Hello my pretties. I apologise for the summer long absence. It wasn't intentional, but I realise I've never been very good at writing during school holidays. It seems to be an activty for during school time. But I'm back and beavering away and I thought I'd just give you a little update on Charisseyland before I go and get started on part 7.
Now I'm back at school and in my last year I have obscene amounts of work to do. It's actually ridiculous and means I don't have as much time for writing as I'd like to but I'll try not to stay away too long. I also finally managed to get myself a job but that means all of Saturday pretty much disappears now. I bearly have time to see one of my best friends as we have completely different timetables and I'm now busy all Saturday. Which sucks but can't be helped.
This past week has been mildly depressing since both my goldfish died. Which is pretty pathetic but they were my only pets and I'd gotten surprisingly attached to them over the past couple of years. But one of my friends has promised me to buy me another pair for my birthday. Which I am really excited about because in two weeks I'll be 18! I'm having a joint party with my friend who's two days older than me so that'll be fab.
Also, a couple of my quizzes have mucked up again with bits of them disappearing and such. It's really annoying and I dunno why it's happened. Is it just Quizilla bugs? The lack of info from Quizilla is also pretty annoying. They haven't updated the blog since like June and I wish they'd just give us a heads up on what was going on.
Anyway, off to fix things and do some more writing.
P.S: Looking back at my last blog, all my sunflowers I planted got eaten by birds lol. Maybe I'm not so green fingered after all.
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May 23, 2008
Wow (Shock Horror)
I was so surprised that Quizilla has fixed the edit button (I've taken to just pressing it every day and am perfectly used to it being broken) that I honestly fell over the coffee table. It hurt crazy lots.
But it doesn't even matter because the chapters that needed fixing have to be done again because the vast majority of the story had actually disappeared, it wasn't just hiding somewhere. So I will repost them in a few mins.
It's been a slightly odd couple of days for me. My Grandpa's not been well over the past couple of weeks and had to go to hospital and ended up having an operation and the doctors weren't hopeful about him recovering. But then earlier this week he seemed to be improving slightly. However on Wednesday morning I had been sleeping round a friend's house and my dad rang me to say Grandpa had gotten worse during the previous day and he was going up to my grandparents' because he wasn't likely to make it. He died later that day.
So I've been home alone for a few days but it's not been too bad. I'm less paranoid than most about all the strange noises in the house. And I'm sad about my grandpa but not really upset, I guess because it hasn't really affected me yet. We were never particularly close but when I think about my grandma and my aunt (who still lives in their house) at home together without him it just feels so strange to know that he's gone.
But yesterday I was able to cheer myself up doing a bit of gardening of all things. I've been growing some sunflowers but one was in a tiny pot and the other three were sharing one pot (I was a bit sceptical about them all growing, so I put three seeds in lol). So I re-potted them all into equal sized flower pots. Plus the shoots were getting too tall to support themselves so I found some bamboo cane and stuck it in the pots and tied the shoots to them. And I planted another one just for the fun of it though that one's going to be a couple of weeks behind the rest. Sometimes it's nice to be responsible for things :)
My mood says I'm sick but I actually just have some eff off headache (I can't believe Quizilla automatically censors our journals) so I think I'll sort out chapter three then go and lie in the garden and write the rest of chapter five by hand. Fresh air should do me some good.
xxx
But it doesn't even matter because the chapters that needed fixing have to be done again because the vast majority of the story had actually disappeared, it wasn't just hiding somewhere. So I will repost them in a few mins.
It's been a slightly odd couple of days for me. My Grandpa's not been well over the past couple of weeks and had to go to hospital and ended up having an operation and the doctors weren't hopeful about him recovering. But then earlier this week he seemed to be improving slightly. However on Wednesday morning I had been sleeping round a friend's house and my dad rang me to say Grandpa had gotten worse during the previous day and he was going up to my grandparents' because he wasn't likely to make it. He died later that day.
So I've been home alone for a few days but it's not been too bad. I'm less paranoid than most about all the strange noises in the house. And I'm sad about my grandpa but not really upset, I guess because it hasn't really affected me yet. We were never particularly close but when I think about my grandma and my aunt (who still lives in their house) at home together without him it just feels so strange to know that he's gone.
