busy at the moment, I have a french speaking exam and a sceince mock exam to do in the next few weeks aswell as other CW to finish, really feels as if we are being rushed to finsih lots of work before the christmas holidays. Only 2 more weeks though and I'll have started my christmas holidays and prob be sitting in a hall in York listening to Alistair Griffin and in 3 weeks time I'll have eaten my christmas dinner and prob be sitting infornt of the T.V lol.

Confused and P**ed off

I posted the other day that I was going to come back and post about something else but I can't remember now what it was so I'm a bit confused. Not sure if I ever mentioned that I went to see Harry potter for a 2nd time as a friend had no one else to go with ;-) I enjoyed it much more the 2nd time as I knew what they'd cut out so wasn't left waiting for things to happen as I already knew they didn't lol.

On the subject of the Pissed off bit in the title it is all down to school and more precisely science, it's my least favourite subject anyway so when we are handed back some coursework and not so subtly told they're mostly rubbish and have to improve them and hand it on Friday when I also have an English essay to write out in neat for Thursday, and I don't really understand the science so not sure how to improve it and have to type it all up as it was handwritten in the first place so it takes longer to edit and I also have a trip to York to plan ;-) so I'm a little annoyed but never mind, I think it's more the fact that half the things they are telling us we should have in it they didn't even mention when we did it and surely if they had explained and helped us properly the first time we wouldn't have to be re-doing them now *rollseyes* Anyway I don't like to moan to much but had to complain to someone and no one else in my house will listen without moaning back to me to get on and do it instead of moaning about it lol, infact perhaps that's what I should be doing now*rollseyes* lol.

Music Heaven

The Bedford (www.thebedford.co.uk) has given me the opportunity to discover and listen to many singers and bands but it was because I saw Alistair there that I originally found out about The Bedford. Since then I have been several times but I've been waiting for Alistair to go back there and yesterday he did. I love all his new songs and the other original songs that he sung and the cover at the end. I met many lovely people and had a great time :-). I hope I don't have to wait aslong as I did this time for him to be at the Bedford again though. :-)
ps. I will come back and write more about yesterday and a few other things but I'm tired tonight lol.

Excitement V Nervousness

I have a Gcse science Chemistry exam tomorrow, I've been getting 33/34 out of 36 in most of the practice tests I've done but I'm still worried I won't do well in the real one *rollseyes* However at the same time as being nervous about that I'm very excited. I'm going to see Alistair Griffin at the Bedford (will be the first time since April) and I will also hopefully be able to meet up with many people from his website forum- some I have met before and hopefully some that I haven't :-)
I still haven't decided what to wear though *rollseyes* lol :-)

Pleased and disappointed

This is my review of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire and will contain film spoilers so don't read until you've watched the film if you don't want to know anything about it beforehand. I posted my review on a Harry Potter forum (www.leakylounge.com) and have partly copied it over here with a few changes. May well change my view once I see it with for a 2nd time, I'm only going because she hasn't got anyone else to go with, honest ;-).

O.k I'm not going to lie and say it was fantastic. It was very good and I want to go and see it again infact I am either during the week or next Sunday but I was also disappointed. I think the main reason is because I have read the books and also I had really high hopes for this, everyone had said it was brilliant in different reviews from advanced screenings and then it's disappointing when you see as it, it's never going to be perfect and amazing unless it's a 5 or 6 hour film. I understand they have to cut a lot from the book but having read the books I notice everything and they've moved onto another scene and I'm left thinking but what about ... I think this is always going to happen though and the film as just a film and not a book adaption is great especially the special effects. I thought the dragon scene was the best. Voldermort wasn't as I imagined but still good, I've always imagined him being much more creepy and after hearing that it did get quite scary at the end I didn't think so, but I guess that's becaue I knew what was going to happen and I am 16 and it's only a PG12 (although usually I'm a complete scardy cat when it come to scary films lol). I think I've realised I'm mainly into the books and will just treat the films as added extra's which I guess is all they are anyway. I don't think, for me they could ever compare unless they did a 6 hour film which isn't practical even if I would watch it personally lol although maybe not all at once lol. I missed the first bit though - I came into the cinema when they had just arrived at the quidditch world cup and about to go into the tents. I'm presuming they showed more of the dream than we saw later on in the short clips and them all getting the portkey to the World cup but hopefully I'll get to see that when I go again ;-) lol.

