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  • The Races, The Wacum, and the Wind.

    Ello... Here in the lovely little townsie of cheltenham, it has been the Races. A time were, no one can move, due to people and mass crowds. Everywhere. Fun Fun Fun I'm sure. Yet, on the Friday, it was Gold Cup Day, and I was collecting money for the SJA which was fun. Lots of drunk people, who were very generous! :D Not to mention funny.  Which was interesting, especially when it came to collecting, and ended up getting kissed [only on the cheek mind you!] by these two funny-drunk [not blindo] and ended up giving us about 15 quid [my guess] between them. So that was fun, spending 3 hours at the train station, with achy smile muscles by the end of it!

    In other news of the not so interesting life of Cecil. I got my Wacum! WHOOP! Well technically I recieved it on the 12th, two days before the estimated date which I is so chuffed about. What I am not chuffed about is the ridiculously over sized card board box that it came in. All very well protecting it, but by smerfs, this thing was at least 5 times the size of the actual tablet!!! Also the fact that when it was delivered no one was home, so after getting back from school, I had to cycle the half hour journey to the Royal Mail Delivery Centre, to pick it up, [along with other stuff] in strong windy weather. [The kind that blows down trees in to the middle of the road and crashes up cars] and then come back up hill to come home with this ---> on the back of my bike
    .Teh postman fails.Posty fail!!
    NO FUN! Silly Postman! Didn't come till 11.30am. Who is home at 11.30am on a weekday??!!
    The amazon box has the wacum tablet in it. Which is even more riduculas since the actual size of it is roughly 18 by 19 cm!
     aw well. I got my bamboo wacum so meeze is happez. :D

    One thing though, off topic from the wacum, if anyone is going to purchase a made ready Velma Dinkley [Scooby Doo costume, DON'T. It's made of the most horrible see through plastic  ever thought up. And is definitly not a 'one size fits all.'  and it doesn't even come with the socks. Do you know how hard it is too find orange knee high socks?! Even Primark failed me on this and Ebay saved me. So next Friday [28th] is dress up day for the sixth form, and guess who I'm going as?! :D

    Anywho. Happy Easter dudes. Don't eat too much choccie, though my brother doesn't like chocolate. He just has to be awkward. Hmpf. It's always pistaschio nuts instead. Urgh!

    I finally got my bus shelter sweeney tood poster up. It takes up an entire wall.  Tis humungus! Ebay sellers should put photos in propotion to other stuff not just across the floor.  Like this see-->
    sweeny toodCrazy ness!

    Anywho must be off, a the cecilsenses are telling me there is fish fingers sandwiches are destroying the kitchen. I must go and -- *dispose* of them !

    YUM Tatty Bye-Bye!  Fingers crossed for snow this weekend!!

  • Flowers for Algernon

    Oh joy of joy's !/ End sarcasm./

    /Begin Rant./
    As an A-level student, should I feel slightly insulted that a GCSE text has been chosen for us to perform for our final practical exam? Yes. I think I am, and I'm not easily offended. But all in all my experience of Alevel Theatre Studies has been shite.
    Now, I would not mind, yet in my absolute honest opinion, I don't like this play, in my honest belief it is the worst pile of sentimental crap that ever made it into the published and performed world.

    Admittedly the storyline is OK. But it is for GCSE students, not even that! It is a discontinued GCSE text! Last used [at my school] in the grand old year of 1998.

    Nothing HAPPENS. There's a dumbass guy, has operation, gets sentimentally attached to a lab mouse, gets smart, falls in love, mouse dies, he gets dumb again, and everyone cries abit. Oh and please put some flowers on Algernons grave. But, I'm OK with all this. Even though I wanted to do Fear and Misrey of the Third Riech, which is much more dramatically challenging piece. But I was reassured that the teacher did not want to see this play again, and with two girls having been in Brecht style in the previous practical examination and my general 'trying not to be argumentative' guess who gets there own way? But then what happens? A group in the other class get to do the stupid Brecht play. And what's more, the girl who really wanted to do 'Flowers for Algernon' and was rather persistant in this, and really determined to be quite disagrable may not be able to take part due to illness. So NOW, I don't even get to be the part[s] [I had the rest of the characters which I wanted to be! I have to be stupid Miss Kininnian. Which I am persistantly told is good, because it's a larger role. 

