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Well been a while since I've done a proper blog, not a lot has been happening in my life (as per normal!)...I think I need to be more exciting...that probably involves doing more than I do, think I am your typical student whose key skill would be procrastinating. Part of me wants to get on with work as I know I am just driving myself to the point of a mental breakdown when I've a week to pump out a ridiculous amount of projects, but I can't help but mossey around and not achieve anything. I was thinking about putting together an e-zine but ah that involves me working too, on top of everything else I've got going on so I duno if I'll get round to that, but could act as a nice portfolio if I ever get my act together. I hate to moan about how unmotivated I am, but despite feeling like I want to get out of this funk and to do stuff, I never seem to get there unless I am under pressure...which sucks.

It's valentines day on Thursday, wow my least favourite time of the year, a hallmark holiday designed for card companies to make a cash in...aye i am so bitter, but secretly thats just cuz I have no valentine and haven't for a while, sure I changed the record if I had someone to sweep me off my feet, wouldn't we all?!

Started PR on Monday, freaked out already about having to sell something to a panel of judges and that's not till May, thought about dropping the option but then things that scare you and challenge you make you a stronger person in the end, once you get through it...or so I like to think, plus the other options are dull at least PR is most practical!

Am reading the 'Subtle Knife' at the moment, man Philip Pullman is genuis, it's great to re-read since I haven't read it since I was quite young, but I never got to the 'Amber Spyglass' this time I plan too, I also have a long list of books that are awaiting my eager eyes, favourite thing about reading is it takes you some place else, where you can get lost in the characters reality and forget about what you need to be doing haha.

This is one random entry, if anyone reads it they'll probably agree (?), just wanted to end on a the random note of, why do glasses get so dirty? I don't even touch mine and yet I am squinting through the crap on them and seem to be constantly cleaning them but it never makes a difference!

Since I was writing this for my portfolio thought I would share it, opinions welcome good or bad. It will probably get torn to pieces by my tutor tomorrow anyway lol. I won't put it behind the cut as it's not spoiler-ish.

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30 days of no sunlight, hundreds of human beings pumping warm blood around their bodies’ in an isolated Alaskan town - sounds like the perfect place to indulge in a quick bite (or two) if you’re a vampire. 30 days of Night is the horror flick to feast on this Halloween. Adapted from the graphic novel written by Steve Niles and illustrated by Ben Templesmith, British director David Slade brings this motion picture to life.  Slade is best known as a Hollywood personality for the memorable thriller ‘Hard Candy’.  

After the sun sets for the last time in 30 days the vampire’s ruled by blood-sucker Marlow (Dan Huston) and his deathly pale leading lady Iris (Megan Franich) invade Barrow, Alaska. They communicate with each other in an unintelligible serious of mumbles (which is apparently an ancient language) that is thankfully supported by subtitles. When they’re not mumbling they’re howling an earth shattering cry and baring their thin blood-splattered yellow teeth to all. At first this terrifying call creates a feeling of fear but after a while it only serves to irritate your ear drums and make you wish the villagers would drive a stake through the heart of their demon impostors sooner rather than later.

Facing off against the much needed villain and his posse is the inevitable town hero Sheriff Eben Olsen played by Josh Hartnett, who pulls off a surprisingly decent performance despite his characters lack of depth. The only back story accompanying Eben is his problems with his estranged wife Stella (Melissa George), who unfortunately was stranded in the snow after missing her flight out of town. The two are unsurprisingly forced to get a long as they attempt to keep a group of villagers alive until the sun comes up. Their story is a cliché and only serves to add to their disappointing characters.

Slade is careful at first not to disclose his vampires and leaves bloodthirsty deaths to the imagination invoking a sense of excitement for the oncoming horror. However Slade gets carried away and breaks this mould far too early and soon we are exposed to the monstrosity of the vamps full existence. From this moment on the film turns out to be an orgy of gore and its one blood bath after the next. What was promised of the traditional vampire who enjoyed the game of seducing their victim is diminished in favour of a thoughtless creature who ruthlessly rushes forward in the quest to slaughter their victim, desperate to taste the warmth of blood (and unwillingly to ever consider washing their blood stained clothes or face).

It is during the harrowing massacre that breaks onto the screen that it becomes clear the attractive story promised at the opening of the movie has disappeared. Instead the film now relies on teasing it’s viewers with a visual feast of macabre imagery and daring them to look away. 30 days of Night is now only acceptable for Halloween and the horror-buff but lacks anything to entice any real viewer appreciation.

