Wheeeeee Merlin!

I got the first half of series 1 on DVD today. Thanks to miranda_skye's fic/fandom rants and squees, I'll sit down and watch a 'children's' show and look for slashy moments. :3 Add to that I have a boy-crush on Colin Morgan (It's only a TV show, I refuse to speculate about 'what that means' - David's gayer-than-thou attitude has seen to that. Seriously, what?)...well, I'm not sure if I'd rather do him or be him. I think it's more the latter, but hey, who knows. He works better with Bradley anyway.

Also got a few Christmas gifts for mates at school, still flummoxed for a few but I'll sort it out soon enough. Was in Belfast for...um...three hours, absolutely frozen, yay. I suck at buying make-up, even after I'm told exactly what to get. Oops. And strangely instead of wanting hot chocolate, I'm craving fruit juice. I wonder what that means. 6 days til I get off for Christmas *ded*

X Factor? Feck aff. Go cry, Eoghan kid. He's probably gonna win anyway. Awk, I want the guy to do well, cos he's got so far, but I just don't...care that much. More important things to focus on, like my GCSEs, and talking about slash with Rachel.

:3

EDIT: Ohmygod ohmygod aaaaaaah! "MERLIIIIIN!" *beeg dragon rar*

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH.

Colin Morgan looks like Tim Wheeler when he screams :3 Also, miranda_skye yes, many slashy momentz. Heeee :3

Bah. I don't like school. It's too slow-paced...

But for now, it's Saturday and I've got an Amnesty meeting in two hours, then Doctor Who's on tonight. This week I've been getting plans together for the summer (yes, I know, it's not until July!) because I've got nothing better to do. The things I want to do aren't even certain, they depend on scheduling, money, all that...but it would be awesome if I could do everything, even though it's unlikely.

I'm...yeah. I've lost all my adjectives. And I so can't wait for Oppenheimer's new album, I've had their songs in my head at least twice a week since late 2006. And it's gonna be pure amazing because...well, yeah. I've seen them live 4 times and it's always awesome. 2nd June! That makes me very happy, and a little bit arm-flaily. Gonna see if I can see them in Zavvi then, too.

Ahhhh. *flails*

Swans, electro-pop, and hot chocolate. This is a good day =3

So today was pretty cool. Didn't have to go in to PDSA so I slept in for a bit. Then I went to the Arts Centre to get a ticket for Fighting With Wire for Emma (who has decided she wants to go after I got tickets for other people... "Back again, lulz!" And OMGZ who is supporting them? Only....ASIWYFA! who are immense live, and I saw them last month :) Unfortunately so are Strictly Hardcore Dancing a.k.a. The Worst Band In Northern Ireland, but it'll give me a chance to see if they've improved any in the last three months.

I went to see a friend of mine as he started up an open air art scheme in the centre of Lisburn...sunny, but freezing =/ Ended up being a coffee wench for 20 minutes, trailing back and forth because my relatives' coffees needed a wee bit more sugar/milk/coffee etc. then went home for lunch.

After that, went to the Amnesty meeting where I found, along with 5-6 other people, the door locked and the group's leader half an hour away...so we went for coffee, got it to go (different coffee shop allegiances, you see) and stood outside the door like hobos. Then when we got in, we learnt how to make origami swans for the action that's in a few weeks' time...it took me a while but I've got paper home with me so I'm going to make more while watching Doctor Who which is on in like half an hour XD

On a whim I got my dad a stone paperweight that's carved in the shape of a little grey cat from the Oxfam shop, because it reminded me of Winnie...he loves it. Which is a good thing. I also got some Fair Trade chocolate to hide in my room to snaffle In Case Of Starvation...good craic.

Whee! I went shopping today, it was pretty fun. Got some new things, mostly pens and notebooks...I write a lot =]

Nearly had a panic attack though, went to the top of Victoria Square...ye gods it is high...I got very dizzy =/ It was pretty sunny for most of today, but there was a hail storm when I was on my way home. So I guess that was lucky.

I got new pens! They're what I was looking for a while back, Staedtler Silverball. They're pretty colours =3 Although when I was in a stationery shop I helped my mum choose my birthday present...I no can has surprise. Shame. (It's pretty though!) Also got a new Sharpie, new soap and apple tea! Win =3

M'yip, so tonight I think I'm going to sort out my desk drawers, I've got a lot of blank/half-used notebooks and I want to get them all together, and sort out my school books too. What fun!

