Hmm, that's a bit weird... my computer throws a stress every time I try to comment on someone's LJ entry... maybe it knows that I've got Uni work to be doing?
Just know that I've read all of your LJ entries and am thinking of all of you!
And now, because I haven't done one in ages, a meme!
I read my flist, i do! But I don't find I have anything interesting to say so I don't comments. I shall try to be more good in the future. I love you all.
Uni is amazing. I am having so much fun, especially with UPSAC. UPSAC rules and we go out all the time. We went out tonight in fact, and I had so much fun. Maybe drank a few too many Archers and lemonades but it's all good..
I tried to post this a second ago but it says Franks' nibbling on the servers. We had a mouse but his name was maurice and we released him into the wild a mile away from our house like they said you should.
Oh holy crap. Am moving for good up to Portsmouth Uni tomorrow! Went up to the house on Tuesday to put the Washing machine in (I love my parents!!!) and took 2 car loads worth of stuff up as well. Tomorrow I'm going up with another car load of crap and then in the evening my parents are bringing yet another car load. I didn't realise just how much stuff I had!
Also, we don't have the internet set up yet, so my access will be limited to what I can snatch at Starbucks or my brother's house. How will I cope?!?
1. Have your music library ready. 2. Choose one song from your music library whose title starts with the first letter (or number) of your LJ name. 3. Repeat this process with each successive letter (or number) in your LJ name until you run out of letters (or numbers). 4. Post up your results. 5. BONUS POINTS: Upload your mix (whether it's individual songs or a .zip of all the the songs) and include the mix in your post.
Uni plans are going OK - I finish my full time waitressing job on Sunday (thank God, because it was starting to get ridiculous - who the hell puts only 2 waitresses on for a Bank Holiday Monday?!?). Then I plan on going across to Portsmouth (where I'm going to Uni) to find a part time job - I considered not getting a job for my first year, but decided that I wanted to go travelling next Summer so need the money for that.
Have been shopping for some new clothes for Uni as well - went out with some friends today who forcibly pried me away from my jeans-and-a-t-shirt comfort zone, and made me buy some nice tops to go out in.
I have yet to find somewhere to live, though. There isn't any room at the moment for me in accomodation, so I need to find a room to rent with enough flexibility so that if someone does drop out (extremely likely), then I can nab their place in halls.
Aug. 29th, 2007 @ 07:10 pm
I'm back from avoiding Harry Potter 7 spoilers *waves*
I haven't asked anyone for anything, but I thought this meme looked neat, so:
I will send a gift of some kind to the first 3 people who leave a comment to this post requesting to join this PIF exchange. I don’t know what that gift will be yet, but I promise you will receive it within 365 days. The only thing you have to do in return is "pay it forward" by making a similar agreement in your journal. The "gift" you send doesn't have to be handmade or even concrete. It can be absolutely anything.
So, who wants a present?
Aug. 1st, 2007 @ 09:26 pm
HOLY CRAP I GOT INTO PORTSMOUTH!!!! This means that all three of the courses I applied to last week accepted me.
My life is so cracked. The only way it'd be more cracked was if my flist was posting about getting sex toys and porn for their birth - Oh, wait... *grins*
Jul. 10th, 2007 @ 10:13 am
Solent University got back to me and gave me an Unconditional Offer to do Geography with Marine Studies!!!!!!!!!!
It's not my first choice, and I'm still holding out to see if Portsmouth Uni will accept me to do Marine Environmental Studies, but this means that I'm definitely going to Uni this year!!!!
Jul. 7th, 2007 @ 09:20 pm
OK, so over dinner this evening, my mum randomly asked me if I wanted to go to Uni, and said she'd support me if I wanted to go.
Now, I have spent the past 2 years assuming that I wouldn't go to University, because my parents didn't want me to so I didn't research it/try at all on my A Levels etc. I've spend the past year doing a 'gap year' - working as a waitress until I joined the Army. This statement from my mother was completely out of the blue.
But I thought about it, and decided that I want to go.
So when we got home from the restaurant, we went on the internet and looked up Courses at the local Universities (Southampton and Portsmouth) and found out what we could salvage from my meager A Level Results (as in: you needed 180 points to get into the Army as an officer, so 180 points is exactly what I got - I'm not exactly an 'above and beyond' kind of girl)
Now, in the UK, pretty much the only way you can apply to University is through a company called UCAS, so I went on the website, set up an account, and started my application.
I wrote my personal statement in about 30 mins flat. I have even applied for a student loan!!!
Now all I need is a reference, which I'm hoping to ask one of my ex-teachers about tomorrow.
Did I mention that the cut off date for applications is Saturday? Talk about leaving things to the last minute *g*
Jun. 28th, 2007 @ 10:13 pm
I went to see the LOTR Musical in London last night. I was a bit wary of going, since I'd heard such bad reviews for it, but I was invited along as a 'responsible adult' with my Mum's school, so managed to get a ticket for £25 rather than the £60 face value, so I thought 'what the hell' and went for it.
I think that I kindamaybesorta be going AWOL. If you don't hear from me in a while, it's because the Military Police have broken down the door and dragged me off for Court Martial.
Also, I got my hair cut. It has gone from below my waist to my shoulders.
Jun. 8th, 2007 @ 12:51 pm
I've decided to travel around the world. Yes, I know, I'm insane. I've been mulling it over for a while now and have decided to go for it. I've even made an LJ where I can lay out all my plans and eventually (hopefully!) post photos etc from my trip for friends and family. (The RL element is why I've made a seperate LJ - I want to keep fandom and RL seperate!)
Wow, the places I've visited are really compacted together! I'm thinking of going travelling this summer but my parents want me to go with a friend (and I'd probably feel safer too) so i'm trying to find someone to go with. Grr, it's times like this I wish I was a boy so that I could go jet setting off by myself. Being rich would help too.
May. 29th, 2007 @ 10:14 pm
OK, so when you become so reclusive that you shy away from even an online life, that's when you know you've got a problem.
I'm posting to get out of this stupid habit I've gotten into of reading peoples' LJ entries but not commenting. I read everyone on my flist, but for some reason I haven't commented. From now on I shall endeavour to do better.
Also I've realised that LJ is a pretty good place to vent.
You'd think, with an extra 1400 troops just committed to Afganistan, that the British Army would be nice to their Recruits, and make things as easy as possible to join.
I've just spent 12 hours travelling there and back to my Army base, all for a five minute consultation with a Doctor, in which she basically checked that nothing had changed since my last medical, peered down my trousers, then sent me on my merry way.
I spent £60 on a train ticket, too, and didn't manage to get paid back since the F#&%ing expenses office was closed. *Pouts*
Feb. 27th, 2007 @ 09:19 pm
Right, so I am an adult - an 18 year old woman with a full time job; with rent to pay and finances to manage, training up for a long-term career in her Majesty's Armed Forces.
That doesn't change the fact that when my mother pokes her head around my bedroom door at midnight telling me to go to bed, it makes me want to stay up and prove some sort of point.
We shall ignore the fact that I am actually rather tired and was getting ready to log off anyway when my mother told me to go to bed. Now that she has ordered me to go to bed, I shall stay up late. *Feels somehow triumphant*
Feb. 12th, 2007 @ 12:24 am
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