![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
I'M BAAAAAAAAAAAACK
Thanks to ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
marquiserachel for her previous post and for making me spend twenty quid on a phone call. Appreciate it, love!
Yes, I'm sure you've all been relishing the peace and quiet, but I'm back and here to bloody well stay. Let me briefly fill you in.
I arrived in Sunderland on Thursday afternoon with relative ease. Found that I could not set up my internet until I was enrolled, which wasn't going to happen until the next day. Could not sign up at the library or collect my USSU card until I was enrolled. So I therefore slinked back to my room with a Tesco's salad because I had nothing to eat with/on and that was about all I could have. I was, by this point absolutely exhausted from everything I'd been dealing with over the previous days and so after discovering that I had been 'loaned' thirty quid electricity, I went the hell to bed, but not before noticing the disgusting state of the kitchen and noting that there was no cupboard/fridge/freezer space for me- the other four had taken it all up.
Friday, I enrolled. Took my computer in to get set up on the internet. Metemony (EDIOT: That's EmoNy not EmoRy. Emony is a fab chick, Emory is a university.) and thus got the first R/Hr shipper onto my LJ friends list!! Discovered we also had Buffy and Angel in common as well as a desire to write stuff. Was lovely to meet someone who didn't recoil in horror at the word 'fanfic' as well. Went here there and everywhere to set stuff up, discovered also that I had been put in the morning group for classes. Went to town for various things I now can't remember and then went the hell to sleep again.
A quick run down of an MA Journalism class: Eight hours of shorthand classes a week, three-hour class at five pm called Media In Society, two three-hour and two one-hour classes for 'Principles and Practice' and two two-hour classes for Journalism Law. That's just this semester. By March I have to have a speed of 100 words per minute or better of shorthand and I've never done it before. Kill moi now.
Anyway, on Saturday my mum and dad drove up with all my stuff and when they saw the state of the kitchen went absolutely fucking mad, partly because the rules are real clear on no smoking in communal areas- the ktichen, basically. They'd been smoking in there and my room thus stank of stale smoke. The kitchen was filthy and despite an assurance from the one person I'd met in there, there was still no cupboard/fridge/freezer space. My mum marched straight down to reception to demand to speak to someone. Cut a long story short... she demanded I be moved... Cut it really short, that's happening tomorrow and I have to move all my stuff without any help from this building to the one opposite. I hope I don't have a room at the other end of the building.
Anyway, I've only just got internet access in my room this afternoon. I only got onto the internet at all yesterday morning because it takes 24 hours after getting your library card for your computer access there to be validated. Found I had 297 emails. Once I'd got rid of the junk, I had about 100. Found I had pages and pages on my Friends Page to sift through, mostly baseball related, it seems!
Briefly, because I'm not a fan of politics unless it's on The West Wing, I agree with what most people have said about Barmy Bush's Marriage Protection Week. I also agree with most people about Governor-Elect Sweatshisknickers. Considering I'm now a journalist-in-training I should probably care more, but I really don't! Seriously- there's nobody on this planet who has the right to judge what a family really is beyond the concept of love. I would very much like to know what Dubya Shrub thinks of other unconventional families beyond the obvious- my brother and I are adopted, does that make our family 'less than'? Because if so, I would very much like to tell my mother that and then sic her on him. Nobody has the right to judge anyone else's family.
Anything else? Oh!! The LG Cup snooker tournament started in Preston on Saturday and aside from Ronnie O'Sullivan's surprise conversion to Islam (if it means he finds the peace of mind he's been searching for all his life, more power to him), the big talking points seem to be his hair band and Paul Hunter's Beckhamesque braids. I thought this was snooker, man! Anyway, as none of you care, I shall not beat you over the head with it all.EDIT: Just reading, like a geek, the results of the LG Cup so far on World Snooker.Com and the piece about the O'Sullivan-Harold game pointed out that the Rocket hasn't actually converted apparently. Either way, his hairband is quite weird but he looks better than he has done. More importantly, he beat Dave Harold 5-0.
I will be back, probably tomorrow. You may have thought you'd got rid of me. You weren't that lucky.
marquiserachel for her previous post and for making me spend twenty quid on a phone call. Appreciate it, love!Yes, I'm sure you've all been relishing the peace and quiet, but I'm back and here to bloody well stay. Let me briefly fill you in.
I arrived in Sunderland on Thursday afternoon with relative ease. Found that I could not set up my internet until I was enrolled, which wasn't going to happen until the next day. Could not sign up at the library or collect my USSU card until I was enrolled. So I therefore slinked back to my room with a Tesco's salad because I had nothing to eat with/on and that was about all I could have. I was, by this point absolutely exhausted from everything I'd been dealing with over the previous days and so after discovering that I had been 'loaned' thirty quid electricity, I went the hell to bed, but not before noticing the disgusting state of the kitchen and noting that there was no cupboard/fridge/freezer space for me- the other four had taken it all up.
