blog #26

hello hello.. i seem to be neglecting my internet self, so i should make more of an effort to make an effort. but at the moment i have the flu, or something like it, and i dont feel hugely like doing anything much. though i have just discovered that i can touch type nearly. which is cool. but back to the point.. ill, in bed, cold with a temperature. 2 deadlines in 2 days.. arg. anywho, just another one of those little updates, with very little to actually say...

over and oooouuuuttt....

(image from postsecret.com)

blog #25

hello, number 25. i havent posted for a while cos i have been busy. i had a job over the summer working as a cleaner and wanted to put together a compilation of the things that happened to me over that time, and the great stuff the women who i worked with said. but i ended up not having much time really. i had a resit for uni and after working my 6 hour day cleaning, i has virtually no energy anyway.

so i didnt manage it, but i passed my resit and now i am a third year university student. which seems mad. its gone past so quickly. and living with 2 people who i lived with in first year has been great, ive really missed being happy at home. last year was ok but im much happier this year. and the house is nicer. and my room, although minus the amazing view i has, is good.

anyway, i just wanted to check in just to break the post-block ive been having.

over and out.

blog #24

copenhagen

day 1. monday.

i went there with my course last week. monday the 16th june. i had to get up at 4am to catch the 5am bus to town and the 6am train to london. which i managed. met some of my course mates for the train journey, as well as the lecturers taking us.. the journey was nice. talked to claire and phil and then i slept for a bit of it. off in london and braved the tube and the stansted express. and got to the airport a bit early. it was nice walking around seeing all the people we knew though. nice to see hannah :)

checked in and had a lovely flight sat next to jess who was nervous. we were both a bit jittery but we landed in sunny copenhagen all fine.. once there, we went onto the train network with our newly purchased 'clip cards' to 'kopenhavn h', the station nearest out hotel. rooms decided and
keys given out, then we dumped our stuff. i was with jess, charlotte and claire.
we went for a wander through the streets and realised that we were in the red light district, and a few of us hungry ones settled for chips and pizza in an ok place.
watched germany play austria with the lads in the 'living room' type place in the hotel and went to find the jennys at half time.

few drinks and chatting led to happy drunk and sleeping well. in bed at 12.30.

day 2. tuesday

good showers in the hotel. like a whole room all tiled and waterproof with a good blast of water. breakfast was also good. danish pastries, cos we were in Denmark.. and lovely soft bread. coffee - took me a while to locate it, but it was good. met in the lobby at 9am.

walked through town with everyone, being led by helen and anna, and reached the water edge. we got a boat across to the island where christiania is, the free state with no planning laws. i liked christiania. got some photos of it, despite the photo ban - it took me a little while to realise, and then when i did, i was ultra subtle.
the graffiti was amazing. really incredible. and it reminded me of places i used to know when i was a child. a kind of hippy feel. charlotte didnt like it and we had a minor run in about it - me defending christiania, her dissing it.

we got back to the main part of copenhagen and went to the outside swimming pool. it was the sea, but a section of it had been surrounded by a platform so you could swim in it safely. didnt keep the jellyfish out though.. it took me ages and ages to get in. i jumped in in the end.. and i had a moments regret just before i hit the water. it was so cold! and i think i touched a jellyfish. i swam from one set of steps to another and climbed out.

we then headed back in our separate groups, and got pizza and went back from the pizza place via netto, where i bought alcohol and a pair of shorts. nice shorts. we drank ourselves merry and all headed out to town. we ended up in a nice bar, and were all shocked how expensive it was. a pint here is about £2.50, and a shot and mixer is around £2/£3. in copenhagen, a pint is £5, as is a shot and mixer. madness.
there was a really good music pair playing in the pub we were in, and they asked us where we were from and then when we said england, they played us the kinks, for englishness. was lovely. and the they did requests of fairly obscure songs - we would name a band, and they would play a song that wasnt the most popular of their songs. it was great.

at one point, me and hannah went on an adventure and had our photos taken with the tivoli theme park guards (in a moment of madness) and then went to 'ye old english pub' or whatever, where we had photos take outside that with a couple of blokes sat outside! it was great fun. we also got directions to a club for the next night from the english barman.
we went back to the pub somewhat hyper, and me jenny and jenny left soon after out of boredom and tiredness. emailed the gf, and was in bed by 1am.

day 3. wednesday.

