I didn't check what my last post was before starting this. I think it was one where I wrote about drifting apart from old friends, and moaned about them not coming out. Well in the end, we did go out. It was nice to see people, just a shame about the crappy music.
So what's happened since? Lab work, and a bloody lot of it. Monday, Tuesday, and till rather late on Wednesday. There have also been pissy notes on the fridge from some 21 year old first year who can't work a washing machine, and yet feels the need to tell everyone (even though it's clearly her ditzy fresher mate) that they need to clean up after themselves. It's like M said though, we don't have to give a shit what these freshers think. We'll never see them again. To us, it's just getting through the final semester.
The title. I went to a lecture today, and I knew about the stuff it covered before I got there. I didn't find out anything I didn't already know. Aaaand I answered a question. I've never called out an answer in the 3 and a half years I've had at uni. This is a big deal :P I knew what it was, and no one else was saying it. I also knew I could answer the 2 example exam questions she showed us with ease. This could be a good module.
I have to talk about some television while I'm here too. Firstly, I'll mention Torchwood. I've got so into it recently. This weeks episodes were fantastic. I won't spoil it for people who haven't seen it, but the twist at the end of Reset made me cry.
Enterprise season 3. Does T'Pol really have to be naked all the time? This series has had some fantastic episodes (even though it moved very suddenly from the atmosphere of the first 2 seasons, rather than the gradual change DS9 had with the Dominion war) and I am enjoying it, but the naked T'Pol thing is irritating. Oh, and I just watched Damage. Bad, bad Archer. I don't like my leaders to made immoral decisions. The only person I can forgive for that is Adama. BSG has special circumstances :P
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Friday, 15 February 2008
Friday, 8 February 2008
Hahaha, oops.
I just did something so stupid, that if it wasn't an embarrassing subject I'd post it at PBS. Not that I did it, although that is pretty shameful, but it's just...embarrassing stuff. Basically, I wanted to wash my lab coat on a high temperature white wash, hotter than I usually do for whites. I know I know I shouldn't wash my lab coat in the regular washing machine everyone else uses. It hasn't been in contact with dangerous organisms at all though, since it's my uni one and not a work one, and I was washing at 90C anway so it's not a big deal. Anyway, thought I might as well stick some other whites in too. Went down to the shower after they'd been in a while, and the machine was making an odd clunking noise. Ignored it mostly while I showered, then went to get the stuff out because the clunking didn't stop. One of the things I'd put in had metal bits on, and I dunno if the metal bits had expanded in the heat, but 2 of them were stuck in the little holes water drains out of. Took a lot of pulling out too! I can't believe I was stupid enough to put them in in the first place. The worst part is that one bit is still missing, meaning it probably went through holes. I have no idea where that will be, and I so hope it doesn't wreck the washer completely. I was gonna do a colour wash after, so I was the next one who used it and could see what the effects were, but the guy downstairs has already put his stuff in. Looks okay so far. I've decided not to tell anyone else unless the washer actually breaks :P
The thing is, I can't stop laughing at the stupidity of it. I've wrecked some clothing, possibly the washer we all have to use, and it's hilarious. This is my first washing accident in four years of doing my own washing all the time though, which isn't bad!
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The thing is, I can't stop laughing at the stupidity of it. I've wrecked some clothing, possibly the washer we all have to use, and it's hilarious. This is my first washing accident in four years of doing my own washing all the time though, which isn't bad!
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Sunday, 3 February 2008
I watch too much TV
It's true. I'll start on Enterprise, because I've been watching a lot of it since being back at uni.
