Me,My Life & I

Hey all, hope you're well. Sorry for the gap in my writing. I'm in a slightly less crazy place than I was earlier this week, but I think as soon as I've not got my Paris adventure with my friends to distract me, I'll be back to this crazy,upset state of mind. Oh well, I'll deal with that when it inevitably comes.

My apologies for my lack of blogging.I've been more than a mess lately and blogging about it wasn't really very appealing to me. So now it comes to the night before I go away and I figured I should probably update you before I head away.

Basically I'm currently considering leaving school - no real reasons to stay,it's only adding to my stress. The only reason I'd like to still be there is to see my friends,and I'm gonna see them on nights out etc anyway so its not as if I'd never see them.I'm not enjoying my courses,don't feel any less stressed than last year and could really do with earning a bit of money to put behind me to take to uni. So I think I'm gonna leave and try and get some work for the coming year. So that's that. Thoughts?

In other areas, I'm completely torn between two universities. I'm going to apply to both along with some others, but if I get accepted to both I'm going to have a very hard job deciding which one to go to. It doesn't help that I've got one parent who's totally for one of the places,and one who's completely for the other. Decisions,decisions.

And now my dinner is ready so I'm away to eat and then it's off to sleep so I can be awake at the bright and early hour of THREE AM to head off on holiday with the one group of people actually helping to keep me sane right now. It's going to be a fun filled week in Paris! And it's all kicking off tomorrow when we head to a fashion show as our first outing in the city of lights. Wish us fun,and safety.

I'll be blogging about each day of the holiday once I get back, much like I did with my Florida holiday last year. So, faithful readers,you'll have that to look forward to,along with some MANY pictures.

Oh and before I go, for the first time in almost two years I didn't post a monthly round up at the end of September. Sorry about that, I'd been blogging every day and it totally escaped me until I really couldn't be bothered doing it.I'll shove any important September happenings into my October round up when it comes, along with September's quotability.

Have a good week everyone, and I'll see you when I return, if I return, from Paris.

Until Next Time

Megan x

 

I wish I could clear my mind enough to think of something other than this.
That way I could blog and let other stuff out.
But I can't,because it's all suppressed behind this stupid,stupid,stupid thing.
And I need to sort my head out because if I don't I don't know how to keep going.
Now would be a good time to step in and help me,God.

Lord I'm tired,
So tired from walking.
And Lord I'm so alone.
Lord the dark is creeping in,
It's creeping up, to swallow me.
I think I'll stop,rest here a while.

And this is all that I can say right now
And this is all that I can give.
And this is all that I can say right now
And this is all that I can give, and that's my everything.

Lord, didn't you see me crying?
And didn't you hear me call your name?
Wasn't it you I gave my heart to?
I wish you'd remember, where you'd set it down.

And this is all that I can say right now, I know it's not much
But this is all that I can give, and that's my everything.
And this is all that I can say right now, I know it's not much
But this is all that I can give, and that's my everything.

I didn't notice that you were standing here.
I didn't know that that was you holding me.
I didn't notice that you were crying too.
I didn't know that that was you washing my feet.

And this is all,this is all that I can say right now, oh I know it's not much,
But this is all that I can give, yeah that's my everything.
This is all that I can say right now, I know it's not much
But this is all that I can give,yeah that's my everything.
This is all that I can say right now, oh I know it's not much,
But this is all that I can give, yeah that's my everything.
Yeah that's my everything.
Yeah that's my everything.
Yeah that's my everything.
Everything.

x

All I Can Say - David Crowder Band

 

Hey all, hope you're well. How's the mouth Kel? I'm doing good and am majorly excited for my trip to Bradford to see my film screened in a film festival. But anyway,that's tomorrow. Today was a good day. Went to the Edinburgh College of Art Library to get some info for my AH English dissertation. Then headed back into school for dramaramarama. Just been to see the higher shorts and I must say that they were better than what we put on this time last year. Now for today's main news item....

