A year of blogging

Well yesterday, was the 1st anniversary of the day I first posted on this blog and it has been a fun year filled with many exciting and sometimes slightly scary things.

I've left school for one thing although I'm not sure that has really sunk in properly just yet. I think it prob will more when I hopefully get my GCSE results in August. I've also been to many different places and been introduced to the world of street teaming and film conventions. Oh and I've also been to a casting call for Harry Potter which although I didn't get anywhere is a pretty cool experience to have.

Anyway before I get to reminisent (is that the right word?) I'll update you all on the last week. I went to Canary Wharf which was good as I hadn't been there before, quite a few huge glass buldings and small green parks. I also went to get myself a wristband so that I could get into Paolo Nutini's* signing in London the next day. I wasn't sure whether I couldget into his gig on Friday so decided I'd go up to the signing. He sung 5 songs despite the heat. I got my photo taken with him and he signed my album. I did think whilst standing in a hot queue that had I forseen this I could have tried to meet him before he got all these excited fans ;-P as I've been going to his gigs since I think 2004. I follow quite a few small/unsigned artists/bands and I think it will be unlikely (although great if it did happen) that all of them will achieve the success that they deserve so I'm pleased to see Paolo doing so well (he's just been given a gold disc!) atleast and I do hope that he wont be the only one.

So after spending the hottest two days in prob one of the hottest places - London, I decided to go to the beach on the colder day (o.k so it wasn't exactly cold but there was a bit more of a wind) which I guess was better as it meant I didn't get too hot. I had a good time though, I've been to different beaches in the past few weeks as my dad has been off work so he has been able to take me. he's back to worj next week though which means I need to find myself a job or something to do.

In the end I did manage to get into the Paolo gig last Firday and do the street teaming although in the end none of my friends that I asked could come so I arranged to meet up with some random person from the UKU site. I did have my dad with me (which was good as he was able to ring him whislt I recovered from being feeling ill) so it wasn't a completely stupid thing to do and as it happened he was nice enough and who he had said he was, thankfully. On the Saturday I went on a boat to have a disco although it was still good it wasn't as good as it has been before when I've been on them.

This week I've been to see Riccardi ** in Fulham which was good although the venue was small and hot. Tomorow I've got a aparty that I've been invited to. I also have a few more gigs that I'd like to go to in the next few weeks so that'll give me something more to blog about. I also recnetly found out about a cool new years eve party being done by www.showmastersonhline.com/forum which sounds interesting although a little way off yet and maybe not a good thing to go to by myself.

* If you haven't heard of Paolo Nutini or have but want to know where to go to find out more visit - www.paolonutini.com.
** A little bit more plugging for my fav bands at the moment lol - www.riccardi.co.uk.

Well I did have a busy week planned

I mentioned in my last blog my busy gig filled week for this week but since then things hasve meant it's not looking quite so busy and has the potential of being quite a dissapointing week but it could still be good. The gig on Sunday which was to see Tabby & The Tsars (www.tabbyonline.com) was prosponed (I took the oppertunity instead to go to the beach although I only paddled ;-P) and I'm now unsure if I can do the street teaming or even get in at all to the Paolo gig I had planned to attend as it is an over 18 venue but after finding this out I contacted the UKU person and was told to ring Paolo's tour manager which I did (which I have to say being a quiet and shy person was a little scary lol) but I now have to wait to find out, he said there probably wouldn't be a problem but I'm not getting my hopes us just yet. I do hope though, that whatever the answer, I know before Wednesday as, if I can't go to the other gig I want to, I might make plans to get to a signing on Wednesday or another gig.

