An old blog plan from last week

Unfortunately I have recently been drowning under work - not such a fun experience. So this post is a bit outdated...last Friday I think....

Me and Angela had an impromptu night of relaxing on Friday, curled up on the sofa with our laptops close to hand, for spontaneous Wikipedia usage, lol. We settled down to watch Kerrang's 101 Damnation's (Hellraisers of Rock) as the guys had respectively abandoned us for decidedly less amazing climes :-p

We came across a rather fun Homage (to be pronounced with a vaguely French accent) game - in which you look for allusions to other videos in the one you are watching. I began this game with The Offspring's Hit That as an homage to Def Leppard's Lets Get Rocked. My evidence was the perspective - male character walking round town and the colouring of the protagonist (they were both blue). Another more amusing one was the start of Britney Spears' ...Baby One More Time with Queen's I Want To Break Free - the foot-tapping against the desk is also done by Roger Taylor (I think that is his name - the one dressed as a schoolgirl).

This nice easy evening also provided a retrospective look at our old music tastes... Songs like She Sells Sanctuary by The Cult, Papa Roach's Last Resort and Deftone's Back In School lead to a bit of excessive youtube-ing after - if only on my side, lol. I also realised the titles and bands from songs I knew (The Used: All That I've Got for example) :-)

Finally a double session of QI and we learnt that the Lake District only has one actual lake... I only remember that it begins with 'Br'...I think...

*returns to present*

Well I'm off to chill and all that jazz... I shall maybe do a more up-to-date post...who knows, lol x x x

Mid-Reading Week Review

Well, it's now Wednesday and I'm sure you're all dying to know how my reading week has gone...

Things I've done from my 'To Do' list:
1)Read Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
2) Read the 207 Romanticism anthology reading
3) Choose a female poet from selection
4) Find article on aforementionned poet
5) Read A Vindication on the Rights of Women by Mary Wollstonecraft

Things I have yet to do...

...yeah lets not even consider that...

Other useful things I have done this week include:
1) Going to the Whale-tail Cafe with Pete and Mark: I had a Tofu BLT which was rather yummy (aided by Garlic Mayonnaise :-D) which was slightly over-priced I felt at £3.50. We then went to Sainsbury's where Pete proceeded to commit ABH (Actual Bodily Harm) against me with a violent swing of his basket - raising the alarm of a Sainsbury's employee, lol.
2) Signed up for Chancellor's Wharf next year with Chris-pea, Helly-poos, Jon (Helly-poo's boyfriend) and Graham (Jon's friend).
3) Went for a wee walk before which was cut slightly short by some loose bovines which I did not care to have a close encounter with, lol
4) Had a brief rendezvous with Toni Hallettfish the Warwicker in which she slunk back to House 39 which she admired extensively (well momentarily - we had greater things like gossip to do)
5) Got my membership for Leyland Historical Society: this is only in order to go and see the mighty David Starkey in June and bask in his genius-ness, lol
6) Received my DVD of North and South so I can spend 4 hours swooning over Richard Armitage and his pure manliness :-D

In conclusion - a good week so far.

Reading Week

Reading week, the mythical event that occurs in Week 6 for only those worthy of such an honour. Also referred to in antiquity as 'independent study week'. It allows us hard working English Literature students a whole week to gorge on text reading, prepare for essays and all that jazz. Or relax a bit. Unfortunately upon completion of my to do list this morning it appears that this secondary, and more favourable option is increasingly unlikely.

There is a way round this though. My North and South DVD arrived this morning - cue much excitement and uber grinnums from me. As North and South is a course text for Victorian Literature; I am entirely justified in watching it this week. <3

This post is immensly short but I have aspirations of writing lots for my blog this week, so yay (possibly :-p)

If you sail the seven seas, you r a Pirate!!!

A seemingly good start to yesterday as nearly immediately after pushing the button to get across the road of doom to get to the bus stop, the lights went red and a nice green man appeared to help me across :-D This rarely happens - in fact it may have been the first time - and to make it extra awesome, it did the same for Angela! There was a moment when I was not talking to myself because I had left my folder at home. A situation which was entirely the fault of Mark and Pete for walking past my window with about 3 minutes in between and ultimately distracting me, lol.

However last night made it all cyclical as when the hardcore Sugarhouse 4 (Me, Pete, Angela and Mark) went to see Pete and the Pirates (and their support act Buen Chico). It was blooming great :-D Me and Angela slunk right to the front for the support act and gave them a warm Lancashire welcome as they called it. We also managed to be right at the front for PATP too and got our respective grooves on! It also turned us into proper fangirls *pines when they walk past* lol. We gained 20 celebrity points too when, after mildly accosting the band for photos and a wee natter *insanely cheesy grin* they asked us for our photo (because mine and Angela's pirate costumes were brilliant if I say so myself)*our Pete flees without us realising* One of the Pete's also said we could be in the band and that he was glad we dressed up at Pirates. Ergo mine and Angela's slightly obsessive love of dressing up is entirely justified! We also made friends at the front with some gentleman pirates (they had fluffy pirate hats) who were very boppy.


All in all it was a rather fabulous day. x x x

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5B3LRxXnjI

The Lazytown 'You are a Pirate Song' - my new personal anthem :-p