I'm going to learn how to cook. I'll not be doing it every day because,y'know,time. But every so often I'll post a wee story about my needless to say, interesting, adventures in the kitchen. I figure I'm going to be moving away soonish,I'd better learn how to look after myself. That means learning to cook,clean etc. I decided to start with cooking because it's the most appealing......

Moment of the day: Drama shorts.

So my question to you today: Any beginners cookbooks you'd reccommend? Or recipes?

Until next time

Megan x

 

Hey all, hope you're well. I'm doing good, but am shattered. Kirsty and I went up to Robert Gordon Uni open day today. It was good, with some things being better than Stirling,others being worse. Overall I can't currently make up my mind between the two of them. I guess I've got some time.

So, today I thought I'd write about how much media is changing,particularly online media. We all get tv online now, whether thats through legal sources such as iplayer etc, or through illegal streaming. I'm trying to decide whether this is a good or bad thing.

Of course the internet allows for cult followings and fame to develop quickly. It provides a medium for shows that might not have anywhere else to go (see Dr. Horrible) and lets people access a wider variety of programmes and information in the form of video than ever before.

Thats all good, and it was all good, whilst it was a seperate thing to youtube. I thought it was all fine and dandy as long as youtube was a project of its own, youtubers themselves weren't making money off of it. Tv online could be seperate from youtube and they wouldn't cross over. Now though, there's the so called 'youtube celebrity' and people making money off youtube. The youtubers have sold out a bit really, and it upsets me because youtube COULD have been this alternative, non-profit [for the users] thing to come to to get away from the growing online media.But alas, all things come to money in the end.

This is just a rant really, I've strayed far away from my original topic and I can't remember where I was trying to go with this.
Sorry.

Moment of the day:Singing along to various songs,actions included,with Kirsty on the way home from Aberdeen.
Question of the day: How many of your tv shows do you actually watch on tv anymore, do you watch a lot online or?
My answer:I watch almost everything online nowadays.

Until next time

Megan x

Hey all, hope you're well. Nothing much to blog about today except I read this kind of ironic story earlier. It's not funny, but kind of makes you think, isn't life a bitch.

So there's a news headline "Robbed,Beaten and Shot:Bad Week for this OAP".

I thought YOU DON'T SAY.

Turns out the guy was eighty, which makes it sad. But here's how it went.

The OAP in question got broken into and beaten up, the theif then proceeded to steal some stuff from the old man. As if the poor man's luck wasn't bad enough, a few days later after recovering the man was at a self defence class learning to use a gun and his son SHOT HIM IN THE HAND! Bad luck,or bad luck? The irony of this just made me think : isn't life just a bitch sometimes?

Kirsty just told me another story that, despite being kinda sad, made me laugh.

A woman is sitting in her car outside a dough or bread factory (or somewhere) and she hears a loud noise. Then something hits her in the back of the head and she feels like she's been shot. She feels the back of her head and it feels like her brain is falling out, so she sits there scared for six hours,holding onto the back of her head until finally she realises that she wasn't shot,her brains aren't falling out and in fact she was just hit in the back of the head by a big lump of dough. Yes, you read correctly. DOUGH. Again I say, life's a bitch.

Moment of the day: The 'firedrill' at lunch.
Question: Will any other readers come out the woodwork and answer my questions?
My answer: TBC.

Until next time

Megan x

Hey all, hope you're well. Today was a good day. Again. My life is pretty good at the moment.

Started off well, just doing some note taking first period. Then in second period Kirsty and I registered for the Robert Gordon Uni open day, and looked through tips about Disney Land Paris. We also checked out how close we are to the Sex and The City Paris hot spots (pretty close it turns out ).

Third period was S.E and we had a talk about safe driving, The powerpoint was harrowing, and the statistics made me scared to start learning to drive. But I liked it that for once I came out of S.E actually thinking it was an hour decently spent.

Fourth period onwards was pretty uneventful.