I do still have plans for tomorow and for Saturday though so, hopefully, there will be no other complication and I shall be able to do those things without too much difficulty. :-) So actually, if everything goes well I will still have a good, fun-filled week. :-D :-)

ps. I've also been thinking about getting some of the few reaming tickets to the Reading festival but first need to find someone who is already going, which is proving tricky. I'm also still in need of a job as at £60 for a one day ticket (and consdering I have plans to go and see The Feeling again and msot probably some others later this year and I have new pans for costumes to wear to the random film cons and similar events I like to go to including Hogwarts robes and a Captain Jack Sparrow) I think i'm going to need the money.

pps. I have just noticed I started this blog last July so hopefully, if I remember I will blog on the date that I started to mark this very important occasion ;-P.

The wanderer returns

I'd like to be able to say that the reason for my absence in blogging was down to my very busy schedule but that would not be entirely true although there is some truth in it.

My last post was made after my prom, in the middle of what I can only reflect as being 'not your average weekend'. It had started with my prom which is obviously not something you do every weekend, neither is going in a big posh car or having an almost all night party. The saturday that I last blogged on was reasonably normal but on the Sunday I woke early to get to the London Film and Comic Con, dressed in my elf dress. I was fine in the car, we didn't get too lost and although I had planned to leave a bit earlier we still arrived at a reasonable time. The arriving was a little scary to say the least. There was rather a long queue which if not quite concerning in itself, do remember that I'm in full LOTR elf costume and I can't see anyone else in any sort of costume atall!!! Me, feeling slightly self concious and stupid, you bet! I bravely still got out of the car and di walk to the end of the line where I stood with great hope of seeing somewhen else in a costume as soon as possible. Before long I had and felt slightly less stupid and I have to say by the end of the day I was relunctant to leave and get out of my costume and am already planning my next. I do think there were more people in costume on the Saturday which was unfortumate but I did see a few as the day went on and got a few positive comments regarding my dress and a few people wanted to take photos of me.

I was pleased to get in and be able to get my talk tickets for the Dr Who talk which I found interesting and the Elijah Wood talk which was good also. I also managed to get Elijah's autograph and my photo taken with him, he is very lovely and friendly although I did feel he was being rushed a little towards the end because he had lots more people wanting autographs and not alot of time until the time when he was to leave. I would have liked some sort of comment on my costume but hey we can't have everything I guess. I hope he did actually know that it was a LOTR costume atleast. :-)
I also had my photo taken with K9 lol and took some photos of all of the other guests, I did afterwards think I should have gone to the John Barrowman and the Lost talk aswell though. Also I'm thinking perhaps I should have got John Barrowman's autograph as he did seem rather nice. I got a couple of photos of him though (but they're not very good quality) -

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On the Monday after this I decided to go up to London for the Pirates of the Carribean premiere. I didn't get up there until the afternoon so couldn't get near the entrance areabut out of the places I could have stood I think I did choose the wrong place as where we were not many of the bigger names walked by us apart from Bill Nighy, Orlando Bloom. The presenters of the Friday night project also walked by us, Mostly people just drove by us and I didn't get any autographs from any of them or many decent photos. I am now thinking of going to the next one, whenever that is next year and going early enough to get a good position is I can though.

On Thursday I went to see the film itself and I thought it was good. I liked the first one and although at first my feeling was that it was still better than the 2nd but I'm not so sure now. The comedy in it appeals to me and I love the comic genius lines especially those of Captain Jack Sparrow and I also love the not so obvious humorous moments and the sexual innuendo aswell. I do think the whole thing with Jack being the cheif and on the stick was funny. I wore a home made T-shirt (that didn't turn out as good as I would have liked but was still o.k) saying 'But why is the rum gone?' on it, so was pleased to hear a comment similar to it in this new one. I did like the links back to the first. I also had, on the back of my t-shirt, a line from this one - 'I love those moments...' which is also amusing. I have to say I'm trying to find another oppertunity/reason to go and see it again. I bought the 1st on dvd (I'd only previously rented it several times) and have watched that one again. I'm afraid pirate fever has taken over for awhile.