But yesterday I was able to cheer myself up doing a bit of gardening of all things. I've been growing some sunflowers but one was in a tiny pot and the other three were sharing one pot (I was a bit sceptical about them all growing, so I put three seeds in lol). So I re-potted them all into equal sized flower pots. Plus the shoots were getting too tall to support themselves so I found some bamboo cane and stuck it in the pots and tied the shoots to them. And I planted another one just for the fun of it though that one's going to be a couple of weeks behind the rest. Sometimes it's nice to be responsible for things :)
My mood says I'm sick but I actually just have some eff off headache (I can't believe Quizilla automatically censors our journals) so I think I'll sort out chapter three then go and lie in the garden and write the rest of chapter five by hand. Fresh air should do me some good.
xxx
posted at 6:59 am EDT | 0 comments
May 16, 2008
My stuff
I miss having a proper homepage and being able to post updates on it because for now all updates are going in journals, which is kinda weird. I'm going to delete this entry once everything gets sorted out anyway.
So currently, all my stuff is way messed up. Especially the couple of sections that have somehow gotten classed as quizzes, even though I always classed my stuff as stories. Plus in chapter four, all my paragraphs aren't right even though they were when I first did it so everything is one huge horrible paragraph which is just disgusting to look at. So that's going to be a fun job to sort out, but I can't do it because the edit function isn't working properly, it can't load my stuff into the editor but I'm pretty sure that's just one of the new Quizilla bugs so it'll be fixed soon hopefully. So everything looks messy and horrible and you can't read some stuff and that's why. It'll be fixed as soon as it can.
Also, I am so sick of people constantly whining about the new Quizilla. I really don't get it. It's not that different to how it was before, especially if you were using the new quiz editor before it changed (which I wasn't, but I can deal). I think once people get used to it, the redesign will work a lot better and be easier to use. I used to hate uploading chapters before, having to go through and add in all the html that I needed to make it look right but I quite enjoyed uploading part four using the new editor.
And fair enough it's kinda glitchy, but it's really not going to be like this for long, they'll be trying to get everything sorted asap. And for all of those people who are complaining about spending three hours making a homepage only for it to disappear, please get a life. Seriously. It's html on a site where people make stories and quizzes for fun. Stop taking yourselves so seriously.
So lets all give Quizilla a break while it sorts itself out and not worry about every little thing that goes wrong. There are way more important things in life. Try to conceptualise your problems. Think of the things that are going wrong with Quizilla and then think about all the people in Burma and China. Doesn't that make you feel better?
Oh, and in case it doesn't come across this way, I mean this all very light heartedly. I'm not taking myself seriously and neither should you.
So currently, all my stuff is way messed up. Especially the couple of sections that have somehow gotten classed as quizzes, even though I always classed my stuff as stories. Plus in chapter four, all my paragraphs aren't right even though they were when I first did it so everything is one huge horrible paragraph which is just disgusting to look at. So that's going to be a fun job to sort out, but I can't do it because the edit function isn't working properly, it can't load my stuff into the editor but I'm pretty sure that's just one of the new Quizilla bugs so it'll be fixed soon hopefully. So everything looks messy and horrible and you can't read some stuff and that's why. It'll be fixed as soon as it can.
Also, I am so sick of people constantly whining about the new Quizilla. I really don't get it. It's not that different to how it was before, especially if you were using the new quiz editor before it changed (which I wasn't, but I can deal). I think once people get used to it, the redesign will work a lot better and be easier to use. I used to hate uploading chapters before, having to go through and add in all the html that I needed to make it look right but I quite enjoyed uploading part four using the new editor.
And fair enough it's kinda glitchy, but it's really not going to be like this for long, they'll be trying to get everything sorted asap. And for all of those people who are complaining about spending three hours making a homepage only for it to disappear, please get a life. Seriously. It's html on a site where people make stories and quizzes for fun. Stop taking yourselves so seriously.
So lets all give Quizilla a break while it sorts itself out and not worry about every little thing that goes wrong. There are way more important things in life. Try to conceptualise your problems. Think of the things that are going wrong with Quizilla and then think about all the people in Burma and China. Doesn't that make you feel better?
Oh, and in case it doesn't come across this way, I mean this all very light heartedly. I'm not taking myself seriously and neither should you.
posted at 11:52 am EDT | 0 comments
May 15, 2008
An update (and rant)
I am officially so so sick of revision. And I still have several more solid days of it before I can even think about relaxing.