The main good part of today was this evening spent at Kirsty's. Monday nights we always go to Kirsty's and tonight we all brought our new clothes for Paris and paraded around, fashion show style, showing them off to each other. It was fun and really got me in the mood for the adventures abroad that are soon to come.I really,really can't wait. I love the fact that of all the 'groups' in our year, we're the first ones to go away together properly. Like abroad together. It's going to be so good. I keep hearing from every angle that I'm going to love Paris, I guess in eleven days time we'll see if that's true!!

Moment of the day: Our cross dressing,bear all fashion show.
Question of the day:Top European destination to visit and why?
My answer:Rome-History.Pizza.History.Pizza.Ice Cream.

Until next time

Megan x

Hey all, hope you're well. Well I officially failed on this blogging daily project after exactly twenty nine days of continuous daily blogging. One day short of a month! But - I do have a good excuse. Yesterday I was at Stiling Uni open day all day and then came in with a migraine, woke up and threw up, then forgot all about blogging because I was feeling ill. So that's why my record has been ruined. So in this blog I'll cover yesterday and today.

YESTERDAY

Yesterday morning Mum,Dad and I set off to explore Stirling University, as on paper it's my top place to go. We set off about 9am and after arriving and registering, we settled into a carefully planned (by me) schedule for the day. It went something like this:

Introduction to the University talk

What I got from this was there's a lot of flexibility in terms of choices and you can take modules from pretty much any subject in your first two years before settling on your degree subject properly in third year. This is to give you the chance to change your mind, which I like.

Accommodation and Catering talk

In words it sounded great, the tour later on however made it seem less so. I was put off a bit by the fact that they didn't give you any prices in their talk, but further investigation reveals for your basic room its gonna be about £80 a week. A little steep for what we later were given a tour of....Catering - you feed yourself or pay pretty high prices for the on campus eateries.

Study abroad talk

One of the main things that made Stirling appealing to me was the opportunity for most of the degree choices to study abroad for either a semester or a year. They've got options to go to lots of places in Europe, as well as places further a field like Austrailia and Canada. From what I gathered, you pay the flight but when you get there you basically only pay as much as you would if you were here. So if your fees get paid here - your fees will get paid there. However, that means you'll be paying for accommodation, but I assume you get guaranteed accommodation in the Uni as an international visitor.So that is a really appealing option for me.

Film,Media and Journalism Studies talk

As this is the department I'd be studying in, this is the department whose talk was top of my list to hear. From what I seen there is a great opportunity for you to do practical work, along with a lot of flexibility to pick up modules relating to the career you're looking to get into. The guy who gave the talk was very passionate about the subject, knew what he was talking about in terms of technology and seemed very friendly. The head of the department was also friendly,if a little quiet. It just looked like a very well run and appealing department in all ways.

Tour of campus and accommodation

Well the guide was awful. He moved too quickly,not waiting for the line of people behind him to follow and spoke so that nobody could hear him. The halls themselves looked like prison blocks, both inside and out. But I suppose you can't expect five star luxury. They were liveable and I'm sure with some of my own pics and posters, a wee room there would look fine. I just expected a little more for your money.

Overall, the Uni measured up to my expectations and after seeing it is still my top place to go. It's incredibly beautiful aswell. Stunning trees and hills all around, aswell as being situated round a lake. It's really breathtaking. We kept seeing rainbows all day and my mum was like "this is a sign you've to come here Megan!" haha. I was thinking that too though....

As you've read above, the rest of yesterday consisted of a migraine and sickness so not much else to report.

TODAY

AM

CHURCH was great today. Would've been more enjoyable if my throat wasn't killing me and I could stop coughing for more than five minutes. Jamming session afterwards was good fun, and it was good to sing some newer songs. Looking forward to singing them in church sometime soon. Also got the news today that two more people have come forward for Baptism, so now there's three of us

PM

WORK  was also pretty good today. A bit hectic because of stock take, but not bad. Met two of the Christmas Temps - Sarah and Joe. Joe was really lovely and reminded me of Eric a bit. And Sarah was ok, though seemed like she didn't really want to be there. Pizza before stock take was good aswell. And then counting,counting,counting for a couple of hours wasn't too bad. All in all. a good day today.