I enjoyed the Yule ball stuff and the humour was good, the challenges were also good. I think really the way it's put together let it down for me. I think I need to give it a second watch as it all happened so quick.I did wear a t-shirt I made and although it was obvious most people had read the books and where 'fans' I only saw one person with anything HP related on and that was a girl with a hat and scarf. I'm glad I wore mine though and can't wait for another opportunity to wear it lol.
I thought all the acting was great, especially the trio well all of them really and I think because I'd seen pictures of Moody and got over the fact he wasn't how I first imagined that when I saw him in the film, I'd forgotten that at first I didn't like how he looked and thought he was a great Moddy if that makes sense lol.

In my opinion this film concentrated mainly on humour rather than some of the serious stuff (although that may just be the things I remember most) like Barty crouch junior and I didn't see Ludo bagman in it. Crouch senior's character wasn't really shown in the way I imagined it and I think that the bit in the maze where Harry and Cedric fight to get to the cup wasn't like there characters.

I'm looking forward to buying the DVD when it comes out, I hope it has added/ deleted scenes ect. though.

If anyone else has seen it I would love to hear your thoughts on it, especially anyone who hasn't read the books as I thought it may be a bit hard to follow if you hadn't but I may be wrong.

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Just watching the Strictly Come Dancing results ( have got bored of X-Factor now *rollseyes*) Hope Patsy and Anton get through :-)

Edit: Can't believe Will went out, it should not have been those two couples in the last two, Bill or James were the worst. I was really worried Patsy and Anton were going to go home, was pleased they got through but still sad that it was Will that went.

Goblet of Fire

My birthday was cool, didn't do anything much but got some great presents including the Harry Potter Scene it game which I love as I'm into quizzes and things like that and as I'm the only one who is really into Harry Potter although my mum has read some most of the books once I think I may win quite a lot, although that may get boring after awhile lol. On the subject of Harry Potter I am going to see the 4th film (Goblet of fire, hence the title of this post) tomorrow, after seeing the trailer and various clips and reviews I'm quite excited. I've even made a HP related t-shirt (may post a photo of it tomorrow if I get time lol) and my mum kindly knitted me a scarf in the Ravenclaw colours, so I shall hopefully be wearing those and have my great HP badges my dad helped me make somewhere either on my clothes or a bag or maybe even on the scarf. I think it may be quite obvious to anyone where I am going lol. And if all that wasn't exciting enough this time next week I will hopefully be at the Bedford awaiting , be listening or have listened to Alistair griffin hopefully singing a new song :-)

November fun

I'm loving this November, I went out for a nice meal with some family and various other people and it's my birthday tomorrow. I'm looking forward to it, especially opening my cards and presents , I think I have one of them is the Harry Potter Scene it game :-D lol
Also it's only 4 days until I'm off to the cinema to see Goblet of fire and I've decided to make my own Harry Potter related badges and T-shirt design which is fun lol. I seem to have found yet another forum that I spend a lot of time on, my dad reckons I'm sad but I love being a part of forums, it's a great way of getting to know people from lots of different places in this country and even all over the world. I also pick up a lot of information,both useful and not lol, and both sites that I visit regularly (www.leakylounge.com and www.alistair-griffin.co.uk) have provided me with a lot of laughs which is what I think life should be all about. Fun and happiness :-) :-D !!!

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I was out for a lot of yesterday evening so I taped Strictly Come Dancing and have so far only watched the main show not the results however I think that it was Dennis who went - I think that prob is fair as he was one of the weaker dancers, I'm not really sure who I want to go next week aslong as it's not Will, Zoe or Patsy, Patsy and Anton to win ;-) !!!

Strictly come dancing vs X-factor

I was into X-factor but I didn't think the right person has been going each week and I can't believe Chico is still in it, I think I now prefer to watch the dancing much better entertainment and not so much unfairness or heart-breaking in it *rollseyes* I want Patsy and Anton to win, as, well I like Anton lol ;-) In x-factor I want either Shayne or Journey South to win but I'm not voting or watching it asmuch as I did last year.

