Distracted by shiny things

Yay! pornish_pixies is back!! I hope things will go back to normal soon, I am so proud of everyone working together and making sure we are heard. It is amazing. Yay Fandom, you are so amazing! Everyone should still join fandom_counts, even apart from the whole debacle it is pretty awesome to know how many of us there are. Join it! Even if you don't think you are in fandom anymore!

In other news. I am officially a slacker. :( Have done no essays this week. This is very, very bad as it means that I will need to write 4 in the remaining two weeks of term. Oh dear, only 2 weeks of term left. So sad. :( I should be planning my summer right now, and will do, just need to update first...

The reason for not working at all is that since last thursday I started doing lots of fun things. I finally went punting, which was hilarious as I really can't do it. Moving the punt in a straight line is pretty much impossible, so what we did was change the end from which we punted everytime we crashed into the bank or the bushes. Yay! Friday was a double birthday, so went out and had a really fun, if a tad alcohol filled night. Saturday was such fun, went to London for a fandom picnic with the london_t00bs and it rained. It was amazing, in the pretty park with ducks everywhere and soo much food and drink and proper picnic blankets and a t-rex cake. And then it rained and rained and rained. And because we are hardcore and not afraid of little rain we ran to hide in the bandstand, unfortunately that has no walls and a very high roof, so failed at protecting us from the rain. :( Eventually we gave up and went to son_of_darkness's house. It was such a fun evening, made funnier by the fact that while everyone else was getting progressively drunk, I was still feeling not too good from the night before and was therefore completely sober. It was so good seeing people again, I guess I won't be able to do so again until sectus which is actually getting quite close. Wow.

On Sunday I woke up, met with a friend and had lunch, then watched Pirates of the Caribbean and then had dinner. It was a good day. I want to talk briefly about pirates.



Then on Monday I proceeded to do no work whatsoever, went to meet a friend for breakfast, came back to college and went straight to Lunch, went out in the evening. Did anyone know that baby love bar has sex rooms?? (my name for them, but it is appropriate!) I had never noticed them before, for they are so hidden and private with many candles. I have so much wax on my clothes now. :( Tuesday was good, there was a chocolate fountain and yesterday I tried to finally do some work but ended up listening to arabic, indian and bulgarian music on youtube until 2 am with my tute partner. It was then that we gave up on writing the essay. oops. I want to do something tonight, but nothing is going on which is sad. I want to dance!

Fandom meet ups are love, a whole lot of love.

I met with sparksandclocks after getting lost in the tube and we got to the cinema where there were so many fandom people all dressed up it was amazing! The film the second time round was no less good, and seeing it with fandom people did mean my squee was nicely shared, though I didn't cry this time.

Then a lot of us went back to lazy_daze's and baleheadbabe's flat and it was the sort of night that you need to have been there in order to believe it. Very nice meeting everyone, have friended all I remember meeting. Love!

Me and Jodie left at about three and promptly got the bus on the wrong side of the road. Fun. She did realise that and we eventually (fourish) got back to her flat, which is all lovely and white. (jacinthsong, I have your Serenity poster, will have to rememeber to give it to you) And instead of going straight to sleep we talked until half six, which looking back was rather insane. Woke up at 2 this afternoon and got to Oxford just before 7, not sure where the hours went, but did not read any of the People's Peace on the coach.

Hustings for Academic Affairs officer were right after dinner, went okay, have a good chance of winning I think, would really love to do it.

Should sleep now, suprisingly not that tired.

I have given up trying to update properly, there really is too much to say.

The short version is that yesterday I finally saw Serenity (will talk about that later) with sparksandclocks, jacinthsong, chains_of_irony, bigfluffball, Alex and his friend whose name I don't remember, it was fabulous, we had labels and a guy sitting behind us was snoring all the way through the film, last past not so fabulous but worth mentioning. Before then there was a too short ou3fs meeting, there was a lot of squeeing and good ice cream and I went all shy and quiet which is very unlike me but never mind now.

I went to the Freshers fair and joined *everything* including the Harry Potter society, even if the people there were not very nice at all.

I also had a Toga Bop, which was really fun, everyone made an effort and afterwards we all went in our sheets to get a kebab outside Univ to the surprise of random passers by. I spend an hour thrying to make a borrowed sheet that turned out to be a curtain resemble a Toga and it did for about five minutes before starting to fall apart.

Today my parents visited and it was really strange seeing them, as everything here is like a completely different world, and mixing it all with the world outside is freaky. They did bring me a mini fridge though which makes me extremely happy.

The food here is atrocious, at Formal Hall today the vegeterian option was half an onion. There was a JCR meeting and half my friends became a rep for something or other, I hope the three food  reps succeed in reducing the amount of mushrooms and pepper in every single meal we have.

I am in love