I do have a not so busy week planned, infact I have nothing planned this week, well until Sunday anyway, which marks the start of a busy, gig filled week including an oppertunity to see Paolo Nutini again. Speaking of Paolo, his debut single got to number 5 in the charts today which is great, having been a fan of him since back in about 2004 I'm very pleased and hope that he continues to have success. :-)

My Prom

Well my prom was yesterday and it was lovely, I loved my dress, then car (it was a bit like a limo) and it was great to be able to hang out with all my friends. The after parties were good too and I had many laughs although a certain thing/s that I would have liked to have happened didn't and I I got very little sleep. Some people, I think, didn't actually go to bed at all and we had people that had came from another party arrive rather drunk I think at about 4/5am so I'm quite tired today and I decided (or rather was asleep) not to go to dancing as I usually do on a Saturday. I did watch the football this afternoon, would have been nice for us to have gone all the way but hey, I still have Murray in the tennis to support :-) I'm hoping to hbuy a Uniom Jack flag to replace my England ones somewhen.

Despite the tiredness I'm looking forwrad to going to the London film and comic con tomorow to hopefully meet Elijah Wood. my dress is now finished and my wig bought so I'm all ready I think but I am now a bit nervous about actually going out in public like this although I no longer am going by train most of the way. That would have been quite funny to seee peoples reactions though. ;-P I have posted a photo of my in this dress (although it's not completely finished in the photo and I don't have my wig on so have smudged out mosy of my head lol) on www.showmastersonline.com/forums in the LFCC section (top one), in the 'what costumes will you be wearing...?' topic if anyone wants to see. If anyone who reads this and actually knows me and isn't just a random reader wants to see a photo of me in my prom dress (some people seem intersted in such things for somereason ;-) ) then post a comment and I'll email some as I don't want to post it where anyone can see it. :-D :-)

All dressed up and somewhere to go (hopefully) :-)

Well my induction day went o.k, I had a good time, enjoyed the lessons that I did - English Language, Media Studies, Critical thinking and Computing although I did notice that I was the only girl I think in my computing class but I presume there will be more people when we actually start. (I especially a quiz that meant I could show off with my knowledge of celebrities ;-P). I spoke to a few people I didn't know but most people seemed to have there little groups already sorted so I didn't make any friends as such but hopefully I will get to when I start (that's if I get the right GCSE's). I do now know how to get there and back on the train although it might take me a a little longer to be certain of how to get to it at the other end.

Anyway back to now, my prom is being held tomorrow which I'm both excited and a little apprehensive about. I'm quite happy with my dress but I am quite self conscious so will prob feel nervous in it to start with. We are supposed going in some big car, not sure what it is but I think there will be about 10 of us. After the prom it self I hope to go to one of the after parties although how and which I'm not sure yet. My dress is a lovely aubergine colour and is long and straight (and a little too tight despite me quite thin anyway) with little sequins at the top. I also have a very nice bag which I think gives me the look of film stars from the past. I might put some photos on here but I think I will blur my face out of it lol.

On Sunday, I have another dress to wear, one that my mum has very kindly made me. It is cream and has sparkly gold bits around the long arms and around the top and I have a gold belt and a blonde wig. I'm not decided whether I'm going to be an elf, Gladariel (sp) or Eowyn yet as it could sort of me either although prob looks more like one of the dresses in the film of the latter. I am ofcourse, if you've seen them/read the books, talking about Lord of the rings as I'm going to hopefully meet Elijah Wood and have my photo taken with him. I think I might have mentioned this a few times. ;-P.

As I do have a bit of a taste for trying to meet famous people. I also have bee looking into trying to get to London for the Pirates of the Caribbean 2 premiere in London. I'm not sure just how early I'd need to get there though to get anywhere near the barrier, presuming that all premieres are done in the same way. I think I'll have to look into that a bit more before deciding whether to go. It would be rather cool to see Johnny Depp in the flesh even if it be from afar.

A new adventure

I'm off to my induction day for the college I will hopefully be starting in September tomorrow, I'm a bit nervous but also excited about it and I'm sure at some point I'll get round to telling you how it goes tomorrow.