Friday, I enrolled. Took my computer in to get set up on the internet. Met
emony (EDIOT: That's EmoNy not EmoRy. Emony is a fab chick, Emory is a university.) and thus got the first R/Hr shipper onto my LJ friends list!! Discovered we also had Buffy and Angel in common as well as a desire to write stuff. Was lovely to meet someone who didn't recoil in horror at the word 'fanfic' as well. Went here there and everywhere to set stuff up, discovered also that I had been put in the morning group for classes. Went to town for various things I now can't remember and then went the hell to sleep again.A quick run down of an MA Journalism class: Eight hours of shorthand classes a week, three-hour class at five pm called Media In Society, two three-hour and two one-hour classes for 'Principles and Practice' and two two-hour classes for Journalism Law. That's just this semester. By March I have to have a speed of 100 words per minute or better of shorthand and I've never done it before. Kill moi now.
Anyway, on Saturday my mum and dad drove up with all my stuff and when they saw the state of the kitchen went absolutely fucking mad, partly because the rules are real clear on no smoking in communal areas- the ktichen, basically. They'd been smoking in there and my room thus stank of stale smoke. The kitchen was filthy and despite an assurance from the one person I'd met in there, there was still no cupboard/fridge/freezer space. My mum marched straight down to reception to demand to speak to someone. Cut a long story short... she demanded I be moved... Cut it really short, that's happening tomorrow and I have to move all my stuff without any help from this building to the one opposite. I hope I don't have a room at the other end of the building.
Anyway, I've only just got internet access in my room this afternoon. I only got onto the internet at all yesterday morning because it takes 24 hours after getting your library card for your computer access there to be validated. Found I had 297 emails. Once I'd got rid of the junk, I had about 100. Found I had pages and pages on my Friends Page to sift through, mostly baseball related, it seems!
Briefly, because I'm not a fan of politics unless it's on The West Wing, I agree with what most people have said about Barmy Bush's Marriage Protection Week. I also agree with most people about Governor-Elect Sweatshisknickers. Considering I'm now a journalist-in-training I should probably care more, but I really don't! Seriously- there's nobody on this planet who has the right to judge what a family really is beyond the concept of love. I would very much like to know what Dubya Shrub thinks of other unconventional families beyond the obvious- my brother and I are adopted, does that make our family 'less than'? Because if so, I would very much like to tell my mother that and then sic her on him. Nobody has the right to judge anyone else's family.
Anything else? Oh!! The LG Cup snooker tournament started in Preston on Saturday and aside from Ronnie O'Sullivan's surprise conversion to Islam (if it means he finds the peace of mind he's been searching for all his life, more power to him), the big talking points seem to be his hair band and Paul Hunter's Beckhamesque braids. I thought this was snooker, man! Anyway, as none of you care, I shall not beat you over the head with it all.EDIT: Just reading, like a geek, the results of the LG Cup so far on World Snooker.Com and the piece about the O'Sullivan-Harold game pointed out that the Rocket hasn't actually converted apparently. Either way, his hairband is quite weird but he looks better than he has done. More importantly, he beat Dave Harold 5-0.
I will be back, probably tomorrow. You may have thought you'd got rid of me. You weren't that lucky.
no subject
no subject
no subject
no subject
Missed ya, darlin'
LAHAK
Good Friend Nightfall
no subject
Well, I missed you an all, so that all works out fine!
*hugs Good Friend Nightfall*
YAAAAAAAAAY!!!!
Damn it's been boring without you :-( I'm glad you're up in Sunderland unsundered ;-) (all in one piece) Though I don't exactly understand your living arrangement - are you in a dormitory or a student hotel or what??
Anyway...I got a small amount more done on LITTB04 (Hagrid's there! yaay!) and also got an NC-17 plot bunny *snerk* (Remember the end of JUST DESSERTS?? It begins where that left off ;-) Buzz me sometime, chica.
Re: YAAAAAAAAAY!!!!
Boring without me? *sniffs* I feel loved. Will be around more once I've actually moved into another flat (is in post-graduate res halls made up of flats of five, since you asked).
*hugs*
Re: YAAAAAAAAAY!!!!
no subject
*glomps*
Missed you sweetie!
no subject
Missed you too. Missed everyone actually!
no subject
And yes, I am responsible for at least 12 baseball-related posts.
Glad to have you back :)
no subject
I love baseball meself (go Yankees! No, I'm not a gloryseeker at all!) but I haven't been paying much attention this season and so have no clue what's been going on.
Speak to you soon mate!
no subject
Them's fightin' words. =P
Quick Catchup. As I'm writing this, the Yankees are taking the field to face the Red Sox for the first game of the American League Championship Series, with the winner taking the AL Pennant and going on to the World Series ten days from now.
GO SOX :D
no subject
THE YANKEES RULE ALL!
no subject
We kicked your Yankee asses 5-2.
:P
no subject
*hugs*
~Erin
no subject
Missed you too. How is college life over there, dear?
no subject
no subject
no subject
Missed you, babe! How are you? How's your nan?
*hugs again*
no subject
*more hugs*
no subject
Glad you're getting moved... too much rice in one kitchen is baaaaaaaaaad!
xxxxxxxxxxx
no subject
Am moving today- once I'm out of the class I'm currently in. I have class on computers, how cool is that?
no subject
*also waves B/A flag*
no subject
And where did that new pic in your icon come from? Am I missing something?
no subject
no subject
*slips on wet soapbox and falls down.*
no subject
Especially if I get pretty pics like that. ;)