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I was going to make a huge post about the latest episode, because I am having MIXED REACTIONS. But I think, actually, seeing as we're close, I'll just leave my reaction post until the series is over.

Only one episode left though! I CAN'T WAIT. (And then it will be all over, and I will have no idea what to do with my life anymore. Oh well, I'll cross that bridge when I come to it.)

In other Gundam00 news: did you see the new Tieria figurine?

THOSE HIPS. Seriously. Seeeeeriously. THOSE HIPS. His waist is smaller than mine! And I am petit, let me tell you (others might say short and unhealthily skinny, but I think petit sounds better~)
There's another new figurine that showcases Tieria from episode 8 of the second season, which, if you know what I'm talking about, is exciting.

I can feel Tieria fanart imminent. (Hahaha. As if it's ever not iminent!) But first I have to go home for the weekend and apologise for not being around for mother's day to my dear mummy.

So, I saw some things recently. They included, but are not limited to:

1. houses of 19th century prime ministers
2. Cloverfield

Cloverfield is goooood. I really enjoyed it. Now, I heard that opinion is split over this film, but it did it for me. And I think I got so much out of it because I'm familiar with New York. The whole hand-held camera style made it feel so real. Seriously. I wasn't just watching the film, I could smell it too. I could feel it. That's kinda cool. Also, films that show normal people's reactions to horrific events that they don't understand and have no control over. IT IS SUCH A FILM OF THE TIMES. If the monster wasn't an allegory for a terrorist attack, then I don't know what is. (50 years in the future, films like these will give people quite an insight into what the general consciousness is like at the moment.) So, enjoyable film. Did I mention it was kinda scary too?

Sadly, after that heady high. Yes I know, prime ministers' houses. I woke up on Sunday morning to find out that my throat didn't know what the hell it was doing. And today the illness has progressed. I still only really have a sore throat so far, but I'm at that kind of tired and achey stage too. Urgh.

In good news, who cares how ill you feel when there is GUNDAM?

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I just watched the first episode of Horne and Corden. It wasn't very funny at all. And the few parts that were funny were ruined by far too much laughter. It's a shame, because Gavin and Stacey is supposed to be very good (although I can't vouch for that because I've only seen one episode). Oh well, better luck next time, boys.

I did want to watch their new film, because the name is hilarious, but now I'm not so sure it will be worth it :(

Shame I'm not cool enough to own one.

Here's my song of the moment:

Dan Black - Alone
I will adore any song if it has a funky baseline. And those finger clicks just get to me in ways I don't quite understand.

Gundam day tomorrow. If the new episode doesn't contain naked Tieria in space, I am going to be extremely disappointed. Trans-amuuuuuu!

I've neglected this poor blog for a little bit. But sadly I can't attribute it to anything other than my love of procrastination. Hooray.

It's been lovely this weekend, hasn't it? Theresa and Colin came down for a bit. We went to the museum and saw some Egyptian mummies and shit ^_^b

I'm liking a few tunes at the moment, let me tell them to you. Warning: they're all catchy like VD:
1. Jack Peñate - Tonight's Today
Happy music. I like happy music. It sounds like I should be sitting on a warm beach somewhere.
2. Empire of the Sun - Walking on a Dream
My flatmate played it so much that it got stuck in my head like a bitch. Also, Empire of the Sun look like magicians. That's awesome in my book.
3. Peter Bjorn and John - Nothing to Worry About
I love the baseline. Simple yet effective.

Also, I got Franz Ferdinand's new album. It is glorious. This is the Franz I used to know and love, only this time they've found their electro side. I love their electro side.
Here are a few of my favourite songs:
Franz Ferdinand - Ulysses
- I'm sure I've pimped this song here before. But it demands pimping again.
Franz Ferdinand - No You Girls
- Why is their music always so sexy?
Franz Ferdinand - Lucid Dreams (album version)
- The album version is amazing, because, halfway through the song (4.45 minutes in, to be precise), they really let their electro side show. And it's wonderful. It's like being wrapped in a cosy electro blanket. The first time I heard it, I literally had to drop everything I was doing to just stop and listen.

I meant to post this on Saturday, but then I forgot >_>

A Valentine's related fanart (click for big):

Oh Tieria ;_;

Look what came in the post today :D

Now I am more poor, but also more happy.

Take a look at some of my favourite pictures:

The one in which Tieria and Lockon are making eyes at each other.

SOUBISOUBISOUBISOUBISOUBI

Once again, Lelouch proves that he is FABULOUS.

Patrick's expressions are absolutely precious.

I woke up to a hell of a lot of snow this morning. And it kept snowing all day! You know, I haven't seen this much snow since I was six years old. It was all quite exciting.

