Me,My Life & I

Hey all, hope you're well. Today was majorly uneventful so there's nothing really to report.

Basically today was spent doing the history work thats to be completed for Friday and then freaking out about drama for the rest of the time. NOT FUN.

Alongside the fact that Ms. Lundy has shoved a bunch of younger kids in the lighting box with me for the show tomorrow, it turns out they don't even know what they're doing, and so today was spent teching everything all over again in order for them to pick up the cues. Therefore, I have no job left. Nice. I'm still gonna go down for my bow though.

The show is tomorrow, and so far, nobody seems to know what they're doing.....this is going to be a mini disaster. I bet you this time tomorrow all will be fine, but currently it just doesn't seem like it's going to come together.

Oh well. They'll clap no matter what, so I'm just counting down the hours till the show is over and I can rest easy.

This time tomorrow we'll know the outcome! Oh! Speaking of outcomes! I don't know if I mentioned this yesterday but I got my media appeal so now I have AAAB instead of AAAC

Woop!

Moment of the day:Watching White Chicks at Kirsty's
Question of the day:Best kind of pizza? (we're ordering into the school tomorrow because we're not leaving before the show and I'm trying to decide what to get)

Until next time

Megan x

http://www.tangle.com/view_video?viewkey=849dc7c803281df74bb2

A little skit I found that really spoke to me tonight about particular things I'm feeling.

Everyone feels this way sometimes, and I'm sure if you watch it through, it'll speak to you aswell.

Until next time

Megan x

Hey all, hope you're well. Today I noticed some strange, but in most cases frustrating, things.

1. Bus Etiquette
Why is it that on a bus, people shy away from you when you sit next to them if you're a teenager? I've done an entire post on this in the past, check it out if you want my full opinions on this.

2. Queue jumping done by your superiors
Why does the headteacher feel it's ok to skip the entire queue of people waiting to get a snack, even though she's not got a class starting in ten minutes that she has to hurredly throw the food down her throat for.

3. People being entirely unsatisfied all the fucking time!
I've lit and teched and worked my arse off for my AH group, and today I felt entirely taken advantage of as a number of them decided it would be effective to shout things at me when I was busy trying to do three different things at once. All because they didn't feel I was doing it quickly enough. Well excuse me, but I was working without a cue sheet or a script in front of me, on technical I had NEVER done until that point. That's just underappreciation. Not as if I've stayed like an extra three hours every day for the past week to light all of your plays or anything, not as if you've all fannied about every time we've had a rehearsal for my play. Seriously, I think we might have killed each other by Thursday night. Cannot wait until this unit is over now, not least because I hate my play.

4. UCAS
Stupid,stupid UCAS. And personal statement - I don't know what the hell I'm doing!

Moment of the day: Watching Chloe's play all the way through and seeing it go well
Question of the day: The way you effectively deal with individuals who are causing you intense unneccesary stress, when talking to them about it will cause an argument of the ages.

Until next time

Megan x

Hey all, hope you're well. I'm doing good but seriously think I'm suffering from insomnia. I haven't slept properly in weeks and this past night just got to sleep at about 6.30am, when i was getting up at 7.30. Needless to say I was a bundle of joy today.Anyway, I've got a few questions for you...

For those of you who are not baptised or do not follow a faith
From (for want of a better term) an 'outsiders' perspective, how does Baptism sound and look to you. I mean baptism as an adult or teen, not a baby. What do you think it represents and do you think it's a strange practice? Your general thoughts on it?

For those of you who are baptised
What did you do in the lead up to it to prepare yourself,anything different from usual or?

The reason I ask these things is that I lately decided to get baptised and really am just trying to figure out what I'm going to do with myself spiritually in the run up to it, maybe so that I'm in a strong enough place to be able to give my testimony at the service.

So I was just wondering on your general opinions on Baptism.

Moment of the day: Becca: How nice a name is Sanna? Megan: What,like,Sanna-wich? (I don't think she heard me though so SHHHH!)
Question of the day: Do you know of any songs with lyrics fitting to baptism that I could reflect on?

Until Next Time

Megan x

Hey all, hope you're well. I'm doing good but have an INSANE amount of work to be doing and my play goes on on Thursday and I don't feel that it's nearly ready enough. But hey, there's a few days of rehearsal left yet, so, the show will go on.

So today was harvest sunday in my church and as is usual at this time of year we got to focus a little on how lucky we are compared to some. I think thats a little untrue sometimes, I mean just because we live in a western country, doesn't mean there aren't people starving. But anyway.

My attention was brought to something I have never even thought about before. In some places that are currently involved in conflicts or have been recently, the fields that would have once been  used for farming are now riddled with landmines and bombs, just waiting to go off if the workers ever dare try to work the land, which is most times the best fertile land for farming.

Now it strikes me that this is a disgusting thing for any country to inflict upon another. As if death in the actual fighting isn't bad enough, or if fighting occurs within a country by people of differing opinions, they have to add to the civillian casualities by intentionally leading to them practically starving. It's clearly intentional and very disgusting because a country will of course not surrender in a war situation because of the welfare of its people, if that were the case wars would never be fought in the first place.

It just made me sick watching video footage of bomber planes destroying crops and farmland and putting farmers lives in even more danger.

Ah what a mess we've gotten things into.

Moment of the day: Watching X Factor with Mum
Question of the day: What was responsible for the collapse of the provisional government in russia in 1917!? This history essay is driving me mad!

Until next time

Megan x

 

Hey all, hope you're well.

Nothing to report today,except I'm currently KINDA drunk for the third saturday in a row.
That's not a good thing,A. because it's draining me of money and B. because it's fattening!
Not that there wasn't reasons: Week 1-hen night. Week 2-Birthday. Tonight-Wedding.
It's just not really that good,considering I'm 17.

btw

NOTE TO SELF: DON'T DRINK WINE. IT DOESN'T AGREE WITH YOU.

So there we have it DAY TWENTY TWO

No moment or question of the day because I can't be bothered. I really only done this post so I can keep going with this daily blog thing.