At times the film is saved by some clever and creative camera work which creates scenes that will make your blood run cold especially when associated with the chilling score. This movie ‘does what it says on the tin’ it’s a typical horror film, ruled by images of brutality and moments that will make you jump out of your skin but lacking in characterization and plot. It is entertainment, but for most people it will be a one time watch or a throw away DVD.

 

Well early I was thinking of a good blog, now by the time I reach it to my computer I've forgotten all I was going to say. So yeah...I'll try remember the boring details of my life. Has been strange coming back to Falmouth, like often I compare my life to Grey's and it normally seems to fit, I mean that's probably cuz I make it in some weird way, but with the episode of the fourth season being called 'A Change is Gonna Come', totally fits this whole return to university for the third (and final) year! Everything's turned on it's head this year, I've lost my only housemate from the past two years, and now I've two new housemates, cuz they decided to let the other two rooms - which is very strange, but I am so glad that both my housemates have been great (so far), I am looking forward to making friends with them better overtime. It's weird because I've lived with one of my best friends, and that is certainly more fun because you already know them going in, so you kinda know what annoys them and what not and you can easily discuss things that may be getting under your skin, but with new housemates who are strangers that you live with (to begin with), it's weird.

But I've been back over two weeks now, I am starting to settle in....But other stuff has changed too like the work load...man it' tough, it's like at the moment I am just waiting for the 'shit to hit the fan', is that what they say!? I mean there's my dissertation (ahhhhhh!), crime and the media and negotiated portfolio, which overall must work out as at least 24,000 words in one term! That's just one term...then not written is all the bloody presentations we have to do - I hate presentations, hate everybody watching you, too much pressure, you constantly think you're going to screw up!

Yeah got nothing else to say currently, just that I swear the more sleep I am having now I am back to the student lifestyle the more lazy I am becoming, it's a vicious circle! LOL! I actually miss work, at least it gave me something to do all day!

Oh well figured I should really post something, been a long summer...and now it's all fun back at university...not...well it is friend wise and housemate wise, that's all very awesome. But the work load not so much...third and final year, gearing myself up for the dissertation, not going all that well, got to submit a proposal in a few weeks and have no idea what I am going to do! Want to focus on online journalism, need to find a story to look at, and thinking of the Madeline McCann case, because there's a lot of stuff out there and it's very current, but thinking probably half the class will end up doing that one, so perhaps something different will get me extra credit?

Anyways, what have I been doing with my summer, well I am shameless going to plug my new and amazing *cough* forum for Private Practice, well it was inevitable I would push somebody into creating one with me one day, especially in my undying fan love for Kate Walsh. One day I will meet her, probably scare the crap out of her and she'll remember me as that crazy fan who had to be dragged away - but least I'll be remembered eh?! Anyways, sidetracked much! Yeah please people if anyone reads this journal, join  Addison's Anatomy

and hopefully I'll see you there!?

I've been so bored recently having pretty much nothing to do, and having exhausted all you can do with little money, so it's made me spend a lot of time alone with my thoughts, and next year everything's changing and right now I am really excited about it. I'll be getting two new housemates, which I hope will be an awesome experience, I can't explain how much I am looking forward to gaining two new friends, who i'll hopefully become close to (am secretly hoping for hot male housemate :-p! lol!). It will be different not having Connie around, but I know I'll still see her a lot.

Also I'll have my dissertation to contend with, which will probably be exhausting, but I am determined to come out of this degree with at least a 2.1. Been talking a lot about the 'future' recently as well, and I've enjoyed this degree so far, but I don't believe I am a journalist at heart, this course has taught me a lot of stuff about the media, and it's not all necessarily been good, I duno if journalism is where my heart is, so much so, that after I've spent my year traveling (when uni's ended), I'm looking to maybe doing a masters in a total different area. I am very interested in criminal psychology or forensics, but don't know if my brains couldn't enough to let me pursue them further. We shall see.

All I can say right now. Is bring on the summer. I plan to do lots. Visit lots of people. And have a lot of fun. Oh and also work!

Ah OMG! I am sooooooooooooooooooooooooo  bored! I don't know what to do now it's all over!? I feel like I should be working really hard, it's weird allowing your brain to just totally switch off, I can't do it...I think Im going to make loads of greys icons or something now, or maybe write that fan fiction thats been clawing at my brain! I wish somebody was about to do something with, and that the sun was out! Oh well! Looking forward to tomorrow, Potc 3 should be awesome! Nice way to celebrate end of year! Am trying not to think about how shitty case study was, I'll be happy just to pass the damn unit! I'm knackered all of a sudden, I think it's cuz the stress has passed (also a bizzarre feeling!). How can it be the end of the second year of uni already!? Dissertations next year, fun fun...help!