We are funny in the UK though, one little bit of snow and suddenly everything grinds to a halt! There were no buses running and only two tube lines. Commuting into work this morning was fun. Luckily, I live quite centrally so it wasn't too difficult for me to get in. But they let us all go home at lunch time because hardly anyone was there. Hooray!

So, we went and built snowmen in the park.

Snowball fight. That's our half-built snowman in the middle. But sadly, big boys came and kicked our snowman down. Goddamm ASBO kids.

I clearly was not thinking straight this morning, so I happily put on the most inappropriate footwear ever, then I wondered why it was so hard to walk in all the ice orz orz orz

Hi! I'm still alive!

So, I've been AWOL for a while, but that's mostly because I've been away for a couple of weekends, which makes me quite tired and lazy during the week too. Also, I bought myself a Nintendo DS, so that scuppered any remaining free time that I might have had.

I love my new DS though, it's my baby. And to top it all off, yesterday I ordered myself one of these. How cool is that? Now I'm going to be able to create funky electropop just like Daft Punk. If only I could buy some musical talent from amazon too.

Re my weekend, I went to see Theresa to get some bridesmaid dresses for her wedding. We found one after a day of traipsing around a million shops and taking my clothes off more times than I could count. The dresses are quite nice, but mine is going to have to be altered a lot before it will fit me. It turns out that we discovered that a 10 year old girl has a larger bust than me. Says the lady in the shop: "how about a padded bra?" Says I: "I'm wearing one right now T_T"

In better dress news, here's a photo of the dress that Mariya got me for Christmas.

Now I can be fashionable at work! And it keeps me surprisingly warm too.

And in final news: this trailer is awesome. I wish it was for a real movie.

I was boasting about finishing reading The Count of Monte Cristo and I showed my colleagues the next book I'm reading, which is also quite a hefty size.

My colleague: *holding the new book* Your last book was big and this one's thick too! You like a thick one don't you?
Me: Yes, I do like a thick...
Me: ...
Me: I ran straight into that double entendre, didn't I?

Hi all!

Did you have a nice Christmas? I hope you did. I had a good time. And I got some nice presents, such as: The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins, a lovely dress from Mariya, and a Gorrilaz artbook :D

Hopefully I'll take a photo of the new dress soon, when I wear it, because it's too cold to play dress-up right now. I've also got to show you photos of my sexy new boots and skinny jeans that I got in the sales. Finally I am fashionable again! And finally I can dress like Allelujah!

Before that, let me show you some photos of my Christmas:

This is the sole Christmas decoration in our flat. It was cheery before, but now it's kinda dying, after I tried to look after it with my green fingers of death.

Christmas at my parents' house.

Christmas dinner at my parents' house.

After the family Christmas, I went back to London do see Nick, Linda and Steve who came to visit. It was flipping cold the whole time (it still is in fact). We did lots of fun stuff like bowling, walking in a cold park, eating curry, and seeing MAJOR CELEBRITY Tommy Walsh from Ground Force in a pub.

We also had snacks in James' house and were able to behold Linda's stable thighs - they're so amazing at holding stuff. But not only that, Linda subsequently went to get her eyes lasered, and now she can shoot laser beams from her eyes like the X-men and can also swim in a graph!

Inside a pub, but not the one that contained MAJOR CELEBRITY Tommy Walsh from Ground Force.

We then had a look around the new Saatchi gallery, which is pretty nice. I'm not normally a fan of modern art, but the artwork there was all pretty interesting, and the wooden floors were good too. I mostly spent my time taking photos of stuff, while Nick and James spent their time comparing the genitalia on the various bodies hanging from the ceiling. Good times.

Other news of import:

I finished reading The Count of Monte Cristo! It was a rip-roaring read from the start to the finish. I highly recommend reading it if you fancy reading a tale of intrigue, adventure, vengeance and lesbians. I think I'm going to have to try my hand at The Three Musketeers now. Also, I still need to rewatch the count in a skintight flightsuit Gankutsuou like burning.

And then there were New Year's resolutions

My new years resolutions are:
1. Learn to play the piano - too expensive
2. Buy some boots and skinny jeans - completed in 2008
3. Start drawing Clematis again - oh God YES
4. Get a Nintendo DS - I'm not sure on this one. I don't know if I'd use it enough to warrant the initial outlay of cash, but if I did buy it it would help to KICKSTART THE ECONOMY

But my main resolution is a SRS BSNS kind of resolution. Let me tell you it.
Through my mental trials and tribulations recently, I've been trying to get my head straight. I wanted to work out what it is that I want from life, and how I can live with no regrets. The aim being that, when I come to the end of my days, I can look back on my life and be satisfied with what I've accomplished. And I've come to the realisation that what I really want is to make a mark on the people around me. If people can think of me with affection, then that's all I need. So, my resolution is to try to make at least one person happy each day. It doesn't have to be much, a joke, a friendly conversation, or even a smile will do. If each night I can tell myself that at least one person's day has been brightened, if only a little, by me, then I'll be happy.
I like this resolution. It's achievable and it makes me feel better. Feel free to use it for yourself if you think it'll help you too. I think focussing on the little pleasures of life may well be the way to go.