On Tuesday I had my first exam in the morning, which was my Sociology methods paper. We did theory and methods riiiight at the beginning of the year and just about everyone had managed to forget all about it so we all had a crazy panic attack that we were going to fail. That meant spending all my time revising that, which helped really because I think it went pretty well, even if I did end up having crazy dreams where all my friends were conducting sociological research and I dreamt I overslept and missed my exam :|
On Tuesday I had my first exam in the morning, which was my Sociology methods paper. We did theory and methods riiiight at the beginning of the year and just about everyone had managed to forget all about it so we all had a crazy panic attack that we were going to fail. That meant spending all my time revising that, which helped really because I think it went pretty well, even if I did end up having crazy dreams where all my friends were conducting sociological research and I dreamt I overslept and missed my exam :|
Anyway, starting Tuesday afternoon I have to start revising for my Psychology exam, which is tomorrow afternoon. I have four topics to learn and two and a half days and I'm thinking I may just manage it. But if I don't get an A in Psychology I think I may kill myself. It's the one subject I know I'm capable of it in so if I don't manage it I'll be so disappointed. Well all is going well until one of my History teachers leaves a message on my house phone to 'remind' me that I have two History essays due in before the weekend. Seriously, who sets essays when people are meant to be on study leave? So on top of crazy revision I realise I actually have to do these essays (whereas before I wasn't going to bother, which my teacher obviously figured). So I've done one today and I'll tell her to stuff the other one until after Monday.
Because, after my exam tomorrow is when I have to start revising for both my Sociology education and media exams. Education won't be too bad but there is so much to learn for media it's actually crazy. I'm taking these Monday morning so I have from after about 3 o'clock on Friday to the end of Sunday to revise, only on Saturday I'm going up to London. My dad booked tickets to see Dirty Dancing absolutely aaaages ago because it was so fully booked and neither of us even thought about the fact that May was exam time. In fact I think he may have booked them before I even started my A Levels so there we go.
But then after Monday morning I am so amazingly free I won't even care if I've done badly. Two weeks where I only have to revise for two more exams and then take those the week after. Monday seems so far away though when I'm looking at three days of solid work.
And what's worse, all this time I've been feeling so creative, like I could just sit and write all day, when in reality, all I'm writing is monotonous note copying. But I think having a big rant has helped a bit. And I suppose I'll go back to making notes on Milgram and his stupid electric shocks.
xxx
Because, after my exam tomorrow is when I have to start revising for both my Sociology education and media exams. Education won't be too bad but there is so much to learn for media it's actually crazy. I'm taking these Monday morning so I have from after about 3 o'clock on Friday to the end of Sunday to revise, only on Saturday I'm going up to London. My dad booked tickets to see Dirty Dancing absolutely aaaages ago because it was so fully booked and neither of us even thought about the fact that May was exam time. In fact I think he may have booked them before I even started my A Levels so there we go.
But then after Monday morning I am so amazingly free I won't even care if I've done badly. Two weeks where I only have to revise for two more exams and then take those the week after. Monday seems so far away though when I'm looking at three days of solid work.
And what's worse, all this time I've been feeling so creative, like I could just sit and write all day, when in reality, all I'm writing is monotonous note copying. But I think having a big rant has helped a bit. And I suppose I'll go back to making notes on Milgram and his stupid electric shocks.
xxx
I've just realised apparently you're not allowed to put 'b itch' in the titles of journals lol. Makes sense when you think about it. But somehow 'rant' doesn't have quite the same effect.
posted at 11:56 am EDT | 0 comments
May 10, 2008
Oo-er (new Quizilla)
How exciting, Quizilla FINALLY updated it's look after telling us a thousand years ago it would.
Overall? I quite like it. But there are bits that have disappeared that I miss. Like being able to put updates on your profile, having a profile that looks however you want it to and having an update box on your quiz page.
Those are kind of strange things to miss really but oh well. I'll soon get used to it.
Anyway, I'm currently working on part four of O'Hanigans, though the rest of the story hasn't made it over yet. It would be the discontinued one that arrives first and not the active one, wouldn't it? I hope it doesn't get lost in cyberspace since i accidentally saved part three over part two so I don't have a back up of it and that would be a pain in the butt.
But yah, not sure if part four will be up today or not. I'm probably about half way through. I should really be revising since my first exam is on Tuesday but I never feel like working on a Saturday. Revision hasn't been too bad since it's finally gotten hot and sunny so I have been perfecting the art of revision and sunbathing at the same time.
I'll shut up since this entry is both pointless and not very interesting lol. Good luck to exam people and look out for part four
C xxx
Overall? I quite like it. But there are bits that have disappeared that I miss. Like being able to put updates on your profile, having a profile that looks however you want it to and having an update box on your quiz page.
Those are kind of strange things to miss really but oh well. I'll soon get used to it.
Anyway, I'm currently working on part four of O'Hanigans, though the rest of the story hasn't made it over yet. It would be the discontinued one that arrives first and not the active one, wouldn't it? I hope it doesn't get lost in cyberspace since i accidentally saved part three over part two so I don't have a back up of it and that would be a pain in the butt.