                                      ER. NO. IT IS NOT. It is infact SHORTER, because of the amounts we have cut so it fits into the time limit of 20 something minutes. But despite the guy in our group of 5 maybe going down to 4, and I quote

    " I can't see Cecil* being Miss K., I think she should be one of the doctors..."  Insert me nodding. Insert doctor actor "Oh no! We can't do that! I've all ready started learning my lines!"

    *Cecil: Very odd nickname I've been perscribed with, by very odd people at school.

    Well hmm, I guess I haven't started learning any of my lines AT ALL have I?

    They have learnt a whole of ONE scene. Two at a push. It's laughable. Oh and less I forget-


    "If you don't like being Miss K. just say, don't go being all polite. If you don't like it just say!" :D

     So I did. I also said that I didn't like the ENTIRE play.

    "Ahh, now don't over do it!" HA HA HA.

     I'm sorry? Was I joking? Apparently yes I was, so join in laughing and get in with it.

    As you maybe able to tell, I am ever so slightly peeved off with the whole damn thing, and considering the amount of stress that was caused over the devised in November [SO many arguments, I would just come home and cry.] and wonder why the hell I am actually doing drama. But of course, you have to make the best of these things haven't you! Yes. Because it's all about making the overall majority happy, and because it is 4/3 to 1. I understand I'm fighting a losing corner, and resigned We shall be, going to be, WILL be doing 'Flowers for Algernon'. OH the fantastic, praised be, 'Flowers for Algernon'

    Yes I am probably being adolsent and rather 'throwing the toys out of the pram' right now, but I is NOT happy, and want to apolgiese if my 'PC' ness has slipped. And that I am ranting a fair old bit. Yet, since I'm not being listened too anywhere else, and as always the annoying "Keep your chin up kid! Your an actor, work it too your advantage" line is repeated. It is slowly more and more aggravating. I don't wish to lose it at the group and cause tension. And none of this is helped by the stupid allergic reaction I am having to plasters. My whole ankle and finger have entirely swollen, and incredibly itchy.
    /End Rant.

    Sometimes, you just need to get everything off your chest. Take a big breath, smile and you know what? I feel really better all ready. :D

  • Compulsive Buying and the Uni craze

    I buy so complusively! It's awful! Terrible and so incredibly posh. Here I am trying to save up for University, [yes, yes I know about the grants and the loans and all that jazz but every penny counts!] and all right I have wanted a tablet for a while, and I didn't want a cheapy one that wasn't going to work properly. But. OH my Mum will not be a happy bunny with me, [Even though it is MY money... hmm. :( ] So I was just looking on the net, bored [as per usual] and I see a cheapy one, read some comments, with other recommendations, so curiousity takes it hold, and all of a sudden I'm looking for the best price. Which isn't a bad thing, considering, and I do this a lot and it doesn't come to much. Yet then for some bizzarre reason sudden urging of I WANT I WANT I WANT tantrum of the mind occurs, and you can not refuse it, if you want to sleep.

    Sleep... I need sleep... I hate work, they make me get up for 8.00 just so I can arrive at 9.00. BOO! But they pay good... so it's good?

    ... Completly off track record... SO, I have purchased a Wacom Bamboo One. Which had very good specs, free Artrage [copycat of Photoshop type thing I guess] and all the gadgets for £34.99, which can't be that bad, and I suppose I can convince myself that the pain in shoulder is RSI [OH the paranoia of a hypochondriac] oh the beginnings of due to the evils of 'THE MOUSE' but then. I have a touch pad not a mouse.  Oh the d'oh.

