Count Gnome

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

It's 23:16 and I'm going to bed. What's wrong with me? I never go to bed before 01:00. :p

Anyway, all that stuff yesterday got sorted out. It's all good now.
I have 3 essays due for ethics (well...they're actually all late) tommorow, 1 is almost done. Haven't started the other two. Ethics is 3rd, I have a free second, but I'm supposed to go see the counsellor then. It's my last session with her and all that.
Maybe I'll just say I've lost my pendrive somewhere. I'm known for misplacing things anyway.

Psychology exam friday. Have I revised? No.
Although it is a resit, and ergo not as important as the A2 exams. If I do worse, I just keep the last grade and that was what I needed for uni anyway. :)
It's slightly pointless to make entire classes resit a paper just so they can try and get a few more marks. >_>

I could be finishing those essays instead of panicking, and then needing to go read fanfic to calm me down.
/pathetic excuse

Oh well, in 1 month (One?! YAGH!) all exams will be over. In two weeks I don't even need to come into school anymore. (hell yes)

Night all.

Short story:
Mam was going out with Colin. (On and off thing for quite a few years now)
He had a Wii that he wanted to sell.
Said we'd take it off him in 3 installments off £50.
Paid 1 installment.
He and mam not going out anymore.
Wants Wii back.
Mam said she'd give him the Wii, if he gave her the £50 back.
He waited until mam was at work to ring me and say he was coming over for the Wii.
I phone mam. Mam says don't give it to him because he probably wont give the money back.
Bangs on door for a while.
Goes away.
He phones my mam and tells her that she has 7 hours to give the Wii back or he phones the police.

Lovely.
Also, there's a delivery coming in 20 mins. and I have to make sure he doesn't notice so that he doesn't try to come inside while their bringing stuff in. lol (he lives down the road)

Speaking exams start Thursday. Mine is at 1:57(wtf?) PM on Friday. Awesome. I get more revision time. =D
Staying off on thursday as well to study so that I can have an excuse to mooch about at home so that I can do some last minute revision.
I'm going to miss the mock psychology test on thursday afternoon though. But I've seen the teacher about that and I'm doing it next week.

Then I have about 2 weeks before my next exam. Sweeeeet!

Anyway, I have to go eat now, maybe chill for a bit and read something, then go and cram my head full of french shit.

Aurevoir!

Two weeks holiday is over. Sixth form starts again tommorow. I have an essay due in first lesson. I have about a page written. Oops. Can't be bothered to care right now lol. The lesson should be interesting anyway as the last lesson before the hols ended up becoming a mini-soap opera which involved a student basically telling the teacher she's shit, teaching crying, teacher leaving the lesson then coming back 5 minutes before the end and handing out our holiday homework. Going to be awkward tommorow.

I've almost done the french homework, but that's not due until tommorow afternoon and I have no lessons between 1st lesson and 4th lesson, so I can do it then.

I also have an appointment at the opticians at 4pm. Haven't been in two years, I think I'm probably going to need new glasses.

I also need to go find the counsellor. Everytime I go to her office she's not there though lol. I think I might just leave a note on her desk.

I think that's everything right now...

Oh! wait, guess what my mother has ordered for us? Seasons 1-3 of House!
I also ordered The Sims: Open For Business for myself, and she ordered The Sims: Nightlife for herself.

And I'm not sure if I mentioned this before or not but I'm going to be visiting my family in Brazil from 24th June to the 24th July. Then on 19th August I will turn 19, then in september I will (hopefully) be buggering off to uni.
I feel old. When the hell did I hit mid-teens, let alone 19?

Ack! Exams in just over a month! (french speaking exams next month!). Fuck. Gotta start some cramming sessions.

Later,
Carl

I live.

Update:
Today - Emma came over to visit me and play games on the Wii. Was fun. We finally exchanged christmas gifts. I now have a DVD of Finian's Rainbow. Og is awesome.

Tommorow - I am supposed to go meet up with some people at 8pm down Durham. Not sure if I feel up to it. I don't want to leave my house. I am pathetic.

Other news:
My counsellor is worried because I've skipped a few sessions. Mam saw the letter she wrote me, and now I have to go again.
Is it weird that I don't like it when people are too nice to me, or if they want to give me hugs or even just rest their hand on my arm? Mam says it is. Oh well.

I'm going to go read now.

Edinburgh rejected me. :(

So, now that all the Unis have replyed, I have made my decision. =D

Firm: Aberdeen (I need CCC)
Insurance: Stirling (I only need CC!)
I will be studying Philosophy and Religious Studies, and I will also probably be taking a third course in Anthropology, because the scottish masters degree is awesome that way.

And look at those Cs! No stress for me this year, no siree. XD

Well...maybe a little stress

RL News

I have lost my wallet. It contained by bank card and my drivers licence and loyalty card shit.
Phoned the bank and they froze my card and are sending me a new one. Also phoned DVLA and I'll be getting a new licence thingamabob. And through all this, what was I thinking?
"But I liked that wallet, it was all nifty and coffin shaped."
Ah well, as soon as Kathmandu reopens then I will buy a new one. *nods*

Other than, you know, whining and stuff. (about trains and college mostly)

Erm...thing is, not much is going on really. I spend most of my free time reading fanfiction/playing sims/watching tv. In that order. Although...it's generally pretty much only the first one unless the internet dies. XD
I haven't heard back from Edinburgh Uni yet. But apparently they're taking ages for everyone because their system died or something. Lol.
Although, they have 2 post-application visit days. One which has already gone, and the other one is in roughly 10 days i think. I bet they only tell me the day before the open day. >_>

I'm so fucking sick of this school. I can't wait to leave. It's full of arseholes.
I think I might end up going to Aberdeen. When I went there for the open day I already made friends. (current students). Hell one of them offered me a job at one of the bars. lol!

I'm going to go now and read some fanfiction, then maybe try and get the motivation to do some work or catch up on my flist.

Soo, I left the house around 9:30 am today, and got to Lancaster at around 11:45 ish for the University Open Day. (I've applied for Philosophy and Religious Studies there, and got a conditional offer of BBB). 'Twas good. Me likes.
Department = cool
Modules = cool
Professors = cool
Other applicants = cool (+ hot, if you include this one guy that I couldn't stop staring at - picture a younger version of snape with waist length hair wearing a really cool looking suit *drool*)

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Also, I am really really bad when it comes to relationship stuff. I just can't do it. I'm a bad boyfriend. Bad. And also... not a boyfriend at the minute as I've been dumped. Frankly, I think it was a very good idea of hers. No one should date me. Just don't. I'll probbaly avoid/ignore you, never return your calls, forget anniversaries/birthdays, and be really really bad at communicating with you.

Enough bad stuff. Can't do that. I'll get depressed again and I can't 'cos I have lots of school work due in next week and I need to start revising and my head needs to be focused on the revision, not on whining about how life sucks and I'm a shitty human being that should go die now.

I'm going to go read fanfiction, it's pretty much one of my few methods that I have of cheering me up.

I am so messed up right now.