Until Next Time

Megan x

Hey all, hope you're well. I'm feeling ill again,but hey,what's new there. It seems I'm actually feeling well less of the time than I feel ill as of late. But today brings good news!

THE PURPLE DRESS FINALLY FITS ME!

I bought this fantastic purple dress for taking to Paris with me earlier in the year, and at the time it didn't close. It was the only one of it though and was a great price (I won't even tell you how cheap!). It really was too pretty to miss and so I bought it with full intentions of slimming down to fit into it for October.

The past few weeks I've been trying to be healthier and slim down to try and fit into it and low and behold,after not that much effort on my part I must say, it finally fits! It sits nicely and despite the zip being one of those buggering tiny things that always get caught at the seams, it's going to be great fun wearing it in Paris.

Now to keep the weight off and slim down a little more.

Moment of the day: The zipper sliding into place on the purple dress
Question of the day: Favourite TV show that's currently started/starting back?

Until next time

Megan x

Hey all, hope you're well. Today was a good day. Drama performance is coming together and I'm starting to actually enjoy Advanced Higher English. I've reaaaaaally got to get a move on with the Adv Higher History work though. Anyhoo, my thoughts for DAY TWENTY!

Well today I realised, isn't it sometimes a bit of a turn off when products say 'no added colours'. I mean, take coke for example.Do you really want to know that the natural colour of the drink is that dirty water brown colour? I mean really?

And the same goes for various foods and drinks, list some in the comments if you like.

It's enough to put you off sometimes.

Anyway, that's it for today because I'm rather shattered from drama rehearsals that lasted until SIX OCLOCK! Seriously, school finishes at half three! Can people not work a bit quicker than that!?

Moment of the day: Ms. Lundy telling me my work was good
Question of the day: Most awful coloured food and drinks that say 'no added colours'

Until next time

Megan x

Hey all, hope you're well. Me too. DAY NINETEEN

I have nothing to report today - except that I'm currently terrified because my show goes on a week tomorrow and I've not had nearly enough rehearsal time with the actors. I was trying to rehearse today but then people who were playing with the lights kept leaving us in blackout and then wouldn't come down to rehearse the movement piece. Nobody has any idea what they're doing and it's slightly worrying. I'm really gonna have to push for a full rehearsal next week.

Aside from that, nothing to report.

Moment of the day: Getting home at the end.
Question of the day: What do you do when you're stressed but stuck in a working environment? Like when your head feels ready to explode in school for instance?

Until next time

Megan

Hey all, hope you're well. I disovered today that there's a feeling I sometimes have, a very paticular feeling that I've not been able to detect the root of until today.DAY EIGHTEEN:

Well I've noticed on some days that I have this strange little feeling niggling in the back of my brain. It's not the kind of thing that you're always aware of, more the type of feeling that if you're just off in a wee daze thinking about stuff, you're likely to notice.

I think the root of it is this: I'm kind of always a bit sad when one of my friends is missing from the daily mixture at school. Today one of my friends wasn't there and I distinctly had a sinking feeling in my stomach this morning when I realised that was gonna be the case for the day. It's like, when we're all together at once we have such a good time but if any one person is missing from the mix, we aren't a full group, and to me its a noticeable loss, even if it's just for a day.

It kind of feels like there's a little hole somewhere, a friend shaped and unique hole that only the person who isn't there can fill. I realised today that we each bring something different to my group of friends,and that we work well together. We gel great, unlike some groups of 'friends' in the school, because we're honest and don't take things too seriously. You can always have a joke in my group, but be assured that if its needed, serious conversation will be there.

You might think I've been posting a lot about my friends as of late, and it's true, I have. But that's because this blog is a reflection of whats going on in my mind, and it just so happens there's been a lot of little things over the past wee while that have really just shown me and made me realise how big a part of my life my friends actually are. Call me soppy, but I really do need them and therefore miss their presence a lot whenever any one of them isn't there.

So, moment of the day: Billy Connolly's performance at the Usher Hall this evening kind of blew me away.
Question of the day: Favourite comedian/s?

Until next time

Megan x

 

Hey all, hope you're well. Not much to report today.

I spent the majority of the day in town with some friends, holiday shopping and generally having a good time until my feet started aching.

I discovered today that I can endure most things, but when my feet start to ache that's me - I'm in a bad mood. It's fine until you notice it, because once you've noticed it you can't not notice it, if you know what I mean? And all because I was trying to prepare myself for walking in heels in Paris.

On that note - it's less than four weeks to go, and I probably still don't fit into that dress [if anything, it's even less likely to fit me now. I'm kind of scared to try]. That means its mega excercise for me over the next four weeks, anything to try and slim me down. Swimming, yoga, sit ups, walking, cross trainer,dancing. Everything I can.

Wish me luck. Oh also, any reccommendations for excercises that burn fat quickly?

Moment of the day: The discussion about noses and elbows on the bus home from town
Question of the day: The form of excercise that least irritates you?
Day's until Paris: 24?

Until next time

Megan x

p.s - we're on DAY SEVENTEEN

 

 

Hey all, hope you're well. I'm fantastic, but utterly shattered. My 17th Birthday was so enjoyable and I can't even put it into words. Therefore, I'm just gonna list the most memorable bits.... (in no particular order btw, just as they come to me. Comment with any I've forgotten):

1. All the singing along to various songs
2. Particularly all the Taylor Swift sing a longs
3. The numerous 'performances' me and Jamie done
4. Taking lots of photos
5. Jamie:"Polly put the kettle on my vodka"
6. Hoedown Throwdown (i know haha)
7. Jamie (about to down his drink): "To nicola and ella who are no longer with us"
8. Our wee Jacko memorial/tribute
9. The Way You Make Me Feel......as made famous by Megan and Jamie
10. Thriller....as above.
11. Realising that we're going to see Taylor Swift on a TUESDAY night
12. The failed attempt to play cards
13. Jamie asking me if I felt like I had to hold back because everyone else was drinking - just to make sure everyone was alright. That made me LOL. Since when was that ever the case
14. The walk to Ashton's and back
15. The chats at the end of the night
16. The webcam picture
17. The games me and Jamie played on msn till twenty to six :O
18. The fantastic happy birthday sing song and present I got from my work - they're awesome!
19. Looking through the pictures today and realising how much fun I actually had last night
20. Spending some quality time with mum and going to see Julie & Julia

Overall this birthday was fantastic and for definate my favourite one ever. I knew that I didn't have to plan a big 'do just to celebrate my birthday because I knew that if I just got my friends together and put a bit of music on things would turn out interesting. 'Lo and Behold, my amazing friends proved me right and blew my mind with the antics last night/this morning. Love you all x

Moment of the day:Too many to count....the entirity of last night/this morning
Question of the day:Your best Birthday ever and why?