I had watched them all in order up until episode 17 of season 2, starting sometime when I was in Boston. It had some great episodes, that really set up future Star Trek, but it wasn't easy to watch. I mean that in the sense that watching one episode doesn't really inspire you to watch the next 10, and with most other Star Trek, I can easily end up watching 10 episodes accidentally. I've been known to do a season of DS9 in 3-4 days. Enterprise has a lot of random adventure episodes, as me and my sister usually call them, and not so many story arc episodes. I know this is how Star Trek usually works, with the exception of DS9, but when you've already seen all the other Star Trek series doing the same thing, it's not so exciting. When I got to episode 17, I decided to start skipping some episodes to get to some I expected to be better. Relying on the Wikipedia episode guide, as I do with everything, of course. Doing that, I came across some really fantastic episodes. "Judgement", the one with the Klingon trial, was great. It really felt like it was a similar trial to that in Undiscovered Country, only over 100 years earlier. They did escape a bit easily from Rura Penthe, for saying Archer was supposed to be the first person to ever do that, but I can forgive that because it was a great episode. One thing I really didn't like though, was the reusing of an actor who'd had a main part in another Star Trek. I know bit part actors are reused, and you'll find some people who had random alien parts before getting a main role, but seeing JG Hertzler playing another Klingon? I thought he was great in that role, but I still don't like it.
Another great episode I discovered was "Regeneration". Yes, that one I wanted to thoroughly hate. Everyone knows that Starfleet didn't encounter the Borg until TNG! However, it wasn't badly done at all. Enterprise didn't find out too much about the Borg, so it's not like they could have been prepared by TNG. The Borg did manage to send a message home, but it would take over 200 years. That's how long it took before they started entering the Alpha Quadrant in TNG, so it does fit together. The one thing that doesn't make sense is that in TNG, they acted like they'd never encountered them at all before. Did no one read Archer's logs?
On to season 3. I loved the ending to season 2. 7 million deaths on Earth is definitely something to stir things up. However, I'm not sure what I think of season 3. The theme song, which I initially hated since Star Trek doesn't have theme songs but have now grown to like, is a lot more poppy. Don't like. The characters are noticeably darker at times. Trip calls the Xindi "bastards" and I didn't like that. Bastards don't belong in Star Trek, especially not with Trip. Archer stuck someone in an airlock and nearly killed them. I don't like an otherwise good captain resorting to torture. And then there's T'Pol. The earlier stories with her mind melding and Panaar syndrome and then her warming to the humans were all pretty good. Now, it's almost like they got bored of having an emotionless Vulcan, and they keep finding ways for her to have emotions. The episode with the Pon Far was pretty ridiculous, and mostly just an excuse to have her running about half naked throwing herself at men. It's like they've decide to make it sexier, realised they have two attractive female characters, Hoshi is boring, so let's try and get T'Pol naked as often as possible. Don't like.
I'm only 5 into season 3, but the story seems good. This one is more of a continuous story arc. The only thing I don't like about that is that it seems like an obvious attempt to rescue the show. I enjoyed seasons 1 and 2, but understand why they might not have done so well. Changing so much to save it...don't like. The Xindi story is an interesting one though, so hopefully it will get better. One thing I don't like is all this time travel stuff. Changing events in the past DOES NOT MAKE SENSE. Once it's changed, you don't know to go back and get it changed, so it doesn't get changed etc etc. I didn't like how they ended Voyager with something like that, and while the odd time travelling episode is a bit of fun, whole story arcs based on it isn't good. Oh well, it has seasons 3 and 4 to convince me.
Wow, I've written a lot on Enterprise. The other thing I've been watching is Farscape. I really like it, but I think the lack of a continuous story is what's stopping me from watching more of it. It's great though, because it's so different from any of the other sci-fi shows I watch.
Only two more shows to talk about now, have patience. Next is Atlantis. Atlantis has been a bit weird the last couple of weeks. 2 episodes where most of the cast weren't a part of it. Last week only Sheppard and McKay were featured. This week, although others had minor appearances at the beginning, it was all Sheppard and Ronan. I hope this second half of season 4 starts focussing more on the Atlantis base, or at least the Atlantis crew, in the next few episodes. Those last 2 were still great episodes though. Interesting to see Bates back working for the IOA. It's still my favourite thing currently showing on TV.
