Tuesday 12 April 2011

Hellooo?

Welp, so much for not giving up on this blog. It's been a while. I was planning on blogging thoughout NaNo, but that's been and gone. I'm now thinking about JulNo again. I think I'm going to do a sequel to last year's JulNo, except I'm not entirely sure what's gonna happen in it. Should be fun.

Well, I don't have much else to add... This was just a short, entirely pointless blog. So, uh, yeah.

Oh, and remember how a few blog posts ago I talked about how I thought iPhone 4's were pointless and stuff? Well, I've got one now. *sigh.* Yeah. So, here's the story. I was on the top deck of a doble decker bus and I had my trusty old iPhone 3G in my coat pocket. As I'm walking down the stairs to get off the bus, I can feel it slipping out of my pocket. I have 2 choices: put my hand in my pocket to stop my phone from falling out, or keep my hand on the railing to stop myself falling down the stairs. I go with stopping myself from falling down the stairs, which leads to my phone falling out of my pocket. It fell down a couple of steps but at the time I wasn't really worried. I was more annoyed about the fact it had pulled my headphones out. I picked it up and it wasn't until I was on the pavement outside, plugging my headphones back in, that I noticed the screen had cracked quite severely. Sooo, I could either get it fixed or buy a new one. I went with buying a new one. I miss my old phone (his name was Remus. Just FYI.) but I do like a few of the new features on my new one, who I've decided to name Penny. Yeah, I'm one of these people who names their inanimate objects. Problem?

Thursday 16 September 2010

College 'Welcome Morning'

Soo... I got back from my 'Welcome Day' at college earlier. It was pretty cool. I got my timetable, and I think I like it. I don't start untill 11 on a monday which is good because NaNo starts on a monday this year, so I can stay up for a midnight start because I don't have to get up too early. I have an even later start on Tuesday, at 1pm. But for the rest of the week I start at 9 and finish at a different time every day, depending on how many classes I have that day, and breaks between classes. On Friday I have a four hour break on Friday. I think I'm going to come home and the go back again instead of staying there the whole time, because I will have nothing to do. Especially tomorrow, which happens to be both Friday and my official first day. I probably won't know anyone so won't have anything to do.

I also have no days where I start at the same time as my brother, who has a car, so I'll have to get the bus every day. Today I met a few people I knew at the bus stop, which was cool. Two completely full buses went past before we could get on one. Apparently this happens a lot and my brother says you need to walk up to the previous bus stop to actually be able to get on the bus. Fun fun fun.

My day today went pretty well. There was no one I knew in my tutor group, which I think was probably a good thing because (and this happened before on a 'taster day' I went to) if there was someone I knew I would have just stuck with them and not get to know new people. Our teacher told us to get into groups with people who were doing similar subjects to us, and I was with 2 peope who seemed pretty cool. Then we went around the college in our little group, to see if we could find all of the places on a list our teacher gave us. xD It was fun.

Then we went to the "Enrichment Fair" and I didn't sign up for any enrichment courses.

And then I went home :)

Tomorrow I have English Language, which I can't wait for, I think it's gonna be so good. It better live up to my expectations!! It's different to English at school. I think it's supposed to be about stuff like how kids learn to talk, and stuff like that. It's gonna be really interesting. And then I have a 4 hour break before I have Chemistry. I think I'm gonna go home for that. Later in the year I'll probably use it for homework/revision but right now I don't have much of that to do.

So that's all I have to say about how today went. It was good. I hope tomorrow is good too!!

Au Reviour!!

Faye

Tuesday 14 September 2010

Oh, hi! I'm going to college in 2 days...

Oh hi, I didn't see you there.

I haven't made a blog post since late July, I think. It's now mid-september. But I will not give up on this blog! I've got so many (well, maybe about 5? I don't really know. It's probably only about 2 actually...) abandoned blogs, and I'm always thinking about how cool it would be to have a blog but never actually doing anything about it... so I will continue to write in this blog even if I take the occasional month-and-a-half long break.

Sooo, I start college on Thursday. O_O I think I might blog about my experiences... even though my current followers are from JulNo so probably don't care... xD Well, you might care.. I dunno. I need to somehow get more readers of my blog., though. I think I've only got 2 at the moment. I might post some links on TheStudentRoom but there's very few decent people there... the majority are either trolls who just want attention, or kids who are so far up their own ass... but you get the occasional normal person. So if you're reading this and are from TSR, don't get offended. :P