Until next time

Megan x

I just had the best night ever.
I intend to bring in my Birthday like this every year from now on.
Love you all x

Hey all, hope you're well. I'm much better, although after waiting a week for my headache to go away (which it did yesterday) I went into work and got hot and dehydrated that I ended up with another one! Just my luck. Aside from that today was a good day. By the way, no particular reason for the title of today's post, I just like the song.

I feel very loved, and slightly embarrassed after a lovely encounter at work today. When we do birthday parties at Build A Bear we have this bell we ring to get everyone in the shop's attention to sing happy birthday to the birthday person. Well as its my birthday tomorrow my fellow bear builders decided it would be funny to grab me and ring this bell just as I was about to finish, encouraging the whole store to sing happy birthday to me. It was a bit embarrassing at first but once I got over that, it felt really nice.They presented me with a card and gift, which I've not opened yet. Got to love the OT Bear Builders x

So I'm gonna reflect a little on what the last year has taught me. Basically I think I've matured more over the past year than I have ever before, I've learnt a lot about myself and know myself,my opinions and my dreams and fears better than I ever have. I've got a clear path I want to follow for the next few years and I'm content with pretty much every aspect of my life.(Can you tell I'm on a happy today )

I'm posting this now because I don't think I'll get the chance to do it later because I have friends coming to bring in my birthday with me. But anyhoo, I'm feeling happy today.

Moment of the day:The happy birthday chorus from my bear building friends at work.
Question of the day: What's made your day a happy one today?
My Answer:See above.

Until Next Time

Megan x

Hey all, hope you're well. I'm feeling pretty much better, minus still feeling a little bit sick and the occasional sneeze. Today I spent some time getting my head around some stuff and I'm feeling all fresh, so here we go, DAY FOURTEEN. .....wow,two weeks of blogging every day alread....

So firstly and most importantly, I started a fresh with God. It's been kinda quiet between Him and I as of late, and today I was sorting through some old papers and found all my old sermon notes. Looking over them I realised that as of late there's really been something missing in my faith, and coming back and surrendering it all to God again today brought back that feeling that I was missing. So, good stuff on that front.

Secondly, I refreshed my room. It was in need of a good gutting out and a scrub down, and so today I decided to rearrange everything and chuck out everything that wasn't needed. It took like four hours, but eventually I got there. It was kind of theraputic, throwing out things that I've kept for ages for comfort, and that I really don't need any more. It made me feel as though I'm free to start collecting memories afresh, instead of harbouring the bad feeling that's built up over the past two and 3/4 years. I love the feeling of having more space - it makes me feel like I can think more and relax more and generally just have more space to breath.

Thirdly, I refreshed my attitude to the hair situation. Over the past week its gotten progressively worse up one side of my head, and that pissed me off. But ultimately, I realised today, it's probably not one of those things that's just going to go away. It's going to stick with me and keep testing me so the sooner I come to accept it as a part of who I am, the better. It's a horrible thing that often makes me feel horrible about myself, but I have come to fully realise that it is a part of me, it's not something foreign and outside my contorl. Yes, I can't control how it goes,what comes out or when, but I can control how I let it effect me. And I realised today that that's the key word LET. If I let it turn me into an unconfident [is that even a word?] shadow of myself, it's won, if I don't,it becomes only something that effects my appearance.And after living with this for almost three years you come to realise that appearances really aren't everything.

So then, today was a good day. I'm feeling positive and like I'm on the verge of a new chapter. I'm away to watch Watchmen:Tales of the Black Freighter and try and fix the bushyness of my hair so that I don't have to wash it again in the morning. Why do I always sit with a towel on my head for a ridiculously long amount of time before I decide I want to dry it? I never learn.....

Moment of the day:The completely calm feeling I had after clearing my head,my heart [spiritually], and my room up.
Question of the day: What do you do to calm you down, or make you feel chilled out?
My Answer:Clear out old stuff.....I can only do it when a certain mood takes me though.

Until Next Time

Megan x

Hey all, hope you're well. I'm finally actually starting to feel a bit better - it seems that a bit of fresh air today done me good.

This afternoon I ventured out to Dundee with my AH drama class to go and see Anton Chekhov's "The Cherry Orchard". For the course we need to have studied two live productions by particular playwrights and directors in order to write about them, and also to put the director/actor theory we see on stage into practise in our own practical exams. So I couldn't miss it as it was required, even though when I woke up this morning I really did not feel like going.

Interesting to note is the way the sad and tragic tone that this play adopts, despite the humour and farce it contains. Yes there are sad elements, but I found it overall to be pretty entertaining and so questioned the sad tone a little. I did read though that when Stanislavski directed this he directed it as a tragedy, and that Chekhov was not pleased about this at all due to the comedy it contained. Since then it seems directors have always had to either walk a line or choose between directing it in a tragic or comedic fashion.

As my first experience of Chekhov, I found it to be very enjoyable and definately worth seeing if you get a chance.

The downsides of today were the severe nausea that running for BOTH trains made me feel, and the lack of water I drank due to the fact that the trolly didn't come around.  But hey,I seem to be able to keep warm for more than ten minutes at a time now - so lets say that the more severe nausea is an improvement?

Moment of the day:Getting away with kids tickets on the train by convincing the ticket man we were going to see Alladin
Question of the day:Favourite show you've seen in the theatre,and why?
My Answer: We Will Rock You.....It's the most electrifying show I've ever seen on stage.