My my mum has Uni on the brain, and I'm slightly worried about how we're going to pay for it all. But oh well, people do it every year I suppose. Its just we're about a thousand pounds above the line where you get any help with anything, so I'll be getting like the miminum of financial support.. It's always been the same.

I'm away for an early night, got another busy week planned and then it's getting ready for Paris and off we go! It's only like twelve days to go now!

Moment of the day: Mum getting up and singing with us on stage
Question of the day: Is two jobs to try and pay for going away for Uni a stupid/bad idea?

Until next time

Megan x

 

Hey all, hope you're well. I'm good but insanely tired and with a very very sore throat. I've had an overall good day today, but something mortifying happened to me.....

I was shopping this afternoon, just for some bits and pieces. A gift, some tops, some books and other little knick-knacks. So I was halfway down the shopping list and in H&M picking up the tops I needed. I get to the desk to pay, hand over a twenty and the guy goes:

'sorry but I can't accept this'

'excuse me?' says me

'yeah,these notes aren't in circulation any more, so i can't take it. take it to the bank and they'll exchange it for you'....just like that,blurts out the till guy.

'ummm ok.' i said 'but i only just got given it in a birthday card....' says i

'sorry about that,but I can't accept it. have you got any other way to pay?' says sales boy.

'yeah,i'll just pay by card.....'

the usual akward card machine etiquette follows, him blatantly trying to distract himself as I put in my pin....two minutes later as the reciept prints

'sorry,but your card's been declined'

'you're kidding me?'

'no i'm sorry,this isn't your day is it. we'll try again....'

.........

'sorry but it's still being declined. have you got any other cash on you'

and so he has to take one of the tops off the bill and i hand over a tenner.

I then spent ten minutes worrying why my card had got declined and realised it was because I'd bought adapters for Paris on it this morning and totally forgot that would've brought my balance down.

Btw,I then proceeded to buy a birthday card with the twenty he'd rejected. Seems some places still take them afterall. Unless the girl didn't know what it was.

Anyhoo, aside from that mortifying incident,today was good. I got some books for AH English and a phrasebook for Paris.
Then I got a gift for my friend whose party I was invited to as I came out of Waterstones after getting the above mentioned books.

And I'm just in from the birthday bash now. Good times.

Moment of the day:Ashton:Hansel and Gretel....zzzzzzzzzzz 
Question of the day: Most embarrassing encounter you've had in a shop?

Until next time

Megan x

 

Hey all, hope you're well. I'm doing good!

Today was spent entirely in drama, 12 hours straight of running around and lighting and sound and techie stuff. Fun. No really,it was. I was sick twice, but aside from that things were great today.Things were also very,very tiring though so this is gonna be short and sweet.

Rehearsals all went fine and I think that by the time we were ready to perform, everyone was feeling good about their own pieces.

All the plays went well, no glitches. Until we got to mines!!!!

The followspot went off at one point that it wasnt supposed to, and then came back on, making the mistake blatantly obvious. And then the person on sound played a piece of voice over meant for the NEXT play, over the top of my play.....TWICE! Despite me being right next to her telling her it wasn't the right time to do it.

But my play looked good, and nobody forgot any lines or messed up any movement.

I really did enjoy everyone's plays, and they all came off fantastic. It's a shame that, aside from our exam, thats the last thing we'll do on the that stage.

So then, aside from a couple of tiny errors, that weren't on my part so I can feel fine about it, although they did both happen during my play (!), things went very well tonight.

So with the most stressful part of the course over, I can start to concentrate on my AH English dissertation. Yay.

Kelly, I've been thinking about you, and hope your mouth isn't too sore.

Moment of the day: Warm ups before the performances, dance party in ms lundy's room, foooooood.
Question of the day: Emmm.....tell me a random fact about yourself?

Until next time

Megan x