girlofprey

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.