Until Next Time

Megan x

Hey all, hope you're well. I'm getting there. Another pretty uneventful day. I basically done nothing except watch Dirty Dancing so I guess I'll talk about that.....

DAY TWELVE

Dirty Dancing is a film that for everyone of a certain age or older brings fond memories. For me, I remember it being the first time I thought a movie character was just too cool. The character of Johnny was rough and talented and brave and many other things that as a young girl, I wished I could hurry up and grow up and meet. The character of Baby, on the other hand, has always,always infuriated me. I think the first time I watched this, it was still rated a fifteen,and it was the second fifteen rated film I ever watched. I loved the music especially, and to this day have a cd with the soundtrack on it. The romance of it was every girl's dream and I don't know what it is, but in everything I've ever watched since then, the bad guy has always been the one I've found most attractive. There's no point beating around the bush - Patrick Swayze had one good looking body in that film, thereby providing another reason to watch :))

So then, upon watching it again today, after the sad news earlier this week of Patrick Swayze's passing, brought back many fond memories. But this time around it also held a much more significant message for me. This is a coming of age story, told through a girl learning to dance. I might not be learning to dance, but I most definately am learning.

It seems that Patrick Swayze was a talented and strong man, but at the same time very graceful and loving. I like the way Jennifer Grey put it: "a rare combination of raw masculinity and amazing grace." So, RIP Patrick Swayze.

One final note - I now really want to learn to dance properly! Any takers?

Moment of the day: Realising I can still basically recite the entirity of Dirty Dancing.....call me sad.
Question of the day: What are your childhood memories of Dirty Dancing?

Until next time :wave:

Megan x

Hey all, hope you're well. I'm getting there but overall, still feel rather shit. DAY ELEVEN.

Not much interesting happened today - except I came to feel physically sick at the mere thought of even looking at another lemsip.
Ooh! And I watched Inglourious Basterds! Great stuff - check out my review if you have any interest. I might do a follow up post once I get round to watching it again, there really is that much to talk about.

So due to the fact that I'm feeling increasingly bored and upset with the lack of progress in any area of my life as of late, I thought I'd list all of the interesting things that actually are coming up in my near future.

1. 19th September - Drinks with friends to celebrate my birthday
2. 20th September - My 17th Birthday
3. 22nd September - Going to see Billy Connolly
4. Sometime after the 25th of September - Going to see the newly vamped up version of Fame
5. 1st October - My play's debut at school
6. 3rd October - Stirling Uni Open Day and Disney Birthday party with work
7. 7th October - Robert Gordon Uni Open Day
8. 9th October - Go to Bradford for the Co-operative Young Filmmakers Film Festival to have our media film screened
9. 14th October - Abertay Uni Open Day
10. 15th October - House Music Competition
11. 16th October - Fly out to Paris. Fashion Show at Galleries La Fayette
12. 24th October - Fly home from Paris
13. 18th November - Maybe go down to London with Kirsty and Jamie and others for some open days
14. 24th November - Down to Manchester for Taylor Swift concert
15. 25th November - Delirious? concert

Thats it for now - and its scaring me how much money I could've saved if I'd not planned to do a lot of these things! haha. There's a couple of plans in the making for December, but that's enough for now. I like having a busy life and I tend to get by by planning one event to the next. So amongst all of that and then trying to study for my classes, its kind of a lot that's gonna be coming right at me. Ummm....yay?

Moment of the day: Finally finishing watching Inglourious Basterds
Question of the day: Favourite Quentin Tarantino film, and why?

Until next time

Megan x

Hey all hope you're well, I'm still battling the flu. But being off school ill does have its benefits - the main one being I have some free time to feed my movie/tv habit. Today's illness was made easier by the watching of Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds. Here's some of my thoughts....

Well to put into words everything this movie made me think about, and what I thought about everything in this movie, would be impossible. I'm gonna have to watch it at least one more time to get my head around it all. So this is just gonna be some basic first reactions.

1. It's funny. Very,very,very dark humour. But humour none the less. Its in this humour that I recognised Tarantino, because the rest of the aspects of this film feel very different to his previous work. 2. It's cast perfectly (even Eli Roth!). Brad Pitt plays Aldo Raine perfectly. Others have argued this is not true, as the accent is awful and the delivery exaggerated. But to me, that's the way this character is supposed to be - a complete caricature.Pitt pulls it off perfectly, and seems to have an intense amount of fun doing so. Christoph Waltz though was my favourite of the cast - he stole every scene he was in and despite the subject of most of his conversations being grim, he was to me perhaps one of the funniest characters to watch. Very creepy, but hilarious also. 3.It's just the right amount of violent. The violence comes out of nowhere sometimes - I was quite worried about watching the scalpings, but when they first happened I didn't even realise that they were happening. However, the film focussed a lot less on violence than the marketing made it out to be and it was no way near as ridiculously exaggerated as the violence of Kill Bill. 4. It's perfect in length and timing. The director makes great use of suspense more than once. Infact the opening sequence just serves to make you extremely uneasy. I mean twenty minutes of pure, uncomfortable dialogue, when you just know that something bad is going to happen, is pretty stomach churning to sit through. The memorable Bear Jew scene, the one with the bat, is another example. The drawn out entrance of Eli Roth was fantastic, the use of POV shots of the victim, the music, the banging of the club. All of it, great. Overall this is a long film when you look at the running time, but despite the lengthy dialogue, multiple stories, multiple languages and everything else, it never once seems slow. The pacing is perfect and two and a half hours fly by.