I watched Pride and Prejudice (newest version) today and was ashamed of myself for not watching it before (I had heard of it, how can you not have done? ;-P) as I loved it. I have to say I love a lot of things set in those sorts of times with the costumes and dialect. I even went out and bought the book today. All I need to do now is find my very own Mr Darcy. :-P :-D :-)

ps. Not sure if I've mentioned this already but I was pleased to find I'm doing the tour cover/street teaming/ whatever you want to call it for Paolo Nutini in July which hopefully should be fun. Now I really must go to bed, have to be up early in the morning to get to college for 8.45. :-)

T4 on the beach

I went to see T4 on the beach yesterday and I did enjoy it although I did come away thinking I could have had a better time for a couple of reasons. I've not got round to coming and blogging about this till now and I'm tired so will come and edit this and prob write my review of all the atrists/bands that I saw (and can remember) and some other random info from the day tomorow. :-D :-)

Edit: Well it's tomorow so here's my report of Sunday. Left home about 8.30 with my dad and cousin and went to pick my other cousin up before heading towards Weston-Super Mare. At about 11.45 (I think) we arrived on the beach and found a place to park. As we drove onto the beach (yes the carpark was actually on the beach and the parking tickets actually said 'Beware rising tides'!) I think I heard the All American Rejects singing 'Dirty little secret' (I think that's what it's called) so I missed them, I also managed to miss The Automatic. They started their set as I began to walk from our car the the entrance and the walk was so long that by the time we'd reached the entrance they'd finished their set so although I could hear them and sort of saw a bit of them on the big screens I would have liked to have been closer, I'm currently loving their song 'Monster', I might actually look into seeing them somewhere else. Anyway once we were inside the actual place Lily Allen came on, her music isn't really what i'd listen to normally and we were trying to find somewhere to sit and then eat our lunch so wasn't really listening properly. Once we had had our lunch (almost). The proper part of the day started, with the T4 presenters being introduced and the first of many cued (is that the right cue?) applauses. Basement Jaxx were the first of the 'main' acts (I guess the rest had been support acts, and I think that Frank must have been on just before I got there) to come on. I wouldn't buy their music but I don't mind listening to it, it's very catchy and they did a good job singing live, o.k so they may actuallly not have been singing live, I'm not sure, I think atleast some of the acts were but not positive about who wasn't. Can't remember who was on next, some man who I thought was Busta Rhymes until he came on later and Ne-yo at some point too, I'm afraid neither are my type of music. Now I'm struggling to remember the order in which people came on so this will prob be wrong. Mcfly came on an I got up and did a bit of singing along, their music is naff but as I've said before naff can be good and they were. Busta Rhymes's music isn't too my taste and I think I'll leave my descritption of his performance at that so as to avoid angering any of his fans that may be reading this.
So moving swiftly on, The Zuton's were great, love their song Valerie and the other one that I can't remember whqt it is called but I thought they were really good. Embrace sung 'world at your feet' which I like and 'Nature's law' which I also like I was then thinking to myself I hope they do 'ashes' and they did so I was pleased and sung along when I knew the words. Pussycat dolls songs are rather catchy, 'Buttonz' especially but I went off for a toilet break, no offence to them lol. Feeder were really good, they really got the crowd jumping around especially with Buck rogers, which most people seemed to know the words too. Razorlight were also good, I was looking forward to seeing them and I enjoyed their set. I also liked Boy Kill Boy's set although I don't know many of their songs. Simon Webbe'sstuff isn't too my taste again i'm afraid but he did sing better than I expected him too so if he was singing live then that's cool. Orson were good, I only heard them mostly as I went for anoter fun trip to the portable loos. Imagine my annoyance when standing in the long toliet queue I hear the intro to 'Fill my little world' by one of my favourite bands at the moment- The Feeling. I did go over to the side and watch them on the screen but it wasn't as good as it would have been had I been where I was for the others but I have seen them 3 times before so thankfully wasn'ty too dissapointed and I sort of sung along to Sewn in my loo which provided myself with a bit of amusement anyway lol. (If they'd have been singing more than two songs I'd have probably been back to hear them sing atleast 1 song, can't say I really agree with whoever's job it was to decided how many songs each act sang.) Matt Willis had be doing my kind of dancing on the spot to his song 'up all night', not sure what I thought of his new one. I think I need to listen to it again before making my mind up on it. After him I think was Danni Minogue who was good, I'm not particualy a fan of hers, but didnt't mind listening to her. The Pet Shop Boys also performed and I have to say I'm not a big fan of their music atall. Shayne Ward came on, and I then went to get some chips, no offence meant to him as he can sing but I'm not a fan of his songs I'm afraid. The Ordinary boys also performed and were good, I heard them mostly rathet than saw them as walking back to our place in the crowd. Hard-Fi were the special surprise guests as at one point they had been unconfirmed but I'm glad they did come as I thought they were good although I'm not sure if the lead singer was quite, er, right if you know what I mean, I may well be wrong though so will say no more. I think I've mentioned everyone now apart form the last act - Will Young who I did think was good although I think I might have preferred it if he'd chosen some of his others songs that I know better.

