Lost Star

fanwank + Who

2008-07-06T19:37:03Z

Spoliers under the cut.

OK except for clone!Ten and fanwank of R/C!D
Good bits, really bad bits and really really fanwankish bits that sucked and ruined the end.
Also, it would have been better had Donna died.
Music AMAZING as always.

New House

2008-07-06T14:35:53Z

Here we have pics from our as of yet incomplete new house.

ordered

2008-07-04T18:16:32Z

Imac is ordered. Not going to arrive for like 10 days though.
Mouse on laptop seems to have completely given up for now.
House getting more organsised. Slowly. Garden a complete shit hole atm.
Working tomorrow.
This broken mouse pad is very annoying.
Bye for now.

internets

2008-07-03T18:44:10Z

stealing internet to check mail.
Hi.
Will post stuff regarding move/house when our own net is up.
Hope everyone is OK.
XX

Moving House

2008-06-30T14:47:05Z

It is that time of year again. Moving house tomorrow which means I should be without internet for at least 20 days. I will be up on campus occassionally to do stuff so will check in then.
Until then I hope everyone enjoys the season finale of Who! and the summer. :)

*hugs*

XXX

Handbag meme

2008-06-28T19:35:39Z

Snagged from stargater_gal
1. Take a picture of your bag
2. Now dump everything out and neatly adjust them, and take a picture (no matter how embarrassing)
3. Talk about the items inside. Details, please.

My rucksack. Loved because it just fits so much in it.

1. Girly stuff. Self explanatory I think.
2. Body Spray
3. Purse. Got this in seista but it is now falling apart. I think I will get a wallet next time.
4. Book. Currently We need to talk about Kevin. I have read this book before but not for a long tine, it is as good as I remember. Inside it is a holiday form for work.
5. Camera case (usually containing camera.) Last term I did a photo blog and took my camera everywhere but have not done this for a while.
6. Keys including esa chain, lion king and jack Sparrow keyrings.My locker key for work is on the TARDIS.
7. Bikee lock - I biked to work this past week to get used to it for the longer ride I will have next week.
8. Tissues - oh how I love hayfever.
9. Sunnies - cause it has been nice the past few mornings and I walk into the sun on my way to work in the morning.
10. rape alarm - my mum insists I carry this although tbh it will not be much use in my bag.
11. pens.
12. spoon - not sure why this is still in my bag, probably from a yogurt last week.
13. raisons - also from last weeks lunch
14. old USB pens in case I forget the one I use now
15. kitkat - again with from a lunch
16. gum - minty freshness
17. Bonjella for when my wisdom teeth decide to play up as they did a couple of weeks ago
18. Lip gloss - this is over 5 years old now. really ought to chuck it but I love the way it smells/tastes/looks
19.hair grips as my fringe is so long it is getting annoying
20. Vaseline - again for lips as the air con at work really dries them out
21. asthma sprays - no clue as to why there are two though *shrugs*
22. plaster to cover my eczma when it is itchy so I can't scratch it.
23. Badges - initally on my rucksack I appear to have shedded these and just thrown them in it.
24. recipts, shopping list and plastic hanging tags from work that I had in my pocket when I left.

Who

2008-06-28T18:59:19Z

First Reaction:
OMFG OMFG OMFG
*dies of anticipation*

Back to mooching commences now...

2008-06-27T20:53:36Z

Well the shop refit is over so that means I am no longer working full time. It also means all the crazy sorting a store out is over. *wipes brow* I have worked full time hours for some six weeks now and I am incredibly wiped out by it all. It will be nice to get back to regular work. Although that said according to the refit manager apparently Matalan have plans to put me on a department part time which is apparently very impressive considering I have only been there seven weeks. I do not think they realise that I am a full time student and will not risk my grades by having to work too much. Anyways I have no overtime next week so it will be nice to crash. Well less crashing than I would like as I am moving house on Tuesday.

We can see all the changes and collect our keys on Sunday. I think we could move in then too but everyone has arranged for folks to come and lend us a hand with the moving so it will still be tuesday. Whilst I still don't actually want to move from this house I am still excited. Just hoping that the house is still ok after they have fucked around with it. But we do get new beds so that is pretty awesome.

I really need to get a haircut soon as my hair is now back to the bottom of my neck/sholders. I can actually put it up again now which whilst nice means it really is time to have it short again. I just don't to fork over for a haircut especially as I am planning on buying my mac next week if all goes according to plan, although this is me so it probably will not.

Cleaning out the kitchen tomorrow and will probably pack up clothes and stuff on Sunday. The majority of my books are packed but I keep wanting to read the ones in there. I have so many books to read at the minute it is crazy. and rather than read the ones on my shelves I am reading crappy teen lit as it requires very little concentration. One recommendation however if you are into young adult is just listen by Sarah Dessen.

It is so hot and humid today it is crazy. Just want to melt in a little puddle of goo. Also I have really bad knees at the moment. I think it is all the crazy running around and carrying at work but if I keep them still for a while they really hurt/seize up when i try to walk again. Nutty.

