School is going well. I think I'm almost settled down now. I've practically forgotten what it was even like to wear uniform. The whole non-uniform bit is also a lot better than I thought. Maths/Further maths was a great decision, I think. The lessons are pretty good! On Friday, the last two lessons were double Further Maths, and it was surprisingly not bad.
The only things I have especially not liked are the practicals in Physics and Chemistry. Every 2 weeks we have a chemistry practical and they annoy me!

Every Saturday morning is perfect as I get to sleep in. On Thursday, my bag was fit to burst because I had to bring along my labcoat, and walking home was a nightmare. Especially on the uphill parts.

My sister and I plan to go to New Zealand some day. If this ever happened, I would be so happy. So very happy.
The tickets cost a lot. If we went it could be in 3 years' time, if I took a gap-year, because we will have both finished school by then.
What really freaks me out a bit, though, is having such a long flight. It's fine but...what would I be doing for...more than 20 hours sitting down!!?

Hm, anyway. I've been doing absolutely nothing. I tried to start another book but I couldn't get into it. I've just been speaking to my friend and listening to Blur and Porcupine Tree.

The little cat that STILL keeps coming to our door sneaked in and started to drink from Mimi's water bowl. Hahaha

I want to watch Star Trek again now.

I found this while browsing lazily around livejournal.

( Meme )

I can't stop listening to this song:



I just spent an hour searching frantically for the SD memory card for my mother's camera. For some reason I didn't put it in the camera and I was convinced it had been accidentally pushed into the bin which was taken out. I searched everywhere, in very silly places too. Eventually I stopped and thought about all the possibilities and calmed down a bit, and I thought it might be in the pocket of the clothes I was wearing yesterday. It was. I was so relieved, I cannot describe. I don't know why I was so panicked, but it might be because next Saturday I am going to the seaside (finally) and I really want to take many pictures.

I've been messing around with the camera a lot and I think I've learned a lot more now. It's a very nice camera to use. My mother also learned the basics of how to take pictures too.

I also found this webcomic and I like it immediately.

I actually have a story outline now. Listening to Porcupine Tree helped a lot, it seems.

I think I'll have a lot more luck with writing now than in the past because I have always had a problem with wanting it to be right immediately and then getting frustrated when it isn't. Then again, it's probably because the last time I really wrote anything was a few years ago and I was a lot more impatient then. Now, I see that it doesn't matter if it's terrible now because all the things I've written down now are most likely not even going to be in the final thing anyway (when it hopefully gets written someday).

Now I just have to start writing. I'm not sure if, for me, it's best to plan out all the chapters beforehand or just let it flow. In the past, making it up as I go along has never resulted in anything that makes any sort of sense, so I don't know...hmm.

( Oh yeah, I watched Harry Potter! )

I was messing around with the camera yesterday so I just thought I'd post a few.
I was sort of bored so I took pictures of many boring things, sorry.

( There are many many photos here )

Yesterday I had a vaccination and now I can't lift my arm or sleep on that side which is very annoying. I also have to go to the dentist today for a checkup, argh!
But, I am going to see HP in the imax theatre tomorrow with my sister, yay. I hope it's not too packed!
I might also see The Lion King on broadway, and possibly also go to the seaside sometime in the next few weeks.

Progress with writing: two paragraphs.

I love watching clips of Bill Bailey ha haha.

I hate how I have to wait for almost 2 months for my exam results.
Finally, I have created some pictures. For some reason now lj cuts show in the same layout as the journal normally. I'm sure it didn't do that before. Hmmm..

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I just realised I've messed up the arms. Oh well.

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I quite like this one,actually.

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With this one, I am also pleased (but future me looking back at it will no doubt hate it).

I also saw public enemies with my sister. It was very good!
I'm also very afraid at the talk about something Damon said about Blur not playing in England again.
If this is true then WHAT. WHATT

On Sunday I watched the Glastonbury coverage on BBC2 (for blur, obviously). Ahhh it was great.
Those crazy people. I've never been to see live music before (argh) and I can't imagine how wonderfully mad it must be. I have a feeling, though, that if it were that many people I'd get trampled to death, or it would end up being a terrible experience. Well, I guess I'll probably never know.
I was almost able to go to Hyde park (for blur), but alas, it wasn't so.

I watched all of Firefly again! It makes me sad every time, but I still keep going back to rewatch it all. Now it's time for Serenity. Oh god, why do I do this to myself? It's addictive.

I'm going insane with my lack of ideas. I feel like I'm going to explode.

I don't like it when all the TV shows finish. Mostly I just want to know what happens in Lost.
I had a dream that I was reading a book and I remember everything that happened in it. It seemed so good in the dream but when I woke up it made no sense and it had aliens, robots, magic AND time travel in it.
I still don't have a plot ;_;

I need to get to my friend's house but I simply cannot go somewhere unless I know exactly what I am doing.
It causes me to worry even more than I usually do. ARGHH.