Now then, the morality of it. Detatch yourself for a minute from the fact that this deals with what is a touchy subject for all of us. Upon first looking at it, this film is a simple good guy vs. bad guy thing. However, having detatched yourself from the fact that the good guys are the american-jewish soldiers, and that the bad guys are the nazis, look at what the supposed 'GOOD GUYS' are doing. They ruthlessly kill soldiers who,when it comes down to it,are only doing their own jobs. The exception to this is Landa who is a cowardly son of a bitch if ever I saw one. The point where this whole moral situation really came to the forefront was when the 'Bear Jew' killed the german soldier with the baseball bat. He got his life ended in a disgusting and low way, basically for being brave. He refused to give up his fellow soldiers, knowing that he'd be killed for doing so. Then look at the end of the film, they've locked their targets in a building and they burn it to the ground. Now then,is that not mass murder in the same way the soldier who killed 300 Russian soldiers had done it? By the end of this film, Tarantino has made you doubt your definition of morality,and I admire that. Is it ok for the Basterds to murder a nazi soldier,bearing in mind the nazi has himself killed people. No, when it comes down to it,its not. Just because that man has done something evil, does not make the Basterds killing of him justified. And I think that's one of the points Tarantino was making, if you look past the immediate presentation of it.

Right, about the ending and the whole changing the course of history. People need to stop bitching about it! It was never going to be historically accurate and as the writer and director Tarantino has the creative liberty to do what he wants with his characters. To those characters, our past is their present. They are living in what is to us,already history, so they have no way of knowing how their futures are going to go. Therefore, the killing of Hitler is explained. Just because it doesn't stick to the history we know, does not mean its an impossibility, as the characters are experiencing things as they happen and carrying out their actions in their own present, if that makes any sense? I think it's pretty cool anyway - you think you know where it's going to go all the way through,as we know that Hitler didn't die that way. But then you get to the end and Tarantino goes ahead with it, it's pretty cool as he's turned your brain on you again!

Finally,the last line seems to echo Tarantino's own thoughts on this film: "I think this might just be my masterpiece". Whilst I'm not sure I agree with that, it is certainly up there with the best of his work. It's startlingly different to any WW2 film you'll ever watch, and manages to succesfully inject humour into what is a touchy subject to begin with. He makes no apologies and I love that. This is not a disrespectful piece at all, but it is pure entertainment, and people need to bear that in mind when going to see it. If it offends, then you've not got the right mindset about it. It's supposed to be an enjoyable film, nothing else.

After watching it again, I'll probably have another million things to say about it, but I really should stop now. Overall this film is really very good, and it seems that Quentin Tarantino has regained the flare that was there  in Pulp Fiction and Reservoir Dogs.

Overall I would definately give this 10/10. I need to rewatch it to take it in completely though.

Until Next Time :wave:

Megan x

 

Hey all, hope you're well. I'm not. DAY TEN.

The day started off badly - slept in, still had the headache from friday and was feeling ill before I even set foot out the door. However, bearing in mind that I have a lot of days off coming up, I figured I should probably give school ago. Y'know,attendance and all that.

Drama - done nothing but sit and chat. We made a rehearsal plan and a media list, but that's it. Oh btw - Thursday 1st  October - keep it free because you're all coming to see my play....if you could call it that. I won't be acting....much, but you can clap for my directorial debut!

So then,back to today. By the end of drama the head was pounding and I couldn't get myself to warm up. Not fun. I wandered for a bit,trying to clear my head but no luck was had and so I went to see about going home.

A nap and countless hot drinks later - not much has changed and despite wearing pajamas, a jumper and dressing gown, I still can't warm up :|

So then, part two - The VMA's. Everyone who won deserved the awards. I could've punched Kanye West through the tv screen though! Taylor Swift dealt with it admirably, I must say. If I'd been on stage in front of all those people collecting an award and someone came up, stole my mic and said I didn't deserve it, I would've found it pretty hard to stay calm.So anyway, the VMA's were good, though it seems the American's still don't get Russell Brand's humour. Ah weel. Highlight of the show - seeing the trailer for Michael Jackson's This Is It. Looks pretty interesting and I'm looking forward to it. October right?

And finally - I've started on Inglorious Basterds! I'm only 16 minutes in, but they've been pretty good so far. The things I've heard about the opening all seem to be true, and the anxiety is just building up - hence me not having watched the full opening sequence yet; I'm kinda scared of what's to come. But so far, good work. It has a totally different feel to his other stuff so far - in terms of the dialogue and the look. So I'm looking forward to watching the rest of it,if I can stomach it that is. I'll let you know tomorrow.

So, I'm off to sleep with a headache that is refusing to leave me alone. Hopefully tomorrow will bring better feelings.

Moment of the day: Taylor Swift getting her moment at the VMA's. And the This Is It trailer.

NEW BIT: Question of the day: Team Taylor or Team Kanye? Explain.

Until next time :wave:

Megan x

Hey all, hope you're well. I've not had a movie to reivew in a while, so I'm kinda happy to be doing this again, despite the subject matter.Here we go...

The long and short of it: Pretty bad film.

The long and well,long of it: It was still enjoyable.Here's why.

The film was bad. The way it was filmed actually turned the headache I went in with into a dizzy and pounding migraine. The frames just always seemed to be off, and I could never tell who's point of view we were meant to be seeing. The sound effects were ridiculous. The acting was awful, though I suppose that's part of the point. A little credit should go to Leah Pipes though, as bitchy head of the household Jessica - her comedic timing was pretty good and was what made me understand the tone they were going for. Finally, the thing that pushed this over the edge from bearable to awful was the humungus, startling and gaping plot holes. The reveal of the killer still makes no sense to me. So overall, I think we can be in agreement about the poor quality of the movie.

Now then, why I actually, in retrospect, still enjoyed it; It was funny. I think what makes this alright is the fact that it knows what it is. It doesn't try to shy away from the fact that its a clearly pigeonholed genre movie, and exploits the conventions to the max - steamy shower scenes, unexplained nudity, drawn out 'you think you're going to get a fright' parts, ridiculous music. However the deaths were what really made me laugh - and I think that was the intention. Unlike hostel and saw, the outrageous deaths here do not take themselves seriously. Its all kinda borderling shocking gore and farfetchedness - but it doesn't proclaim that its anything other than that. And the other reason I think it was intentionally funny and making kind of a mockery of itself, was the dialogue. In all seriousness,I don't think it's meant to be serious. Some examples:

Jessica: No one is dead....well Megan but....

It exploits pop culture, showing that it is clearly aware of its audience.

Jessica: Friend me on facebook. I'll totally confirm.