Finally, Lost is back! Yep, the beginning of season 4 was definitely exciting. Oceanic 6? So only 6 survived? Or at least escaped, seeing as future Jack and Hurley seem to know something about the others. Both of them, at different times, have no said they should go back. This season will be awesome.
Haha, massive TV essay. The thing is, seeing as the only things I have a lot of and haven't seen before are Enterprise and Farscape, I could do with something else. I'm not inspired to watch loads of either of those in a row. It's almost tempting to get the DS9 out again, but then I did that first half of last year. SG1...again too recent. Oh well, I'll probably stick to what I've got for now.
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I had watched them all in order up until episode 17 of season 2, starting sometime when I was in Boston. It had some great episodes, that really set up future Star Trek, but it wasn't easy to watch. I mean that in the sense that watching one episode doesn't really inspire you to watch the next 10, and with most other Star Trek, I can easily end up watching 10 episodes accidentally. I've been known to do a season of DS9 in 3-4 days. Enterprise has a lot of random adventure episodes, as me and my sister usually call them, and not so many story arc episodes. I know this is how Star Trek usually works, with the exception of DS9, but when you've already seen all the other Star Trek series doing the same thing, it's not so exciting. When I got to episode 17, I decided to start skipping some episodes to get to some I expected to be better. Relying on the Wikipedia episode guide, as I do with everything, of course. Doing that, I came across some really fantastic episodes. "Judgement", the one with the Klingon trial, was great. It really felt like it was a similar trial to that in Undiscovered Country, only over 100 years earlier. They did escape a bit easily from Rura Penthe, for saying Archer was supposed to be the first person to ever do that, but I can forgive that because it was a great episode. One thing I really didn't like though, was the reusing of an actor who'd had a main part in another Star Trek. I know bit part actors are reused, and you'll find some people who had random alien parts before getting a main role, but seeing JG Hertzler playing another Klingon? I thought he was great in that role, but I still don't like it.
Another great episode I discovered was "Regeneration". Yes, that one I wanted to thoroughly hate. Everyone knows that Starfleet didn't encounter the Borg until TNG! However, it wasn't badly done at all. Enterprise didn't find out too much about the Borg, so it's not like they could have been prepared by TNG. The Borg did manage to send a message home, but it would take over 200 years. That's how long it took before they started entering the Alpha Quadrant in TNG, so it does fit together. The one thing that doesn't make sense is that in TNG, they acted like they'd never encountered them at all before. Did no one read Archer's logs?
On to season 3. I loved the ending to season 2. 7 million deaths on Earth is definitely something to stir things up. However, I'm not sure what I think of season 3. The theme song, which I initially hated since Star Trek doesn't have theme songs but have now grown to like, is a lot more poppy. Don't like. The characters are noticeably darker at times. Trip calls the Xindi "bastards" and I didn't like that. Bastards don't belong in Star Trek, especially not with Trip. Archer stuck someone in an airlock and nearly killed them. I don't like an otherwise good captain resorting to torture. And then there's T'Pol. The earlier stories with her mind melding and Panaar syndrome and then her warming to the humans were all pretty good. Now, it's almost like they got bored of having an emotionless Vulcan, and they keep finding ways for her to have emotions. The episode with the Pon Far was pretty ridiculous, and mostly just an excuse to have her running about half naked throwing herself at men. It's like they've decide to make it sexier, realised they have two attractive female characters, Hoshi is boring, so let's try and get T'Pol naked as often as possible. Don't like.
I'm only 5 into season 3, but the story seems good. This one is more of a continuous story arc. The only thing I don't like about that is that it seems like an obvious attempt to rescue the show. I enjoyed seasons 1 and 2, but understand why they might not have done so well. Changing so much to save it...don't like. The Xindi story is an interesting one though, so hopefully it will get better. One thing I don't like is all this time travel stuff. Changing events in the past DOES NOT MAKE SENSE. Once it's changed, you don't know to go back and get it changed, so it doesn't get changed etc etc. I didn't like how they ended Voyager with something like that, and while the odd time travelling episode is a bit of fun, whole story arcs based on it isn't good. Oh well, it has seasons 3 and 4 to convince me.
