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Things:

  • I am all up to date on Coronation Street, and have been for the past week or so. Spoilers up to tonight )


  • I've been feeling really weird and blah lately. I'm assuming it's because my sleep got a bit messed up last week when I was running around all over the place. And it was weird not having my mum around. And I'm trying to sort out my money again. And my sick note ran out, so I'm having to try to sort that out again. And I'm assuming my hormones have something to do with it, although I'm not sure you can just keep claiming that for weeks. I do think I'm due a period though, and it would be nice to get one if it might actually make me feel better.


  • The other possibility is that I've been playing my new PS3 game, Folklore, until I feel a bit exhausted most days. I love Folklore. It's sort of like Pokemon, but with fairies. And a storyline about a fairy war. And also about a murder mystery in the real world village your characters are currently staying in. I have no idea if posting about when you probably don't know what I'm talking about will be really dull or not, so I'm going to try to keep it to a minimum. Mostly when I've not been posting because I've been playing a game a lot I think that maybe I could just post about the game, but then I think "or I could just go play the game some more", and then I end up doing that. But suffice to say, things started getting a bit difficult and I got a bit stuck, so I decided to go back and power up the creatures I already had. Which is partly very satisfying, going back and having a load of fights you know you can win. And partly very frustrating, because sometimes you need to try to power them up in very specific ways. In the middle of a battle. When lots of things are attacking you. And you don't really get the satisfaction of progressing in the game and learning any more of the story. You do get the satisfaction of winning quite a lot of your fights though. And being kind of amazing. I love Ellen. You don't know who she is. But I love her.


  • My dad has messed up the music on my computer. That's a lie in a lot of ways. But still. He really likes music (his kind of music), and usually has some of it on on car journeys and stuff, and sometimes I like a bit of it, and I've been sort of asking him if he's heard of any bands I like every now and then. And he said no, and then the other week he said I'd have to make him a mix CD of music I like, to see if he likes it too. Which was fine, it was not high up on my to do list, but it was a decent idea and fine. Then last week he came up to my bedroom with a flash drive, with all of his music on it. 3GB worth. Which is another thing he's talked about doing for a few months, and I always said I couldn't because my laptop didn't have enough space on it. But now I have a new laptop and it does. So he did. He told me I could just upload all of his files, and then sort through them and delete any I didn't like. And that he wanted it back by Monday morning, so to do it soon. So on Saturday, very quickly, I uploaded the files and put them in my 'Music' folder, which seemed logical. But I didn't realised that meant they would automatically be uploaded to my Windows Media Player, in with all my other music. Even now I have moved the file to a 'Downloads' file of mine, it's still there in my playlist. The first time I tried to open my Windows Media Player, without realising what had happened, it wouldn't respond and I had to close it. Then it took me about 10 times as long as usual to skip through tracks, because they were all new tracks to Windows Media Player, so it kept saying "media changing" and I had to wait. And twice when I tried to just scroll through the songs, it jut crashed. So now I have my dad's 3GB of music on the general playlist with all of my songs. I can't just let it play music at random anymore, because it keeps playing songs I don't know, which is fine, but not always what I'm in the mood for.

    It's not all bad. He's got quite a lot of good-looking songs in there, and some things I recommended to him even (like some Melanie songs). I just really expected to be able to go through his songs at my leisure, or just when I chose to, and now I can't, and I can't really just randomly listen to my own music anymore. It's incredibly frustrating.


  • The 2004 version of the Merchant of Venice was on on Saturday. It's the one where Al Pacino plays Shylock, and they put a load of stuff on at the beginning about just how awful and hard it was to be Jewish in 15th Century Florence, and within about 10 minutes I was suddenly shipping Shylock/Antonio. I figure if I do just ship a load of pairings who hate each other, at least I'm hitting the big ones. I didn't watch most of the rest of it though, because I couldn't stand Bassanio and the woman who played Portia was really annoying me, and I figured it would probably have the same horrible ending, anyway. Maybe one day I'll watch the rest of it.


  • I watched a few episodes of Man Stroke Woman last night, with Nicholas Burns. I forget he had long hair in it and was really especially pretty. Also, I'm pretty sure some of it is the straightest acting I've ever seen him doing. In a half hour sketch show. A pretty good half hour sketch show though. I love Man Stroke Woman.


