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"You Were Born, To Be A 

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Vibrator..."

liver for you, ma'am?

isnt it funny how last night I cooked the healthiest meal yet, and it was the cheapest and easiest to make!!

Liver, costs 50p for a whole packet, and hast lasted me two meals.  A bag of carrots costs me another 20p and a bag of potatoes is less that a pound.  It's crazy!!!!

but yummy and healthy, so yay! :D

Elbow

I was going to upload a song that was played in a lecture yesterday that gave me shivers for the entire length of the song.  But the video is too big to upload.  I think I may have heard it before, but not like this.

The speakers were loud but not blasting, and I closed my eyes and the song just swirled round me and was just so beautiful.  I didn't understand any of the words, but looked them up for this blog. So if you get the chance to hear it, listen.

One Day Like This.

Drinking in the morning sun
Blinking in the morning sun
Shaking off the heavy one
Heavy like a loaded gun

What made me behave that way?
Using words I never say
I can only think it must be love
Oh, anyway, it's looking like a beautiful day

Someone tell me how I feel
It's silly wrong but vivid right
Oh, kiss me like the final meal
Yeah, kiss me like we die tonight

Cause holy cow, I love your eyes
And only now I see the light
Yeah, lying with me half-awake
Oh, anyway, it's looking like a beautiful day

When my face is chamois-creased
If you think I'll wink, I did
Laugh politely at repeats
Yeah, kiss me when my lips are thin

Cause holy cow, I love your eyes
And only now I see you like
Yeah, lying with me half-awake
Stumbling over what to say
Well, anyway, it's looking like a beautiful day

So throw those curtains wide!
One day like this a year'd see me right!

And children pace the crumping snow, To taste thier Granny's cake again...

OMFG!!! IT'S SNOWING!!!!!

woahhh!! I've just spent the last 4 hours playing in the increasingly heavy falling snow!  I came out of my day of lethargic and boring lectures, to find it was raining.  I put the rain, rain, rain... song on, and by the time I had reached my house (only 5 mins away), it was snowing pretty heavily.  

The fist thing I did as the grounds got whiter, was put my ipod in my ears, and I went outside, and danced to my favourite Elfman piece, Ice Dance.  Hand and all.  It was perfect.

And it got heavier and heavier... in about 20 mins the ground was white and I was getting increasingly excited!! haha!  Then by 9 in was about two inches deep!   We made a snow man the same size as me... and then someone came along and put a penis on it, and boobs... yes... *cough*

We had snow ball fights with all the other houses in Robert's Way, and we had skidding competitions down the slopes!  not quite enough snow to sledge down the rooftops haha!  but it's still pretty heavy, so you never know what tomorrow will bring!

We ended the night by helping a third and second year to build an igloo!  But I didn't manage to get a picture of that as my battery is completely dead on my camera, but hopefully it will still be there in the morning!!  What a surreal day once more! there were even fire works going on!  This morning was bright and sunny, and not too cold at all!  Ahh I've had so much fun, and met more people which is great :D

ho ho ho!! (btw helen, it's christmas soon! yay!!!)  :D  

:(

Urgh.  I've just been to the most pointless lecture ever and my effing knee has gone, and it decided to go as I was walking down the stairs, and then I tripped on the curb and yanked it out even more with everybody laughing at me.  fantastic.  grrrr!

Oh well, Cheer up Charlie, only 5 weeks to go :)

5mins post blog: and now I'm having a nose bleed.  jeeze.

I'm Sorry, But You've Throw Off The Emperor's Groove...

*sigh*  I actually cant believe I'm sitting back in my room again.  So quickly.