Wow, I've written a lot on Enterprise. The other thing I've been watching is Farscape. I really like it, but I think the lack of a continuous story is what's stopping me from watching more of it. It's great though, because it's so different from any of the other sci-fi shows I watch.
Only two more shows to talk about now, have patience. Next is Atlantis. Atlantis has been a bit weird the last couple of weeks. 2 episodes where most of the cast weren't a part of it. Last week only Sheppard and McKay were featured. This week, although others had minor appearances at the beginning, it was all Sheppard and Ronan. I hope this second half of season 4 starts focussing more on the Atlantis base, or at least the Atlantis crew, in the next few episodes. Those last 2 were still great episodes though. Interesting to see Bates back working for the IOA. It's still my favourite thing currently showing on TV.
Finally, Lost is back! Yep, the beginning of season 4 was definitely exciting. Oceanic 6? So only 6 survived? Or at least escaped, seeing as future Jack and Hurley seem to know something about the others. Both of them, at different times, have no said they should go back. This season will be awesome.
Haha, massive TV essay. The thing is, seeing as the only things I have a lot of and haven't seen before are Enterprise and Farscape, I could do with something else. I'm not inspired to watch loads of either of those in a row. It's almost tempting to get the DS9 out again, but then I did that first half of last year. SG1...again too recent. Oh well, I'll probably stick to what I've got for now.
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Wednesday, 30 January 2008
Boredom
I only have lectures on Thursdays. I have a research project to do, but that doesn't start till Monday. I got back to uni on Friday, and Hannah stayed for a few days, but since then I have been so bloody bored. She left Sunday, and I didn't get internet till late Monday afternoon. Sunday night was split between Dawson's Creek, Farscape and Enterprise. Monday involved seeing my landlord, town, reading, and Farscape. Then I got internet, and it involved Skyping allllll night. Tuesday I met up with the people I lived with in 2nd year, and then last night I went out with one of them and her mate. It was an alright night, but I can't be bothered to explain how with L it all ends up being about chasing after boys.
And that brings us to today. Today I have done nothing at all worthwhile. I woke up around 11ish, and since then I've only left my room to use the bathroom, get breakfast and once to walk to the shop to get Dr Pepper because my body required fizzy pop. I've been online all day. Doing what you ask? PB, OTW, xkcd (I've even been going back looking at old comics to kill time), festival rumours, AIM (only spoken to 2 people all day though), QC, random wikipedia articles, and the worst bit...Runescape. I found myself thinking "oh good, middle of the day UK time, won't be so many people on so I can go mining without sharing rocks" and so I went mining. Went up a smithing level, which was probably the most excitement Runescape gave me today. Wow, I can't believe I'm writing about my Runescaping somewhere public.
Last night, we sort of discussed going to Asylum tonight. Now, even though I'm mega bored and could do with doing something, I don't much want to. I spent too much last night, and I just don't feel up to drinking much tonight. I also don't know if I can be bothered with another night of everything being about guys and the chasing of them and the talking about ones who have been chased before. The freshers I live with are going, and my other mate said he'd be up for it, but I still can't imagine it being much fun. If they ask, I might go, but I hope they don't. I'd prefer to watch some nerdy DVDs, mess about online, go to bed earlyish and be ready for my first day of actual lectures.
The worst part is that this will be almost the same every week. Sure, the work will pile on after lectures start, and I'll be in the lab doing my research stuff a couple of days a week, but it's still not going to be constant. I'm still gonna have a lot of free time all year, and it's going to be hard to find big groups of people to go out with. It's always better when there are a few of you going. I know it sounds daft that I'm moaning about not wanting to go out tonight and also saying I want other people to go out more, but I just don't fancy it tonight after last night.