another 9am in the lobby start. we spent the day with helle nebelon, a landscape architect involved in childrens play spaces. we visited an adventure playground type park first, where we were let lose on the play equipment. there were go cart type things and lots of routes to take. it was a lot of fun, and all of us were about a decade above the target age. after that, we headed to a series of circular gardens all with different planting. these were all designed by different landscape architects along different themes. every year they have a day where the designer stands in their garden and people come and ask them things.

we then headed to a school yard to look at the play area, and to have lunch. they playground was amazing. there were wooden sheds for the kids to play in, a huge slide, a tree lying on the ground to climb on, rocks to jump on.. loads. it was so much better then in england where the playground is a concrete square. its like they werent as worried about the children getting hurt. helle was saying that in one of the lay spaces she designed, she intentionally made the flooring uneven and rough so that the children had to concentrate on where they were treading because it was good for their concentration generally.

after that we went to a public park and looked at that. they had a dog playground which was weird. after walking through that we stopped off for ice cream, and then headed off to our final park. this one also had the fallen tree for people to climb, and rocks to jump on. it also had a secret path through the wooded area, where there were damaged statues hidden.

after this, the group separated into those who wanted to go to the first ever adventure playground, and those who had had enough. i was i the had enough group, so me and both the jennys walked back home via town. it was nearing 2.5 miles and by the time we had walked along side 2 huge ponds, found hannah, walked through half of town and were standing in a shop, i gave up. i single handedly managed to create peer pressure and led them home.

despite our exhaustedness, the walk home was enjoyed and i was glad i had done it, rather than visit the park that other people went to.

day 4. thursday.

today we visited grave yards and the rose garden. but ive run out of writing steam now, so i shall be back to edit this and the rest soon.

day 5. friday.

norrebropark. louisiana, and tivoli.

i wrote this right after i got back and forgot about it, so now i cant remember any of it. so i may as well just publish and then add some pics later..

cheers

blog #23

haha, the second blog in as many days. i went out today. for the first time in 3 day. yup, i spent 72 hours in the house, not leaving. the only fresh air i got was when i opened the window in my room, and when i took out a bag of rubbish. bad times.

but i went to a coffee place and had a bagel. and coffee. obviously. then came home again. but it was nice, being out and all that. refreshing. even though it was raining. i had wet hair though, so it was quite nice.



but erm, yeah. thats about it i think.. i guess i just figured that me going out the house was worthy of a post. and it was. im now going to go to bed, in order to get up at 5 and finish this damn work off. im so tired! i got woken up at 4.52am this morning by torrential rain.
silly, i was wide awake at 4.52am after that.. i should have got up to work then.. i have an afternoon presentation tomorrow, and i have to finish the sheet i have to present. joy..



thankyou

blog #22

third blog of may, and im sat in front of britains got talent, and the man who plays the remix of the star wars theme tune has just been on, and although i dont like what he does, i dont think its fair or nice for an audience of hundreds to be ripping him apart. or for the judges to be horrible to him. its painful for my heart goddammit. :(
people should not be horrible to vulnerable people.

but on a nicer note, i have lots of work to do! i have some things i have to do tomorrow or else. or else my group will kill me cos its my share of the group work i have to to be printing and stuff.



but then, after my work is all handed in and stuff, im going to copenhagen! my passport arrived a couple of days ago, which was a huge relief, cos i only applied for it a month before i was due to be flying.. and there were possible complications with stuff, like my photo and stuff. so phew. but really, all i had to say was that people shouldnt be horrible to people on live tv, and audiences shouldnt chant 'off! off! off!', cos thats mean.



thankyou

blog #21

so, we're nearing the end of may. and this is only my second post this month. it stopped being so sunny for a while. and i cant remember if i said this in the last post, but i managed to photograph lightning. which was pretty cool.

ive been coughing my guts up for the last 3 days, and im not impressed. the month has been good though. in places, not so good.. challenging. but overall i can call it positive. got a new computer too. its a PC, so ive been being careful to make sure i tell my mac that i love it more. (cos i do).

saw a couple of good films.. well, one good, the other cheesy. juno, which i thought was excellent, and the golden compass, which i thought was good, but cheesy. and i got heavy into the soundtrack of juno, and heavily into dexter, the tv show. in fact, the last episode of season 1 is loading as i write this. but im taking a 2 minute tea mission break, cos having tea stops me coughing quite so much.. and its quite painful.. (19.55)