Better Together was the first song that has just come on my itunes random.  How strange, and how it has put a smile on my face, after the second time I had to watch the Saunter's drive away as I stood on the side of the road waving madly till they were out of sight :(

What another great weekend.  I took the bus down to Southampton, with an hour and a half wait at Heathrow airport.  We were really delayed due to traffic congestion, but nothing could dampen my spirits, as I was about to meet up with Methini in no time at all!  Ah, I was so excited I cannot describe.  I got off the coach at the station on the main campus, and Methini came along ten minutes later on another bus... yay!  We gave each other a team-marmite-style-bone-crushing-hug and both wore big fat smiles :)

We then went back to her apartment, which was really nice, with en-suite, and a huge kitchen, in which we got hyper, ate mash potato and beans and played the old beloved orange game.  I got a video of it all, which is sooooo funny!   And now the orange will be moulding nicely behind the huge fridge in her kitchen, my work here is done lol.  Anywho, we looked on the web, listened to music and laughed non stop.

Come half one in the morning, the phone call from Thomas comes for directions.  But do we know where Methini lives?  Nooo! dont be silly! lol!!  But in what seemed like no time, they were outside the door :D  The next job was to find the house, and off to bed it was.  How surreal.  

Saturday was so much fun, shopping with everyone, eating, laughing, smiling, poking... I bought an awesome waistcoat, stripy and different shades of purple!  We had a lovely meal in an indian restaurant that evening, in which they had a very mild curry (haha).  We then went back and Thomas and I watched Deuce Bigalo and Mean Girls, which was dead funny :)

Sunday was awesome too, orchestration lesson in the morning, followed by a trip to Beaulieu (lol).  Bond experience, cars and motorbikes, Freddie drooling at the motorbikes, baked potatoes, monorail and glasses :)  After that trip we went back to chill for a bit, we watched The Emperor's New Groove, with Methini, Lucas, Me and Thomas squiged up on the sofa.  After pizza and top gear, we took methini home (already).  Why does time go so quickly when you're with your friends? :(  so another team marmite hug and we were driving away.  It was odd as i was supposed to be on a bus back to Hertforshire, but instead, I was on the sofa next to Thomas, watching the Brothers Grimm, which is an awesome film.  Bed time once more.  

Monday morning, up early, shower, toast and nutella, into the car for a drive up to London and back to uni life once more.  I fell asleep on Thomas' shoulder for most of the way, listening to heavy songs off Lucas' ipod, and then Jack Johnson until we arrived outside the gates of the uni.  That familiar sense of impending dread and restriction rising up my chest to my throat, welling up slightly.  They all had a quick look round my house, and in no time at all I was saying goodbye holding the tears in rather well I thought...  Big hugs that say I never want to let go, and then, they're driving away...

Damn my verbal constipation!

YAY!! Freddie Friday and Methini Monday!

I'm damn excited!!!  woop!  I can't believe tomorrow is almost here!

Chick chick!!

Oooohh! and my video is 90% finished, and looks bloody awsome and creepy lol!  yaaaaayyy!!!

I'm a very hyper Freddie!!  but time for ye bed indeedy doh dah day!!  :D 

woop!

I find it so great, how some of those most beautiful pieces of music, are found in films such as Hannibal.  

AWESOME! (in an epic voice)

Well, I've just had the best night so far at uni... I think I've finally found people weird enough to get along with!  I was invited over to the other campus by Dean, on my course, to meet his friends from the Philippines (where he comes from), and they were all totally crazy!!  It was the first time I got hyper and actually let a little bit of the real me out :)  They all shouted and got excited over my odd shoes too, so that must have been a good sign!

We watched Flight of the Conchords and danced like loons and cooked stir fry whilst singing songs from nightmare before christmas and jamming and singing loudly to random tunes!  I even got a rendition of "It's Business Time" which made me piss my pants, they did it so well!  I wish I had my camera to record that...  ah man, hopefully they'll do it again for the camera lol

I haven't laughed so much with new people since being here. Ah, what an awesome night :)

Oh, and the stars are mighty bright tonight too :)

Tra Laaaaaa!

