Monday 29 August 2011
APOLOGY
I just found out that the death toll for hurricane Irene is 24, yikes - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-14711508
Geordie Shore
Girl gets called ugly and responds with 'maybe I should start wearing more make up.' Amazing programme.
Richard III
Apparently the new production of it at the Old Vic in London is awesome, my parents went and I really fancy Kevin Spacey and now i'm sad I didn't go. Especially because my dad said he ended up only having half a seat because they sold the ticket to a rather large lady. Think before you sell, how much is that money really worth to you?
Charlie Simpson.
Face is gorgeous
Music is gorgeous
Busted was gorgeous
Lyrics are poetically written, embellished with themes that have marred Charlie's loathsome life for the past few years.
Check him outttt
Me, myself and Irene.
Me : 'That hurricane sure looks bad, better watch the American coverage on CNN'
Myself: 'So if it's category one, does that make it the least or most severe... Hmm...maths'
Irene: Enters from Southern direction, slightly aggressive at start, when reaches New York decrease pace and subtly exit from set
Tropical Storm: 'It's been me all along mwahahaha'
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jZ7qyOA07YfmtdrbQe3ZCUAjI4sw?docId=b0653b8519474b7b8a5193b1252af0c5
Jeyonz
Above is the name that I predict that Beyonce and Jay Z will name their unborn child, I think they will choose it because it is unisex and combines the best features of both their names.
However, if something crazy happens and they do not name their child Jeyonz, they will surely call it 'Sasha Fierce.' Failing this the child will be named Kanye, after the God who bears the same name. Should all these safety nets find themselves moth eaten and full of large holes, I predict that they will turn to scientology, and name their child Tuise - which is a combination of both the names 'Tom' and 'Cruise'. If they decide to be proper scientologists, which I hope God (kanye) forbids, their child will be named 'Rubbard' which is a combination of the names 'Ron' and 'Hubbard.' Other possible combinations of the names above are listed below;
- Crom - I particularly like this one, it's kind of like 'Tron' which they made a film about , but sounds softer because it's one letter away from being 'Crum'
- Fasha - I'm not sure I like this one, I think it is overly aggressive for a child's name, but then too ridiculous to be an adult's name (all other suggested names in my opinion are feasible for the name of a superstar child) also it's like 'Tasha' and there's nothing more annoying then people getting one letter of your name wrong and CHANGING IT COMPLETELY
- Hon - A word which will suffer with the same problem that the words honesty and honour do, people forget to pronounce the 'a-ch' and the 'a-ch' is now supposedly 'silent' pfft idiots
- Hon cont. Admittedly 'Honey' when pronounced, not eaten, is inclusive of the 'a-ch' but then teachers may try to lengthen the name and call the poor child 'Honey' which will be equally annoying and a potentially sticky situation will result. Ha, Ha.
- Wanye - just sounds stupid, who's going to call their kid Wanye I mean COME ON who would even think to do that
- Kest - not cool on it's own, however I think 'Kestrel' would be a pretty cool name, however some lesser Jay-z and Beyonce fans may not pick up on the derivative and it will like their child is called 'Apple' or something like that, then Kanye will get mad.
- Kelly - Why name your child after your cousin who as talented as she may be is still not Beyonce.
Friday 26 August 2011
Reasons to be shallow, thus cheerful.
1) You will more often than not, not realise the severity of a situation
2)You may not even realise when bad things happen
3)There is almost always something that will amuse you, or cheer you up, not that you will need cheering up
4)It will be the big things in life that count, like buildings and trees, and there are a lot of them
Thursday 25 August 2011
Libya Trivia
It's in the news a lot at the moment, but what do we really know about Libya? Well...
1)It can be rearranged to spell Yabli, Bayli, or Bilya.
2)Phonetically one might spell it ; Lib - e - a.
3)It has only two vowels in.
4)It is slightly larger than Alaska, with a slightly different climate. Enter Sarah Palin.
5) Which reminds me, this person's youtube is awesome; http://www.youtube.com/user/JennaMarbles.
If you're someone who deserves to feel better, I think that schadenfreude is acceptable. To a point, actually I don't know, maybe only if you're thinking about the fate of animals? But then again we are supposed to be stewards, but what are we supposed to do when a buffalo is being eaten by a lion, apart from film it of course? At school a teacher once did an assembly which included this video, and he said that whenever he felt really rubbish, he watched this video, and was glad he wasn't the buffalo.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4Q9_DmElbI&feature=fvwrel
Us, you, me and I
I've just remembered what writing in second person sounds like, after I realised I was doing it. Not only am I a step behind everyone else, but i'm behind myself as well now. In some 7th dimension out of body kind of way. Also - when I say 'you,' I don't mean YOU, I think I mean 'us,' as in humans. Unless you're reading it, and you feel it applies directly to you, in which case by all means assume that this was written specifically for you, and be flattered. It's more written for me really, sorry you have to read this. As for the rest of you, or us....
