Yay again!
Checked my email, and had an email from Kaisa telling me to go to the Bronze. I have a yay day! :D This has sooo made my day!
And thank you all so much for the happy birthday wishes! I'm sorry it took me so long to thank you all. I was out all Wednesday, once I got home my drunk typing was embarrassing and not for public viewing trust me *g* and then Thursday I spent the entire day recovering from the day before and didn't feel up to, well, anything. But yeah, seeing all those messages made what was already a really good day even better. I really appreciate it, thank you. :)
Wednesday was fantastic. My best birthday ever, for sure. :) From the very first minute of turning 21 it was a wonderful day. :) In the afternoon, me and my friends met up at 1pm, drank until 12 midnight (so we fell two hours short of our 13-hour drinking target, but I was pleased with the 11 hours *g*). Between us we went through just about every cocktail that the bar did, and my brother and friends (who all soooo rock) bought all of my drinks, which made it all even better. :) My brother did a lot of drunken freestyle rapping (him and my friends are all becoming rap fans!) which was hilarious, though I'm sure most of the drunken highlights would have happened in the last couple of hours of the night. Of which I can remember absolutely nothing. *g* I've been that drunk only once before, and am absolutely determined to get that drunk never again, because the next-day-hangover was torture from the first minute to the last, but I think it was worth it for my 21st. But never again. *resolve face*
There were seven of us in the end, one of whom I'd not seen in almost a year and half, and only two people who said they'd be there weren't able to make it (calming my paranoid fear that everyone wouldn't be able to make it!), so that was nice.
We were all such typical students for the first couple of hours of the day! *g* Sitting in a pub having a two hour discussion about free will, determinism, God, politics, etc. etc. and my brother looking at us as if we're all insane. Rhys and Glyn don't believe in truth, or in right or wrong, even in time (!), or... pretty much anything. I was reduced to a few "it just is" or "there just is" answers, which Glyn took as a victory of course. :D I love those sort of discussions we all have. There always seems to be the right blend of interestingness and humour. And my friends really crack me up. :)
I'll stop babbling now, but my friends rock. :)
Thursday was... not so good. Joint worst hangover I've ever had. And it lasted the entire day. Still, my friends pointed out, and I did see their point, that feeling so completely awful on the second day of being 21 should make me feel like I celebrated my 21st properly. And it kind of did. :)
Thankfully, I'd completely recovered by this morning, though I am still behind on my sleep and almost stayed in bed instead of going to uni... but just almost, thank goodness. :) I love my French philosophy course so much. We've studied Sartre and Camus so far, and they're both so interesting. Plus the lecturer is really good. Week off uni next week (next week is going to be good *g*), which I'm really looking forward to. Among other things, it's going to give me a chance to get some essays done. I've still not done the essays that I failed to do during my essay hell a few months ago, so I'm an absolute mile behind, but I am determined to get at least a little caught up. For some of the essays, especially my omniscient God/free will one, I have some stuff gathered and all I need to do is sit down and write it. For the Nietzsche essays (yes, I now have two Nietzsche essays to do), I have nothing at all gathered and haven't even got a clue what I want to write about. Still, that's the plan for next week.
On a totally different note, I've got soooo into detective novels and TV shows again recently. It all started with bawston48 recommending The Murder Of Roger Ackroyd to me (which I still haven't been able to track down in either of my local libraries, but hopefully will get to read soon!) which reminded me how much I used to enjoy detective shows on TV. I've watched more Columbo and Poirot shows and movies in the past couple of weeks than I have other movies. Peter Falk rocks sooo much as Columbo, I just love every single second he's on screen. I've missed watching him, and am so glad I've got back into it again. The same can be said for David Suchet's Poirot. I haven't seen any other actors playing Poirot (though I do have a couple of movies SkyPlus-ed that have them), but after having finally read an Agatha Christie Poirot novel, I realised just how absolutely brilliantly Suchet translates him to the screen. Yup, detective fiction, in print and on screen, is going to become my new obsession for a little while. :)
I've seen so much positive reaction to the latest ANGEL episode. I really can't wait to see it. Have finally downloaded it, so shall watch that tomorrow I think. I've sort of lost my ANGEL fandom completely it seems. I absolutely adored Smile Time of course, but I haven't even watched the episode that came before it! Not sure why this has happened, since the quality of the show this season has been, for the most part, excellent.