I do believe this is why I love Danny Elfman so much.  He has always been criticized as being a "hummer", someone who hums a tune, and relies on other people to help him notate his ideas properly.  Whether this is true or not, does it really matter?  Point is, he's got the ideas, he records them into something very much like I've got in front of me, and some body else turns his ideas into a readable score fit for an orchestra.  All these criticisms derive from the fact that Elfman never really had any proper musical training, he wasn't the kinda grade 8 guy that had been doing it all his life.  I think I should also note here, that he is also renowned for being one of the most innovative and individual film composers to date.  I found this quote, that I absolutely love...

"The bottom line is what you hear in you head... I hear orchestral music in my head... The only difference between me and a conservatory trained person is that I can't analyze why it does what it does."

And also this one...

"Certainly you must be aware that there are many film directors - Tim Burton for one example - who never attended any film school.  Why, then, is it so hard to accept the possibility that someone who works hard can learn to write film music from hand-on experience?"

I really can't help but notice similarities with my musical life, if you like.  Ok, so now I'm on grade four piano, but then I've only been playing for just over 2 years now.  But on my course, I've been thrown in with grade 8 musicians, kick ass guitarists etc, all who have been playing since before they could walk.  But I have only heard one of them say they have an orchestra in their head.  Only one.  Everyone else thinks that him and I, are freaks! haha (perhaps they're right).  All the people I know to be musical geniuses, all have orchestras in their heads, so I must be on the right path... hehe

Question: Why is your music so dark?

Elfman:  Because light hurts my eyes.

Freddie seems to be in a soppy mood today... :)

Daddy Bresfass...

Changes (the Ozzy and Kelly version) has just come on my itunes random.

"We shared the years

We shared each day

I love you Daddy,

But I've found my way..."

I know loads of people criticise Kelly Osbourne, for not being a great singer or what ever, but the way she sings those words, is perfect, and it made me realise just how much I miss my dad.  He would give me a great big hug if I was down, and make me smile just by saying, "Hello, Blossom... you alright, Bloss..."

And I love it when he phones at random times in the week, without anyone knowing, just to see if I'm ok...

Every Cloud has a Silver Lining

I've just been out for my run, and the sky is quite amazing.  

Although it is cloudy, one bright star was poking through, as if it knew how desperately I was looking for it... the clouds soon covered it up once more, but that split second was enough to make me smile.

The clouds are bright orange, the patches of dull grey sky are visible and the moon is so bright behind the clouds, it's like some sort of odd silver sun rise...

And the sun hissed as it plunged into the deep blue oceans...

One thing I absolutely love about his place is the sun sets...

Every day the sun sets, yet each sun set has been completely diferent but equally as beautful as each other, from a huge, bright red sun and pink sky, to bursts of bright orange God rays, breaking through the clouds to reveal some blue sky and birds.  And each time I look at one, I cannot get over how beautiful it is, and then night time falls so quickly... one minute I'm looking at the sun set, next the stars are shining brightly, the plough and the big "M", with music that means more than the words attached, playing softly, the cool air wrapped tightly around my skin.   If only it were pouring with rain, that would be the perfect emotion that a Freddie such as myself, with such  great friends as I've got, could ever feel.  And I smile, and make a few wishes, and perhaps shed a tear or two, and I'm the happiest I can be.

Hoorah for the Internet and the Power of Cross Fade!

One composition almost done.  It's a while till the deadline, but I had the idea almost straight away when we were set the work, so why wait?  I really hope it's the right sort of thing.

Real Saxophone and Clarinet parts have now been added in, thanks to the kindness of Leigh performing the parts and Thomas engineering, so thank you both very much! (and yay!)

Other course work includes a presentation on Danny Elfman, essays on compositions and scores, film music and the industry in general.  Other compositions set are minimalism and solo piece for violin and others too.  The course keeps on getting more interesting, as does the research.  I'm lucky enough to live about two minutes away from a huge learning resources centre, which is really calming, and I'm actually enjoying reading for a change.  But then again, I find myself lost in the music section, with books and scores everywhere, covering theory to hip hop, Beethoven to Zimmer.  It's awesome!

Yay!!

