I know I'm in my own world... it's okay, they know me here

So I've finished my Case Study on Cystic Fibrosis ready to hand it in tomorrow, the deadline date which so many students have failed to appreciate until this weekend *is a little smug, having started and worked on it for a month or so*

It's funny the ways you realise that you're actually learning stuff. My Granddad emailed me to - well, chat, I guess - and told me Grandma is having cataracts removed. My reply was something along the lines of 'It's a routine op, and they only remove the lens. It gets stiff with age. The cornea does most of the refraction for the eye anyway.'

(It's true, by the way, in case you were wondering.)

BTW - I hate all of you and your damn schedules. Why can't you just be around when I want you to be, like TV?

Lucy tweaked her plans a little bit so now I will be home the weekeknd of the 21st/22nd. Yaaaay!

Um, that's all I can think of!

I'm really getting bad at this!

Why so many exclamation marks?!?!?!

ETA: JUST REMEMBERED!

Stargate SG-1 has been greenlighted by MGM for two movies, probably straight-to-DVD, which means that will almost certainly be the end of the show. Apparently the first will wrap up the Ori storyline and the second will involve time travel. (To me, that sounds really dumb, like they pulled it out their asses, but maybe they can pull it off.)

This sucks! But it's not as bad as a total cliffhanger for ever and ever.

I HAVE FRESHER'S FLU.

AND A NURSE STOLE MY BLOOD TODAY FOR WEIRD EXPERIMENTS, AND I HAVE NO VEINS SO IT HURT.

AND MY TEACHER SET US TO MAKE NOTES FROM OUR SHINY NEW TEXTBOOKS FOLLOWING PARTICULAR QUESTIONS AND I OPENED THE BOOK AND COULDN'T READ IT BECAUSE IT'S NOT IN ENGLISH IT'S IN 'YOU ARE THE DUMBEST PERSON ON THE PLANET' LANGUAGE.

So I am drinking lots of juice and wearing three layers of clothes because I'm cold and my head is stuffed up and Sam ought to die for giving me her stupid American cold cooties, I swear to God.

Otherwise I am happy.

ETA: Looking at Jensen Ackles pictures to cheer myself up, found THIS. adpafkneofncskaaa *brain explodes*

My mobile has been on and not at all off since Tuesday night now and so I am proud of myself for remembering and charging it and stuff. Hoo-ha!

'Course, I'll have to remember to turn it off or silence it or something during lectures, then turn it back on...

Everyone on my floor has turned out to be really lovely, but they are pretty much ALL BLONDE and look quite similar and I forget names and faces even who was where when, which is ridiculous but true and embarrassing. So, y'know, 'duh'.

I'm writing an SGA story for summercon, and I'm actually really excited about it - it's for the 'Blame Someone Else!' Challenge, where someone else gives you a prompt for a story idea they've had that you can blame them for. I got 'John and Rodney decide they should go on a date before just jumping into bed together, the universe conspires against them', for scribblinlenore, and I was a little stuck then I had one of my BRAINWAVES OF DOOM and so now I'm writing it and having fun and I think I'm maybe a third, halfway through?

Today I did basically nothing, anyway. I watched Highlander, the movie version, which I'd never seen before - how can a movie be that watchable and also so awful? As in, God, kill that woman now, she drove me INSANE. All she was there for was for McLeod to shag and to scream at 'dramatic' moments, which just made her sound stupid.

Ended up having breakfast with this random guy who came up and said hi, at first he seemed fine and then it turned out he was a scifi fan and I thought 'cool! finally!' until he started going on about the stuff he's into and I thought 'Oh God, I'm a geek but he is taking it TOO FAR!' I kinda draw the line at scifi/fantasy card game things. I managed to extract myself without committing to anything, at least. Hopefully will not be cornered (this all sounds horrible, because I know what it's like to be 'uncool', but I've decided that that doesn't mean I have to subject myself to torturousness.)

So today I 'met' some people, a girl on my course and a guy from down the hall a little way, and so it begins. I don't think they're going to be my best friends or anything, but it's hard to meet people who don't drink or go out partying all the time when they don't go out all the time and neither do you, naturally :) I'm going to Movie Night tonight, which someone said may be Brokeback Mountain, so hopefully I'll meet some stay-in types there (assuming anyone else goes, which would be typical!)