I didn't get my Fantasy Angel questions in on time for the latest round. That's really disappointing, since I've really been enjoying playing it, and to get a 0 for a week is a shame (and after I'd been doing alright as well! *g*)
I've caught up with some commenting in LiveJournal today, though I do still have some catching up to do. I'm glad to have got back into LiveJournaling, I've missed it. :)
I'd really better get to bed now since I have to be up in less than six hours for work. *sigh*
And thank you all so much for the happy birthday wishes! I'm sorry it took me so long to thank you all. I was out all Wednesday, once I got home my drunk typing was embarrassing and not for public viewing trust me *g* and then Thursday I spent the entire day recovering from the day before and didn't feel up to, well, anything. But yeah, seeing all those messages made what was already a really good day even better. I really appreciate it, thank you. :)
Wednesday was fantastic. My best birthday ever, for sure. :) From the very first minute of turning 21 it was a wonderful day. :) In the afternoon, me and my friends met up at 1pm, drank until 12 midnight (so we fell two hours short of our 13-hour drinking target, but I was pleased with the 11 hours *g*). Between us we went through just about every cocktail that the bar did, and my brother and friends (who all soooo rock) bought all of my drinks, which made it all even better. :) My brother did a lot of drunken freestyle rapping (him and my friends are all becoming rap fans!) which was hilarious, though I'm sure most of the drunken highlights would have happened in the last couple of hours of the night. Of which I can remember absolutely nothing. *g* I've been that drunk only once before, and am absolutely determined to get that drunk never again, because the next-day-hangover was torture from the first minute to the last, but I think it was worth it for my 21st. But never again. *resolve face*
There were seven of us in the end, one of whom I'd not seen in almost a year and half, and only two people who said they'd be there weren't able to make it (calming my paranoid fear that everyone wouldn't be able to make it!), so that was nice.
We were all such typical students for the first couple of hours of the day! *g* Sitting in a pub having a two hour discussion about free will, determinism, God, politics, etc. etc. and my brother looking at us as if we're all insane. Rhys and Glyn don't believe in truth, or in right or wrong, even in time (!), or... pretty much anything. I was reduced to a few "it just is" or "there just is" answers, which Glyn took as a victory of course. :D I love those sort of discussions we all have. There always seems to be the right blend of interestingness and humour. And my friends really crack me up. :)
I'll stop babbling now, but my friends rock. :)
Thursday was... not so good. Joint worst hangover I've ever had. And it lasted the entire day. Still, my friends pointed out, and I did see their point, that feeling so completely awful on the second day of being 21 should make me feel like I celebrated my 21st properly. And it kind of did. :)
Thankfully, I'd completely recovered by this morning, though I am still behind on my sleep and almost stayed in bed instead of going to uni... but just almost, thank goodness. :) I love my French philosophy course so much. We've studied Sartre and Camus so far, and they're both so interesting. Plus the lecturer is really good. Week off uni next week (next week is going to be good *g*), which I'm really looking forward to. Among other things, it's going to give me a chance to get some essays done. I've still not done the essays that I failed to do during my essay hell a few months ago, so I'm an absolute mile behind, but I am determined to get at least a little caught up. For some of the essays, especially my omniscient God/free will one, I have some stuff gathered and all I need to do is sit down and write it. For the Nietzsche essays (yes, I now have two Nietzsche essays to do), I have nothing at all gathered and haven't even got a clue what I want to write about. Still, that's the plan for next week.
On a totally different note, I've got soooo into detective novels and TV shows again recently. It all started with bawston48 recommending The Murder Of Roger Ackroyd to me (which I still haven't been able to track down in either of my local libraries, but hopefully will get to read soon!) which reminded me how much I used to enjoy detective shows on TV. I've watched more Columbo and Poirot shows and movies in the past couple of weeks than I have other movies. Peter Falk rocks sooo much as Columbo, I just love every single second he's on screen. I've missed watching him, and am so glad I've got back into it again. The same can be said for David Suchet's Poirot. I haven't seen any other actors playing Poirot (though I do have a couple of movies SkyPlus-ed that have them), but after having finally read an Agatha Christie Poirot novel, I realised just how absolutely brilliantly Suchet translates him to the screen. Yup, detective fiction, in print and on screen, is going to become my new obsession for a little while. :)
I've seen so much positive reaction to the latest ANGEL episode. I really can't wait to see it. Have finally downloaded it, so shall watch that tomorrow I think. I've sort of lost my ANGEL fandom completely it seems. I absolutely adored Smile Time of course, but I haven't even watched the episode that came before it! Not sure why this has happened, since the quality of the show this season has been, for the most part, excellent.
I didn't get my Fantasy Angel questions in on time for the latest round. That's really disappointing, since I've really been enjoying playing it, and to get a 0 for a week is a shame (and after I'd been doing alright as well! *g*)
I've caught up with some commenting in LiveJournal today, though I do still have some catching up to do. I'm glad to have got back into LiveJournaling, I've missed it. :)
I'd really better get to bed now since I have to be up in less than six hours for work. *sigh*