Sooo, in 2 days I am going to a Sixth Form College in order to do my A Levels. If you're interested, the subjects I'm taking are Maths, Biology, Chemistry and English Language. Funnily enough, Maths, Science and Engliah were the compulsary subjects at school and I bet most people are glad to be rid of at least one of them. xD Yet I'm carrying on with all 3. :P My secondary school doesn't have it's own 6th Form like some schools do, so everyone from my school has to go to a seperate college if they want to continue with their education. There are a lot of people from my school going to the same college as me, but I think only a handful will be doing the same courses as me and that doesn;t even necisarily mean they'll be in the same class as me. And there'll be lots of people I don't know. Now, I'm not the most talkative person. I'm not good at making conversation with people. I honestly don't even remember how I managed to become friends with the people I was friends with in school. So, um, I'm not really sure how it's gonna go for the first few days. Of course I'm going to make extra effort to get to know people because even though I'm shy, I do like making new friends, it's sort of exciting. It's just that I'm not very good at it. :P Buuut hopefully there'll be lots of people like me, who are kinda nerds, and have no friends yet either. So I can be friends with them and it'll all be gooood. ^__^

Thursday isn't really our official 'first day.' It's just this welcome day thing, and I think we just go in and get our timetables and stuff. Hopefully I'll meet some new people on that day... and then classes and everything starts on Friday.

Well, I think that's all for now... I'll tell you how everything goes :D

BYEEEEEEEE

-Faye

Friday 30 July 2010

If you don't like it, don't read/listen to/watch/look at/do it! - A rant.

You know what annoys me? When someone complains about something, and somebody else replies "Well if you don't like it, don't read/listen to/watch/look at/do it!" as if it's really that simple. This has become the most common comeback to whenever someone says they don't like something, and it really irritates me.

Example. You may have heard the song 'Airplanes' (I don't actually remember who it's by, but people have constantly been putting the lyrics to it as their status on Facebook for the last few weeks.) I hadn't actually heard the song, but I'd seen the lyrics to it on loads of people's Facebooks, so I decided to look it up to see what the fuss was all about. I found it on YouTube, and listened to it. I didn't like it, so I posted a comment on the video saying something like "I don't like this song. Why are so many people putting it as their facebook status?" and almost instantly I was flooded with responses saying "if u dnt lyk it, dnt listen 2 it!!!!!!" and similar things. Thanks, I'd never thought of that. I'm probably never going to listen to the song again, but they don't seem to realise that. and the only reason I listened to it in the first place was to see if I liked it or not. I didn't know I wasn't going to like it which is why I listened to it.

There was another time that I saw this happen recently. I was looking at some of my friends photos on Facebook, and I came across a picture of her where her boyfriend had left a, um, slightly inappropriate comment. And this other girl commented "Ew! i didn't need to read that!" To which he replied "well if you don't like it, don't read it." Um, SHE DIDN'T KNOW SHE WASN'T GOING TO LIKE IT BEFORE SHE READ IT. And she can't exactly un-read it now.

Ugh. I dunno, it just annoys me.

In other news, I have accumulated a ton of books that I haven't read yet, but I really don't know what one to read next. :/ I'm kind of in the mood to re-read A Series of Unfortunate Events, but I've got loads of books I haven't read yet so I don't want to waste time reading books I've already read. This is the biggest dillema I've ever had to face in, like, my whole life. Some of them are ones I bought a while ago because I wanted to read them but I haven't got around to it yet, but now I've gotten so used to seeing them on the shelf that they just seem boring and familiar already even though I haven't read them. :( My life is so interesting. Sigh.

The world is quiet here...

F

Wednesday 28 July 2010

YouTube Spam

Recently on my YouTube account I've been getting a lot of messages in my inbox that say something like "hey, I was checking out your profile and I really loved that video you made. I can help you get more subscribers! Just click this link!"

Sounds great, right? Except for the fact that I have never posted a video on YouTube, so they obviously can't 'love my video.' I've gotten a shocking amount of this spam and it really makes me laugh, because they obviously just indiscriminately send it to every single person on YouTube. At the bottom of the message is says 'this message was sent to...' and there's always a list of the people whose usernames are next to mine alphabetically. So I assume these people just go through a list of users and send it to everyone. So I guess that means they probably also send it to people who are already uber-sucessful on YouTube. I dunno, the thought of that just makes me laugh... Like, the Vlogbrothers or someone getting messages telling them "I can help you get your videos featured!" Ha, I don't think they need your help with that.

Yeah, this just makes me laugh so I thought I'd share. There's nothing else I really have to talk about at the moment, so... See you later!

Faye

PS. Woo, I now have 3 followers! Well, technically 2 because I think 2 of them are the same person with a new account... ¬_¬
But I still feel special.

Monday 26 July 2010

Mmmm Lemony Goodness...

I'VE GOT THE SAME BIRTHDAY AS LEMONY SNICKET. HELL YEAH.
Well, actually I've got the same birthday as Daniel Handler, who is the man that used the pen name Lemony Snicket. But that sounds less cool.

The reason I discovered this was because I'm reading A Series of Unfortunate Events. I got a box set of the first 10 books for Christmas in 2005, and read them all shortly after that. But it wasn't until 4-and-a-half years later (A.K.A. Now.) that I finally got around to purchasing the last 3 books in the series. I just read the 11th book in almost one sitting. It would have been one sitting if I didn't have to have dinner when I was half way through it. :( But yeah, I've just finished the 11th book and will move onto the 12th after writing this.

