College @ MindSay

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Whatever Sarah was off with last Friday, it must've been pretty bad - as the media studies lesson this morning was cancelled too. I had like two hours to spare as a result, so I went into the LRC and booked myself two hours on a 1st floor PC. Naturally, I got one with the dodgy spacebar and one with a foot missing. Chavs simply delight in snapping them off and stealing them. Lord only knows what they do with all of these hoarded keyboard feet like. I had to resort to using Lisa to prop it up. The iPod Classic is simply the perfect width. :)

Instead of updating some old blogs like I'd planned to - I ended up browsing Wikipedia's list of Xbox titles, looking for any that interested me. For I cannot have a mere two games for Mr. Hunk. I've accumulated a list of around 30 titles - and the best news of all is - the avarage price is £4 per game. :D
I can't wait till I get some Christmas money like. Play.com shall be getting a slew of my orders.

English was a strange lesson - simply 90 minutes of the old 'let's-look-at-a-past-exam-paper-and-whinge-about-how-to-write-an-answer-for-it' lesson. Not at all stimulating. But I did draw some sexy spider diagrams, so. :P

I met up with Shelly at lunch and we sat in our usual spot on the 4th floor stairs. We couldn't sit at our preffered end by the printing rooms - some other random dykes had stolen our idea. So we sat at the other end instead. I was in a cuddly mood - which is rare. I don't seem to be as lapsed as I have been for the past few days. I ate some BBQ Rib flavour Walkers crisps - then proper stuck my tongue down Shelly's throat - because they're her favourite flavour. I felt it was fitting. :P

Photography was yet another lesson of photo editing.
Seriously, if Paul fucking thinks I'm going 25 fucking A3 pages of sketchbook in TWO weeks, he can shove it right up his arse. We told him he doesn't set enough deadlines - and the one time he does set one, it's fucking ridiculous and unachievable. So we've all made a pact to refuse. :)

After college, I took the shuttle bus into town then went to Forbidden Planet to get some presents. I got Ian some Star Wars plushies - a Yoda and an R2-D2. It's tradition - every year I'll get Ian some Star Wars mech. Every year, I'll get Lisa some make-up. Every year I'll get dad some Toblerones. I might get him those new ones that are being advertised. And of course, I got something for Adam. But he's a blog reader - no mentioning of it here. :P

Forbidden Planet is proper expensive like. Not that I'm a tight arse - well, I am a bit - but they charge daft prices for shitty little things. I had to have a serious mooch before I decided on my purchases. :P

When I got home, I watched Miranda with mam - she had it recorded on the DVD harddrive.
Oh, why have I never watched this programme before?! Oh, it's HILARIOUS. :D

In the little gap between this and I'm A Celebrity - I snaffled some wrapping paper and wrapped up what I had left. Now all I need are some boxes of chocolates to go with their gift sets, something else for Mam, something else for Dad and something else for Ash.

Gah, then there's the matter of the bloody CARDS. ARRRGHH.

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Thankfully I didn't have another fucking argument with Shelly today.
No, we were both relativley calm - did our usual act of not doing anything in Photography. Paul is such an arsehole.
We walked into town during our beasty break and Shelly persuaded me to buy a BLT sandwich from Greggs. I wanted to get one from college, but as per usual - when I want one, they don't have one.
They're pretty good though. I'm starting to think I actually do like mayo - just not Helmann's. I like the mayo from Greedy Joe's, I like the mayo from college and now I seem to like the mayo from Greggs. It clearly isn't Helmann's then. :)

Short blog yes - but everyone has days where there's fuck all to talk about.

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It's a good thing I didn't really have anything major that was bothering me this week. Well, there was the one thing that arose in Film Studies this morning.
Tuesdays are now assigned to be coursework lessons - so we were in the ICT suite on the 3rd floor, "doing coursework" - only I was attempting to do mine, but I had something stopping me.
I had all the clips I needed on my memory stick - they were all uploaded to the video editor fairly quickly - the same one I use at home - Windows Movie Maker, bog-standard, but it gets the job done. I had my script, I knew how I wanted it to look - I should have been all set to bung the clips together, save the project then edit all the sound at home with WavePad and dub it together.

But I think I'm scared of assembling it. I know there's some clips that haven't worked quite as well. I knew that there would be some jumpiness between certain clips - hence the reason I filmed some "filler clips" - just close-ups of objects and surroundings to break the flow and ease the jump from clip to clip - I did make some form of effort to sort it out. But I just know it's not going to turn out as I'd hoped. Fair enough, the trailer didn't, The Wheelchair didn't. When I wrote Regenbogen Strifen - that didn't.