(19.58) ok, so im back. nearly hurling from the coughing but so far so good. and dexter is still taking forever to load. there the tea:



itd better be good. but right now, im signing off. too much coughing and not enough dexter.

blog #20

the first blog of may.. well, its been so sunny! i love it! well actually, no. thats a lie. i dont like it. i dont like the sun. it annoys me. its too hot. im the sort of person who stands in the shade when the sun comes out. but the view from my window is nice (the above picture). i think i just love it when the weather isnt miserable. cos its miserable when its miserable.


i like it when rainbows happen though. this picture is of a particularly beautiful one, but my camera isnt good enough to capture the complete experience.. (it was a full arc).. 27th april

we (8 of the people on my course) have been on several ecology field trips in the last few weeks (3, one each week).. and have done a new and exciting thing each week. the first one was a vegetation survey, the second we went to look at plants and trees in an ancient woodland, and the third we went on a bird walk to identify birds from their calls, and then went to find badgers. which we did! we didnt see any, but we found their set, which was huge, and their hairs in leaves, so we knew they were there! it was a lot of fun..

in following with the theme of ecology, here is the picture of the twig i picked that i judged to be particularly beautiful..



so ive enjoyed that part of my course, which is just as well, because the work is starting to pile up and its getting a little bit more stressful.. and the time of exams is nearly upon us. i only have one. right at the very end of the whole exam period, just before i go to Copenhagen. well, if i do. i dont have a passport yet! so i have to make that happen. and soon.
but for now, ive gone home.. to the family home. i arrived to find that half my family are in fact away, and that theres me, my mum and my brother. and my brother is in trouble, cos he has a party when the parents were out of town, and windows got smashed cos of a gatecrashing... its not as dramatic as it sounds. im more amused by the whole thing, cos my sadistic streak is being rewarded with my brother being punished. which isnt that mean cos he doesnt care..
so yeah, im here for a while.. a couple of days. and i plan to spend my time leisurely doing the odd chore, doing some work (maybe) and lazing about outside (if the weather continues) drinking coffee...

sounds like a plan huh.. yes it does. also: (taken april 17th)



that is all..

blog #19

here i am again. im slowly deleting myself and my memories. hotmail, youtube, vf, mypace. all of it. i dont like that im online everywhere. so im taking myself off some sites. not very successfully, it has to be said. im only deleting stuff i dont need, rather than large portions of my soul, which is maybe what i should do. but id like to back up most of it first so i still have access to the memories if i want it. hmmmm, a dilemma.

ive spent today trying to fix the internet however, as the wireless box froze. i havent done any work. i wanted to go home but decided not to cos i had (have) so much work to do, but i havent done any yet. so in order to justify not going home, i have to get some work done. or i will feel rubbish. ive spent all of today sleeping and washing my clothes and bedding. and tidying. and doing general chores in my room. im not done yet, however. i shall not be happy until i have thrown out at least a third of my stuff. im on a bag so far. and not the bin-liner sized bag. a large shopping/carrier bag. or i at least want to file/organise my stuff to the extent of it looking like i have a third less than when i started. which shouldnt be too hard, cos i have a lot of piles of stuff everywhere. so if i find better places to put that stuff, i'll have an illusion created where it looks like i dont own anything.

but anyway, i have also spent today downloading tegan and sara stuff. namely the con demos and various music videos. and i stopped posting on their message boards when one of the mods was horrible to me cos they took something i said out of context and with the wrong meaning. moany mood. played guitar also, which was fun. didnt sing loudly though cos there were people sat in nexts doors garden and i didnt want them to hear and judge me.

but now, i would like to eat something, and then watch casualty, and continue my room clear quest. which i feel that i should do.
my room at the moment (tidy version to come, no doubt)




also:



thankyou..

blog #18

so here i am again. on this site. writing. i deleted a load of stuff like old diary entries from another site today, and it feels good. good to get rid of the old memories that i dont need anymore. but thats not what im here to say. no. i have a number of things that have happened since number 17. the first is that i went home for the weekend and got covered in snot. my little sister had a cold, and i did a fair amount of childcare. which involved being in the firing line of snot. but its ok. im getting over it. slowly. then when i came home i went to see my girlfriend and walked back from hers at about 1.30am and saw a badger. i heard the clicking of its claws on the pavement and there it was, running along. i guess it should have known i was there cos i was moving, but it didnt speed up, it just padded along and around the corner. it was quite amazing.