So much for working on my problems...I had a smallish panic attack then went to sleep. All in all, the weekend was pretty good, even if I do feel extremely isolated at the moment.

Looking foward to next month's Amnesty meeting...(next month ahhh ages away) or the "Hippy Convention" as Emma calls it -_- Hoping to be allowed to get flyers up around school so more people can come along.

I get next Friday off school, yeeesss! Really hoping I can get a trip into Belfast organised =3 It would be nice to go somewhere other than Lisburn, and without having to be somewhere on time, like yesterday. It'd just be nice to have a bit of a catch up on life, really. Feels like it's been on pause for a while =/ And I don't know why...

David's back from the school ski trip on Monday...all my peace will be in tatters! As they say, the bitch is back. God I hope he can't come into Belfast, that's the last thing I need...

Hm...do you know what I really feel like eating at the moment? Chocolate! I suppose there are odder things to crave.

I wonder if there's a customer_aww comm on LJ, I got some pretty schweet people in today =3 It was Rather Good.

Also I got a new 4GB memory stick (size does matter in this instance), what fun...and more notebooks zomg >.< I also found a copy of 'Porno' by Irvine Welsh today; for anyone who may be alarmed, it's the sequel to Trainspotting. And it's a book that I've wanted to read forlikeever. It's pretty good, I sort of got out of the way of reading in Scottish dialect but it's coming back to me...

Oppenheimer on February 10th OMG! *hopes*

Got some chocolate covered toffee on a whim in Thornton's...haven't tried it yet. Hope it's good though. I had a bit of an awkward assault course in town today, the Bible-cuddlers were back out in full force after Christmas...I just wanted to get home for feck's sake! There isn't really a polite way to say what I was thinking though. "I'm a fiercely atheist dyke, you really shouldn't talk to me!" So I just gave them looks like O.o and walked on.

>.< I'm in the middle of school exams - apart from them, the shake-up's pretty fun; I only have to go into school for my exams then I can go home again, which also means that any days where I don't have exams I can stay home! Which is awesome. And good, because I have more time to revise...my mind is shattered. It's freezing, we had snow a while back, now there's just ice but it's COLD. For our standards.

Well, I was in town yesterday =] Was a little bit awkward since I was with a friend who seemed to know *everyone* and I knew about three people.
She asked me into town for coffee, about twenty minutes to midnight on Wednesday XD
But it was good fun in the end, cos I got to know them from just walking around talking about shit. And it was freezing, lmao. 1 degree (Celsius, btw). Then it must've dropped, cos by the time I got home there were little flurries of snow, and waking up this morning it was about 4 inches deep, which is a lot for NI. =D

Am thinking I will go outside and build a snowman, and name it Ben Kingsley.

Anyone heard Snow Patrol's version of Crazy in Love? It's hot =D But he should not rap. It's just humiliating.

Woah...okay. Just been to a church to register with the youth group there, for this year. Didn't realise what t-shirt I was wearing until I was halfway out the door - 'INFIDEL - religion is the greatest scam ever played' so I had to grab my coat and keep that on the whole time... 

I kinda wish there was just a plain youth group for us that wasn't centred around religion or sport. Cos if you're into one or both of those, you're fine. If you're not a sporty Christian, then it depends on whether your part of town is perceived to be 'rough' or not. If it is 'rough' you get a cross-community outreach centre, or something like that. If it's not, you're pretty much left to sit there and rot, unless you do something yourself. If you do something yourself, you'll either get 'investigated', ignored, or treated as just another troublemaking teenager.

Fuck that.

The Arts Centre does free after-school things for 14+ teens, but you had to register first, o' course. The things worth doing are scheduled during the school day, and/or exorbitantly priced...

And they wonder why we have to hang about the bandstand at weekends instead, and 'make the town look bad'.

Hoo. I'm just a big ol' complainer, aren't I?

Next UAYD thing (DramaFest) is in the middle of January...on a Friday and Saturday. The Saturday's okay, the Friday depends on my exams. If my exams are on I can't go, but if they're not, my mum says she'll let me skip school to go to DramaFest =D

Going into town tomorrow, school starting the day after that. =[ Dammit. Although...we don't do shit the first two days =] then it's the weekend, then ASH! omg.

I went into town with some people from the Drama Society at school. It was fun =] Very warm though. Those people are quite scary, but funny.

