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Oh, also after Hollyoaks Later last night, when I was looking around for what people were saying about it, I did find this picture/confession on Tumblr. Which made me quite happy.

So, the busy-ish part of my week is over. I went to the advice and guidance session at the school thing in Leeds, but it turns out it's funded by Leeds City Council, so you really need a Leeds postal address to go to the classes, and I have a Wakefield one. I asked the lady who was running the session, and she said some Wakefield addresses are technically Leeds - I don't know. It turned out mine wasn't, but she said it shouldn't be a problem. But anyway, the outcome is that I could only put my name down on the waiting list, not sign up. It's only if the class doesn't fill up and there aren't too many people on the waiting list that I can go, and I didn't have to pay which is nothing, but I probably won't know for definite until the class starts in October. Or before a class starts in another semester, I guess. I hope I get to go, because it did seem quite nice there, and some of the prices are ridiculously cheap. But I'll have to wait and see.

And then yesterday I went to the dentist. It turned out I have a new dentist, my old one has either left or changed his cases, so I had to fill out my medical/lifestyle history again. The new dentist was nice though, although she expressed concern that drinking three cans of coke a week was 'a lot'. I told her I had some problems with my enamel, but she had a look and said it wasn't a problem, it was just a bit worn. My two front teeth - which sort of get hit with coke a lot nowadays, since I'm trying to take small sips and not soak my mouth in it - have been aching a bit recently, and she did touch them and say something about 'cracks in the enamel'. But she just recommended some things, fluoride mouthwash, flossing, not drinking so many fizzy drinks, and changing the heads on my toothbrush regularly. So I'm going to try to cut down on my coke-drinking again. But other than that she said I was fine, and she even said she'd see me again in six months, and then if there were no problems we could probably just set my appointments yearly, which is nice. So yay. And then I went into town to buy my sister a birthday card. I took me a little while to find one that wasn't either blank, didn't have one of those jokes inside one sister being better than the other, and didn't have any stuff in it about sisters being like best friends. Which felt a little mean to be honest, but also felt like stuff that was a bit too obviously not true about our relationship at the moment to buy a card about. But anyway, I finally found one. Which means that everything I was planning to do for my sister's birthday is also done. Hurrah.

In the meantime, I have finished all of 666theheartless666's youtube Let's Plays of the Fatal Frame series. Which was both hilarious, and left me really quite impressed with the Fatal Frame series. I have no idea what it would be like for me to play them, but just as games they manage to be both really really scary and really really sad and touching, usually, by the time you find out what's been going on with the ghosts or get to the end. Between that and listening to more of the songs I don't normally listen to from The Decemberists' Hazards Of Love album, I'm sort of in a tragic love story type of a place. Except that I really need to listen to The Hazards Of Love all the way through and in order, at some point, because I still don't really know the full story. I get the picture of most of it though, and the songs are really really lovely.

TV-watching wise, I have been watching Hollyoaks Later. There's a character in Hollyoaks that I love called Seth, who is a teenager and looks like this:


(from emmerdale.me.uk)

He is 16 in the show, and 17 in real life, and mostly I just find him adorable, and also I've decided I don't really care. Anyway, he's one of those sweet sort of characters that's in a slightly messed up family, knows about it, but sort of just has to put up with it. And in Hollyoaks Later this year he seems to have been hooked up with a stripper, taken some drugs, slept with her, and then killed her. I'm pretty sure it's all just a set-up and he hasn't actually killed her, but it makes pretty interesting viewing nonetheless. Also, there's another character called Mitzeee who I kind of love, and I'm pretty sure we got to see her naked. Which is also a plus.

I am also watching the other soaps, pretty much, but they're all a little bit boring just at the moment. I really don't care about Leanne on Coronation Street. I just sort of don't. And yet we must watch her. And Eva. Becky has been in it though, <3 <3 <3. The only storyline I'm really interested in this week is Emmerdale's ongoing Amy pregnancy storyline, and that's often about as difficult as it is lovely. Also, watching Declan in Emmerdale and thinking about Nathan. But that's pretty par for the course.

Also, I have been watching some downloaded shows, for once, but only really funny, slightly nothing-y ones. In some ways they're easier to get into and watch than the really heavy, plot-driven ones. I have been watching NTSF: SD: SUV, which is sort of an American crime procedural parody show, and has Janeway in it, as well as Mystique from the X-Men films and I had thought Adam Scott from Parks and Recreation, but it turned out to be some other dark-haired, dark-eyed guy. It is actually pretty funny, and Janeway is probably the best thing in it, so I am planning on keeping on watching it. And I watched the first episode of Death Valley last week, and have just downloaded the second episode yesterday. That is also quite funny. Hurrah.

And I think that is all my news. Aside from some generic rants, and Things I Have Bought Recently. But I think those can wait for another time. Oh, and I have a team in a sweetstake for the Rugby World Cup! My team is Tonga. And I love Tonga. GO TONGA.