then on monday i went on a field trip. the whole group went on a coach to an outdoor park place and looked at the landscape and the stuff there. there was an adventure playground and that was fun. the first one/thing to climb was really scary but then it was really good fun. it was like being a child again, but with a better ability to climb.



then we went to bournville to look at the social housing and street trees and the lack of litter. which was not as fun as the adventure playground place, but the guy showing us around bournville was really witty and nice so that made it more interesting.


we then went into the centre of birmingham and were taken to a selection of public spaces within the city centre and we had to draw plans of the area, just from what we could see. which was hard. trying to imagine something as a bird would see it when youre stood on the ground is more difficult than a sketch, even if it requires less detail. i also saw a street named oozells street and was highly amused by this and so decided that i simply must take a photo.



then we went home. the coach ride home was nice. the one on the way wasnt cos i felt a little isolated, sat by myself. but more chatting and happiness happened on the way back.

then i met the girlfriend and walked back to hers. and in the morning i booked a hair appointment for 2 and had it cut. short. so now i have very short hair and its colder. but i really like it. i get the impression that its not that popular amongst my friends, cos they keep asking me if i like it, which means 'i hate it but if you like it then its fine'. but i do. a lot. though i will like it more when its grown out a bit. cos it is very short.

then i went out on tuesday night to a coffee place where i was given free coffee and a free bit of cake, and then lost quite nicely at chess and guess who. but thats ok with me. i knew i would lose at chess, and guess who isnt to do with skill in any way at all. then i went to a bar and lost spectacularly at pool. me and the girlfriend teamed up against 2 others and lost damn well. we kept missing the balls! though it was cos the table was so big. that makes it hard.



and today ive been to a gig. i had to work at it, cos i work for a record label and in return for free entry to the gig for me +1 i had to hand out stickers and collect emails. but the stickers weren't delivered cos royal mail are shit sometimes, so i had to collect emails with no 'ill give you this if you give me an email address'. i took some badges i had from way back and tried to ive them out in return, but they werent for against me! which was who the gig was. so i dont think people were very impressed. at least they wont be tomorrow. the support acts were good. the steal and kill casino. the steal were all dressed as animals, and i liked kill casino before this gig and told the drummer afterwards that i really liked his band and that he was awesome and he gave me a load of badges and told me to add them on myspace and get in touch.
i went to the gig with 2 of my housemates, and they are the type of people who, even though they like the band, they stand still and just jig in time. which i did do for a bit. but i needed the loo half way through. so i left to go to teh bog and when i came back, i went to the other side of the room and wormed my way into the mosh pit to do some proper appreciation. it was so sweaty and hot and fab. i enjoy gigs much better if i can jump around and shout along to the songs. and my god i did. its a wonder ive still got my voice.

the steal
kill casino
against me!

but yes, thats it i believe. quite a lot, and at the time of writing this ive not added the pics into what ive written to illustrate it, so itll be even longer by the time ive done that. but i had a lot to say. and now i think im going to go to bed, cos im real knackered. and i have an 11am start tomorrow. and even though its only 12.30am, i have a lot of sleep to catch up on.

blog #17

so here i am again. im in a typing mood and just wrote the longest email ive written for a while cos i just am in the mood for a natter of the virtual sort. and im sat at my desk feeling all worky and shit. i handed in the model and work today so maybe thats why i feel all enthusiastic about doing something that isnt work. and i finished my model, which i said i would be doing around this time a couple of entries ago. and there is a photo of it shown in this entry, cos thats how proud i am of it.

i feel like as well as being in the mood for typing, im in the mood for ice cream. i think i have a serious ice cream addiction. i bought some gin and lemon ice cream the other day and ive eaten it already. i finished it when i got back this evening, and ive also just had an ice lolly. i havent actually eaten today so thats why im so hungry, but hungry for ice cream is a cold state to be in. thirsty now also. its all the ice cream.

i sent off my swap parcel for new york on monday and i remembered that i cant remember what i put in it, but it should be arriving soon, so i hope its exciting, whatever i included. chocolate, posters, goodies, postcards, keyring, pencil etc.
i would have been pleased to receive it. so thats all ok then i guess. but anyway, i feel as though i have lost my writing/typing enthusiasm, as i do actually have a very small bit of work to do before tomorrow, so i should be logging off.. but here is a picture of something amusing, as well as the picture of my creational genius. coming soon will also be a slide show of everyone elses model in my class. just so i can share with the internet, my genuinely justified feelings of inadequacy when faced with everyone elses work. farewell.

