Count Gnome

Ok it's sunday now and thursday I'm flying back to England. It's been good but I think it's been too short, I'd love to stay here a bit longer. I saw Batman The Dark Knight with my gran on friday. It was bloody fantastic! I highly reccomend it.

Do you ever feel like you're living in a soap opera? I felt like that the other day.
Let's see what's been happening recently... a friend of the family (who had recently lost his wife and father) has now lost his mother. The gay man that lives down the hall from my grandma's apartment was beaten up by some homophobes. My aunt fell down the stairs. My 6 year old cousin got pneumonia. My cousin Thaissa is now an alcoholic and keeps neglecting her 4 year old son. Another cousin came out of the closet. An aunt keeps talking about being abducted by UFOs. My laptop broke, and then the next day my uncle's computer broke. And much more...

Sheesh.

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That's all folks!

Hey, quick update people. I'm in Rio das Ostras at my uncle's house right now. I've been here a couple of days, but will be heading back to Niteroi tommorow. In 10 days I'll be back home! :o

I have a bunch of pictures and I'll probably upload some of them when I come back. Anyway, hope everyone is ok. Gotta go now, me and some of my cousins are heading out for pizza.

~Carl

EDIT:

Have a pic
Me, my gran, and my cousins Victoria and Anthony.

Hey there, I'm in Brazil right now at my gran's house. Flight went well. It was slightly delayed, but nothing major. Apparently we were just waiting for the toilet paper. :p

I probably wont be around much because apparently I'm being dragged off to places by random family members. lol

Hope everyone's ok. See you all next time I'm online.

Ok, I feel stupid asking this but:
Can I take deodorant onto an airplane with me? I mean, it's a pressurised can and I just dont want it blowing up on me. I wasn't thinking about this at all until my mam brought it up and now I'm panicking over this. lol

If someone can give me the answer a.s.a.p. I will love you forever. ^^

You know how sometimes people on your friends list post about stuff going on in their life, and all of a sudden you think "Wait a minute? Since when are they working THERE? Since when are they dating HIM/HER/HIR? Since when???" And then you wonder how you could have missed all that seemingly pretty standard information, but somehow you feel too ashamed to ask for clarification because it seems like info you *should* already know? It happens to all of us sometimes.

Please copy mine below, erase my answers putting yours in their place then post it in your journal! Please elaborate on the questions that would benefit from elaboration! One-word answers seldom help anyone out.

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1. EXAMS ARE FINALLY OVER!!!!!!!...
(and I think they went well, overall)

2. I'm amused at the fact that the French Night out is in an Italian restaurant.
Also: French teachers are incomptent/unorganized. The email states the time, but not the day of the night out... ;)

3. I haven't bought a present for either Emma or my mother. Feck. I'm going to see Emma in York thursday, and my mam's birthday is 22nd.

4. I'm going to Brazil on the 24th! (so close! I need to pack!)

5. Other than that, everything else in my life feels like it was pulled out of a soap opera. Drama, drama, and more drama. :p

That is all.

Be well.

I know I'm going to forget something so it's going here lol

Tomorrow: psychology and phil/ethics exam.
Tuesday: finish signing out and empty locker and get deposit money back and go look at train times
Tuesday 3pm: meet up with daughter_moon for a bit.
Wednesday: chill out?
thursday: catch train to york and hang out with emma seeing as i cant be there for her bday.
friday morning: come back from york.
weekend: start packing for Brazil and buy mam's birthday present.
22nd: mam's birthday. i think we're going out for a meal then cinema.
24th: catch plane to Brazil.

I think that's it but I have a feeling I've missed something...

EDIT:
Friday (20th) 7pm: Tutor group night out at La Spaghettata.

Someday that I don't know yet: French Night out at 6:30 in Emilio's Restaurant.

Someday that I have yet to book: Haircut.

Psychology exam (PYB4 one anyways) is over! I didn't revise for it. I couldn't find the motivation. However, I think it went relatively well. Only one question completely threw me but it wasn't worth many marks and hardly anyone else seemed to know the answer (re: people running out of room at end of exam, grabbing friends and screeching for them to tell them what the answer was. Stress = scary)

I have two exams left. They are the hardest ones that I have this year (Psychology PYB5 and Philosophy/Ethics Synoptic paper), and the gits decided that they would be on the same day. One in the morning and one in the afternoon. Bastards. I haven't revised yet but I really really need to. They're on monday. I have time. Sort of.

Enough negative shit. Got to focus on good things! Like my awesome new laptop. I walked into PC world to see if they could find what was wrong with my CD drive on the other one. Basically, it was dead and I needed a new one. Which I would have had to have bought somewhere else and then paid them £70 to install. Fuck that for a shitty old laptop. So, I got a new one. I can actually play Sims on this one without it dying on me! How fucking awesome is that? =D

Also I ordered three books from that sale I posted about, and they arrived today!
I got:
World Religions Today by John L. Esposito , Darrell J. Fasching, and Todd Lewis.

