Wow, my first post in months and months...I was procrastinating from writing my thesis and finally got to compiling the Olympics video! Yay!

Good news! I've updated all the photos I've taken in about the last 2 months!! It took me all afternoon...but hey, it had to be done! I was going to go shopping downtown today and then realized that it's a Bank Holiday today so nothing would be open anyway. Plus it's been chucking it down on and off...best to stay inside!

So, since it took me about 5 hours to update photos I haven't written anything about them yet but if you want to take a look anyway there's new stuff in the following albums:

• Amsterdam (with Jo, Tom and Erin - April)
• Beverley (where my flatmate Sophie lives - March)
• Dublin (with Erin - April)
• French Riviera (with Jo, Tom and Erin - April)
• Greece (with Elle and Erin - May)
• Gryon (with Jo, Tom and Erin - April)
• Italy (my trip with Mom - March/April)
• London (saw the British Museum with Mom and Buckingham Palace with Jo - April)
• Paris (with Jo, Tom and Erin - April)
• Venice (more pictures because our ferry left from there to go to Greece - May)

For anyone who's been checking back here even remotely often I apologize a kajillion times because I've just been really busy and haven't had a chance to sit down and make an effort to write! Sorry!

Boo. Nobody wants to go out tonight...it's that time of year again where everyone has work to do...but I seem to be lucky enough to just not have that much work. My work consists of booking hostels and flights...

I really wanted to go out tonight too cuz it's Monday which means a) 80p drinks at the Fruit Cupboard for 80's Night or b) 1 pound pints at The Library or c) 10 pounds all-you-can drink at Bondi Beach.

Oh well...

Today wasn't too exciting...just had class. It sucked cuz I had to wait an hour between my 2pm and 4pm classes...but then when I showed up to my 4pm class the lecturer said that it was cancelled because the guest speaker emailed him yesterday to say that he wouldn't be able to make it...but then we were all like "Could you have told us yesterday?"...like in the Wedding Singer when Adam Sandler says "Once again, things that could have been brought to my attention YESTERDAY!" (in response to finding out on his wedding day that his fiancee didn't want to marry him). Haha! Love that movie.

Oh and I just had another weird coincidence!!! We were watching the new ER (I don't know if it's new for you guys...probably not since it's a Christmas episode) and a patient was being treated and he said he had the Philadelphia Chromosome (a mutated chromosome which can lead to cancer)....and this is really weird because I just learned about the Philadelphia chromosome for the first time ever in my Cancer Biology class today!! That is crazy...don't tell me it's not!

I am going to die from second-hand smoke in this country.

I heart cheesy music!

Last night at Fruity they played amazing music - and when I say amazing I mean bad music in the best cheesiest way! And I loved it!

I think I've already explained the obsession with the Baywatch song over here? If not, well they play the Baywatch theme song all the time in clubs. And they played "Highway to the Danger Zone" from Top Gun, S Club 7 - Reach for the Stars, Hanson - MmmBop, MC Hammer, Queen, The Killers, AC/DC, B*Witched - C'est La Vie (because they're Irish and it was St. Patty's Day), Pink ft. Redman - Get the Party Started, the Grease medley, an ABBA medley, Bon Jovi, "I've Had the Time of My Life" from Dirty Dancing, Whitney Houston - I Wanna Dance With Somebody, Five....tons of other stuff. It's all completely random!

Anyway, I had a good time.

Tonight I'm off to an International party, which should be fun cuz they're always crazy.

I've spent like, all of today researching stuff for my trips. I think my eyes started to glaze over around 5pm so I went to the grocery store to get food. I was gonna make a big omelette to use up a bunch of veggies and stuff...but I thought the frying pan was non-stick, and I guess it wasn't...so I ended up having to make crazy scrambled eggs with mushrooms, onions, cheese and celery instead. Oh well. It still tasted alright.

Happy St. Patty's Day!!!

Tonight I'm going to Fruity with Sophie and her boyfriend, and Elle and her flatmates! It should be pretty good. I saw a bunch of people walking around today with big hats...like the "cat in the hat" hats but the brim is a shamrock and the tall part is a big Guinness glass - I want one SO bad!! Went out and got a new top today so I can wear it tonight (it's green). To be fair I don't have that many green tops.

I half expected people to be walking around drunk at 10 in the morning but no...I hardly even saw people wearing green! Oh well. It's gonna be pretty crazy tonight. I wanna go to the Fruity next week too cuz they're having a Chocolate factory theme with chocolate fountains and stuff...MMMmmmmmmmmm.

Oh haha...just realized that you guys probably have no idea what Fruity is...it's a clubnight run by the university union...every Friday.

I just need to tell you about this dream I had last night - it was WEIRD! Ok so in my dream I woke up and looked in the mirror to see that I had 2 unibrows! What is THAT supposed to mean?? Like, there was the one normal looking unibrow (if a unibrow can look normal) and then about a centimetre above it there was a skinnier one. Ewww. And then I was freaking out in my dream cuz I thought that I'd always had a unibrow and was mortified at what people would say about me. haha....anyway ya...