I think there's a lot to be said with going with your gut instinct. Afterwards it's just so frustrating when you realise that you didn't, especially considering you probably didn't listen to the people around you and then ignored yourself as well. I'm also baffled who you could possibly be adhering to, considering you've ignored everyone in you life including yourself. Maybe there is a God after all? Frustration commence. Everything happens for a reason blah blah blah - although if what you were hoping for doesn't materialise I don't suppose it means you should stop hoping for something all together different, or maybe even better than what you wanted in the first place. Just because bad things happen doesn't mean your expectations should be lowered, at least whatever's happened that hasn't gone to plan is out the way now. Lightning rarely strikes twice. Although I do know two people who got double chicken pox.
Wednesday 24 August 2011
A life of crime.
Now I am on a gap year I need to think of projects to keep me occupied, such as;
1) How to pick a lock - demonstrated in the trailer for possibly the most ridiculous and non sensical looking film ever; 'Fright Night'
2) How to hot wire a car *cough* I mean jump start
3) How to deal a pack of cards
4) How to work slot machines
5) How to play poker
6) How to play ( I say play, I think I mean work) accumulators
7) How to put search engine optimisation to good use.
Admittedly, on the surface it may seem that I am using my gap year to become a petty thief and/or gambling addict. You would be wrong, I am just trying to be cool and make money. Essentially what criminals do I suppose...
Until they get caught course, that's not cool, neither is stealing things or breaking and entering. Braking and entering isn't great either. Luckily I braked just in time to stop my car going into my lounge. I merely scratched the bay window.
Stupid News Stories: Bull semen forces closure of interstate ramp
Stupid News Stories: Bull semen forces closure of interstate ramp: Nashville, Tennessee - Canisters of bull semen caused quite a scare on the on-ramp to Interstate 65 South. The canisters fell off a Greyhou...
Ford Polo
I drove through a ford in my polo and I think that it broke the power steering and made the brakes slower. Either that or my reactions today are just even more sluggish than normal.
Things I have underestimated this week.
1) How there is not air conditioning in clubs
2) How horrible tequila is
2) How much I have to do
4) How hard writing a personal statement is
5) How badly out of date fake tan will make your legs peel
6) How badly using out of date fake tan that has turned your fake tan glove green will end
7) The importance of coursework
8) How bad my driving is
Tuesday 23 August 2011
If you're thinking of starting a farm.
1) Donkey rescue sanctuaries require you to have proper fencing, a field shelter, and some stables. They also require you to have stock wooden fencing, and dividing fences.
2) Moles are territorial. It's just one mole making all the moles hills in your garden, curiously they are also technically cannibals, and can eat their own young and or spouses (presumably,) because if their offspring grew up and then contested the same area of lawn it would be no different from an unrelated mole doing so.
3) llamas and Alpacas keep away foxes.
4) In order for a dog to be a good 'ratter' it must have been bitten by a rat itself.
Monday 22 August 2011
Today I
I climbed out of bed before 10, didn't cry or wallow, turned up to my piano teacher's house at the wrong time. I think that as my friends move away that will become a more frequent occurrence,
I will just turn up at people who are still here's houses and say that they agreed to see me.
She was very welcoming though, we had a cup of tea in her kitchen.
I'm trying like made to find jobs in ski resorts.
This is my life.
Sunday 21 August 2011
Verdict.
Predictably for me, the circus was more an elaborate tea party filled with boden clad young families driving black 4x4s. Luckily there were no clowns. All in all, as the first and last circus I will ever attend, it was quite nice, and not too disturbing. My mum driving on the wrong side of the road however, was.
Freak shows
http://www.giffordscircus.com/ this is where I am being taken to later, I don't know how people find circus's anything less than disturbing. They are gothic and obscure and I will play no part in their masquerade.
Day 1 of not going to university.
1) So far I have not had left over Chinese for breakfast, no doubt a step in the right direction.
2) I plan on getting dressed today, well, I at least "plan" on getting dressed today.
3) I'm supposed to be going out for lunch with my extended family today, which puts me in a difficult situation because i'm bound to be difficult. If they say "well done" I will reply with something along the lines of 'nothing was done well,' and if they they say nothing I will be able to feel their commiserations piercing my soul as travel from their eyes to mine. If they say hard luck I will have to explain that I am gutted about my grades, not that fact I didn't get into medicine, which will then require the further explanation of 'well if i'm being honest I don't know why I applied for it in the first place,' and then my parents will sit there and zone out whilst all the money they wasted on UKCAT, chemistry, biology and interview tuition dances around their heads in the form of pound signs.
Saturday 20 August 2011
Being true to my word
I accidentally clicked that basketball was a topic covered in my blog on technorati. SO. Basketball huh? Well, here is the best image of a covered basketball I could find on google images. It is more of a basketball covered cake. mmm. Lemar odom. 
