A Random Monii

Yup, Jonathan Coulton is making plans to make another trip to the UK (and Ireland). He’s wanting to play in Dublin around October 24th. Oh, what I would do to go.

Perhaps it’s a slightly good thing I no longer live in the UK. Or else I would be going, to hell with university. Sigh. Who am I kidding- I’d love to be able to attend any of his concerts. I’m making it a priority. One day I shall attend a Jonathan Coulton concert.

I’ve been very busy, with both packing and social calls before I go. Mostly, I’ve been occupied with a certain guy who has charmed me. I don’t know where it will go, but for now I’m happy the way the relationship is. Of course, my timing sucks because I’m leaving for University tomorrow, leaving him far behind. But we’re both young and maybe it’s fine for my first ‘relationship’ to be only part time. To be honest, I’m not sure how my feelings are. Since I’m a girl, my emotions are involved, but we aren’t going to just take it slow and see. Like he told me today, we have all the time in the world.

Apart from that side of my life, things are pretty normal. The family came around last night and made me very sad about leaving them. They even got me a chocolate brownie with a candle in to say goodbye. You know people love you when they bring you chocolate.

The packing is going averagely well. All of the stuff is packed- the cutlery, toiletries, stationary etc. But I still have to finish packing my clothes, as well as all of my gadgets and their wires. With any luck, we’ll leave early in the morning, drive all day then sleep over in Knysna. Then we drive some more on Saturday, and arrive at Rhodes University in good time for registration.  I’m very nervous and sad about leaving now, though I’ve been fine all summer.

Because I’m taking my PC (good old James Bond) up to Uni with me, the family had to get a new house PC. They’ve picked this shiny new one, who’s currently nameless, which of course I was expected to set up. Everything’s running fine so far, though I still reckon we need more RAM to run Vista properly. It also freaked out when I tried to install the printer, and sucked up the last of our bandwidth allocation when it updated. Sigh. The joys of Windows.

Inaccurate reports are still coming in hard and fast, but Heath Ledger was found dead today. Further details will come in eventually, and I really hope that his involvement in the Joker role for the new Batman movie had nothing to do with this.

I don’t know why this has shook me so badly, but it has. Movie-stars aren’t supposed to die.

Yep. My dad, who just left tonight to fly over here for two weeks, bought me a star. One in Orion, near the famous three that make up his belt. It’s not scientifically named after me, but I have a star chart detailing where it is, co-ordinates and a certificate. Way cool.

I have a darling. And he has a sweetie.

PS: Happy December, everyone. Only 4 weeks until I get my final results.

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Now playing: Zac Efron - Ladies Choice
via FoxyTunes

I’m really sad. Today was my last ever exam, my final final. I was supposed to go out and celebrate with my three friends, except two can’t make it. I was then invited out with The Boys from school- who have since let me down. I shouldn’t be surprised, but I was looking forward to relaxing with school people for the last time.

On the whole I guess 13 years of school wasn’t too bad. I’ll end up missing it, but right now I’m just peeved at all of my adolescent peers for letting me down. The single night of the year when I actually want to go out and get drunk, and now nobody wants to take me. I predict a quiet night, where I game by myself and go to bed sober and before midnight.

I love this song. There’s so much violence and aggression bubbling under the surface. Yay for 80’s Britrock.

P.S. 10.21 PM - I seem to have managed a fair level of intoxication by myself. Success!

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Now playing: The Jam - Going Underground
via FoxyTunes

So today I browsed DeviantART. I usually stay away from there because there is so many amazing artists and they intimidate me, the humble writer. But I couldn’t help myself. The art is overwhelmingly beautiful, these artists should be rich, famous and respected. Then again, artists rarely are, I suppose.

I downloaded a bunch of their work (ensuring their signatures or watermarks are on, I’m not about to get into a copyright battle) and they shall now adorn my desktop. It’s the best I can do, considering I am not PayPal enabled. I found this nifty freeware program to swap my wallpapers- EvJO Wallpaper Changer. I’ve used a few over the years, but this one seems cool. Enjoy.

Tonight I have discovered the following:

• I came first in my grade for English
• I came first in my grade for Drama
• I also won a diligence award
• Decisions made quickly can actually turn out very fun
• People who want to buy you drinks might actually pick a decent drink that isn’t disgusting, and is great for a first time drinker
• You might end up enjoying yourself in a situation you never thought you would
• Drinking without eating first is a very bad idea
• Two drinks can get an Irish girl spinning if she hasn’t eaten first (see above)
• Having a friend who is under the limit drive you home is a very good idea
• Having a kiss moment with that same friend, but not actually kissing, is very confusing
• I owe the party guy in my grade for showing me how to have fun with alcohol involved but still be safe
• It is very hard to type up blog posts while being intoxicated

And that is all, ladies and gentlemen.

I’ve had a few days off in between exams, and I’m feeling really lethargic. I’ve been sleeping more than I’ve been awake recently, it seems. I don’t want to do anything (though when pushed by a friend I produced a nice RP post), so my puppy and I have just slept.

Except I’m back to exams tomorrow. And I’m heading off to Ireland for 5 days, traveling all the way to Belfast by myself. I’ve flown a million times, but never completely alone. It’ll be cool though.  My old schoolmates are bouncing in excitement, and so am I. I don’t want to expect too much, and in the end it’ll just be nice to see the family again. All 20 billion of them, and counting.

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Now playing: Prince - Kiss
via FoxyTunes

So there’s major floods in England, China and India. And in Hungary up to 500 people have died in the past week because of a heatwave. Over here the rain is pouring down- but technically it is our winter so I should have nothing to complain about. But the weather is really crazy right now.

I’m busy filling in my university application. They haven’t given me enough space to answer most of the ‘additional information’ section. Only two lines for “Your favourite book”? Honestly, I want to go for a BA in English and they only give me two lines. Tsk.

“What community involvement have you had, eg. charitable, religious, youth organisations?”

The first time I read that question I panicked. I don’t do community things, as a rule. Or religious things. Or youth things. Yikes. But then I started thinking about the charity and realized that while I attended school in Belfast I did an awful lot of charity work in one way or another. Problem solved! Right now I’m trying to think of a mature and responsible way to explain my internet activities. Hmm. I don’t think the phrase “Internet addict” would go down too well…