And the problem is, I'm not even sure WHY I'm so scared of assembling it. :/

I would have told Dianne about this in our session - but it was cancelled.
I worked it out after sitting on the stairs by the room for 15 minutes - then giving up.
She'd actually sent me a text - but I only realised this when I got home and read it.

I told Sarah too - but she said I should just bite the bullet and assemble it.
I did tell her about my Plan B - if it went TOTALLY tits-up and wouldn't get anywhere near a decent grade - I'd take film stills and do the digital storyboard option. But that isn't the point - I shouldn't HAVE TO - I wanted to do the fucking FILM OPTION!

I read the newspaper this morning and came upon an article that talked about the University of California(UC) raising their fees 32%! It seems like that's all colleges have been doing lately. It is absolutely ridiculous and asking too much  of the students. I understand that colleges are having budget cuts but why do the students have to pay to solve the college's problems? Also when the calculate the fees, they charge students for other stupid fees such as student union, ID card fees , health services(which most people don't use. thats why we have Kaiser and John Muir medical centers), etc. If these fee increases keep up, people are eventually going to stop going to UCs and CSUs and go get their education elsewhere. My mom even complains about the fee increases. She pays my tuition and has to pay $1,564 for tuition plus the cost of textbooks. So that's about $2,000 every 3-4 months. She's been really thinking about asking me to go back to Diablo Valley College and see if they have program where I can get a degree to become a social worker. DVC is cheaper and offer a hell of a lot more than my current campus.

 

~A.M.L.~

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I went to nana's this morning - she'd said I could borrow a pair of grandad's longjohns for tomorrow's filming. Then I'd said I'd go into town with her to do some Christmas shopping with her. Mam dropped me off and nana made me some toast for breakfast while I played on my DS to deter myself away from the boredom that morning television always, without fail - brings.
 
We got the Leven Valley bus - from the epic bus stop three meters from her doorstep - at half 11 and got into town for around 11:45. Nana seemed to be getting lots of gift vouchers - we were all over the place, from River Island to Game and back again. Seriously, if I ever looked out of place - I look out of place in TopShop. Just imagine me standing in TopShop, wearing my anarchy blazer, black jeans with the big fuck off chain, black and red Converse - and to top it all, I was waiting for nana by the PETITE racks. Seriously lmao, what an outlier.
 
When we were in Game, I showed nana the Brutal Legend adverts they had up on the screens - she suggested that I ask Ian and Lisa to get me it for Christmas. That's not a bad idea nana. :)
I also noticed the strategy guides... Hmmm... Should I be obsessive and go for the 100% with a guide? I only buy guides for epic RPGs and games I REALLY like. I have a feeling I'll like BL though. It's certainly my type of game.
They have DJ Hero set up in Game - seriously, Shelly and I have got to have a go of that when we're in town next week. It looks fucking ridiculous like. :)
 
I went into Boots to get some stuff for Ian and Lisa. I've got Lisa a cosmetics bag and a lipgloss set - they're all themed with like Japanese geisha girls - which I know Lisa is batty about, so they seem really fitting. I've got a body set for Ian, but I need to get them both some chocolates to go with that. I might get Ian something else too, maybe when I go mooching in Forbidden Planet for Adam's present. :)
 
When I was in River Island, I found the best thing ever for him - but I shan't post it to here, for I know he's an avid reader of this blog. :P
And of course, when walking past HMV - the idea struck me for what nana could get me to go with the games rack she's bought me out of Argos. Rammstein's sexy new album, Leibe Ist Fur Alle Da. :D
 
I set off for college at about 12:40, but still ended up about ten minutes early, so I stood about listening to Rammstein and Blind Guardian.
Film Studies was reasonable - we finished off our posters from last week and made some notes on a documentary about blockbuster films. Saying that, blockbusters are fairly simple to understand - I really didn't need to see a documentary about them to understand the concept.
 
Walking back to the bus station, I bumped into mam, Christine, Lucy and Lila - so I turned around and walked back to the car park with them. Nice one, I saved my bus fare. :P
I sat in the back of the car with Lucy and Lila - who she had on her knee. She looked like she kept wanting to lunge for my badges. I wasn't keen on the idea - yes, I'd like to see children getting impaled on safety pins, but I could do without baby blood on my face. :)
 
When mam came home, we watched Desparate Housewives and then when we ran out of DVDs, I ate a bowl of rice and watched How Clean Is Your House? - Kim Woodburn is supposed to be going on I'm A Celebrity, Get Me Out Of Here on Sunday - so I'll definatley be watching that, she's fucking epic. :D
 
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Shelly came at around five - we laid on my bed and had lots of cuddly time.
It's so weird cuddling her when we've got Cannibal Corpse and Rammstein blasting in the background. :)
 
I got some things organised for tomorrow's filming - mainly the suit jackets and shirts from my wardrobe, then I hung them on the door ready for when we needed them.