We were stood nearish to the back but it was still o.k. Thinking back I do wish I'd tryed to get closer when we fgirst arrived but never mind. You don't get the same atmosphere nearer to the back where people don't seem as bothered and much fewer people are dancing and singing along, as you do at the front. I have to say I wondered why some peopele go as some people don't seem that interested in the music and why have a fun fair at it. Was it not supposed to be about the music?

Once it had finished, and the sun had decided to come out at last (*rollseyes*) ,we went on the long walk back to the car and then the long journey home, we must have left about 6ish but what with the traffic trying to get out of W-SM (appartenly 30,000 people although I'm not sure if all the tickets had bene sold so there may have been less) and taking a different road to which we should really have done, me and my dad didn't arrive home until just after half 10 I think. I then watched abit of what had been shown of the day on the T.V that my mum had taped before going off to bed and not getting up till about 11am the next morning. I was quite tired nearly all day yesterday but I think i'm feeling more awake today.

I had a look on the T4 site and saw they have video's of the Support acts so I've now watched The Automatic singing 'Monster'. On a non-related note I also decided to check out www.pottercastfans.com ( a fansite for a Podcast on the-leaky-cauldron.org - PotterCast) to see if there was any news on the forum as I hadn't been on there for awhile as I'd almost began to give up and was very pleased to see that the forum should be back up soon. :-D

I am pleased...honest

So it was my last GCSE today, as you'll know if you regularly read my blog, and I am relieved that I survived them all and I didn't get as panicky as I thought I might during them. I had imagined me constantly thinking about them and randomly checking books at all times of the day to check random things that had just come to me but actually I wasn't that bad and I didn't really feel like revising alot if the time, the ironic thing is,now that these exams have finshed and my school days are over, i'm confused and got the urge to revise. I'm not sure I've really got my head around the fact exams are over (for now atleast) and although I did say I was looking forward to leaving and really wouldn't care about leaving school, now I actually have it's weird and I'm a little, just a little sad. I do have to admit that I even enjoyed some of my exams, like the English ones as I'm a bit Hermioneish in that respect (sorry to non-Potter readers qho wont get that) and do like doing exams sometimes. That makes me sound like a right nerd, doesn't it? ;-P :-D :-)