Jessica (sarcastically, as one of the other girls goes out into a typical 'get yourself killed' horror movie situation): Oh no, don't go out there. I tried to warn her.

Overall,whilst this is by no stretch of the imagination a GOOD film, it is enjoyable because it knows that and doesn't try to be anything else. Overall 5/10

Until Next Time

Megan x

Hey all, hope you're all well. Sorry for yesterday's rather unintelligable  post - I came in last night completely unaware of what I was doing, unable to type properly, and posted that little mess. I'm keeping it for memories sake, though I have cleaned it up so its actually readable. Here we are - DAY NINE.

Well I was really struggling to find something worth posting about today, and I didn't want to do a third pointless post in a row so was considering giving up this personal challenge. However, a little while ago that all changed due to an unintentional phonecall I recieved from Jamie. He thought I was calling him, I knew he was calling me - the result; a short conversation about pretty much nothing.

This made me think - its always the little things that make my day. I can get gifts, hear great news or do well at something, but ultimately, its going to be the nice thing I notice in someone else, or the personal joke, or the laughing about nothing that's going to make my day. Without fail.

So Jamie, if you read this, thanks for giving me something to blog about

Moment of the day - Sinking into my bed after an entire day of walking around in a completely sick feeling, sleepy headed daze.
I'm gonna stop the consecutive days without chocolate and crisps part now - it's making me feel worse about it all haha.

Until next time

Megan x

 

DAY EIGHT

I LOVE FACT THAT I CAN COME IN LIKE THIS AND MY PARENTS DONT GIVE A SHIT.

Until Next Time

Megan x

Hey all, hope you're well. I have a pounding headache so this is going to be short. But I did promise to try and blog everyday as long as it was feesible - so here we are DAY SEVEN.

Average day. English creative writing thing which I left due to cough illness cough.
Slept a little and then went to see Sorority Row - will post a review tomorrow probably.
I realised today that the formailities of school are really quite irritating. I mean if you don't feel like going to class,the teachers aren't going to suffer are they, its gonna be you. So why all the pressure. I know,its their job,but there'd be less stress all round if they all just backed off.
Thats really the only meaningful thought I've had all day.

boo for headaches.
cant be bothered with a moment of the day. and the diet did not go well today either - you probably could've seen that one coming.

Until Next Time

Megan x

Hey all,hope you're well. Today was alright,but dragged a bit. DAY SIX

Free periods first and second - done nothing.
Prom meeting at break - resolved some tensions and am now excited about picking location.

THE HIGHLIGHT OF THE DAY:
PARIS MEETING-3rd Period.
My friends and I jet off in about five weeks, so we were just getting together to discuss arrangements and the like. Talking through it all gets me excited every time we do it and realising that we'll only have 3 or 4 more of these meetings until we go made me ecstatic!

Got food fourth period. Then dramaramarama fifth and sixth. I was a nazi, then a russian spy, then a member of the IRA.
Oh the funs of pretending eh.

Good day. Apologies for short blog post - I have nothing of any real interest to report today. Seems I'm not that good at finding interesting things to blog about every day.

Hopefully something of some excitement happens tomorrow :)

Moment of the day - The bell ringing at the end of it. I officially hate Thursdays. Four free periods! That is just a drag really.
Consecutive days without crisps or chocolate - BLOODY PRINGLES! Grr. I'm crap at this diet thing :))

Until next time :wave:

Megan x

Hey All, hope you're well. Today has a few interesting things to report on so without further ado: DAY FIVE.

So today we our entire sixth year headed out to Glasgow uni open day. I'm not even applying to Glasgow - I just went for fun. Firstly, the experience of seeing just how BIG the uni is scared me;a lot. I felt so insignificant,and although I am looking forward to moving away, it did just make the whole prospect a lot more daunting.Secondly it made me worry a bit about how I'm going to feel when all of my friends are in different parts of the country. I mean as of late I've really been seeing how big an influence they are in my life, and how supportive and just generally good friends to me they are. I know we'll keep in touch, but the prospect of our times together being few and far between kind of hit me a little today.

I finally finished buying almost everything I need for Paris,clothes wise,minus one or two minor items that can be purchased later. So I felt good about that The diet now seems kind of pointless as everything I've bought new fits as I am, and really the only reason I'm trying to slim down is to fit into that pretty purple dress. Alas, the draw of wearing it on the streets of Paris is too much,so the diet will live to see another day.

Last notable thing of the day - my evening. I'd not watched Britney Spears' film Crossroads in years,and tonight I revisited it with my friends. It was enjoyable, more enjoyable though was the comradery whilst watching it. The jokes, the singing along, the pause half way through to go laugh at some misfortunate cats. All great fun. So much fun in fact,that it led to a headache I'd had all day finally buggering off. BONUS.

So;

Moment of the day: Kirsty[?]: "Jamie, have you found anything you like?" Jamie:"No,but I found this woman who smelt like Macdonalds,so I followed her for a while." LOL!
Consecutive days without crisps or chocolate: Still zilch. Would have been one - but I had some sensations whilst watching Crossroads. And I guess if you have a happy meal that kinda spoils the plan aswell.

All in all,a good day.

Until next time

Megan x

Hey all, hope you're well. After a good couple of days I'm suddenly feeling s bit pissed off, coupled with a side spilltingly hilarity at the drama of silly school politics. Let me explain.

Well, the thing that annoys me about high school is that when people have a problem or a differing opinion to other people  - they don't just come out and say it. If you do,and you're honest to people about your own opinion, people assume you're doing it to be horrible, akward, deliberately different to everyone else, that or you're being bitchy. Really,we all know honesty is the best policy,so why do people continue to carry on in this ridiculous manner? I mean we're in sixth year, I think we might have grown out of whispers behind hands and all that silly stuff. It gets to me when people can't just say when they have a problem - I'm not gonna be offended, everyone's entitled to an opinion right? I'm not a little girl thats gonna go crying to my mummy about it, I can take criticism.Just say it to my face and avoid bad feeling.