I'm avoiding work, thats all that can make up for this blog, my butts going numb and my legs going stiff great combination to justify a distraction!

So as a good friend once told me...(she may have been drunk)

Peace...(Kate Walsh Style!)


Love...


and a paperclip ...

Sometimes you just have to wonder what is the point? these past couple of years have been good for me, going to university meeting new friends, understanding how much my old friends me to me. I've learnt to become more independent I like looking after myself. My confidence has grown, yeh it's probably still not at the standard I'd like it to be but nevertheless I can look back and see a vast improvement...However, sometimes I just look and think what's the point, I'm sat here now, like I pretty much have been all week, I feel like complete crap when I don't achieve anything in a day, 9 hours a week on a course is hardly satisfying sometimes! once I'm motivated I'm going I enjoy, but once you get stuck, you're really stuck...can't get motivated, brain won't go...kinda how I'm feeling now, and instead of writing my case study, I come to questioning what is the point of sprouting 6000 words of crap in a week, only to hope you get a half decent mark for your excessive ramblings!? Sometimes I just wish there was more than this? I'm sure there is, could I make myself take that extra push and get out there...that's what I hope to achieve but floating of round the world in a years time, I think there's so much more to be discovered.

Despite feeling as if I've grown as a person, I sometimes feel I've lost good parts of myself, like being a writer, I used to write all the time, stories constantly pushing at my brain urging my fingertips to get writing, where's that all gone? I've lost my inspiration, it's been sucked out of me, drained away, and damn I want it back now...I'm sick of tired of just floating to and from places, watching the world spin around me, whilst it feels like I'm standing still...you ever get that feeling? It's 1 step forward, 2 steps back, kinda feeling...I just hope to discover theres really something more than this. Sure being a student is great, all that free time you ever dreamed of is yours, all that freedom you ever wanted, now is the time to cease it, but I think my enthusiasm has worn out this year, the novelty is wearing off, I don't want it too...I'm sure it has something to do with the shit loads of work I have to accomplish in a week, that's making me feel as if I'm stuck in a rut, this is a common occurrence, never sit back and think about the fact your drowning in paper, do something about it! I think I should take my own advice...

Just wanted to come post on here, because amongst all the work I'm buried in at the moment, I just bought Fray tickets, and I know I'll find extremely hard to concentrate for the rest of the day on any work, cuz I'll be imagining standing there screaming 'how to save a life' at the top of my lungs :-p!  Yay! *does happy dance* I thought they were never going to come to the UK, mind you they aren't doing that many shows as of yet, so I feel even more privileged  that I've managed to snag me some tickets! Now I'm off to watch Grey's so far it's been a happy day, I hope Shonda does not let me down, season finale!!! argh!!!!!!!

Ah I am so so bored! I know I should be doing some work, as I am so going to forget that broadcast and get a shit mark for television, but it's the holidays and I don't want to work more than I have to...but I really, really should. I've done nothing today, apart from watch far too much 'Everybody Love's Raymond' gotta love having sky again, but I am sure I waste too many hours of my life in front of the television!

Productive things I've done amount to work on the grey's anatomy website which is part of the addicted, it currently stands with just a layout but it's pretty cool, (if I may say so myself) so feel free to check it out. www.the-addicted.net/greys/index.htm just need to add the information now, which most of it is already written thanks to my web design project a while back.

I am just rambling for the sake of something to do, I actually have nothing interesting to write here lol! Perhaps I'll go make some icons, or a wallpaper or something and post back with that, as at least that will benefit people who happen to read the most boring journal ever lol!

Today whilst avoiding a feature I should be writing, I made these icons, please be nice haven't made icons in ages, so comments welcome, and feel free to use them, there's nothing particularly special about them, just tried out some colouring adjustments on photoshop, but I like simple, so I hope you do ;-)

 