Anti biotics
So basically after complaining about them i'm having to take a 6 week course of them again, erythromycin if you were interested. Their common side effect is nausea. This combined with my mum's 'pick me up idea' of getting me a David Lloyd membership I've estimated I'll either be banned from the gym for vomiting within a month, or will have accidentally halved my bmi in that time. Dang it.
Clearing and tearing ( as into cry, not like ripping.)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-14600749
13,000. Unlucky for some. Indeed, that is true. Although, I think I may be delusional, I don't get the grades for medicine, I don't get the grades for my back up, I don't get the grades to be at the top of a clearing waiting list. However, when offered a place from a university, as dowdy as it may be, I decline. I clearly have some kind of complex about being more deserving and able than I am.
I am not surprised I didn't get in anywhere with my awful attitude. I am surprised however, that I did not go with my gut instinct last year, bad me. Note to self - competing is only fun when you're not doing it with yourself. Because if you lose to you, then you're just a loser, as you have not taken the time to consider who you may have beaten. Unless you consider losing with yourself winning because you were only competing with yourself so somehow one of you (being yourself) had to win. Wait, who said that?
At least if you compete with other people there will always be those who have not done as well as you. The joys of schadenfreude. Oh how sadistic I have become.
I'm now going to apply for history, as it was the only subject that on paper I was ever any good at, I knew his before I applied for Medicine, however the idea of an instant career was appealing.
My mother said earlier today that I was a 'Victim of not playing to my strengths,' despite the encouragement that was no doubt meant to consume me from those immortal words, I, now no longer the optimistic realist but a sadistic pessimist took it as the confirmation that not only had I failed to get into university, I had manage to victimise myself, in a situation, that involves no one else, but myself.
tum blar
My friend's have pretty awesome tumblrs ;
http://catcatcatt.tumblr.com/
http://annarapson.tumblr.com/
Well, Well, Well.
Well. Well, well well, well. Well well, well well, Well. Well well well well well? Well, well well, well.
Well Well Well, Well.
We'll?
*shakes head*
'Well.'
Are you?
'Well'?
*pause*
Well...
Maybe we'll...
Well, maybe.
Down a?
Well?
We'll see.
Sunday 14 August 2011
Ground Zero.
America is currently doing a lot of recovering, what with the debt crisis, and debacle in Afghanistan, plus there is the redevelopment of Ground Zero. I despair, on the site they are building a new 'Freedom Tower' that will, in 2012, be the taller building in the United States. A generic quote it may be, but 'Those who do not learn from history, will be condemned to repeat it.'
'It is rehabilitation for those hurt by the terrorists and a way to heal the scar on a nation. Part of the healing process is new growth, which this tower represents. But it has been a painful process. The early designs were ridiculed.'
Says a website documenting the rebuild. How much better are security precautions 10 years after 9/11? Good enough to completely eradicate the probability of another attack? What would be even worse, is that if something similar happened again, not only would more lives be lost, and the tower destroyed, but the fountains with the victim's names inscribed into the walls would also be desecrated, it would be a grave yard once again. I understand the notion that some feel to leave the whole plot as a memorial would be too painful, but that doesn't negate the prospect of future terrorist attacks. Acceptance and reflection could be just as powerful as a physical form that shouts literally from the skyline of New York and America has bounced back. It often takes much more will power to leave something as it is, than to keep returning to it.
http://www.glasssteelandstone.com/BuildingDetail.php?pageNum_UserComments=6&totalRows_UserComments=1282&ID=439
Re-blog after Re-ading Hitchens.
So, i'm half way through 'God is not Great' and would just like to point out I wrote the passage below before reading Christopher's book. Basically, he slates, well, criticises at least Dawkin's attempt to rebrand Atheists as the 'enlightened'. Just saying, I said it first, well, before I'd read it.
Traditionalists
It strikes me as ironic that those who view anti abortionist and gay rights groups as ideals which are no long practically applicable in this day and age are alluding to left field, revisionist come enlightened thinking. Where as those traditionalists who actually are against abortion, gay rights etc, are more often that not following the lord's 'enlightened' path.
This does not apply to those who view the issues mentioned as wrong on a matter of moral not religious grounds, everyone is entitled to their beliefs.
A crisis maybe, mid life it may not be.
In today's Observer Magazine Miranda Sawyer wrote about a mid-life crisis/slump. She points out how at 24 she didn't know she would make it to 44, so it's pretty difficult to put the behaviour that characterises a mid-life crisis down to the fact that you are half way through your time on earth, because you could be 3/4 of your life through, or even 5/6 of the way, maybe 2/8, who's to say. It would be interesting to look at the lives of those who died before their perceived 'time' (or the age that is calculated as the national life expectancy,) and see if at half way through their lives, at whatever age that may have been, they displayed the behaviour that some people display at the point which is the traditional 'middle age', and see if the universe was trying to tell the rest of the world, and the person themselves something.
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