But childish dramatics aside, life is good. My friends happen to be the best people ever. I've been slowly realising over the last while just how supportive they are about everything. The situation I'm in, I need people who will be both honest and supportive, and in my tight knit group I've got that. I can trust them to be ok with it if I ever have to bring it up. spur of the moment, or if I'm having a down day about it all, I don't have to spell it out for them. Paris is going to be a fantastic time to get away and really get to know each other a bit better, I mean 24 hours a day in each others company is gonna do one of two things - drive you mad or make you waaay close. I'm thinking it's going to be the latter - we're kind of chilled out enough to know there won't be a problem if we let each other know if we're getting pissed off. GOOD TIMES AHEAD!

Mum and dad are getting on board with the uni situation, and I realise how supportive my parents are. They aren't pushy, they want whats best for me and work their socks off to provide it. We've never gotten any help with anything, everything I have they've provided for me and I love them a lot. I'll miss them when I'm away,but I honestly can't wait for some more independence and a little taste of the world.

So, I'm kind of on a happy, but at the same time my mood is being dragged down a bit by stupid school politics and the ridiculous way that things get entirely blown out of proportion in the world of teenage drama. But ah well, it'll pass.

Moment of the day - Laughing at Mrs Johnstone's ridiculous dealings with the AH Drama problem
Consecutive day without chocolate or crisps - ZILCH. (wheat crunchies were the culprit today :() I'll start on Thursday....:))

Until next time :wave:

Megan x

P.S - DAY FOUR! :)

 

Hey all, hope you're well. Here we go: DAY THREE.

Today was a good day.This time last year I was agonising over my first little written piece of theatre.The piece turned out awful and perfomance night was horrendous,but I learnt a lot about the whole process. This year we're doing it all over again, but bigger,better and with much higher stakes. So far my piece is quite stylised and hopefully will be interesting to watch, if not the most dramatic of little performances.

This whole thing has been a great learning curve for me, and I've recently realised just how much I do love directing. Nobody gets this because nobody really takes drama, its kind of just disregarded, but honestly both the experience of being on stage performing and seeing your work come to life on stage are great. I've found that the theatre and the stage is a bit like a language that must be learnt, interpreted and worked with for the message of a piece to come through. I enjoy the times when I'm watching MY work, my own images that I've had in my head come to life in this big, and often intimidating, space. It's like a canvas to an artist; I can place the actors where I want them, instruct them on delivery, light it and dress it and tech it exactly how I want. And as all of this happens it feeds the image in my brain, which helps interpret more of the language,so to speak, of the stage, which then feeds into my direction, and then back into my vision for the piece.Some of my favourite time is when everyone else is in a corner working and I'm just alone with the stage. I can walk it out, imagine the people, feel the lights and experience that so specific atmosphere that you get only in the theatre. It's something I can almost taste, seriously, getting my ideas out on a stage is the most theraputic and enjoyable thing to me. I love it.

And I think it boils down to this; no matter how you might mess up on the night, you've always had the process. You've had the tireless hours of rehearsals and the workshops and activities with your actors, working them and working them on characterisation and movement and trying to get people to understand the vision you have in your brain. Then even if on the night, it doesn't come off, you've always had that experience. It can never be taken away because you still, in your head, know EXACTLY what it was supposed to and would have been. A popular theatre quote is: "If nothing else, there's applause;like waves of love pouring over the footlights." And it's true, even if your own work comes off to you on the night as something short of what you'd visioned it, even if the actors mess up, or the cues are wrong, or any of that malarky, the audience will always appreciate and think on your efforts. And then comes the applause, and that indescribable feeling that nobody, unless they experience the stage in the way that we do, will ever understand.

But anyway, rant and weirdly loving feelings towards drama aside. Today I realised how much I love being in the role of director. This year I really am going to focus on sitting back from acting and putting 100% of my efforts into our directors theory and putting it into practise in as many ways as possible.

Moment of the day: The realisation that I actually am DECENT at directing for the stage.
Number of consecutive days without crisps or chocolate: Still ZILCH. (I had a muffin today...)

Until Next Time

Megan x

Hey all,hope you're well. So here I am, as promised: DAY TWO.

I discovered today that it makes me feel nice when parents say to their kids 'go give your bear to the lady,she'll stuff it for you' or 'the lady is just going to fill him up' or 'the lady is just going to check for you'. It gives me a fuzzy feeling, and I think this may be for a couple of reasons.

a) I'm only 16 and so someone refferring to me as a lady or a woman and not a girl makes me feel like I might just be getting somewhere
b) These people don't know me, they don't know my name or anything about me, but they say lady. They don't go as far as to find out my name, but they do go a little bit further than saying her, which makes it nice.

So yep, that made my work day happy as I noticed it properly for the first time today. Speaking of work - it's only September and we're busying up already, so much so that the shifts are flying by. I've noticed that a down side of this is that whenever you come to the end of your shift you always,always,ALWAYS without fail get roped into something just as you're heading for the door through to the back. I now understand why shops take on Christmas temps....in October.

In other news, my head is frying with all the Uni stuff I'm trying to sort out. I've got the grades to hopefully be accepted for some interesting courses, but not the grades for THE course that I wanted to do. If my media appeal comes back positive then hopefully that'll change everything, but for now, I'm trying to consider all the other options and it's making my thinking slightly overactive and far ahead of itself. It seems that everything is suddenly moving pretty fast, and that before I know it I'll be out there on my own. Now that excites me more than it scares me, as I'm one for new experiences, but it is still daunting.

Noteworthy moment of the day - the happy feeling I got from FINALY being in church again.
Consecutive days without chocolate/crisps: ZILCH. (I gave in again today).

Well that's that.As you can see,these posts will just basically be a daily diary type thing - stuff that's going on with ME personally and not big issues or anything. I'll still do my usual posts if anything of interest comes up,they won't be included in these posts.

Well that wasn't hard.

Until next time

Megan x

Ok so I have of late become addicted to reading the blogs of some very interesting people who make it their work to blog everyday. I've found comfort in the everyday experiences they share and hope that if I try to share some of mines,even if people don't read it,that I'll be able to chill myself out a little and find a release for the wacky weirdness I often feel. So I'm setting myself a challenge - to blog at least once a day, as its feesible, for as long as possible. We'll see. Follow my adventures if you will. I promise to try and be interesting and witty, if you promise to read and share. Deal?

