I'm really enjoying art week, it's been fun seeing who Gaby and Jez picked! I am going to talk about the pop artist Roy Lichtenstein; his most of his work uses bright colours and references ideas and styles that were popular at the time, such as the comic book style dots used. If I were at home I would have a few more pictures to show you, because ( Read more... )

Hey girls, this week I'm going to talk about my top five groups of fictional characters (I figure there is more than one person in a group, so I only need five) that make me smile, in no apparent order ( Read more... )

This post comes in two parts, family visits and last.fm!

My family are coming to visit me on Sunday, which is going to be really strange. I won't have seen them for a month, which is twice as long as the previous time I've gone without seeing them. I wasn't planning on coming home at all during term time, just because it's only 12 weeks and it's ( Read more... )

Ok, so I really want to write a gushing post about UEA and how much I love it here, but honestly I don't want to jinx it. However, all I will say is that I have met a lot of wonderful people, my flat mates are so nice and the course looks like it is going to be good!

The only thing is, I feel like I've let a couple of people slip through the net, in ( Read more... )

I was going to talk about how I think YA is as important to study as other books, and how being a 'classic' does not necessarily make a book more worthy of being studied. However, I have already packed "Speak" by Laurie Halse Anderson at the bottom of a box to take to uni, and it seems silly to discuss studying literature today when I'm about to ( Read more... )

I just wrote this entire post slightly unsure of the point I was trying to make, until I came to the last paragraph when I realised what I thought. So I have considered that draft one, and hopefully this draft should be more easy to understand. As with all my opinion posts, feel free to disagree with me and discuss it in the comments, and I hope I ( Read more... )

I have had a busy few days. Last Thursday I went down to my friend's house in Oxford for an awesome party with lots of films and internet people. Then yesterday it was my friend's birthday party and we had a bbq and slept in tents, hence the complaining "I hate camping" tweets. Then today is my father's birthday, we had cake and bought him a coffee ( Read more... )

I am having a really nice week, I'm busy enough not to be bored, but not busy enough to feel busy, so all is good!

Today I met up with some people who are going to UEA in September, two from the boys' school, one of whom I knew, and a girl who is friends with one of my good friends. It ended up being really nice, since I was worried that it would ( Read more... )

The video is here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53aEcudsYjQ

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I was totally freaking out about tomorrow, until my own face showed up on my tumblr dashboard, scaring me a little. I had forgotten that I'd submitted a picture of my anglerfish t-shirt to effyeahnerdfighters!

After Saturday, I was going to talk about being a fan, and whether the relationship between fan and 'celebrity' is helpful or harmful, but I' ( Read more... )