If you haven't heard of tvtropes.org, I am about to inflict something life ruining onto you. Because, as it says somewhere on the website itself, TV Tropes will ruin your life. People, including myself, get obsessed with it. But mentioning this particular website is essential in recounting my tale of how I found out about Lemony Snicket having the same birthday as me. Whenever I get into a new TV show or book series or something, I always look at the TV Tropes page for it, because... I'm obsessed with TV Tropes. So I was doing that just now. And right at the top of the Series of Unfortunate Events page, it says that Lemony Snicket is the pen name for a dude called Daniel Handler. I did not know this previously. I immediately went "NOOOO!" (inside my head, of course) because, although I already kinda knew that Lemony Snicket was just a pen name of some other guy, finding out what his real name was, and finding out it was something boring like Daniel (no offence Daniels of the world), kind of shattered my last bits of hope that maybe he actually was a real person.
I'm not really sure why it would matter if he were a real person or not because I'm probably never going to meet him anyway. But it would have been cool. (And anyway, he still is real, I guess, but just with a less cool name.)
But for some reason this led me to google Daniel Handler. And BAM, on his Wikipedia page, I see "born February 28, 1970."
FEBRUARY 28, BITCH!
The coolest Birthday in the world, amirite? Except for the fact that he's... *gets calculator out*... 24 years older than me (damn, it shouldn't be that hard to subtract 70 from 94. I only left school a few weeks ago.) But whatever. So even though his name isn't Lemony Snicket in real life, I like this guy again, because we share a great birthday.
And then I had to inform someone of this so I started writing this blog post, and I still haven't read the Series of Unfortunate Events TV Tropes page.

I doubt anyone cares enough about this little tale to read all of it, but if you have... you have no life. ;D I joke, of course. You're awesome and I like you. BE MY FRIEND. O_O

Because I feel like I should always end these with my name-

Faye.

P.S I'm going to see Toy Story 3 tomorrow! I'm excited! :D

Saturday 24 July 2010

The iPhone 4, and stuff.

Woah, I haven't done a blog post in like 2 days. I don't want to end up forgetting about this blog so I think I should update it frequently so it doesn't end up rotting in given-up-blog land. Even though I don't have anything in particular to blog about today...

Oh yeah, I almost forgot, I won JulNo!! Yeah, I reached 50k :) Although I haven't quite finished my epilogue yet. I only started writing the epilogue because I finished the story without getting to 50k... but now I've got to 50k and haven't finished the epilgue, which kinda means I haven't finished the story. It's all just a vicious circle. My epilogue so far has mainly consisted of my main character's dad and uncle playing Guitar Hero. Yeah, don't ask... ¬_¬ (basically my JulNo is a sequel to something I wrote ages ago, where they were main characters. And I'm still kinda fangirling over them... But I'm not really sure where Guitar Hero comes into all this.)

I've started putting a link to this on my signature on gurl.com now, so if you're reading this, you're either from JulNo or Gurl. Or some other weird stalker. So, hello!!

Ooh, I've thought of something I want to blog about. The new iPhone 4. I have an iPhone 3G, which I got for Christmas 2008. So I've had it for about a year and a half now. I've never had any major problems with it, and it still works fine and does everything I want it to do, so I don't see why I should get rid of it. But I have a friend who got an iPhone not long after I did, and he's just bought an iPhone 4. I think he did have some problems with his iPhone 3G a while ago, but earlier on Facebook he was saying "I'm having promblems with my iPhone 4 already." For the last couple of days on the news, people have been talking about the iPhone 4 having signal problems and stuff. And I'm thinking, why buy one if you already know there's going to be problems with it? Are people so obsessed with having the latest new gadget that they don't care? I may sound a bit hypocritical because some people might think having any kind of iPhone means you're obsessed with having the latest gadgets. And I admit that I did fall victim to the charms of the iPhone... but that was because I was shopping for a new phone anyway, because I'd had a really shit Moterola Razr for goodness knows how long. I didn't buy one just for the sake of having it. I got one because I was already looking for a new phone and decided I wanted an iPhone. Not like the people who queued up for hours to buy an iPhone 4 when they presumably had a previous iPhone that still worked fine. Yeah, I like having new gadgets but I won't buy them when I've already got one that works. I've bought one of each type of Nintendo DS that has been released. But I got a DS Lite because my first DS got stolen. And I got a DSi because my DS Lite was starting to break. (And partially because I needed a second DS to trade between my Pokemon games... ¬_¬)

Sorry if I sound like I'm saying I'm better than people who buy stuff like the iPhone 4... I don't mean to. But it does annoy me when people waste their money on things when they've already got a perfectly good one that just happens to be an older version. But then, who am I to say how they waste their money.

See y'all later.

Ok, I promise I'll never try and say "y'all" again.

-Faye.