Know what I find most annoying about having flatmates? Well not most annoying, but quite annoying. Anyway the answer is the way they overhear stuff that happens in your room behind your closed door. Like the other day after I got back from my all-nighter and I was all sleep-deprived and essay-writing-stressed, and I was tearfully ranting to my mum ( Read more... )

A few things I've seen lately ( Read more... )

This summer I had the good fortune of seeing a lot of shows, and I realised lately that I'm liable to forget some of them if I don't write a list for future reference. So, here is my list, in no particular order:

Ballets Russe (Rehearsal) - Sadler's Wells
Les Miserables - Queen's Theatre
Billy Elliott - Victoria Palace Theatre
The King and I - Royal ( Read more... )

I finish working on Friday, after that I have about 2 weeks free time and then I'm off to uni. I'll use the next 2 weeks to pack and prep for uni and also just relax a bit since I know my final year of university will be very demanding.

So, this Saturday is the wedding of P's son and I'll be going even though I don't really know the bride or groom ( Read more... )

There aren't many of the great stars from my favourite era still alive today, so I am very excited to have the chance to meet one of them next week:


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Back from the FA Cup Final. We had an early start and went into London and straightaway got onto an open-topped bus outside Chelsea's home ground. We decorated the bus with flags and blue & white balloons, and it filled up with the other Chelsea fans who had bought tickets to go on it. We wet off and drove about an hour through London the Wembley ( Read more... )

Yesterday we built the exercise machine and it only took us 2 hours and 15 minutes which I think is a pretty good showing. I haven't done a workout yet as we were out all day. Tonight we go to mum's boyfriend's (P) house because tomorrow it is the FA Cup Final with Chelsea vs. Everton. Mum and P were only able to get one extra ticket and they ( Read more... )

What an exhausting day. We got up early and left for Southampton by 8am to get sister to a meeting at university. After that was all sorted we went to the shopping mall and I had hoped to get lots of nice clothes that fit me since I've "grown" out of a lot of my clothes. Unfortunately the first thing I tried on was a swimming costume for our ( Read more... )

American Pop Culture 1887-Present: A
American Political Parties: A
Public Opinion and Democracy: A
"the all-important fraudulent hispanic women in politics": A-

So both this semester and last I got 3 As and 1 A-. I'm not really sure what it means but I think it is good?

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