I also found out that I'm not alone in reading slash - it's a relief...there's nothing wrong with it, just that it can be perceived as being 'a bit lame'. Everyone had different OTPs though, one of the more disturbing-but-understandable ones being Doctor/Master. And then you got the 'enjoy the last ten minutes of your life' - cue Rachel asking for a dark room, Andrew, and a bottle of lube.

[We'd gone into Boots - when I was looking at things to ease sore feet, R&A wandered off...and ran back over to me with a bottle of this lube that's supposed to make your skin tingle...bear in mind R&A are both thirteen, ridiculously obsessed with sex, and each other.]

Umm...where to go from that 'interesting' anecdote? =/ I'm not really sure...I missed the 4pm bus, and I couldn't be arsed sitting in a shelter bored out of my brains for another 45 minutes, so I went to a grocery shop and bought a cake, a mango, and a packet of frozen pastry. Took up the time nicely. Home, basically pissing about for a few hours while my feet recover.

I'm trying to get my parents to let me go to Pride this year...I think I'm allowed to go, but they're puzzled as to why I want to go. Seeing as I am 'out' to them, I said that I thought it looked like fun. They don't get it...

I've had a cold since I woke up this morning. Well, it probably manifested itself sometime during the night, but I was too ensconced in a world of goodness-knows-what to know or care. I've spent today feeling dozy and bunged-up. I went into town anyway, but it was evil. I got a headache in the end. I went out again later in the evening (eyebrow wax, fantastic *sarcasm*) and I felt like falling asleep while I was crossing a road.

=/ 

I never thought of taking painkillers. Again, dozy. I just want to close my eyes right now; I spent today feeling as exhausted as I usually only do at 3am. I've got an application into the St John's Ambulance cadets, though, which I'm looking forward to. Lots of medical terminology. I don't know why, but I've always liked medicine, as a subject.

I also never knew Luke knew me. He's the little boy that lives beside me, and he's talked to me a few times. He's nice. He said 'helloooo!' to me in the street today, while I was being dragged along a road by an unusually hyperactive dog (she's old, so she's often a bit slow).

Well..I suppose today was alright, apart from being over-dramatic on LJ about my cold. ^_^

I could fall asleep right now, I'm so tired. I was out in town all day, and means I pretty much haven't stopped moving. Town was good, I was out with people I know, and it was a lot of fun. Apparently there were a lot of rainstorms, but I think we must've been inside then, cos we didn't see or hear anything 'rainy', except for a few light showers when we eventually did go out. For the most part, it was quite warm and sunny...I'd almost forgotten what sunshine felt like (not true!).

LOL. I ended up getting some 2nd class stamps so I can send letters within the UK, the only ones I had before were worth enough to send letters to the USA, so I'm trying to keep them for when I actually do need to send things to Capitalist Central.

And some permanent markers, so I can 'do art' on more than just paper.

=]

( Today in town, and the future (rest of summer...and beyond!) )
I feel really restless now.

Was in the Heart Foundation shop today, as well. Nothing much there, but I got an awesome Goonies t-shirt for £2. It didn't look that big on the hanger, actually. When I got home I left it as I was occupied with other things... and I've just put it on. It's huge! No, really, astronomically large.

I think some surgery is in order. The sleeves come down to my elbows, for goodness' sake.

:P

Still an awesome tee though. Really comfy and squishy, but like I said...waaaaaaaaaaay too big.

Just figuring out what to do with it is going to be the hard part, as I don't wanna mess this one up, it's a nice shirt.

I said I would stop going out so much, so that I could save up some money for over the summer; and in case I don't get this job *dramatic intake of breath*

I guess I'm just putting it off :P In Belfast today I got a hoodie for about £25 and I love it, even though as I was handing over the money, "Shitshitshitshitshit..." was running through my head. It's got Flying Vs and lightning bolts all over it :) Also got about five 7-inch singles (they're the cheapest format there - 50p to £1), which was pretty cool. Some really old stuff, some obscure stuff, some new stuff.

Sat on a green-squishy-chair in Starbucks with a hot chocolate, chattering with people and looking out the window at the rain. It made me feel warm...

The thing I'm most pleased about, though, is a book I got from Waterstones, 'Thin' by Grace Bowman. It's about anorexia, and it's really good. It says it's about anorexia on the front cover, but when I showed my friends it, one of them said 'please tell me that's not about anorexics', I showed him the cover and gave him 'a look'.

I found the charger for my camera today, I'm pleased now. Even if it's just to take pictures of the scars.