I have indeed heard from Methini!  

chick chick :)

Aye Aye, Captain! la la la!

Well, here comes another blog from a drunken Freddie, filled up with a decent amount of rum and vodka, like a true russian pirate.

Twas a ye savvy night, with the first song as I entered the room being "my sox is on fire".  L.O.L!  Once again, I was left laughing my firey sox off, with every one else clueless.  

Yaarr  Harrr and lollerskates :P

I also discovered that Danny Elfman did the music for Wanted.  How strange.  I really liked that film.

Spoke to Marina tonight, but still no sign of Methini... hmmm, I wonder what has happened to my mother hen?  :(

Learning that a friend is upset, but I can barely do anything about it from where I am, except let out feeble words of helpless advice and hope they believe what you're saying in the font you've chosen to type expressionless letters with.  It's so fricken frustrating!... 

Marina spoke of a rainy storm that soaked her through, and as she went mad, people just stared and told her that she was mad, instead of joining in.  I miss you, so so much.

Freddie was indeed a sleepy drunkard tonight, rather than a happy hyper active one.  

But still, lots of rum and a pirate costume, and a great song to start the evening off, what more could I possibly want?  (appart from Johnny Depp? lloooolll) Yo ho, yo ho, a pirates life fer me.

Yar Harrr!!

My lectures were awesome yesterday.  We have one guy for two different lectures, but he's so funny!  We were talking about minimalism and the calming effects that pieces like Steve Reich's Piece for 18 musicians has upon your brain, and even thought the piece is an hour long, made up of repeated patterns, you could sit there and listen to it all the way through and not get bored.  We then moved onto Eno's ambient compositions, which we will be studying in more depth soon.  Only problem when he played a particular song, I was immediately transported back to that one scene in the studio, where I see myself lying across three wheelie chairs, all the sight sounds and smells clear as day.    We then had half an hour to kill before the next lecture, and so we ploncked ourselves on the floor, me, Alex, Danny (a different one) and Dean, and spoke about, yup, Disney.  And how magical it is, and how funny films such as The Emporer's New Groove are.  It was pretty surreal, sitting there with three boys, Dean a death metal head, Danny a complete hyper puppy and Alex a sexy rock guitar god (according to Danny that is haha)

After speaking to practically all my friends on iChat and Skype and facebook, I spent about two hours battling it out in Guitar hero and watching Family Guy with my house mates last night.  Man it was sooo funny!  Watching Dan actually complete Through the fire and flames on expert level was amazing to watch, but boring compared to the memories it brought back of Thomas and Big Dave smashing it up at a film night at mine a while back now.  I pissed myself and no one knew why haha!  

Feeling a bit worse for wear again this morning, but ah well!  Tonight there is a pirate party at the SU, a great excuse to dress and talk like a pirate with out any one thinking you're a complete weirdo, oh, and to buy lots and lots of rum!  (why is the rum, always gone?)  (found this picture of a great scene in the second film, amazing drawing)

Yo ho, yo ho, a Pirates Life Fer Meeee (and as Cpt. Jack Sparrow would say, I LOVE that song!  AHHHH!! And that has also got me extremely excited because I'm going to Disney at Christmas!!!! YAAAAAAAAAAAAY!!!!!! :D  )

Yay! For what sounds like I'm on a lot of drugs (but I'm not!)

Dontcha just LOVE IT!... when you make what you think is a terrible mistake (in logic / cubase that is), something you can't undo, but then you listen back in a panic to discover that it sounds BLOODY AWESOME!!! (because you didn't expect that to happen, perhaps it is shit afterall lol)

All the best things I've written have seemed to happen by mistake, whether it be moving an audio strip out of time slightly or completely cocking up automation data or solo lines or summit like that, and that happens to be the move that completely makes the song what it is!  fricken awesome :D

errrrrrr

Urgh.  A day full of lectures, seminars and talks, the last one of which I missed because I felt like I was gonna puke.  Got home and crashed as soon as I hit the pillow for about 2 hours.  Got up to eat some toast and speak to Thomas, and now it's off to bed again, with a head ache from hell and eyes that scratch the insides of my sockets.  What joys.