blog #16

i havent got any further on my work since i wrote the last post but i doubt that anyone reads my blog enough to care that im writing another one. my thought pattern is all over the place and as a result i want to separate myself from the rest of the world and from everyone i know and so im sat in my room, writing this. today has been like that. i feel like ive been talking about stupid stuff to people who dont give a shit about what ive got to say even if its not stupid by my standards. but then i think thats just me. im a little odd, especially when my thought pattern doesnt seem coherent. well, my thinking is coherent but rushed. and i dont say everything i think of, so i say unlinked stuff, and then i appear odd! but oh well. that cant be helped. i need to just deal with stuff now and get my work done, and then i can relax for a while. 4 days of throwing away my stuff. sounds like my idea of heaven.

im DJing tomorrow at a club night at my uni too, so i have to sort out the music for that, and all that blah blah blah... my hair has got really long and im getting it cut soon cos i cant stand it. so i have decided to be a little more adventurous with it tomorrow. so i borrowed someones hair straighteners who i live with and have played around to the point where it resembles shane from the l word. which is fine with me, but a little silly, cos everyone wants to look like her. i was told i looked like her before i'd even heard of the l word. i thought people were mad. but now i realise its a compliment.

but yes, now i am talking incoherent disjointed non sense. and should go to sleep. my hot water bottle will go tepid if i dont. and i have to remember to go pay some cheques in tomorrow too or bad things will happen...

the picture above is of how i would like my hair to be, if i could choose anyones to have.

blog #15

blog number 15 already. the first in april, if im as right with dates as i think i am. the whole 3 weeks holiday has just merged into one solid block of stuff, so i cant remember what im doing or what ive done. but now im back i sheffield and able to deal with uni coming back. at least i will be when ive tidied up my room, and unpacked and stuff, and when i have bought some soya milk, cos until i do, i cant drink tea. which makes me sad. cos i like tea. so im on coffee until then.

i have work to be doing, but its of the model variety, so doing the work is not a chore, as i enjoy making models. i didnt have a tv as a child. only cardboard and sellotape, so im quite good at making 3D stuff out of card!
problem is, its ten past 4 already and i havent started working yet. or tidying yet. or doing anything yet. and i still have the headache from not taking my meds soon early enough this morning. but now, i shall do what i have to do- tidy up everything so i can work. then i will work into the evening with the help of a cup of caffeine. might have a shower first.

but here is a photo of my model so far, as it is sat in the corner of my room, and i will post a picture of it when i have finished it (it has to be handed in on wednesday at 4pm).

blog #14

right. okay. blog number 12 happened. and its hard. its hard to come to terms with death. and its hard to deal with the people most badly affected by it in an appropriate and sympathetic way. especially when you dont think they really want to be helped. so im hiding down the cellar where i can get the internet on my trusty laptop. my laptop is the only internet thing i can use while knowing that no-one else can get to my data stored on it. also, ive not made the fact that i write this public information, and the email i use for it was created for the blog, so im sneaky.

i enjoy writing, and i write a diary quite regularly. i have several. and i guess this counts as one. but theyre all for different stuff. i write this while thinking that someone might read it one day.
which is a weird thought.
but it makes it more difficult to say the things that i want to: like that i talked to my ex yesterday and came away feeling really pissed off at his insistence to match the negative stuff in my life with worse stuff thats happening/happened to him. or like i had the most gay dream ever that involved the cast of the l word, tegan and sara, my girlfriend.. it was the best dream ever though. i accidentally went through this door into the room where every door i went through led me to the filming of some program. i ended up in this corridor where at one end, i could hear gun shots through three doors, where they were filming war films. and i walked up the corridor and found 3 rooms.. the contents of the first is unrepeatable, the second had shane and molly from the l word in, doing rude things. and the third had tegan and sara in, doing their sound check in. i poked my head through the door and tegan beckoned me in and put her arm round my shoulder and asked my where i thought we were. bristol. and we had a nice chat.
i woke up very happy.

but now, i have to go and entertain my little brother. he's going to bed soon. my mum has just demanded. i have to keep out the way of her cos she's in a funny mood where everything is an argument to her, or an attempt at one. and i hate that. im not an angry person.. much!