OK. After all that srs bsns, it's time for some good old...

FANART

Do you remember how I mentioned that Lockon likes wearing Rick Astley's clothes? Well, I just took that idea one step further, or, as some might say, one step too far. Click for big.

We're no strangers to love. You know the rules and so do I.

Hi all!

I'm sure you'll be glad to hear that I feel much more perky this week. I've got a lingering cough, but other than that my cold is over. Phew.
Immune system 1 vs Virus 0
Yeah!

Did you know, it's Christmas eve tomorrow? I've just been wrapping all my presents, and tomorrow I'm going to take them and myself off to see my parents. Ah, family Christmas...

Other events of some import:

1. I managed to drag my ill self to my work's Christmas lunch last Friday. It was pretty fun. There were balloons. We had to toast the Queen. And I swore at a stone lion. Good times. It's a shame I was busy trying not to cough on everyone's food though.

2. Nick and Lin and Steve are making their way to London next weekend. And James, but James lives in London so that doesn't count. We're going to have Christmas joy. I'm quite excited. I haven't seen these folks for months. Months I say!

3. I was sneakily installing my new Christmas present yesterday. (They were delivered straight to my flat from Amazon due to their size and consequent unwieldiness for train carrying.) I got some new speakers, which is ruddy nice, because my old ones were only working intermittently, and that's no way to listen to music let me tell you. I've been breaking the new ones in by mostly listening to Ulysses by Franz Ferdinand. Remind me to add their new album to my list of things I need. I've never quite stopped loving Franz Ferdinand ever since I first heard their debut album all those years ago. It was a beautiful thing. My taste in music has never been quite the same since.

See you when I get back from Christmas fun. Hopefully with some Christmas photos to show you. Have a good Christmas guys!

Things I have been doing recently:

1. Trying not to hack up a whole lung
2. Taking lots of paracetamol
3. Trying not to collapse at work

I hate you, winter.

THINGS I NEED TO OWN:

1. CLAMP Code Geass Artbook

2. Yun Kouga Gundam00 Artbook

asdfghasdfgasdfgasdfg I can hardly contain myself.

Right, this post is weeks overdue, but better late than never.

Firstly though, I have to tell you some things that happened to me this week re literature:

1. I got given a book at work. This is awesome. Proper hardback too. I had to declare it to the higher-ups so that they can check that it's not a bribe. Hardcore.

2. Also at work, I was talking to Megan about books, at which point one of us said "hey, have you read Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell?", at which point both of us exclaimed, "OMG I love that book!" I am insufferably happy now I've come across another fan. She won't be back at work until next Wednesday, but I'll make sure to corner her for some more fangirling when she is.

3. I was reading some more of The Count of Monte Cristo on the train the other day, as I am often want to do. Now, the story is getting pretty climactic at the moment (1 revenge down, 3 more to go). The part I was reading was set at the opera. I didn't realise how much I was into the book until the mobile phone of the guy sitting next to me started to ring. "Pah!" I thought, "How rude! How dare he have his phone on while we're at the opera!" I then had to stop and realise that I was not, in fact, at the opera, but on a train, reading about people being at the opera. Whoa.

OK! Now onto:

Tales of Dublin

Dublin is a cool place because the traffic lights sound like space raiders. It's rather small as cities go, but it's a good place (if expensive). Hearing Irish accents all the time was rather jolly too. I had a nice old surprise when I realised that Irish people do actually talk about "the craic". All this time, I had just thought it was a stereotype!

Now, I have to admit that I was in Lockon mode while I was there. Well, who wouldn't be? You can understand my shock therefore, when I stepped off the bus and met Deborah. Deborah had a work-friend with her. She introduced him: "this is Neil."
I adghafghasdfghasfg-ed for a few seconds before Neil opened his mouth and I found out he was Scottish and not Irish. Oh well. You can't have it all.

Pictures:

Trinity College. You can see how beautiful the weather was while I was there. But, for some reason, it felt quite fitting.

Some stained glass, I don't know.

Next to a cash-point, I saw the cutest bin ever. He looked so happy!

The rest of the photos are stolen from Deborah. We went to see an exhibition about the history of Dublin:

WHAT THE HELL AM I WEARING. (It was so heavy.)

Scratch that, WHAT THE HELL IS DEBORAH WEARING.

Excuse me, sir. Did you leave this behind?

And then we came across one of those pictures where you get to stick your head through and look like you're a person:

Don't laugh. This is my actual height.

How cool are we.

Album cover version.