Oh, and I'm reading Sword of Shannara, and I can't get into it. It seems really good, but it's starting in a similar way to LotR and Eragon. Normal guy learns of great destiny and needs to flee his safe rural community. It's been done. Eragon probably copied this too though. It copied pretty much everything else.
Edit: Oh, and one more thing. I miss work. Forget that thing I said in another entry where I said I wouldn't go back to the same lab. I'd love to go back
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And that brings us to today. Today I have done nothing at all worthwhile. I woke up around 11ish, and since then I've only left my room to use the bathroom, get breakfast and once to walk to the shop to get Dr Pepper because my body required fizzy pop. I've been online all day. Doing what you ask? PB, OTW, xkcd (I've even been going back looking at old comics to kill time), festival rumours, AIM (only spoken to 2 people all day though), QC, random wikipedia articles, and the worst bit...Runescape. I found myself thinking "oh good, middle of the day UK time, won't be so many people on so I can go mining without sharing rocks" and so I went mining. Went up a smithing level, which was probably the most excitement Runescape gave me today. Wow, I can't believe I'm writing about my Runescaping somewhere public.
Last night, we sort of discussed going to Asylum tonight. Now, even though I'm mega bored and could do with doing something, I don't much want to. I spent too much last night, and I just don't feel up to drinking much tonight. I also don't know if I can be bothered with another night of everything being about guys and the chasing of them and the talking about ones who have been chased before. The freshers I live with are going, and my other mate said he'd be up for it, but I still can't imagine it being much fun. If they ask, I might go, but I hope they don't. I'd prefer to watch some nerdy DVDs, mess about online, go to bed earlyish and be ready for my first day of actual lectures.
The worst part is that this will be almost the same every week. Sure, the work will pile on after lectures start, and I'll be in the lab doing my research stuff a couple of days a week, but it's still not going to be constant. I'm still gonna have a lot of free time all year, and it's going to be hard to find big groups of people to go out with. It's always better when there are a few of you going. I know it sounds daft that I'm moaning about not wanting to go out tonight and also saying I want other people to go out more, but I just don't fancy it tonight after last night.
Oh, and I'm reading Sword of Shannara, and I can't get into it. It seems really good, but it's starting in a similar way to LotR and Eragon. Normal guy learns of great destiny and needs to flee his safe rural community. It's been done. Eragon probably copied this too though. It copied pretty much everything else.
Edit: Oh, and one more thing. I miss work. Forget that thing I said in another entry where I said I wouldn't go back to the same lab. I'd love to go back
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Monday, 21 January 2008
I think my last post was that mega depressing one...
So just to say, that was a very, very bad day. The day after was one of the best days ever, and I'm generally feeling pretty good right now. I can't be bothered to write much, but I've finished work and had a fantastic last day, and then Saturday night involved a very long Wii party. It's all good.
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Saturday, 12 January 2008
The end is in sight!
I passed my registration portfolio! Now I just need a degree to be fully qualified, and I only have one semester left at uni. I can't believe I can see the end of it. Words cannot describe the happiness and relief on Tuesday when my verifier came and I passed. I also got my project intro in on time, even though it's probably shite, but it's in and that means I'm freeeeee! No more uni work till I get back in a couple of weeks. No more feeling guilty about doing things that aren't uni work or portfolio :D
I can't decide how I feel about going back to uni. My life there seems so long ago, especially the life I had in my 2nd year. That 3rd year semester I was there was totally different. I'll really miss the Stargate marathons and hanging out with Laura and Dan. Oh well. I guess this'll be another adventure. Only one more semester anyway. Hopefully :P
In other news, I've nearly finished Sex and the City. That's right, 6 seasons, starting at Christmas. That is a good effort, even for me. I miss my sci fi though. Atlantis tomorrow!
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I can't decide how I feel about going back to uni. My life there seems so long ago, especially the life I had in my 2nd year. That 3rd year semester I was there was totally different. I'll really miss the Stargate marathons and hanging out with Laura and Dan. Oh well. I guess this'll be another adventure. Only one more semester anyway. Hopefully :P
In other news, I've nearly finished Sex and the City. That's right, 6 seasons, starting at Christmas. That is a good effort, even for me. I miss my sci fi though. Atlantis tomorrow!