But yah, not sure if part four will be up today or not. I'm probably about half way through. I should really be revising since my first exam is on Tuesday but I never feel like working on a Saturday. Revision hasn't been too bad since it's finally gotten hot and sunny so I have been perfecting the art of revision and sunbathing at the same time.
I'll shut up since this entry is both pointless and not very interesting lol. Good luck to exam people and look out for part four
C xxx
posted at 11:46 am EDT | 0 comments
April 23, 2008
In which I detail my failings (procrastinator's lament)
Just a little note to let you know I will probably be a bit delayed on posting part four of The Last Of The O'Hanigans.
My AS exams start some time mid May (I should really check when...) so that gives me about three weeks. I started revising today. I promised myself was going to be good and start revising early so that I wouldn't be cramming and I'd get good grades in all my subjects, especially as year 13s and teachers alike told us that people never do well in their ASs because they don't realise how much work you have to do for them.
I am one of those people.
I told myself I wouldn't be one of those people.
I am still one of those people.
So yeah, cramming it is for the next couple of weeks. Which means I won't be setting aside any time for writing. However, if I get the urge and it's not revision time, I'll certainly do some of the next part. So I'm not saying there won't be any updates. Just don't expect anything regular.
I reeeallly want to do well in these so it's important I do work. Also, good luck to all those other people who have May exams as there are certainly a lot of them in the UK at least.
xx
P.S. as a sign of my lack of biological knowledge (which I am currently failing), I've just discovered that it's endoplasmic reticulum not endoplastic. I did always think that was a bit weird....
My AS exams start some time mid May (I should really check when...) so that gives me about three weeks. I started revising today. I promised myself was going to be good and start revising early so that I wouldn't be cramming and I'd get good grades in all my subjects, especially as year 13s and teachers alike told us that people never do well in their ASs because they don't realise how much work you have to do for them.
I am one of those people.
I told myself I wouldn't be one of those people.
I am still one of those people.
So yeah, cramming it is for the next couple of weeks. Which means I won't be setting aside any time for writing. However, if I get the urge and it's not revision time, I'll certainly do some of the next part. So I'm not saying there won't be any updates. Just don't expect anything regular.
I reeeallly want to do well in these so it's important I do work. Also, good luck to all those other people who have May exams as there are certainly a lot of them in the UK at least.
xx
P.S. as a sign of my lack of biological knowledge (which I am currently failing), I've just discovered that it's endoplasmic reticulum not endoplastic. I did always think that was a bit weird....
posted at 5:39 pm EDT | 1 comments
April 9, 2008
That Green Gentleman (Things Have Changed)
Sometimes you find a song and you think 'God that song has just basically described my life'.
Well you can see where this is going. A couple of days ago I bought Panic's new album (which is awsome by the way, go buy it) and I've found my song, That Green Gentleman (Things Have Changed).
I've had the same best friend since I first started secondary school in year seven, I'm now in year twelve. I've gained and lost other best friends since then, but she was always the main one. We had this strange connection, we developed the same interests as time went by, like a crazy love for Phil Collins, and had all these private jokes that no-one else really got and were mostly quotes from films and other stuff we loved.
When it came to year 10 and we didn't have lessons as a form any more, we found we didn't have any lessons together, meaning we never saw each other in class, only at lunchtimes. And we ended up growing apart a bit due to the fact we just never seemed to see each other. But then after the first term she got moved up into my science group and we had six hours a week of lessons together and we were as close as ever.
So then at the start of this school year we begin our A-Levels and we chose completely different subjects and didn't have many free periods that matched up, unlike me and my other best friend who chose 3 out of 4 of the same subjects and have an identical timetable. But we didn't let it phase us. We all ate lunch together, hung around outside school and talked on MSN and Myspace so all was good for a while. But it all kind of dwindles down a bit as we spent time with new friends and other people except each other and then she pretty much stopped talking to me.
Which wasn't really a problem in my eyes. She's insecure and sensitive and if she thinks you've got a problem with her or are ignoring her she'll just drop it. We'd been through many short phases of this before usually ending in 'I thought you were ignoring me' "I thought you were ignoring me and then we laugh it off. So when I realised this was happening I put more effort in, though we didn't really see eachother much at school, I made sure I talked to her every time she came on MSN. But all I got were minimum answers and if she didn't have to answer, she wouldn't, meaning if I didn't keep wracking my brains for something to talk about, the conversation would dwindle pretty quickly.