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I'm currently watching live streaming of the Harry Potter and the goblet of fire Premiere in London, they have lots of interviews with many of the cast and I'm very jealous of all the people getting autographs and the fact that'll they'll be watching the film soo, I have to wait until Novmeber 18th lol. I would so love to be an extra or something in the film. lol

A*'s, Harry Potter and fireworks= fun, fun and more fun

I had one of those days where lots of good things happen. The first would be doing my last mock exam and I think it went O.k, I found it easier than my other maths paper which I found out I got a B (4 marks of an A!) in so hopefully this one will be about the same. Also I finished my french coursework (mine was 211 words when we only needed 160 but I did use the impressive sentences in it lol) finding out I got an A* in my I.C.T mock (I like them marking them quickly as I'm so impatient and hate waiting to know lol) and I dumped my boyfriend - I felt bad but atleast I've done it know and don't have to think of excuses to not go out when he comes to call for me *rolleyes* and there are a few T.V programmes I'm looking forward to watching and some stuff my mum had ordered has come and my dad has rung up and ordered tickets to see Harry Potter and the goblet of fire after school on the day it comes out (18th Nov) which is in 14 days. Quite a good day I think lol
Also it's bonfire night tomorrow and I'll probably be going to my local fireworks display and it's the Harry Potter premiere Sunday and although I am tempted to go to it and stand outside screaming madly at all the celebrities but I think I may just stay at home and watch streaming of it on the internet lol. Only one problem I do have a science gcse modular exam to revise for now *rollseyes* lol.

Mocks

It's the end of half term, and after having a great start to it (went to Cornwall for a wedding which was fun, especially the disco in the evening lol) it ended up with me being ill and now it's over already and I have a week of mock gcse exams to do. I have been revising so hopefully will not do too badly. The school is so kind as well, the way they've arranged the exams means I have none Thursday - how nice of them to give me a little break in the middle :-) lol They have given us all a maths paper first thing tomorrow morning though *rollseyes* Might post once I've done them all and say how well I think I may have done, hopefully I'll be pleased and hopeful that I've done well but I'll have to wait and see lol. :-)

No more school for a week

I'm going away tomorrow which means no school tomorrow and hopefully I'll have a good time. I'm not going for long but it still should be fun. Then I have half term however I will probably be revising for my mocks beginning on the 31st rather than relaxing *rollseyes*. Never mind will soon be my birthday (14th November) and the release of Harry Potter and the Goblet of fire (18th November) and the Bedford where I'm going to see Alistair Griffin (24th November) :-)

Busy, Busy, Busy

Nope I can't think of a better title than that I'm afraid lol.

Sorry I haven't posted in ages. I don't really know why, I'm on the computer enough but maybe the fact that the number of sites I know belong to has increased has something to do with it. I seem to have a lot of things coming up the rest of this month and November so I don't think the time between each post will decrease, more likely it'll increase *rollseyes*. We were given college talks at school and told when all the pen days were so I've been going to them, guildford last Thursday and Saturday in which I got to hold a cute hedgehog (merrist wood) and got totally confused - I can't choose the two courses I did want to do and I'm also not sure if I want to do either of them. I'm off to two more different ones this week then some more in November, hopefully it'll help me not confuse me further. Aswell as trying to decide which courses/what college to go to and of couse I need to start revising for my mocks soon as they start on the 31st October, I also have lots of things to look forward too. I have a party to go to next weekend, I then have a wedding to go to which involves a 4+ car journey and staying away a couple of nights. I then might have a Halloween party to go to during half term, I've not been properly invited yet but I'm hoping I'll get to one as, well I just like dressing up really lol. A little while after my mocks it is my birthday and I have a meal to go to a couple of days before that, I do have a science modular gcse exam that week but it's also the release of the Harry potter film - Goblet of fire. I've seen pictures and trailers and am looking forward to seeing it :-) I also get my grades/mock results the week after and the day after that Alistair griffin is going to the at the Bedford in London again which I've been waiting for ages to read and finally when visiting his site sneakily during business studies class I saw the words Al and Bedford in the gigs section and I think I may have let out an audible gasp and waiting for the pages to load seemed to take longer than usua loll. It's 10 days after my birthday (I had a gig on my birthday last year so think I'm quite lucky to have one near it again this year :-D ) it's also on a Thursday before an inset day which is convenient - only problem is it's parent's evening that night, but I'm sure my mum won't mind going to that on her own, well I hope not anyway.
Overall a busy couple of months, well compared to other months anyway... and then it'll be December and Christmas lol

I was going to mention x-factor but am not sure what to say - can't really remember many of their names - I didn't agree with some of the judges choices though especially sharon's with one of the guy's she didn't let through :-( He could have been another Tabby, I'm still waiting for any releases from him, not sure how long I'm going to have to wait.