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Sunday, 6 January 2008
A Dream
I had a really weird dream last night, so I felt the need to write it down, because I hate forgetting the interesting ones.
As usual with dreams, I don't remember exactly how it began. I was in a house, but it was a pretty fancy house an definitely not mine. My mum was there, my sister, maybe Garry, maybe my sister's boyfriend and I'm certain there was a guy there with me. It was the day before the London marathon, and me and my sister remembered that we'd signed up to do it then forgotten about it. My mum was looking as though she knew I'd drop out and not do it because I was lazy, and I was trying desperately to explain that I hadn't trained because I had been too busy, and it was dangerous to run a marathon without preparation. I could tell they were starting to listen, but I also told the guy who was there about it, because I think he was a doctor, and I got him to agree that we shouldn't run.
We went to London to watch the end of it anyway. For some odd reason, Oasis were running it, and we were waiting for them to finish and play some songs. The place we were...was odd. It was a shopping mall. I never say "mall" because it's a very American word, but in the dream that's what I knew it was. It was a cross between Westfield in Derby, Meadowhall, that shopping centre I randomly went to in Doncaster once, Princes Quay in Hull and Birmingham Central Library. And maybe some of the big train stations I've been to, like St Pancras and Liverpool Street. I know, it gets odder. Funny thing was, it was also New Year's Eve. We were waiting for Oasis to play at midnight. It gets weirder. William Shatner was the announcer for the evening, and was stood outside on an ice rink, having just run the marathon, waiting to introduce Oasis o.o
I don't remember some stuff after that. My sister was there, and her boyfriend was, and I can't remember what was said. I remember going outside because some fireworks had been let off early by accident. I went out, and my brother and some people I know through him were there looking at them. Although they were early, they were the best fireworks I'd ever seen, ever. I half wanted to go back inside for midnight, as I'd never not had Big Ben at New Year, but then I remember that we were in London and should hear from outside. I then thought about that weird situation where people in London watching TV hear 13 strikes because of the TV delay, then I remembered that there was no TV. I heard Big Ben do those chimes it does before the countdown, and then the noise of the crowd drowned out the sounds. I only knew it was New Year when people started singing Auld Lang Syne. My brother and his girlfriend, and my sister, were all there.
After that it was as though I was drunk and couldn't remember bits. I remember it being the next day. I saw Lucy and she pretty much blanked me. I tried talking to her but she wasn't interested. I remembered having seen Rachel the night before too, but she had gone already. I remember walking around aimlessly, and then seeing a group of people from school who were still friends. Faye was there, which was odd because she didn't even go to my secondary school. It wasn't nice. Like they all knew each other still and I was someone they used to know. Faye told me how happy she was with her son (I think I mixed her up with Nikita in my dream) and then for some reason she wasn't there and Sarah M was. It was the old college crew. Anne-Marie was there, and she said she was taking pictures of people at the party for her Facebook (she doesn't have a Facebook) and she took one of me, another girl called Nikita who wasn't the one I'd ever spoken to at school, and someone else (my sister, I think) and possibly Sarah too. I talked to Anne-Marie and Sarah for a while, but I don't remember what about. I remember feeling distant from them. And then my sister, who was next to me, said Rick was coming over. He had a baby in his arms, Terri's son I assumed. I think he said Terri was coming too. Rick knew all the people from school and I felt so out of place. I felt like I was falling back in with then because I had no one else, and they all knew that, so I decided to call some other friends to come. I knew Lucy had just gone, because I'd seen her again and couldn't get her attention. I told Hannah I would call our brother, then decided that might look sad. I said I'd try to call Rachel, but her number wasn't in my phone. I'd deleted it by accident the night before. I looked at my list of friends and didn't feel I could call any of them. It was pretty depressing :P
And then I woke up. That was a weird dream. I'm not really all that emoish and thinking I have no friends, because I do, but I think it highlights how much I've drifted away from people this past year. It'll change soon, but it is a shame.