I didn't even know about this website so I decided to make a tumblr. I've decided I will post amusing pictures or videos on there. Perhaps art, music. Who knows.
I seem to make these blogs and never use them, like with blogspot. I must have about 5 blogs on blogspot, and I only ever posted once. It's an illness.

I've been doing a bit of story planning but, as always, I have trouble thinking up a logical plot. It's a sci-fi idea, set in the future sometime. All I have really is a setting, a main character and a few events.

My dream of last night was so bizarre. I looked inside my sister's eye (it seems all she has was a hole and no eyeball) and inside her head was hollow, with purple walls made of creeper-plant-ish things and a bit of light was coming in like it was a little hiding place made of plants.
Another dream involved leeches and my pulling out many leeches from my mouth,and also almost drowning in the ocean. It wasn't a very nice dream.

I actually drew a lot yesterday. I keep posting! It's madness (it's because I have nothing else to do).

( Pictures )

I feel like I'm dying inside because I haven't written in such a long time. I just need to...write something. But the ideas...they are inadequate. Most of them are just mixtures of things I have seen, but it's obvious.
I know there's a good idea in this brain somewhere. I can just imagine myself writing a story I will be pleased with, but then again, I am a procrastinator. I never get anything done.

Also, I can hardly believe it but I have 11 weeks free until school again. Almost 3 months. WHAT. THAT'S CRAZY. I can actually DO something! I've never had this much time not working ever. I've got to work too, though, or else I will lose all of this knowledge.

There was just an extremely close clap of thunder. It was incredibly loud and very high pitched, and came immediately after the lightning. It sounded like...I'm not sure. I think my cat Meems got scared half to death, and it scared the hell out of me too! The schoolkids outside were screaming.
But I do love thunder. It doesn't happen very often. It was sort of okay, just normally overcast, and then it suddenly got really dark and the thunder began.

All my exams are over. Physics was today, it was alright.
It hasn't sunk in yet. GCSEs....over.
Now I wait for the results.
I still need to send off for the school photo of the whole year, I keep forgetting.
I also need to make a bank account for my EMA.
My next worry is the work experience. After that...! I have weeks and weeks of not worrying about anything.
Except exam results.

I think I'm going to reread His Dark Materials. I love that trilogy.

Oh yeah, I also uploaded some really boring videos on youtube.

( Boring things )

I really must draw. Yes! I will try and do some digital doodles. I haven't done that for ages - I used to do daily doodles and everything.

There is a little cat that keeps coming to the door and looking very curious indeed. My mother recognises her as one of the kittens that were living in our garage with their mother but who disappeared shortly afterwards, just when a lady who knew someone who took in cats needing homes was going to come and see them. She is so adorable! The way she looked at me with a mixture of fear and curiosity. This is the second time I've seen her there.

If only we could have another cat. *sigh*

Mimi also got quite far out into the garden while I was sitting in the sun, and disappeared into a massive crazy wild bush for a long time.

I am now eating cherries in contentment. I have no exams tomorrow! I can revise for chemistry yay!

I finally got some new headphones. They are blue and match very nicely with my green ipod nano.

The day exams are over cannot come quickly enough. I am restless to draw and do creative things but I need to get through the exams. Today was the last maths exam and I think it went sort of okay, although I did have some trouble on the second section. It's just the way they form those questions. Ugh.

Here is the current state of my current piece-for-fun (they all are). It is not looking very good at the moment but only time will tell how it will be in the end! As you can see, the number of cats is immense. A challenge!

Stumbled upon this video and I agree.

The reason I don't feel much worry now is probably because I'm all worried-out from the last...few years,in which I worried about everything. I have come to the conclusion that worrying does nothing (unconsciously) and now the exams don't really bother me. And of course, all of the philosophising I have done has given me a lot of perspective on things. Philosophising is one of those things I love to do but sometimes I go too far and get into very strange and possibly bad states of mind. At these times, I find it hard to do anything but stare but see nothing.

Ooh, I love this song! (Garbage - Milk)

Also, this is another one of those songs...you know.



I don't usually like that sort of music that much, but this song has...atmosphere, if you get what I mean. There is little contrast in the song.

I just saw 2 episodes of Carnivale, a tv show I had never heard of until yesterday. I love it!

I'm thinking of rewatching all of Firefly and Serenity for the...somethingth time. I don't remember, it's been many times. I also want to rewatch all 3 seasons of Black Books (have all these on DVD). Alas, I have exams again, for 2 weeks after this week still, so I'll have to wait. Just like I have to wait to watch Star Trek DX

I did do some art a bit ago, and I'm working on a massive image involving a stadium full of cats.

Here's a picture
And I did this one a while ago :P