  • A while ago I bought some Amazonite beads from the Bead Shop in Nottingham, and now I've got an idea for a bracelet to make with them, but I'm not sure I have enough. The Bead Shop don't seem to sell them anymore, or only mixed in with another type of stone and not many of them, so I went looking for some online. I found some on eBay that seemed to be the right size, so I clicked to buy them. It was only after I clicked to buy them that it occured to me that I wasn't sure if they had holes drilled in them, actually, or were just stones. But I'd ordered them, and they were only £3 or so. So I paid for them anyway. They arrived today, and they don't have holes in, and they're kind of massively too big. Woe. They are still pretty though.
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So. I've had a busy week. Sort of. On Tuesday I went to Nottingham )

And on Thursday I went to Wakefield and Leeds )

Anyway. Then today my mum came back from her holiday with my sister and my two nephews. I was invited on this holiday, but I said no in the end, because I remembered what happened last time we went on holiday to Filey with my sister and my two nephews in April, and I didn't feel like I'd be up to doing it at the moment. She got back tonight at about half past seven, and she looked shell-shocked, and I asked her how it had been, and she said "Put it this way, this morning I bit a hole in a football." Which I think says it all. She's glad to be home, I think.
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Things:

  • If your MP3 player ever asks you "Format: OK?" - click no.


  • I saw The Mummy 3 on Friday. I love the O'Connells. I don't care if they're rubbish. I don't think they are. They put The Mummy on TV yesterday as well. I had forgotten that Rick O'Connell is QUITE GREAT in that also. I remember being a bit in love with him when I saw it when I was 15. It's nice to find out that I was QUITE CORRECT. Also, it is very refreshing to see a film with female characters. Plural. Michelle Yeoh was great. And the other woman. And the other woman. And Evie. I didn't think I was a big fan of Evie, but this film proved me wrong.


  • The flat is a mess. I'm having a flat inspection on Tuesday and it needs to be clean. That hasn't happened so far.


  • I'm going to try to save up for Lustre. We'll find out how successful that will be.


  • However, it does mean that long weekend in Blackpool is probably off, because it's the weekend after that gig. Also there's a gig I wouldn't mind going to in Nottingham the day after that gig in Blackpool. Decisions, vaguely impossible decisions.


  • And I still haven't found anywhere that sells that band's CD.

One day I'll stop doing all my posts as lists of bullet points. Honest.
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I love Gok's Fashion Fix. I love it so much. If I had any money at all, I would totally have a try at clothes. Even customising.

Things that are or were happening:

  • I went to the Nottingham Riverside Festival last weekend. I mentioned to some people that I'd been by a riverside, and never really explained it. It was lovely, the weather was good, the river is beautiful, I never realised it was so pretty down there. There was music and street theatre and burgers from vans, and the only bad thing was that I kept getting there late, and didn't have much money to spend, and spent probably too much on arts and crafts. I didn't stay for the fireworks, because I didn't want to get home too late, but I enjoyed it anyway.


  • HOWEVER - one band I quite wanted to see, but missed because I got there TOO LATE, was Sarah Savoy and the Francadians. I got there just as who I assume was Sarah Savoy was selling CDs after the show, and I didn't have the money anyway and wouldn't have spent £12 if I did, and especially not on a band I hadn't heard. But since then I have failed to find anywhere, on the entire internet, that sells her CD. Even her own site. I have fallen quite in love with that first song that plays on her/their Myspace page. But nowhere sells it. All I can think is that...I'm going to have to go to Paris. Possibly.


  • On the way down to the Riverside Festival, I stumbled on an arts and crafts market, where one man was selling watch pieces for £2 each. It turns out that the insides of watches are the most beautiful things ever. I bought two. It made me feel a bit Sylar-ish. But they are quite lovely.


  • Work has been mad. I'm back at the psychogeriatric ward, which is mental health for older people, and for two weeks two of the doctors were off on holiday together, because they are married, and this week the SHOs were finishing/changing over, so we had to get all their typing done before they left so they could sign it. Which didn't so much happen. Hmm.


  • Then yesterday I had to go home early because of period pains. And today I went in late because of the same. Which was fun.


  • Now I am hot, and I don't know if it's because of the weather or because my body temperature has risen slightly. Hmph.


  • Probably no-one cares about Heroes anymore except for me, but a thing I didn't know: BBC2 are planning to air Season 3 as close to the USA airdates as possible, to counter the attraction of downloading. Which is quite nice, even if it does make me want to download a bit more. But it'll be on BBC iPlayer as well, which I find a lot easier to use than most streaming sites. So that's quite pleasing, in many ways.


  • The Summer Sundae is on in Leicester this weekend. Adam and Joe are going to be there. And Roisin Murphy. I can get to Leicester with some ease, it's only over there. However, I'm probably not going to go. A) I have no money, and b) I have quite a bit of stuff I need to do over the weekend. Sadface.


  • I recommend this week's Adam and Joe podcast though (here). This week they're doing songs for the new James Bond film, and there's a bit in one of them about wishing Roger Moore would come back. The actual songs start at about 17:50, the whole Song Wars section starts at about 12:54.


  • I saw Hellboy 2: The Golden Army. Ha ha.
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