This morning had a three hour session in the studio up at Tremough, which was great fun, but after totally missing my cue and having my ear piece keep falling out and the people in my ear keep telling me to adjust my hair so it covered my hugely large mic in my ear I think that maybe working in front of the camera is not the place for me haha! I really enjoyed having the opportunity to present and I wasn't nervous like I thought I'd be, and I wasn't even that embarrassed that I screwed up since the tech people were also frequently screwing up our piece, that we had to re-do it, so I am kinda thankful to them, cuz I got a second chance it which I wasn't so bad, I didn't miss my cue...but I still felt like a bit of a pratt when I wasn't talking and just staring into space! lol! I enjoyed doing the sound for the studio, and setting everyones levels, and the camera work, least favourite job was the video tapes, to much pressure, when people start screaming 'run VTB' your thinking arghhh am I on B or C or whatever!? lol! But all good fun, glad it wasn't assessed and big apologies for screwing up my piece, if anyone from college might stumble across this, but hey at least we all got it right the second time lol! Anyways maybe I would consider broadcast journalism, if I perfected some kind of look which didn't make me look stupid, when i wasn't reading news, instead of just sitting there like a lemon, eyes glued to the little board of rolling text, the name for it has gone at my brain, I blame early starts and lack of caffeine, for my brain and my ability to totally drift off on set lol! i think I'd be a bad extra, but I'd be a better actress, since I feel more comfortable actually talking and doing something!

Anyway wanted to have a little ramble about that, what fun! haha! Now I should stop blogging and go hit into that pile of work I have to do, perhaps I'll need more coffee to get my brain in gear for that, especially since it's lovely outside, nice weather for a change, i want to enjoy it!!

Woot! I am having a good day today, first of my tutorial went so much better than I expected, I got like really high 2.1's and a 1st for magazine production, which is amazing, like 76% is the highest mark I've ever had! sweet! And even better news my presentation is in 2 weeks time, so that rocks, cuz you know that means this weekend, well friday night and the weekend (does friday night count as weekend!?) i can go out and have an awesome time without worrying about work at all, for a bit anyways! Speaking of going out having a good time, went out with the gang the other day, first time we've been out together where we could actually have conversation in a while, so drinking and pubs that equated too lol! But we went to 'The shed' which is a dead groovy cocktail bar, so i tried this traffic light cocktail which was really nice, apart from spilling part of it all over my hand, due to the bar guy filling it up very high! we must go back there sometime, when Mandi visits I think the plan is to take her there, think she'd like it and maybe Steve too.

Yay! I am so looking forward to the party on friday night, i can't wait to wear my new top! and just go out and drink with friends from home, how groovy, its going to be a blast! I am excited just thinking about it lol! I think I need to go out more!!

So yes today has been an unusually good day for me...tomorrow may not be as happiness has distracted me from research my news and features lecturer will kick my arse to the curb when she finds out I still don't know what I am doing, so I should stop blogging and start researching, especially since I plan to go in early *cough* tomorrow and finish the magazine, since I got a good grade, best live up to it!

Also I made a Justin Chambers wallpaper this week, with sexy new black and white pictures I found of him, and I can't stop staring at it, man that man is hot!

wow, i just discovered like a whole load of groovy new layouts on livejournal, how long have they been there? Anyway's I've chosen this new one, as I think it's really cool, but don't know how long it will last as knowing me I'll be switching for a while trying out all these cool new looks!

Anyways i might start an art livejournal or something in the near future, and maybe this will motivate me to create more pieces on photoshop etc. Maybe also we should get a livejournal for the addicted, like a community, that might be pretty cool!

*Prepare yourself for random ramblings!*

I don't know what it is, but I feel over the past few years my inspiration has gone down the drain, quite literally since beginning university I feel like when i have free time I don't do anything productive, i don't write fan fiction anymore (I don't right anything period. Well that isn't some kind of essay, news story, feature, profile, or review!), I don't make much on photoshop/paint shop pro, I don't make music videos, I don't really work on the addicted that much, I don't do karate, I barely get a chance to play the drums, keyboard and guitar because they're at home and when I am at home I am working full time, I've been working on several websites for far to long and none of them have made to a screen near you...so I am feeling a bit of a waste of space. What I do, do in my free time can hardly be that beneficial, i mean unless drinking and gigs is like really productive all of a sudden, oh and trying more than a few hands at poker! I don't know basically what I am trying to say is I wish my muse would bloody come back! I want to write, I want to feel creative, but damn I don't...maybe all this bloody university work and crap like supporting yourself, and always having to worry about having no money, has just drained my life force lol! University has done so much for me in a good way, but I think I am such a different person now, I want to find me again, if that makes any sense?!

Anyway moving away from the rambling of me being not very productive and probably a bit of a waste of space, who at the best of times can't spell if I may say so myself, my spelling is appalling, i used to be able to spell, personally I blame the spell check thing, it's easier to right click! Anyway I will stop ranting! I have a new kick arse laptop, it's got vista, and its dead fast, and the dvd drive works! woot! Yeh that's all the good I have to say! Only kidding, I am going home for my sisters 18th birthday party soon, and I am so delighting in the fact that I'll have one evening to relax and let my hair down! I need to get away from Falmouth it's been rather suffocating recently.

