Today I sucked it up and finally got started on - DOOM - an essay for college. I started scribbling many notes on why I agreed with Roland Barthes' essay The Death of the Author ('the birth of the reader is at the cost of the death of the author') and ended up disagreeing with it entirely. Er...crap? Now what ( Read more... )

Bought the first season of Stargate SG-1. Yayz.

The kitten thinks it is absolutely HILARIOUS to jump into the sinkevery five minutes while I am struggling to write up five weeks' worth of lecture notes.

And I have my first essay due and I don't understand anything.

But despite all that, it's nice to have the week off.

Did a Science homework marathon.

That is all.

Still looking forward to something elusive and I don't know what it is.

Also...

How can I feel nostalgic for the '80s when I was born in 1990??

Had to go into school today because Mr O'D wanted to catch up on some of the Geography project with us. AARGH. One forty-minute class of Geography is bad enough, but three hours? Fortunately the time went by quickly enough and Mr O'D let us out at half twelve instead of one ( Read more... )

My mother got an alarm clock for me that has four nature sounds that you can fall asleep to. Yes, because the harsh screeching caw of birds is so relaxing.

It rained all day but Molly wanted a walk and pushed her nose at me until I took her for one and got soaking wet.

Attempted some maths. Un-attempted them, they were too hard.

There really was not much point in going into school today, as I had only five classes - triple Home Ec, which I don't do, and free French and Irish ( Read more... )

This morning everyone was hanging out in Room 2 wearing normal clothes and wellies, because we were going to the river. I think we caused some confusion marching up and down the corridor in wellies, hee. Anyway, it was a cold, windy day and the river was rushing along too fast for it to really be safe to wade into, so we didn't get many ( Read more... )

The boys and I watched Cast Away last night. I love that movie. I love Tom Hanks. I love the music ( Read more... )

The Top Gear presenters are attempting to drive a car filled to the brim with water, which my brothers apparently find hilarious.

It is pretty funny ( Read more... )

My mother and I took off to the new Athlone shopping centre this morning and wandered around there for a few hours. I was somewhat unimpressed, although I did buy a new blue poloneck. I have got to stop buying those things ( Read more... )