Bets for how long I'll last?

Until Next Time :wave:

Megan x

P.S - This counts as DAY ONE.

So my latest Whedon fix arrived. I watched the first couple of episodes when it was on tv, but decided to wait until the dvds because I like to watch tv series on dvds. Stay tuned for episode reviews, my general thoughts and so on.

Hope you're well and having a good week.

Until Next Time

Megan x

Hey all, hope you're well. I'm rather on time this month amn't I?! August was a good month as a whole and there's a few things to report, so without further a'do....

Exam Results

The 5th of Augsust was a day I was kind of looking forward to actually. I never understand this dreading your exam results thing. Once you're out of the exam hall. you can't change anything, so why not just be curious about what you got? I mean its never going to be the end of the world if you've done badly, its only a bit of paper pretending it can tell you how intelligent [or not] you are. But anyhoo.

I got an A for higher history, an A for higher english, an A for higher drama, a C for higher media [though I'm appealing to get that up to a B because I produced work worthy of more than a C over the course of the year] and then a D for higher maths, which I was expecting.  So overall. not a bad year

And then a fox stole my trainer....

I had two birthday celebrations this month. Both were fun and as always when with my friends,enjoyable. However on the night of our second celebration something really a bit strange happened to me. We were camping in my friend's back garden and I had gone upstairs to go to the bathroom. When I came back down everyone was laughing. I asked what had happened and was told "a fox just stole your trainer" I of course did not believe this,as who would expect it? But after a while realised it was true. Strange. What would it want with a shoe? I mean it was quite a new shoe, so smelled fresh enough So that was a bit of interesting fun....I didn't see it that way on the night it happened,but afterwards I laughed. So, anyone who lives in the area, if you see a fox wearing a collection of odd shoes, it was probably the one that stole mines. I have come to the conclusion that all foxes are thieves - I mean just look at Robin Hood!

U2

If you know me you probably know I enjoy the music of Bono and Co. And so you'll know that I was pretty chuffed to be going to see U2 this August at Hampden stadium. The show was amazing, the stage and lighting were just breathtaking, like extremely stylish and wonderful to look at. We got most of the new album, plus all the best of the old stuff, which I prefer. All in all a fantastic night. I would upload some video if I could be bothered.

The Fringe

I love Edinburgh during the Fringe Festival. A lot of native 'Burgers hate it because of the influx of people it brings, but I love the atmosphere and the general buzz that the city has this time of year. So, I got to see a couple of things this time round, but no where near as much as I would have liked to. I seen Forth Children's Theatre's production of Ragtime which was phenomenal. I saw the Sowetto Gospel Choir again this year, and they were fantastic, if not better than the first time I saw them two years ago. And then I saw comediens Craig Hill and Rhod Gilbert. Craig Hill was the funnier of the two, but I think that was because I could just relate a bit more to the Scottish humour. Overall a good festival this year, even if I didnt get up the Royal mile even ONCE! Fireworks on Sunday then it's all over for another year.

Back to School

I went back to school on the 19th of August and found out that Advanced Higher Media wasn't running. So now instead of sitting Advanced Higher media, Advanced Higher drama,higher french and Int 2 Spanish, I'm sitting Advanced Higher English,History and Drama.I really didn't want to sit three Advanced Highers, least of all Advanced Higher English because I suk at creative writing, I'm more a critical writer. But so far the courses are actually really enjoyable and I like the students and teachers on all my classes. Also this year I'm one of three heads of prom committee, so thats a bit of fun as I'm honestly the least likely person to actually have taken up that role, I just figured that I'd bitch about how much the prom was like something out of an American film if I didn't at least have my say. I'm also going to be Prefecting (after a bloody saga, but I'm NOT going into that). Finally, I'm also going to assist with our school's Youth Theatre this year, BYT, so that'll be some good directing experience. Overall, this year is set to be pretty enjoyable on all fronts.Oooh and wait! The film I done for higher media studies last year has been chosen to get screened at Bradford young people's film festival. So I'll be heading down there in October for a bit of fun with my fellow media people.

The Last Witch

So I went to see Rona Munro's 'The Last Witch' at the Lyceum last week. It was the first time I've ever been scared by a theatre show. The performances were great, and the woman playing the mother was outstanding - she had the best presence and just totally went for it. I enjoyed the dialogue, however the whole design concept was a little off to me. I didn't like what the director done with effects and felt that the ending was totally spoiled by the use of effects. Just because theatre has advanced and we have access to lots of new technology, does not mean that it has to be used at any given opportunity. However I enjoyed the show because it did stir up feelings inside me and it did terrify me, therefore, it must've been doing something right, right? It's sold out but if it comes again, do go see it.

Film and Television

Film:

The Ugly Truth - Good film, interesting take on the typical chick flick/rom com.

Orphan - Seriously creepy. But the twist is a bit off.

The Time Traveller's Wife - Very decent film, and pretty.

Tv:

True Blood - So good! Vampire Bill is TOO cool.I've fallen for these characters so much that I've ordered the first in the series of books that the tv show is based on, just to see how they compare.

Other than that, I'm just waiting for some box sets and for my autumn tv schedule to start. GOOD TIMES!

Quotability

Jamie - Who loves orange soda? Kel loves orange soda! Keenan and Kel, good stuff

Jamie - I look like a big pink fucking marshmallow! Whilst wearing Kirsty's jumper

Ned [17 Again] - I think our hands just made a baby. The epitome of geek,and I loved him!

Overall

Good month. Lots of happy goings on. Oh and I also went swimming in a PUBLIC POOL for the first time in nearly three years. Made me feel good and strong about this whole fekked up situation. I like it when I can feel like that. So yep, good times were had this month. This time next month I'll be MEGA excited about how it's only gonna be two weeks till my Paris holiday with mes amies. Coming next month; my birthday, billy connolly and other exciting things

Until Next Time

Megan x