How We Act: Causes, Reasons, Intentions by Eric Berent

The Bible in History: How the Texts Have Shaped the Times by David W. Kling.

Also, in about 2/3 weeks I will be on my way to Brazil for a month. I am both looking forward to it and completely dreading it at the same time. The only person I am out to is my grandmother. The rest are too overtly religious. :p
Heck, some of them are priests.

Anyway, I'm knackered so I'm signing off now.

Hey there, just a short update on things. I haven't been checking LJ/IJ much recently, I should try and be a bit better with that.
I had a philosophy exam today. That went well. The questions were good, on topics that I knew. I asked for extra paper because I ran out. Always a good sign. I only need a C overall. Last year I got an A and I got a B on the coursework this year so I think I'm ok anyways. :p
Yesterday I had the french reading/listening paper. It was ok. Hopefully a B/C. I got a C last year. I don't yet know what I got in the coursework this year. I already did the speaking exam, I think that was around a B/C hopefully. Likewise, I need a C in this one overall.
Next week I only have one exam. (Tuesday - psychology PYB4 - cognitive development, criminological psychology, and anxiety and eating disorders) I think I'm going to be ok for that one, but I'll have to see what the essay questions are.
Lately I've been a bit ill also. I constantly feel like I'm going to throw up, but never do. I also itch like mad. At the minute not so much, but there are scabs on both my legs from itching.
I've also been in a pretty bad state mentally/emotionally lately.
That's all I can think ok. I'll try and read some of the entries on my flist in a sec.

To do:
- Revise for PYB4 (FAIL lol)
- Attempt to start revision for philosophy/ethics synoptic paper and the psych PYB5 paper.
- Send off parcel (tomorrow! *prods self*)
- Pick up leavers hoodie from Mr.Murray's office (Why is he never in when you want him?)
- Clear out locker and get deposit money back for it
- Sign out of French i.e. hand in books + get the signature(bye bye french classes)
- Attempt to eat something or else will turn into stick figure (so-so)
- Try to think positively about shit
- Stay well away from sharp objects (v. good)
- Try to be more social (do not become the spitting image of Snape whilst attempting to so also helps)
- Get suitcase from attic
- Give the dog a bath
- Go to PC world and get laptop fixed (Bought a new one instead LOL)
- Buy mam a birthday present (Argh! What to get?)
- Stop drinking energy drinks. (again: FAIL)
- Stop scratching left arm!
- and that leg. (but it itches...)

I think that's it.
Hope everyone is well.

I cannot write poems.
Sometimes I don't even understand
the ones that I read.
But I'm writing this one now
instead of that other thing I'm
supposed to do. Just because.
I cannot write poems,
yet they let me pour out
my emotions, instead of letting
them rot inside.
Is there even a rhythm to this?
I cannot write poems,
but I continue to do so, so that
every day I can smile and laugh,
while inside...
I cannot write poems, but I
continue to do so, so there's
something left of me if I
end it all.
I cannot write poems.

You know that facebook program Owned where you can 'buy' people?

Well it would appear that there are two guys fighting over me on there:
Karl buys me for $805
William buys me for $885
Karl buys me for 973
William buys me for $1,070
Karl buys me for £1,230
William now owns me at $1,414

Should I expect another bid from Karl?
XD

Man, that program is good for the ego.

Anyone want free book/cd/dvds/games etc. ?

I signed up to bookmooch.com a few weeks ago. (My page here - request something!) So far I have already received 9 books, and there are another 12 on the way! I love that site.

Today I found another site: Swapshop.co.uk (My page here- less stuff because I only just created the account lol). It seems to work on the same principle as bookmooch.

You put up stuff to swap, someone request it, you accept, you get points, you send the item(s) off (you have to pay postage yourself, but that's it) and then with those points you then request other stuff.

So I thought I'd share with you all, because everyone loves free stuff. ;)

P.s. I think the swapshop site is just for UK residents, but I found a US one a little while ago... if I find it again, I'll post the link. (or if someone else knows one post it in a comment!)

1. Think of the first word that comes to mind when you think of me.

2. Go to Google Images and search for that word.

3. Reply to this post with one of the pictures on the first page of results (don't tell me the word).

(The html for images is here.)



4. Put this in your own journal so that I can do the same.

Was today. I was ill. Didn't go in. I'm also having one of my 'down' days. They just randomly appear. I also don't think that anyone even noticed that I wasn't there. There are pics all over facebook. They're all wearing the new leavers hoodies as well. I'll have to pick mine up some time.

I have a serious addiction to the internet.

9am - 9pm: I was on the internet
9pm - 10pm: Watched House
10pm - now: On the internet

I do nothing else.

Tommorow is my last day. Tommorow is my last day. Tommorow is my last day!

Well...technically it's supposed to be Friday, but there's the leaver's mass on that day and I never show up to mass unless a friend of mine specifically begs asks me to come along. Also, I have to go in on the days that I have exams. But I have no more lessons!
And my next exam isn't until 5th June! =D

Carl is on cloud nine right now. Also, he has pr0n - and that just makes his day even better.

What do they call 'french kisses' in France?