Anyway I am going back to party shuffle and reading time.
Write more later.

XXX

random meme time

2008-06-26T18:51:22Z

Doctor Who quotation meme

The Doctor: Excuse me, that’s not time travel. It’s like, I’ve got a sports car, you’ve got a Space Hopper.

reading meme snagged from reaperfox

1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Italicize those you intend to read.
3) Underline the books you LOVE.
4) Reprint this list in your own LJ so we can try and track down these people who've read only 6 or less and force books upon them ;-)

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6 The Bible
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12 Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveller's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
34 Emma - Jane Austen
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38 Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48 The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52 Dune - Frank Herbert
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones's Diary - Helen Fielding
69 Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses - James Joyce
76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal - Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
80 Possession - AS Byatt
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte's Web - EB White
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

Back to reading now.

Exam Results

2008-06-24T21:30:29Z

Yay for results being released early! Passed with a 2.1 average (?) which is what I needed.

IR theory = 66 Exam, 67 overall
Western European States = 69 exam, 68 overall
Srategic Studies = 58 exam, 60 overall (this blows imo. I wanted a better mark but I knew one of my questions let me down immediately)
EU = 70 exam, 68 overall (yikes)
USA = 66 exam, 70 overall (alas my only first)
Political Research = 63 overall

So yeah mixed results but I passed everything so I can now relax and stop freaking over results/having nightmares over exams. I need a 2.1 at least to apply for masters so this is a good start! :-)
Working full time for the last week this week and then moving next week and then hopefully getting my new computer the next week. cannot wait to start learning stuff for the mac.
Oh and everyone who can should go play Spore creature creator. Hightly cute. :)
Watched Groundhog day for the first time today. Weird.
off to read more now and calm down.
XX

Blah blah blah

2008-06-21T16:09:55Z

Dr Who tonight. *is excited*
Not thinking it will be great but still, should at least be good.
Still watching gate. Had a long nap this afternoon - very nice.
Have bad knee after dropping a back bar on it at work. It keeps hurting a lot after it has not been moved. It seems to be better this afternoon so I am hoping it will be ok soon.
Suffering with really itchy skin atm - very annoying.
Spore creature creator is way fun - cannot wait to get my imac.
jeez my life is so boring atm - it is all work.

Will post later. XX

Its the

2008-06-20T19:17:39Z

WEEKEND
Just watched Edward Scissorhands. On a real Tim Burton kick atm - any suggestions? Have seen Corpse Bride, Sweeney Todd and Ed Scissorhands...

Will post a proper update this weekend regardless of the fact that all I have done is work but there are some amusing anecdotes about the chavs I am currently working with that should be passed on for piss tackage and general amusement.

*hugs and cookies for everyone*

XXX

The Weekend

2008-06-15T16:39:19Z

Watched Sweeney Todd, My Fair Lady and lots of Star Gate. Oh, and Who. Not sure what to make of Who - I think I need to rewatch it.
Sweeney Todd is fricken amazing and everyone who likes musicals/Depp/Burton should go watch this like now. Soundtrack is on now and *sighs* so good.
Re-reading Meg Cabot books as cannot concentrate on anything that I have not already read atm and am not in the mood for Pratchett.
Cleaned and packed some stuff this weekend. Moving on the 1st hopefully.
There was new Shoebox project out which made me incredibly happy. Cannot beleive it took me a month to find it though *slaps head*
Work again tomorrow - I believe we are working on putting the sale out this week as well as getting our stuff done.
Have now run out of things to write so back to my reading now.

I'm alive

2008-06-14T19:51:57Z

i'm alive - really.
Forgot to watch Who - so waiting for it now.
Watching My Fair Lady.
Off now.
XX

Moffat

2008-06-07T20:38:29Z

IS A GOD OF TV!
That was a brilliant two parter and the best of this season of Who.
Feckin Fantastic and sad and funny and brilliant.
Yeah. just finished the latest Alex Rider book. Very good for what it is.
Onto the latest Rily something book now. Yay. Vampire/Werewolf stories!

XX

lost_star87 @ 2008-06-01T15:16:00

2008-06-01T14:21:54Z

See now that is why I love Dr Who.

That episode kicked ass.

Is fecked off

2008-05-30T20:51:36Z

Fecking bleedin bastards.

They have said I cannot do night shift as I am inexperienced in the job. The job is moving clothes around. I mean WTF - what am I not going to be able to pick up in about 20 minutes - exactly what my manager said but nooo... head office spoiled it all. Apparently more people want to do it and despite the fact that I was told I could do it and it was written down alreay I will no longer be doing it. Instead I have been told I can do 8-4 monday to friday which is better than nothing but it is still like half the money. Stupid people in charge.

So yeah I is way fecked of, tired and cranky and am now going to eat some junk food. Although there may be a lack of chocolate in the house. Hmm...

Blah.
XXX

Rock Band

2008-05-29T18:45:30Z

Ian has now got rock band so the living room is full of drumming and guitaring but no singing yet.
Lots of work makes me sleepy.