I also went to a poster sale today and bought these art deco posters. The picture for the second one is rubbish, but it's the best I could find on the net :)

Absinthe Robette

La Plume

I also met Sara Copsey from Challoners today, randomly! It turns out she dropped out last year and now she's here as a first-year. How bizarre!

Also, go to summercon to see my banner in use at the top and contributions from me to the various challenges. It's a fun, online convention! Take part!

I haven't updated in a few days, huh? Well, I've been watching a lot of DVDs recently. I'm trying to get through some before I go away so I have less to cart along with me (though I keep accidentally ordering more because I have absolutely no willpower whatsoever.) I'm watching Medium at the moment which I'm liking, but I'm not mega-enthused about it like I get with some things. It's fun, it's cool, it's just not obsession material. Now, House was AWESOME. And one of my online accidental purchases was the second season of that, along with the complete first season of Supernatural, which I have been heard describing as 'the show that is so cool that GOD want to watch it all the time even though he ALREADY KNOWS WHAT HAPPENS.'

Seriously, it has Jensen Ackles and Jared Padalecki in leather with big-ass sexy guns killing monsters. What more do you need?

My life in brief, other than fannishness:

Had a bit of a freak-out after actually meeting Dad's new girlfriend Gail because theoretically it's fine but really it's kinda weird. He was out I think 5/7 nights last week until way after I'd gone to sleep (after midnight) and I felt like I never saw him and he acted differently and it was really getting me into a tizzy. But I talked to him about it and now I feel better and hopefully I'll be fine now. I just still miss Mum, you know? So seeing him with someone else being happy is kinda whacked.

Lucy started going to school again but is either ill again or not making an effort and of course it's the days when I'm supposed to be taking her and I want her to go so she doesn't miss the year and it's stressing Dad out and it sucks. Dan, the boyfriend man, is coming over this afternoon so I'm guessing I'll be making myself scarce upstairs again. I'll take DVDs and laptop and hole up for a while, it'll be fine :)

Jasper is, as always, cute as hell.

I'm getting nervous about going to university now. Will I make friends? Will somebody steal my crockery? Will I remember to take all the stuff I need? Damn, I still have to call the NHS to make sure they give me my bursary, dammit, because they've based their 'sorry, no' on last year when Dad was actually working and this year we have basically no income over than Mum's pension so they should PAY UP, GODDAMNIT. Also have to call two other places. I hate phone calls. I hate talking to people on the phone. HATEITHATEITHATEIT. Don't wanna. But I gotta. So... crap.

It was Mum's birthday on the 22nd, and it was weird not because it was her birthday but because it really doesn't mean much to me any more. It really doesn't get to me. Thinking of Mum doesn't make me really sad any more like it used to. I guess that's progress of a sort. It's sort of a comfortable numbness now, if that makes sense.

Today a huge bunch of stuff arrived from Liverpool about arriving and getting set up as a new student and accomodation and all sorts, and now it finally feels like it's happening and it's a little scary but also really cool, because I have been ready to go for months now. There's loads of stuff I need to take and have done, like check which vaccinations I have and haven't had, etc. I need to decide which Freshers Events I'm going to go to, as well, as apparently it's usual for them to sell out so you need to book in advance. I'll be going on the 19th of September. (Kat and Katie, I want to see you before I go as I have birthday presents for you! From Chicago! Yay!) Any advice people feel might help me out would be greatly appreciated, since you've all done this before. (Not stuff like, 'don't be an idiot', because that's not very helpful even if you think it's funny, okay?)

I WANT THE NEW EPISODE OF SGA NOW INSTEAD OF TOMORROW. It's going to have Rodney's sister Jeannie in it! Played by David Hewlett's sister Kate! How cool?!?!

ETA: I went to the dentist and they had to redo my filling and now the side of my face is numb and it feels like my mouth is twisting weirdly every time I move it >-<;;

Gotta new job for the next three days at least, because the person who was doing it hurt her back. So, more £7/hour for me, down at Amersham Hospital, doing admin and getting paid, hurrah!

Also, uni stuff - they called me and gave me some spiel about how they were expecting confirmation I was accepting my grades (remember when I called you back in March, Dr O'Connor? That was it) but it should be sorted now please, so hopefully will all pan out with none the worse for wear etcetera. (Imagine the 'ah' at the end being drawn out poshly, that's how it sounds in my head.)

I really need to do more writing. I never write any more, which is sort of dumb for somebody who wants to be a writer. So I keep saying to myself, anyway, but it never seems to make me actually write!