Bargains, decisions and awkward feet sizes

I had the day off school today as it was an inset day :-) I didn't do a lot - mainly coursework but I did go to tesco's and bought a stereophonics CD with 14 songs on it for under £4. Bargain. My mum later bought me a badge maker which was not quite so much of a bargain but after losing two of the five badges that I bought from the stereophonics gig last Saturday I wanted to make some new ones to personalize my otherwise plain and boring school bag. Although I am still looking for another bag to use for school but I'm not sure whether I'll find one anytime soon. Still haven't found any school shoes either so am using my ones from last year (that have nearly have a hole in the bottom). The trouble is my feet are between a 5 and 6andd aswell as that I don't want to wear leather ones which limits my choices dramatically. I'm sure I'll find some in the end, maybe not before I leave school though lol. I'm currently also looking for an outfit to wear to a wedding in October. Although the shoes that I'll want for that will probably be sandal type shoes so won't be as difficult to find any that fit :-)

Going back to the subject of badges I might get a chance to buy the stereophonics ones that I've lost, again as I'm looking into going to see them again in Decemberr as they are at lots of places near me. I will have to think about it though as it's notbeenn long since I went to see them kast but my reasons for wanting to go again, aswell as the fact they rocked last time, are that they may not do another tour for awhile. I don't now how often they do them if I could look a couple of years into the future and see what gigs will be when this decision would be alot easier. Although I'm not sure my dad will be too pleased to take me again although this time, as it would be closer, I would go with a friend so he wouldn't actually have to o go into it. Decisions, decisions...

Stereophonics Rocked

I went to Birmingham NIA yesterday, I traveled up by car (about 2/3 hours journey) and stayed in a hotel and came back today arriving home about 3ish. After realising that the doors opened at 6 not 7.30, two minutes before 6pm we started walking to the nia. When we got there we realised there was no need to have rushed and would have had time to get something decent to eat outside of the nia as the only food they had was burgers and chips so I ended up having very little to eat all day *rollseyes* Not that I was hungry, I never feel able to eat much just before gigs - depending on who it is I'm going to see. I guess it's the excitement. It started 15 or so minutes late but it was still only half full if that when the support act - the dead 60s came on. They were quite good although all their songs seemed to merge into one long one, although I have to admit I was more interested in seeing how long it was until Stereophonics came on at the time. After a 1/2 hour set ish from the Dead 60s and a break it was finally time for the Stereophonics. I was seated quite high up and although I could see the stage fine they did look quite small and my photo's aren't great. They did have big screens though which was handy not that my photo's of them are any better in fact they're worse! They sung a mix of old and new songs - some I knew the words, some I'm sure I've heard some when before and a few I hadn't heard. I've only got one of their albums (their most recent one) but I've liked all the singles they've released (well the ones I've heard anyway) and the songs that I hadn't heard before were upto the same standard as all the rest. Brilliant. Afterwards me and my dad walked back to the hotel, sat in the bar area for awhile (and my dad complained the music at the gig had been too loud *rollseyes* although in parts it I agree that it was but that's what you have to expect at things like that) before heading off to bed via the lifts. I don't know if it's just me but being in lifts or even near them makes me feel funny so I wasn't too pleased when I found out that was the main way of getting to and from the rooms but it was fine in the end and we weren't too high up.
I am very pleased I didn't have any money on me as every time I walked past the merchandise stall at the NIA I spotted something else I wanted - mugs, clothes,posters, badges, keyrings, underwear ect. In the end I decided just to get my dad to buy me a poster (which is huge and lovely and is going on my wall lol), a t-shirt - it took me awhile to decide which to get as there was a couple I liked but even though I got size small and skinny fit ( the smallest you can get) it's still a bit baggy on me !!! Although I guess that's my fault for being so skinny lol. I also got some badges which I'm using to decorate my school bag and show all my friends at school tomorrow where I've been at the weekend lol. Talking of school, I think I'm going to be quite tired unless I go to bed soon -I feel ill at the moment and have done since I got home earlier...Perhaps I could try and get the day off tomorrow...Nope I don't think It'll work *rollseyes* lol. Overall a great weekend. Can't wait for another gig to go to, who ever's it is lol :-)