XX

OK so maybe a minor hiatus is necessary.

2008-05-27T09:56:31Z

Hey guys,

Just to let folks know that I am starting nights on Sunday night at 7pm. Chances are I am not going to be around much for the next 5-6 weeks. I am working 7pm-7am Sunday to Thursday so I am officially having no life for a while. Woot.

Yeah this sucks but the pay is damn good. I get time and a half for all hours over the 39 hours mark (so 7 hours a week) as well as premium hours pay of 25 % of each hours pay between 10pm and 6am.

Anyways time to go and stock up on foodage as I am working the next 9 days straight.

TTFN

lost_star87 @ 2008-05-22T10:52:00

2008-05-22T09:57:08Z

Crazy ass dream last night involving myself, the cast of LOTR, the cast of the Age of Five and one spaceship. Blah. I woke up so suddenly that I hit my head on the wall.
Work again tonight. MySims and SG1 in the meantime.
Blahdy blahdy blah. Cannoy remember what else I was going to say... hmmm....

Work (again)

2008-05-21T08:17:07Z

Well yesterday was quite fun (in the sense that it was work.) I got to spend half the day in the stock room and the other half on tills as they also trained me.
Have about double hours this week and next week as there is plenty of overtime this week and next.
This week I am doing 5-9pm today/tomorrow; 7-11am on Friday and 3-7 on Saturday which is annoying but as it is my normal hours i cannot change it. Basically I am missing the Wagamas end of term meal at lunch time as well as having to be late to Pip's BD drinking. Just makes it a real rush for me to get home, showered, changed and eat something before heading out. *sulks*
Also at some point there needs to be a cake making decision made.

Next week I am doing 24 hours at work. I must remember to think of the moneys.
3-7 Monday (regular hours but brought forward for the bank holidays); 5-9 Wednesday; 9-1 Thursday; 5-9 Friday and 11-7 Saturday. So yeah lots of work but also I guess more money, and quicker, for the IMac.

Playing MySims on the Wii now so TTFN.

XXX

Work, Blisters and more work

2008-05-20T07:02:19Z

I has overtime today and possibly on Thursday/Friday. Doing 9-5 today (supposedly in the stockroom) so thats not too shoddy. Overtime means the Imac will be purchased earlier so I would like some more please. Although there is that need to sleep still permeating my body. Also matalan has some really nice clothes. Need to go when am not working to look around
I worked on fitting rooms last night. OMG I liked that. Really easy but you have like your own little domain. ;)
It was pretty quiet so on top of that you have to tidy the surrounding area (ladies undies - also very cute knickers in there). All in all a pretty good time at work except for the whole I got a blister on my little toe! WTF?

Have heard rumors of what happens in Bones this week and I is not impressed. At all. Grr. They is raping and pilergering the show and I'm not so sure I want to watch it anymore...

Serve the People is crazy weird and very short.

Erm what else?? Not a lot really. I finally ordered Pip's B/D pressie but whether it arrives in time or not is another matter. Will try to buy some balloons at some point also for early morning decorating purposes.

Anyways I need to go and like, get dressed as I don't think I will be allowed to work in my PJs as awesome as that might be.

TTFN
XXX

Fails

2008-05-19T13:19:42Z

Sorry for my LJ being so completely dead recently. Just having complete lack of need to be on my computer after being tied to it for the whole year.
Currently watching SG1 downstairs as have now, finally, finished the Age of Five trilogy. Well worth a read btw.
Starting Serve the People next - a chinese novel that looks pretty excellant.
Have work tonight also - still waiting to be till trained.
Wii Fit still keeping me entertained. Although right now my arm hurts a bit.
So yeah there really has not been a whole lot to report.
Sorry again for not being around so much will try to be better but atm other things are a calling.
Hope everyones exams went/are going well. :)

XX

Shattered

2008-05-16T12:47:44Z

I have been so out of it the past couple of days. Post exam fatigue.

I had the two day headache which I think now was the your period is coming signal for my body. But for the past couple of days I have been exhausted and I am not sure if it is to do with the wii fitting or the period. I think maybe it is a bit of both as last week wii fit did not leave me like this.
Anyway my period has arrived but it is so far mega light like last time so touch wood it stays light. Still havecramps though which annoys the hell out of me.

Just want to stay in bed but need to get up and get it together as have my first shift back at work today 5-9. Tomorrow I work 3-7 so alas I shall not be watching Dr Who then.

Anyways trying to spend minimal time on the laptop at the moment so it will hold together as long as possible so it is back to the large pile of books I have awaiting.

Toodles.
XX

Afternoon

2008-05-15T15:17:22Z

I am so wiped this afternoon. My arms hurt so much from wii fit its quite funny but am kackered.
I found a pool for £3 and finally brought some black shoes for work. Slightly miffed that I had to pay £13 for them but I needed ones that would not fall off every ten seconds.
Back to watching stargate now.

X