    I guess if worst comes to worse there is always Ebay! :D

    Although, Ebay as wonderful as it is. Can only tempt the compulsive happy hunger and very sleepy buyer more so, as was proved by buying a 6ft bus shelter poster of the Sweeney Todd film. It's taller than me! And still in the case! There should a law that no one should purchase anything over the internet after a certain hour. Even though it's only coming up to 9... 8O. That's crazy! Still recovering from the history all nighter I guess, but anyway, I will update futher about the trauma of purchasing the Bamboo One Tablet when it arrives *hopefully* on the 14th o' March. Never the less, free postage! :D You got to remember the little things! It's all about the little things :D

    And coming up... the University Craze!

    It is! It's crazy! So many things to do! Every so often it quitens down and you have nothing to do but wait for somthing and you know. Work, and then it all comes along at once!  But it's on a quiet stage now, after last week, or still this week, but you get the gist. It's was my audition, then it was getting the response, and then it was replying to them all. All in all it's been a Uni ran week, especially with the exam results coming out an all as well! Soo many tears. Not from me. But so many tears. I heard back today about the outcome of said audition with Portsmouth, an lucky me got a conditional offer. It's been SQUEE! All day! So happy, and now replied, Portsmouth firm and then after a short wrestling match between Bath Spa and Winchester for the insurance choice Winchester won. But Portsmouth fingers crossed get the grades and yay!

    Can't wait! Can wait to go to work, I'm in laundary. LOVELY!  and I can also wait until Monday, and Tuesday and Wednesday, Thursday. Can't wait until Friday, cause the Bamboo comes then! [If it doesn't me will no happy.] and can wait til saturday cause I'm working again, but can't wait til Sunday, cause then it's close friends 18th. Crikey for the Party time. Just come back from one last night! Singing on the good old Karaoke! Next morning, can I speak? NO!  But it was still fun! And my boss laughed at me. Oh and lest I forget, 7UP is not good for dry thoarts. It makes them ten million times worse, then singing, [considering I can't sing anyway!] is not a good pick 'n' mix display!

    Well, I'm off now, to basically collapse to feet from my desk onto me bed, it's calling, calling so I must -

    - sleep waving.

    ~~~
    Cecil

  • The Big First Post

    Big Blog Attempt 501. The Tumbling, Micro blogging!

    Hopefully this attempt at entering the world of the blog is a success! My meaningless twitter can commence, and hopeful get something relevant in there! Basically, I'm bored, and in search of something new, that fingers crossed don't get dull!

    Plus, jump on the bandwaggon and witter onward to something that makes some sort of sense... Does that make sense? I say attempt 501, that includes all the attempts over my 18 years of life at website, blogs, fansites and forums. Out of all of these attempts no website survived, no blog survived [notably lj! BOO) and out of the million fan and forum thingymabobs only one has remained... Dun dun dah!  Not that I've been... er... keeping track or anything.

    Generally, a first blog, is that the right term? Should possibly be a bit more... straightforward? Having point? But it always hardest to start something off. Right? Right. But right now LIFE, is not to interesting. Although not lacking... rather HECTIC. Especially this last week, for instance in a week of my life. (Yes me. I'm a vip. ) Monday: ... [well? What else can I say? It was a MONDAY!] Tuesday: calm calm calm. Say what about wednesday?!!! Wednesday: AHHHHH! Up 8 sharp, in car 9ish, travel 3hours Portsmouth university.... Audition for Eng/Drama course 1.00 which ened at 4.30 and then I had GB and got home 8.30 and was up til 2am doing history course work. FUN. So I was promtly an hour and half late for school, and missed my history lesson, which is quite ironic now that I come to think about it.

    I am determined not to let this be teeny tiny shortarsed. But right now I've a party to run off to, which is always fun. A friends 18th today so it should be fun fun fun. XD

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