blog #13

just made this ^^. and am now 3 songs into recording a album, which ive been wanting to do for a while. so thats a good start. i'll share some on here when ive done more. but yeah, the gif says corduroy cowboy, which is an internet name i use.. i might do fakelondongenie next.. do a whole set.

and here it is:

blog #12

ah number 12. and im sat on my bed again. but ive been up this time. had coffee. i feel quite useless right now. which is why im writing, cos i dont know what else to do. im drinking my girlfriends cold coffee and no doubt's 'don't speak' is playing. which sums it up.
the situation is now that when my mum phones me, she starts the conversation with 'he's still alive'. she phoned just now and im glad she did. she doesnt phone much. and with the current situation, she needs to start with that line. im on standby to jump on a train. no-one in my family has died before. this easter is going to be not so fun, i feel. i need my mum to be ok, cos if she isnt then im not. i can cope with anything if shes coping.
the music is going into me with more emotion than it should. though maybe im just listening to the wrong songs.
i think i will stop writing, im not helping myself.
please dont comment.

blog #11

so here we are. sat in bed with a newly empty tube of pringles and some custard creams. im hungry, but not hungry enough to go downstairs and get breakfast. though the pull of coffee might get me up soon.. but yes, ive not written here since my dublin trip. ive had to go into detail about my meeting of tegan and sara to various people, and the people interested are huge fans too, and i feel guilty for having the experience. but i wouldnt change it for the world.

i went out a lot last week. on tueday (out), thursday (dev cat, bday) and friday (climax). i had a selecton of very good nights out. and ive recently bought a lot of new clothes, cos the ones i had were terrible, and so ive enjoyed going out and feeling like im dressed to be out. and friday was fun. the best night at climax i think ive ever had. im not sure quite why it was so good, but it was. the music was better than usual, and i enjoy being out with the people i go out with. and my friend chris who i met in first year was back from london for it, and ive not seen him for way too long, so that was lovely.

and this week is the last week before easter breakup. i went out to a comedy night last night, the improvisational comedy (shrimps) evening. my girlfriend is one of the shrimps team, so
i was going to watch her. i took some photos of her and the whole gang, but i have a feeling she shall kill me if ever they surface, so i wont share them here, much as id like to..

and today, she left 4 hours ago for her seminar, and im still in bed. im such a lazy fucker. i saw one of my coursemates out at the thing last night and he said we didnt have to be in today, so i think ive taken that as an excuse to not actually do any work. but i will. im getting up now. on a coffee mission...

blog #10

dublin

second tegan and sara gig in ireland. i went over to dublin on an airplane to see them. the flight was ok. except the landing, where the pilot pointed the plane down at the ground and accelerated. we were too high up and too close to the runway so we needed to kill some height.

me and my dublin guide wandered around dublin for most of wednesday. we arrived in the centre at about 1.30 after getting the train, which was square:


we had a lovely time walking around, and arrived for the gig 6 hours after the first people, who had been waiting outside since we arrived in dublin (6 hours!!!!!). they started to let people in at about half 7, and once inside the gig, i managed to get backstage through a series of interesting events.. and had a conversation with sara, then left. i watched the support and then tegan and sara play:

and after the gig, i used this backstage pass:

to sit this close to sara, after being formally introduced to them both as 'this is maddie, she's flown over from sheffield to see you':

and then we all shook hands and said nice goodbyes and thank you's, and me and min got the bus to her home, and chatted for a while, then went to sleep.

while i was in dublin, i missed the earthquake.. my mother didnt, and i got a text from her saying there had been one. i wouldnt have known if she hadnt texted. so thats the only bad things that came out of my tuesday wednesday and thursday. except being thoroughly frisked and searched on my way out of east midlands airport.
this entry is very long, and its maybe a good thing that not a huge amount of people read this.

blog #9

this is a picture of sara quin from the band 'tegan and sara' who i saw on saturday night. they were amazing. they did the best version of 'time running' ive ever heard them do.

i took my girlfriend, who was nearly speechless. she hadnt really heard them and doesnt know any of their songs. so that was nice.

was away for the whole weekend cos we went to visit my family.. and apart from the brain mash of having 2 very young siblings, and a slightly older monosyllabic one, it was a lovely weekend.

and now, due to my inescapable inability to get my head down, i am bored with 2 sheets left to do on this project that is now a whole month late. and its 2 in the morning. though the days coffee intake and the sweets im eating for the sugar rush are helping to keep my eyes open. hopefully i will get to have it complete to hand in tomorrow morning, then i can go to ireland to see tegan and sara again, without the weight of the project following me around.