Ah I am blogging because I am so bored...so back to uni this week, and well over the past 2 weeks I have been consumed by a vicious cycle of being shattered but unable to sleep for very long at all, due to a lot of stress circulating my life right now, but finally I can say I slept like a log on friday night and last night :-)! Which is so good, so at least for a while I hope I can remain de-stressed as I do benefit from it! lol! I am very much looking forward to going out tonight, as I want a night out to relax but considering the company I don't know how that will go, but we'll see...it's definitely better to be going out than to be stuck inside tonight, I am tired of seeing my four walls!

So besides getting back into uni and already recieving a stack of work which I am skillfully avoiding right now, although really shouldn't be as I want to get most it done before I trundle on home for the weekend of my sisters big 18th birthday party (which I am so looking forward to as I can really relax being away from Falmouth!). So yeah besides university I've not really done a lot, I took a bus back here on friday so I could download grey's before I had to then return to uni via the bus as i promised to help out on my friends radio show, then finally I get home and I watch Grey's and OMG! Well normally I am not left speechless at the end of an episode, but I truly am after watching Drowning on Dry Land, all I can say is it thursday already!? I need to know what's going to happen now...

This friday I thought my new groovy laptop (with a screen that doesn't flicker and a dvd drive that actually works!) might be arriving, but it didn't so I've got to hold out till next friday, damn I was kinda looking forward to that!

So what am I up too? Bored, sat here listening to Charlie's Angels soundtracks, after watching Full Throttle last night, realized I wanted a copy of the soundtracks, and they kinda make me want to dance, but I won't cuz I can't dance, and I only dance after having consumed unspeakable amounts of alcohol!

Argh, I feeling a tad depressed must be the fact that I've been listening to acoustic/indie songs for the past few days, got to put a damper on the spirits but then the songs are so beautiful I can't help but listen to them, what a vicious circle! I remember when I was writing my essay I put on Keanes new album, and I couldn't get further than a few songs because I was totally focusing on the lyrics and how depressing they were...ah speaking of essay I have a tutorial for my essay on Thursday which I don't want to go too, as I hate getting results, ah I have to go though...cuz I want to know, bah! I hope I did okay, a 2.1 would be good enough, I don't think it's the best essay I've ever written since I did have flu at the time!

I've started reading this book called 'Blindsighted' by Karin Slaughter, it's pretty gruesome at first I was questioning how my friend could read such novels, but now I am getting into it, I want them to discover who did it...and on the topic of books, May should be the new release of Kelley Armstrongs new books :-)! Woot! I am very looking forward to that! And May is Spiderman 3, I don't know what it is but I have an unhealthy obsession with Spiderman...god help me!

Mmm so I was meant to be going to a kick arse gig tonight, but instead I opted out because I am avoiding a certain someone and I know if I went it could only end badly, only problem is can't avoid them for ever, right!? So what am I going to do tonight now!? Probably read loads of greys anatomy fan fiction, as I just discovered a community for it and its pretty cool, I've been a fan of greys for ages now and I can't ever recall reading fan fiction before like last week, which is utterly bizarre...

What else, my computer is annoying me as always, first it won't burn dvds and now the battery power last like about 3 minutes, which is rubbish, so basically i've got to constantly plug it in if I don't want to be cut off...also I started reading a really gruesome book yesterday, its about a murder/rape case, so I am sticking to just reading it in the day, as I know I'll get nightmares otherwise!

And ah I've only a week left of my reading fortnight and i've literally achieved nothing in the past week, i've heard back from three placements that i applied to out of 10, and only 1 is possible considering me, work experience sucks, companies always say no, you'd think they'd say yes to unpaid work, but obviously not!

Also I should be working on a v-day scheme for the addicted and also a fab new rpg that we have coming up which will be totally awesome, it incorporates all the shows, so there will be a Seattle grace hospital fun! so I will now shamelessly plug my forum, so it might be seen by those who stumble across this journal...http://www.the-addicted.net/forums

And just one more thing, I'll probably watch Grey's alot today lol! I was in teeline the other day (which is extremely boring!) and we were talking about TR blends, but then my mind just drifted to T.R Knight and then greys, haha I seem to relate everything to Grey's now days, it's taking over my life lol! I can't do anything when Grey's on, it's not an option I have to watch it!