The penultimate GCSE...hopefully

Aslong as I don't fail and have to redo any of them today I have my second to last exam - Business Studies, I've not done alot of revision for it until just a minute ago although I have looked through my books a bit but it is only worth half a GCSE so it doesn't matter too muich although I still hope I do o.k. Tomorow I have m,y last GCSE- French which shouldn't be too difficult although that may not mean I do well, I haven't really revisied much for it either as I've been busy with subjects like Maths, English and Sceicne and as it was the last one I've kept thinking 'oh it's fine, I've got ages until I have to sit it'. Trouble is now it's only one day and it's my nan's 90th birthday today so we are having a mini party (o.k so it's just a meal with a few people round but that counts as a party, right?). I will try and find some time to do some last minute french revision though and my exam isn't until the afternoon again. Then after about 3.15 tomorow I will be freee. The summer will then involve lots of gigs and outings I expect. You know I said that I was going to stop going to many gigs during my exams? Well that kind of didn't happen, but it's not really my fault if the people I like announce lots of gigs and I don't think they've affected me atall as I haven't been to any the day before an exam. I've noticed that al these small unsigned bands and artists that I've been following for quite awhile are now getting some of the recognition they deserve, now ofcourse that's good for them but it does mean my summer may be quite expensive wityh lots of singles and albums to buy and gigs will I'm sure get more expensive as they get more fans but that'll just mean I'll have to get a job. I want one working with animals but the only places that I can think of are pet shops and I don't really agree with the way they are kept sometimes and would much rather work helping animals but most rescue shelters and similar places are going to be voluntary, which is good but I do need money as I feel a bit bad making my parents pay for all these mad ideas about outings and adventures that I seem to get regularly. :-P I'll have to keep looking I guess...

I'm hoping to go to T4 on the beach this weekend, (although we do know have a spare ticket, anyone interested?) which I bought tickets for back when The Kooks were supposed to be playing. They are now not but although I am dissapointed there are still people there I want to see and hopefully I get to see The Kooks do a proper set somewhere somewhen. Out of the people that are currently announced (if they don't change their minds again like they have been!) the bands/artisits I'm looking forward to/don't mind seeing are (not in a relevant order) - All American Rejects, The Automatic, The Feeling, Embrace, Feeder, Orson, Matt Willis (I've yet to make my mind up whether he's good or not having only heard one song which I did like), Razorlight (Wooo lol), The Zutons and Will Young. I also don't mind listening to Basement Jaxx although I wouldn't buy their stuff, and Mcfly are naff but hey a bit of naff is good. :-D Also the same goes for Danni Minogue, I'm yet to decided whether I like her stuff or not. There are a few people like Shayne Ward Simon Webbe, Lily Allen and others that I'm not sure about yet, what I've heard of theirs hasn't been to my taste. Also the Pussycat dolls aren't who Id'd choose to listen to usually but I'm sure singing along to 'Don't cha' could provide a bit of amusment. Frank are also there who I don't think I've heard before (and Pet Shop Boys who I think I prob should have heard before but can't remember) so I will reserve judgement until atferwards. I think I may go for a toilet break during Busta Rhymes and/or Ne-yo as although I'm sure they're great and have many fans their music isn't really my thing. I amny give them a chance at first thought and listen to a bit. Now don't worry everyone I shal hopefullyl be coming on to blog about this particular adventure with all my comments on the artists - which may be quite long so I'll apologise in advance ;-) lol.

Anyways, I have revision to be doing now so best go and actuyally do it rather than just saying I will do it in a minute. I will prob blog before I go Sunday, I'm sure you will all be fascinated to know if I manage to get tickets for the Elijah Wood photo sessions at the London Film and Comic Con, which I may just have mentioned a few times ;-), as they are supposed to go on sale at 6pm today, I've made random notes around the house so hopefully I will remember! :-D :-)

The Feeling

I went to see The Feeling for the 3rd time on Friday at the ULU and they rocked! I love their stuff (I've been listening to their album lots at the moment too :-D) and they sound even better live than they do on the album :-D. I would have liked to have got to the front but didn't. I had a good time although I would have liked to hear them sing starnge as even though I've seen them 3 times now, I'm yet to hear it live.

On the exam front, I have 3 more exams left this week, Science, Business Studies and French. I then have an induction day to go to for the College i'm hoping to go to, dance presentation and my Prom to go to in the next few weeks.

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* :-)