Count Gnome

I don't think I'll be updating this blog anytime soon. I may delete it. Am unsure. It's on hiatus in the meantime.

I still like to hear from you all however. So please email me!
Email addy: carl.wonderboy@googlemail.com

Or even write to me in the old fashioned way. That's always awesome. (Email me about that if you wish)
Whatever you do, keep in contact. :)


~Carl

Moved to uni on the 20th of Sept. Just got the internet now lol.
Lectures started all of this week, next week the tutorials start up. I joined the LGBT, Anime, Philosophy, and the Atheist societies. Made friends. (That's always a good thing) My flat mates are pretty cool.
I'm taking:
Moral Philosophy
Formal Logic
Introduction to Anthropology I
Basics of World Religions

Then during the second half session I'll be doing:
Genders and Religion
Knowledge and Mind
Introduction to Anthropology II

My timetable is evil. I know people who have entire days/mornings off, while I have 3 days where i have to be in a lecture/tutorial by 9 am (and the other two days that only moves up 1 hour to 10 am...).

Worrying slightly about paying the accommodation fees. I'm so disorganized! The money is in the bank, but I'm not sure how to get it to them. lmao
My card is not a credit/debit card, just a cash card. My cheque book is at home. My daily extraction limit is £500. Oh well, I have 7 days to sort it out before I'm in trouble lol.

Anyway, got to go. We're all going to watch Sweeney Todd.

Got to stop neglecting this bloody thing.

I'm all packed. Tommorow I head off. Two nights in Edinburgh before I end up in Aberdeen. (How is everything going to fit into the car???)

You know the Terrible Crossover Fanfiction Idea Generator?

It is awesome. I'm not actually writing the fanfiction, just seeing what comes up. That in itself is amusing enough.

Just now I got a crossover between America's Funniest Home Videos and Stephen King's IT, including the plot device: possession by Satan.

Oh, I just did it again and got DuckTales/Family Guy + an orgy. 0_0

There was a good one before with tentacle rape, but I can't remember exactly which shows it used. *sigh*

Anyway, see you all when I've moved into my dorm room.

Ok, so there's two fics I remember enjoying. One longer than the other. I remember pretty much everything of the short one, but hardly anything of the longer.

I can also not find them anywhere. Any help would be appreciated.

1. (short one)
Snape/Lupin, stuck on a train during a very long journey, both had had too much drink before starting the journey and the toilets are broken. Contains watersports. (obviously :p )

2. I can't even remember if this is gen, het or slash. 0_o
Members of the DA use the room of requirement to train in, where time passes slower outside the room than inside. They eventually take a sort of long training 'holiday' inside the room. Snape is also with them.


If anyone finds these fics I will love you forever.

Anyway, I decided to post... for some strange reason. So, my birthday was recently. I spent most of it reading. I'm 19 now. Whoot!
(It doesn't feel all that different, apart from the fact that, when I think about it, I'll be 20 next. Uh oh)

Tommorow I'm going shopping for stuff to take to uni. My shopping list amuses me. I have random things like hot water bottle, underwear, bean bag, cushions, washing up sponge etc. dotted throughout it (in between sensible things like plates and cups etc.)

I also made a list of things to buy immediately when I get to Aberdeen. Tea was at the top of the list, along with pasta.

I can't believe I'll be leaving home in 25 days. 0_o

IIIIIIII'm nooot reeaaaady. heeeeeeelp.

Ok, so yesterday I went to York with Emma for the Gay Pride thing. It was good, although after having witnessed the Gay Pride carnival in Rio de Janeiro... well, nothing compares to that lol.
Emma cut and dyed my hair. I now have a bright red mohican/mohawk (I still don't understand the difference between those two). It's a curvy mohawk though. It starts at the front in the middle, and it ends at the back right corner of my head. :p
Then Emma used my head as a canvas. I had a rainbow flag on one side, the word 'Gnome' (Emma's nickname for me) on the other side, and the trans symbol on the back.
Pictures upcoming as soon as Amy sends them to me. We stayed at her house sunday night.

So after the pride thing we went to a club in the city. Sort of like an after-party. Everyone that was at the pride thing in the morning was there again. 'Cept this time they were sort of drunk/tipsy/very happy.

Emma got completely pissed. So did I. I don't remember exactly but I think I told people that I was horny, read fanfiction stories that deal with weird shit like watersports, bestiality, incest etc. and then I think I cried about something.
Damn, but I'm a crazy drunk lol.

Oh and I was talking to this cute gay guy called Ben who lives in Cambridge. He molested my hair, kissed me, then gave me his number and his email address. *grins*

Tomorrow is my birthday. I'll be 19. Woot.
Emma's coming over. (Hopefully. She wasn't feeling too well after last night) We're going to have a star trek marathon and probably watch the rocky horror picture show. (and do the time warp of course)

Hmm, I think that's everything.

Later,
~Carl

I got my A-Level results today. I got BCC. I needed CCC to get into my Firm choice for Uni. So all good there. Also, looking more closely at the results, I came close to getting ABC.
XD

I was out in Durham with daughter_moon and Emma. daughter_moon gave me an early birthday present (The Incredible Adam Spark by Alan Bissett). I also treated myself to a new graphics novel (Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere)

Then, when I got home there was a letter from UCAS and Aberdeen Uni telling me congrats for getting in. ^^
Also, there was a reply to my accomodation request. I got my first choice!
I'm in the brand new flats, which are self-catering and en-suite! Helz yes.


Now I'm off to eat one of my favourite meals (Tortellini with Carbonara sauce), drink my beverage of choice (Cranberry juice), and then eat lots of my favourite ice cream. I'm going to watch my new DVDs, play sims, and laze about.

This is a good day.

It's 05:27 monday morning, I've just been staring out of the window for a good 20 minutes or so. I am an avid fan of the sunset, I love how quickly harsh sunlight turns into darkness into which I can side. But this morning I found myself actually watching a sunset for the first time and actually noticing the beauty of this time. When I seem to be the only one shining in the light.

I used to be amazed by sunsets; now I'm enraptured by sunrises.

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.