A nice thing, I suppose, about Livejournal being down for everyone all at once is that at least when it comes back it doesn't take forever to catch up on your flist. Not that I'm condoning this kind of behaviour. Bad form, LJ.

Anyway. The post I was going to make on Monday was about how I had two goals for myself to achieve that day, and I did both of them! Hurray for me. One was to photocopy my sick note and letter and get it sent off to the DWP, and the other was to go into Santander, hopefully figure out my ISA details and transfer some money to my normal account so I could pay my mum back for the Slightly Expensive Necklace she got for me in Prague. Accomplishment. It's awesome.

Other things that have happened or been happening in the last few days:

• Eastenders got SUDDENLY GAY again. It's kind of a shame, because Eastenders is still rubbish - the men who acted nice but seemed like they might later become sinister are now indeed acting sinisterly. And the men who don't like those guys seem to be awful as well. BUT. There's a character in it called Michael, who came in a while ago. At first I'm found him annoying, then his dad came into the show and it turned out Michael thought his dad had killed his mum and hated him, and it seemed like he might get interesting. Then he decided he liked his friend's wife, tried it on with her, and when she turned him down he tried to ruin her life, and I hated him again. However, when his dad came in, he came in with a brother of Michael's, and then this Monday another brother turned up. And unless I am very much mistaken, the minute Michael saw this brother he stood up straighter and was looking over. And the minute the brother saw Michael he started giving him lingering, yearning looks. Then he came over and started talking about some conversation he and Michael and their dad had had two years before, which Michael didn't remember, but which was obviously quite important to his brother. It was about goal-line technology. I decided to look online to see if we'd been given any more information on this new brother (Anthony), and on the first page of results was an article about how "Anthony had been corrupted by Michael at a young age". And went on to say that Anthony was probably the quietest of the three brothers, and would probably be focusing on the business for a bit and wouldn't be interested in girls for a while. And if anyone doesn't believe me about this, it's here. It's quite special.
  
  So I might be giving Eastenders another go, for a little bit.



• I quite like Sugartown, which started on Sunday.



• I love George Gently, which was also on on Sunday.



• I went to a corn maze with my nephew and mum. The corn was only about waist-high, but you had to get to workstations in it to complete a worksheet/quiz thing, and in some ways that made it more infuriating, because you could SEE them, but you couldn't GET to them. It was fun though. Later I got stalked by a duck and nearly bitten by a horse, and it turned out I'd managed to get soil all up my legs inside my jeans, but we did have quite a good time.



• I have been watching 666theheartless666 long play videos, after someone referenced him on fandom secrets. Partly because he did Fatal Frame, one of which I looked on long long before I got any kind of game console. It was both hilarious (his commentary) and terrifying (the actual game). He's worth a look if you like that kind of thing though, he's quite funny.



• Today on Hollyoaks Seth and Brendan had a scene together! None of you will probably know what that means! Essentially, Seth and Brendan are two characters I really like, who don't have much of a reason to have scenes together very often. But today they did. Although it wasn't so much a scene as Brendan whizzing by at the end of Seth's scene to steal his ice-cream and say "You snooze, you lose, kid!". But still. Contact!



• And I booked my hotel for the Riverside Festival in Nottingham. K got back to me and said she couldn't decide whether she was going or not until after she got back from Berlin and knew how broke/tired she'd be, so she might be there, she might not. But I am definitely going. Woo!

I think that's everything. YOU ARE ALL CAUGHT UP. And if you aren't, I will probably mention it in another post. OH.

• On Sunday night, while I was up on the internet not going to bed despite having stuff to do the next day, I came up with the idea for a Silent Hill Texts From Last Night tumblr. I still can't tell if this was sleep-deprived genius, or sleep-deprived craziness. Also, I'm weirdly into Silent Hill fandom considering that I've never actually played the games. I may yet one day though.

It think that's everything. And now I sincerely hope that this posts, although there seems to be some chance that it won't.

Just watched Dog Day Afternoon on 2, after years of thinking 'that sounds interesting'.

Why did no-one tell me about the wonder??

Young Al Pacino as Sonny, the loveliest bank robber ever, who knows all about bank insurance and can outwit the tricksy cops and FBI agents! ( Spoilery, but lovely! ) And wears sexy shirts of openess and sweaty t-shirts underneath!!1!1 ::dies with lust, and love::

I love the manager. I love Moretti. I love Sal and Leon. I love the girls. I love Sonny!!! And it's SO obvious that everyone else does too. Sonny/Leon! Sonny/Sal! Sonny/the crowd! Sonny/the phone! Sonny/Moretti (touching of wounded forehead! ::explodes:: Hurrah!)! Sonny/Sheldon! 11!

In conclusion: I love this film! I don't care how much money they take from me, I will own the DVD, even if I have to sell my body to cannibals and my mind to daytime TV! OMG!

Other film news:

• A sequel to the Lemony Snicket movie! Hurrah! Hopefully with added Hook-Handed Man! :D


• Omg, Adam Brody is in Mr and Mrs Smith! As a tiny assassin of pretty! ::makes a note to see this film omg::