It's a mini adventure

No, I'm not going to talk about the mini adverts although I do find the one where it tells you to check if you have a real mini quite funny especially with the horse when the bloke says check for wheels lol. Anyway... what I am talking about is my own mini adventure, okay actually I'm just going to see the stereophonics but I am staying away the night lol, I've done my homework and washed my hair so all I have to do is pack a few things for the night and I'm ready to leave tomorrow :-D
This means I'll have something interesting to write about Sunday lol :-)
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ps. The bag I was talking about yesterday, well I decided I didn't want to keep it in the end and it's going back. I will have another look and hopefully find a different bag that I really like not one that's just kind of o.k lol :-)

My new bag

I decided I didn't want to use the bag I originally bought for school anymore as it's not really big enough - and it drives me mad. It was only £5 so I decided I'd buy another one :-D lol - It's not perfect but it's ok. All the really nice ones are either too small or really big which is a bit annoying but this one will do I think. It was £15 though which I think is a bit expensive for a bag but as long as I use it a lot it's o.k, and it's not me who payed for it lol *rollseyes* :-)
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Only a few more days until I go and see the Stereophonics :-) Although that does mean I'll prob be quite tired Monday as I'll be traveling back Sunday, also won't get much time for H.W ect. but it is only one weekend and next Friday is an inset day :-D

It's a bag/jacket thing

I recently seem to have become obsessed with bags and jackets - they're both items that I don't really need yet they are things that I don't have trouble finding - unlike shoes that never fit *rollseyes*. Luckily it's usually my parents with the money so I don't get an opportunity to buy all the bags and jackets that I see and decide I like as that would be a lot and I don't think I'd have enough room in my house. Although my mum recently bought a bag for herself which I may borrow in the future lol.
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I went to my cousin's birthday party/ disco yesterday. It was good fun :-D, went on late and after taking some people home we didn't get home until gone 1 (so I think that gave me an excuse to not get up until 12 today ;-) ) and it was a good opportunity to wear my black skirt. I also got to take home a chocolate gateau (not sure if I've spelt that right) that didn't get eaten !!! Next weekend I'm off to see the Stereophonics but tomorrow it's school again (this weekends gone too fast). *rollseyes* Never mind, not that long until next weekend lol.

As I was out Saturday night I asked my mum to tape X-factor and watched it today - What were they thinking letting some of them through *rollseyes* and I do think they are a bit cruel to others - there are ways to tell someone they are not a great singer without being completely horrible. I agree with some that they put through though and am looking forward to seeing how they progress in the next round.

Back to the monotonous routine that is school

First day back at school today, and to start another thrilling year we had a rather long assembly (well about 20 mins actually) during which our headmaster talked a lot about how good the school looks now they've done a bit of painting. Hmmm, they've painted a few walls, knocked down a few walls and building and are building some new offices but the floors and wall that haven't been painted look just as dirty and I even noticed a hole in the ceiling with pipes exposed. They haven't sorted the lack of toilet roll issue either - first day back you'd think they'd have managed to put one in each toilet but nope and I wonder how long it'll take for the smokers to make it dirty and smell again *rollseyes* He also thought it'd be nice to tell us that they've moved the mocks forward this year so we will be doing them at the end of October/beginning of November time. I was quite tired after today even though I didn't have to get up until gone 9 as school didn't start until 11.45 today and I only had two lessons, tomorrow I'll have to be up before 8 and have 5 lessons and I've got another assembly- I think it'll be our head of year talking though not the headmaster although I'm not sure which is worse. I can't wait !!! It would be better if some of the people were different there but never mind, only one more year *rollseyes*.
A good side of school though- I got to buy a new fitted blazer and a new bag* which was a bargain at £5 !!! School does mean less time on the computer though so not sure how often I will be able to write in here.
I have got two days off after tomorrow though then I'll have a full week and then another. It will soon feel like I've never been away.

*I think I might write more about my bag and jacket obsession another day :-D lol