there will be photos..

blog #8

so hello there blog. i have been getting quite into riding the buses recently. i like the people and social sides of it. and it also always gives rise to a perfect opportunity to report back. so maybe this should be:


the bus chronicles. as recorded by maddie.
journey no.
1) bus driver - rude. nearly crashed into a car that pulled into the bus path. he swore.
2) busy bus. has to stand. man opposite me very polite. kept smiling. lovely bloke. as he got off the bus, he said to the driver 'thank you very much sir'
3) number 14 to loxley. 50 minutes round trip. didnt get off the bus. counted people who got on and off. my 2 course mates kept a record of landform so we could build a model of the route in our studio the next day.
4) same day as no. 3, bus home, the back to uni. walked to destination.
5) got the bus on the wrong side of the road. went all the way round town before going back along the road id been waiting on in the first place. got there eventually.
6) bus home. bus number 5 of the day.
7) friday. tram to the train station to look at some art. looked at the art and then parted company with my friend. she went home on the tram, i chose the bus.
went to catch the bus. got the bus. it crashed into a taxi. a large part of the bus fell off when they drove apart. crashed on a tram line, so we had to change buses. made friends with the man sat behind me. he gave me his email so i could email him the photos id taken. nothing like a bus crash to bring people together. emailed them the next day.
8) monday. got the wrong bus. went to a place i didnt know. and waited 15 mins at the end. like they do. bus driver said he'd tell me when to get off so i could get the right bus, and he did. and i did. got off at uni to do some work.
9) walked half way home with the gf, and got chips. ran to catch a bus cos it was cold. bus driver said 'not going to be eating them on 'ere'. it was both a question and a statement. i said no, paid my fare and sat down. what a dick. i ate a chip, just to annoy him.

i lead an exciting life..

blog #7

observe.


in our lecture/course meeting today, we had to pick groups of 3 or 4 people and pick a bus route out of a cup (the routes were written on paper). we then had to set off as a group to the city centre, and catch that bus, and do the whole route. and record what we saw. so we did. my group of 3 went off into the hills on out number 14 bus, and wrote down what the houses were like, who got on/off, the topography etc.
i then used my day pass to get the bus to many a place afterwards, and due to this traveling and my stupid mistake of catching the right bus in the wrong direction, i have spent about 2hrs30mins on buses today. within the same city. i feel pretty confident that i could tackle another bus route someday.

but not today, for today is valentines day. i have made 5 cards. 4 are for my housemates. i remember last year getting a card from my housemate and it being really nice that she'd made the effort to make me a card. so im doing my bit for inter-house relations.. they need a-fixin'. but here is not the place to be talking about things..

blog #5

i went to the shops yesterday (the co-op) to buy something of little interest to anyone, and as i approached the til, the woman two in front of me was paying with a card. the way the co-op works if you pay with a card is that the til worker has to shout 'is anyone using a card?' just before they swipe the card, or it crashes the whole system for a very long time. its like going back in time to the days before technology..

blog #4

so i completed that bit of work, and now onto the next. i have 10 separate bits to do, and 10 days in which to do them. easy maths. one a day with the help of my perfect music playlist. and lindt and sprungli. and the internet. and coffee. ok so lots of things.

blog #3

ive had a lot of work to be doing the last week. which hasnt changed today.. i still have the work, im just posting now.. for a break. lovely day today. sun was out and shining away. and i would have been outside walking anywhere had i not had work to do. im not going to bed until i have done it. also:good day

blog #2 swap

http://www.gimmeyourstuff.blogspot.com/

i would like to swap things with someone from a long way away (i live in the UK)
i would be up for sending:
postcards, books, magazines, food stuffs, touristy things, craft items, cds, photos of where im from.. etc..
im quite good at assembling collections of exciting things..

in return i would like similar to the above, or whatever you would consider to be a collection of exciting things, along the theme of where you live.. id be most interested in touristy collectables and photos of your city/town..

leave a comment if you be interested..

blog #1

ah blogger. apart from the distress of the occasional colour orange on this site, it shall do just fine.. my creation (of this 'ere blog) is for the purpose of sharing stuff.. things i have created (other than this 'ere blog) like animations, videos, photos etc.. sometimes things i like that other people have created like other people's photos, animations, videos.. etc.

life experiments = experiments in life..