I was flogging a dead horse, but I thought if I put enough effort in then it would be worth it. Until one night when I mentioned a film I really wanted to see was on at the cinema. I got a 'cool' as a response. So I made it blatent and said we should go. I got a 'sorry but I'm really busy at the mo'. Fair enough, she did always seem to be really busy. Well she didn't but she did whenever she spoke to me... So I said we haven't done anything in ages and we should do something in the Easter holidays. Which were a month away at the time, I figured it was enough notice for her not to be full up with plans. Apparently not. I got a 'mmmm we'll see'.
So I switched off my laptop, went to bed and cried until I felt sick. My best friend seemed to have decided a long time ago we were no longer friends and felt like all the effort I'd been making over the last couple of months was like banging my head against a brick wall and showing myself up to be an idiot. That was over a month ago and we haven't spoken a word since.
And the point of this story is: I don't care anymore. Things have changed a lot over this past year, in many ways except for just friendships. And I'm finally ok with it all. I think I'm happier now than ever before, a lot stronger and a better person because of it. Our friendship always thought like it was a lot more effort on my side than hers, but I always thought it was worth it. At the time it was, but looking back I begin to doubt it a little. There was a week when it hurt when I saw things that reminded me of her but now I'm fine. I'm sad that we lost something that was so special, but I think I'm done now, even if she wanted to be friends again I don't think I would.
And That Green Gentleman reminds me of all that :)
Well you can see where this is going. A couple of days ago I bought Panic's new album (which is awsome by the way, go buy it) and I've found my song, That Green Gentleman (Things Have Changed).
I've had the same best friend since I first started secondary school in year seven, I'm now in year twelve. I've gained and lost other best friends since then, but she was always the main one. We had this strange connection, we developed the same interests as time went by, like a crazy love for Phil Collins, and had all these private jokes that no-one else really got and were mostly quotes from films and other stuff we loved.
When it came to year 10 and we didn't have lessons as a form any more, we found we didn't have any lessons together, meaning we never saw each other in class, only at lunchtimes. And we ended up growing apart a bit due to the fact we just never seemed to see each other. But then after the first term she got moved up into my science group and we had six hours a week of lessons together and we were as close as ever.
So then at the start of this school year we begin our A-Levels and we chose completely different subjects and didn't have many free periods that matched up, unlike me and my other best friend who chose 3 out of 4 of the same subjects and have an identical timetable. But we didn't let it phase us. We all ate lunch together, hung around outside school and talked on MSN and Myspace so all was good for a while. But it all kind of dwindles down a bit as we spent time with new friends and other people except each other and then she pretty much stopped talking to me.
Which wasn't really a problem in my eyes. She's insecure and sensitive and if she thinks you've got a problem with her or are ignoring her she'll just drop it. We'd been through many short phases of this before usually ending in 'I thought you were ignoring me' "I thought you were ignoring me and then we laugh it off. So when I realised this was happening I put more effort in, though we didn't really see eachother much at school, I made sure I talked to her every time she came on MSN. But all I got were minimum answers and if she didn't have to answer, she wouldn't, meaning if I didn't keep wracking my brains for something to talk about, the conversation would dwindle pretty quickly.
I was flogging a dead horse, but I thought if I put enough effort in then it would be worth it. Until one night when I mentioned a film I really wanted to see was on at the cinema. I got a 'cool' as a response. So I made it blatent and said we should go. I got a 'sorry but I'm really busy at the mo'. Fair enough, she did always seem to be really busy. Well she didn't but she did whenever she spoke to me... So I said we haven't done anything in ages and we should do something in the Easter holidays. Which were a month away at the time, I figured it was enough notice for her not to be full up with plans. Apparently not. I got a 'mmmm we'll see'.
So I switched off my laptop, went to bed and cried until I felt sick. My best friend seemed to have decided a long time ago we were no longer friends and felt like all the effort I'd been making over the last couple of months was like banging my head against a brick wall and showing myself up to be an idiot. That was over a month ago and we haven't spoken a word since.
And the point of this story is: I don't care anymore. Things have changed a lot over this past year, in many ways except for just friendships. And I'm finally ok with it all. I think I'm happier now than ever before, a lot stronger and a better person because of it. Our friendship always thought like it was a lot more effort on my side than hers, but I always thought it was worth it. At the time it was, but looking back I begin to doubt it a little. There was a week when it hurt when I saw things that reminded me of her but now I'm fine. I'm sad that we lost something that was so special, but I think I'm done now, even if she wanted to be friends again I don't think I would.
And That Green Gentleman reminds me of all that :)
posted at 10:30 am EDT | 0 comments