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As usual with dreams, I don't remember exactly how it began. I was in a house, but it was a pretty fancy house an definitely not mine. My mum was there, my sister, maybe Garry, maybe my sister's boyfriend and I'm certain there was a guy there with me. It was the day before the London marathon, and me and my sister remembered that we'd signed up to do it then forgotten about it. My mum was looking as though she knew I'd drop out and not do it because I was lazy, and I was trying desperately to explain that I hadn't trained because I had been too busy, and it was dangerous to run a marathon without preparation. I could tell they were starting to listen, but I also told the guy who was there about it, because I think he was a doctor, and I got him to agree that we shouldn't run.
We went to London to watch the end of it anyway. For some odd reason, Oasis were running it, and we were waiting for them to finish and play some songs. The place we were...was odd. It was a shopping mall. I never say "mall" because it's a very American word, but in the dream that's what I knew it was. It was a cross between Westfield in Derby, Meadowhall, that shopping centre I randomly went to in Doncaster once, Princes Quay in Hull and Birmingham Central Library. And maybe some of the big train stations I've been to, like St Pancras and Liverpool Street. I know, it gets odder. Funny thing was, it was also New Year's Eve. We were waiting for Oasis to play at midnight. It gets weirder. William Shatner was the announcer for the evening, and was stood outside on an ice rink, having just run the marathon, waiting to introduce Oasis o.o
I don't remember some stuff after that. My sister was there, and her boyfriend was, and I can't remember what was said. I remember going outside because some fireworks had been let off early by accident. I went out, and my brother and some people I know through him were there looking at them. Although they were early, they were the best fireworks I'd ever seen, ever. I half wanted to go back inside for midnight, as I'd never not had Big Ben at New Year, but then I remember that we were in London and should hear from outside. I then thought about that weird situation where people in London watching TV hear 13 strikes because of the TV delay, then I remembered that there was no TV. I heard Big Ben do those chimes it does before the countdown, and then the noise of the crowd drowned out the sounds. I only knew it was New Year when people started singing Auld Lang Syne. My brother and his girlfriend, and my sister, were all there.
After that it was as though I was drunk and couldn't remember bits. I remember it being the next day. I saw Lucy and she pretty much blanked me. I tried talking to her but she wasn't interested. I remembered having seen Rachel the night before too, but she had gone already. I remember walking around aimlessly, and then seeing a group of people from school who were still friends. Faye was there, which was odd because she didn't even go to my secondary school. It wasn't nice. Like they all knew each other still and I was someone they used to know. Faye told me how happy she was with her son (I think I mixed her up with Nikita in my dream) and then for some reason she wasn't there and Sarah M was. It was the old college crew. Anne-Marie was there, and she said she was taking pictures of people at the party for her Facebook (she doesn't have a Facebook) and she took one of me, another girl called Nikita who wasn't the one I'd ever spoken to at school, and someone else (my sister, I think) and possibly Sarah too. I talked to Anne-Marie and Sarah for a while, but I don't remember what about. I remember feeling distant from them. And then my sister, who was next to me, said Rick was coming over. He had a baby in his arms, Terri's son I assumed. I think he said Terri was coming too. Rick knew all the people from school and I felt so out of place. I felt like I was falling back in with then because I had no one else, and they all knew that, so I decided to call some other friends to come. I knew Lucy had just gone, because I'd seen her again and couldn't get her attention. I told Hannah I would call our brother, then decided that might look sad. I said I'd try to call Rachel, but her number wasn't in my phone. I'd deleted it by accident the night before. I looked at my list of friends and didn't feel I could call any of them. It was pretty depressing :P
And then I woke up. That was a weird dream. I'm not really all that emoish and thinking I have no friends, because I do, but I think it highlights how much I've drifted away from people this past year. It'll change soon, but it is a shame.
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