Oh and we had a fire alarm at 5am yesterday. That was fun - NOT! It was funny though cuz everyone else looked like they'd just jumped out of bed and went out...I took the time to put on boots and my coat...cuz after all the Whidden fire alarms and standing in the cold, well I just can't be bothered anymore...I might as well take the time and prepare myself for standing outside for half an hour in the cold. But we didn't have to stand outside anyway...because unlike Whidden, if it's a false alarm, the firefighters here don't check every room before declaring it safe...they just come and shut off the alarm and that's it.

I've been so busy planning stuff it's crazy! Easter Break starts next Saturday. We then get 4 weeks off, then 2 weeks back at school, then reading week, then exams, and my exams finish on the 26th and then I've got 3 free weeks until I go home. So I've been planning trips...a lot. Mom's coming over to see me and she gets into London late on the 29th. Then we leave for Italy the next morning. We're flying into Naples, staying in Sorrento for a couple of days, then going to Rome for a couple days, then up to Florence and Pisa before we go back to London. Then Mom flys on Fri. 7th and I go back to Leeds. Then first thing Sunday morning I'm leaving for Amsterdam with Erin, Tom and Jo, who are also Mac students. We're gonna be in Amsterdam for a couple days, then going to Paris for a few days - I'm gonna go to the Good Friday Mass in Notre Dame!!! I know I'm not Catholic but we all root for the same guy so I don't see the big deal...it'll be a great experience! Then we're going to this really cool hostel that's right in the middle of the Swiss Alps. The plan is to go paragliding but that all depends on weather and costs and stuff like that...but that would be AWESOME!!! Then we're goin to the south of France...so Nice and Monaco mostly. Then we're going to Barcelona before flying back to England. THEN I go to school for a week and on the weekend I'm going to Dublin with Erin, then I go to school for another week and we leave on the Saturday for GREECE (and by WE I mean me, Erin and Elle). I am soooo excited for Greece...this is our "fun-in-the-sun" trip! We're taking a 24-hr ferry from Venice to the island of Corfu, and staying at a resort for 2 nights, then going to Athens for a couple days to see all the sites. And then I come back and do exams...not exactly sure what I'm doing after exams...I really want to go to Germany, Prague and Austria...but we'll see.

I just found out today that I didn't qualify for McWork which sucks cuz Dr. Daniel wanted me to work for her in the summer. But she suggested I start in August - which is EVEN better because then I have time to be at home and catch up with friends and family before I go back to Hamilton. Maybe Mr.Shivas can give me some hours at the good ole DQ!

And in sad news, I am without an MP3 player at the moment. My little Bean's buttons are sticking in place so it's been sent away to get fixed. So I'm back to making CDs to listen to...hopefully my Bean's back before I go to Amsterdam!

This is what I put on my CD-RW today:
1. Rodeo Clowns - Jack Johnson
I love this song. I love the guitar! Although I supposed that's the part to love in most J.J. songs...it kills me that I had to give up my tickets to this concert!!
2. Wonderful (It's Superman) - Andy Stochansky
Chris used to listen to this song all the time in first year!
3. Goldfinger - Ash
4. Together - Avril Lavigne
5. High Tide or Low Tide - Ben Harper and Jack Johnson
Umm yeah...slightly obsessed with this song right now. I'm teaching myself to play it on the guitar but it's been killing my fingers cuz it's all bar chords...I hate bar chords. Boo.
6. Going Away to College - Blink 182 (live)
My favourite Blink 182 song. I am so sad they broke up. It would have been awesome to go to one of their concerts...I was listening to stuff from Angels and Airwaves (Tom's new band) and Plus 44 (Tom and Travis's new band) and they both sound good....they've got stuff coming out in the summer.
7. Everybody Needs Somebody to Love - The Blues Brothers
I went into a music store the other day and they had a used double CD set of all the Blues Brothers songs for 5 quid and so I picked it up to buy it...but then the guy at the desk said someone had sold the CDs from it and just the cover was left. Why would they put it on display if there was no CD? Grrr....
8. Poison (remix) - Clubland
Alice Cooper fans would want to kill themselves listening to this and it is super Chavvy but I still like it.
9. Dance Dance - Fall Out Boy
10. Meaning - Gavin DeGraw
11. Coming Clean - Hilary Duff
Ok let me have it. I know everyone's rolling their eyes at this one...and usually I can't stand Hilary Duff but this song is just sooo catchy!
12. What's My Age Again - Blink 182 (live)
13. The Passenger - Iggy Pop
I heard this song on a commercial and now I love it.
14. I Want You Back - The Jackson Five
This song always makes me happy.
15. Miss Independent - Kelly Clarkson
16. Suddenly I See - KT Tunstall
Possibly my favourite song of the year! I love it so much. I've watched episode 2 of Grey's Anatomy season 2 way more than the other episodes just because this song opens the first scene!
17. Set You Free - N-Trance
Chewn!!!
18. Shake Your Tailfeather - Ray Charles
Again, I needed to fill my Blues Brothers craving.
19. Dammit - Blink 182 (live)
20. My Number - Tegan and Sara
I love Tegan and Sara right now! Not love them love them...cuz they're lesbians and well, I'm not.
21. Dance Like This - Wyclef Jean
Ahhh....Havana Nights...what an awesome soundtrack.

Anyway, that's what's going on and what's been going on...

Cheers!