You're The World To Me.

A while back now, I was given some CDs.  All the songs were by the same singer/songwriter, except one.  And it was this was one.  It popped up on my ipod as I was listening to the rest of the CD.  I had completely forgotten about this song until then, and it made me smile, for quite a few reasons.  :)

Started talking and the line went dead

Never heard a single word you said

Babe I said I’d give my right arm,

Every day that I decide on

 

Baby, baby you’re the world to me

 

I woke up, the room was cold

Looking tired, feeling old

Cursin’ all the changes I’ve to say

The more I cursed into the flood

The less it seemed do me good

Clearer became my mind than I could say

 

Baby baby you’re the world to me

 

My head is roaring like a waterfall

Give me everything or not at all

You don’t have to turn the sound up

Babe I want you from the ground up

Baby, baby you’re the world to me

 

Baby, baby you’re the world to me

Baby, baby you’re the world to me

Baby, baby you’re the world to me

 

You don’t have to turn the sound up

Babe I want you from the ground up

Baby, baby you’re the world to me

 

Iridescent like a starlet

Won’t you be my little darling

 

Baby, baby you’re the world to me

Baby, baby you’re the world to me

Baby, baby you’re the world to me

Bach - Woof

I've had a very odd and surreal 24 hours.

I went from feeling bored and frustrated, to feeling more frustrated at not getting a song right, then got better when I was told to chill out lol.  Dan arrived back, gave him a big hug.  I spoke to friends and family on the net, and me and dan then went for a run round the rugby pitch instead of going to the pub.  How odd lol.  The stars were really bright and there was a beautiful full moon, so I went nutts, quite litterally to the extreme like a made dog with rabies lol.  It was fun.  i span round and round and round till I was so dizzy I fell on my arse in more mud and span (although still) for about 20 minutes straight! No joke.  I giggled all the way through too.  Dan got even more scared of me haha!  We then came back in and watched the second POTC, to which I laughed my guts up the whole way through, as I remembered sitting in the cinema watching this for the first time in between Helen and Loz.  Fricken awesome memories, it's making me laugh now.  As I made a hot chocolate half way through, I  legged it to the micro wave and shouted "SHIT! MILK BOILING OVER!"  so I wrenched open the door dramatically to rescue the milk, and when I shut the door, literally one second later the "ding!" of the bell saying its ready went.  We pissed ourselves laughing for about an hour after that, hence why POTC finished so bloody late haha.  (it reminded me of a tori / moi physics moment)

Then off to bed, with very wierd dreams, woke up kinda early, composed, went to lectures, come back, talk to friends, and have a guy who I've spoken to about twice, profess his love for me...  *cough*.

I was cooking my spaghetti, when he walked into the kitchen, said he cant sleep and cant stop thinking about me, and that he's well and truly in love with me.  :S

I couldnt help but laugh.  I'm very cruel.. good job I managed to contain the laughter.  And good job I didn't have a mouth full of water or summit, cuz it would have been sprayed all over him.  haha.  poor bloke.  he then went very red, muttered something and walked swiftly out the house before I could say anything.  I'm not really sure if it was a practical joke or something... hmmm

I'm now sitting here with more ideas in my head, sipping my glass of milk and thinking about how the last 24 hours have seemed very surreal. (lolerskates)

Ah, and "If I had a million dollars" has just come on my itunes, yay!)

Yeaaarrr!

Well Dan is back, and we've just finished watching POTC 2.  My god, I forgot how funny that film is, and how the opening scene is probably the most perfect scene after that of the hand in Edward Scissorhands. Beautiful, and perfect.

"You want what you want, because you want it."  Legend!

GRRR!!!

Bloody hell!!

I've been trying practicaly all afternoon to sing one song, and i just cant seem to get it right!  Or to get it to sound good for that matter.  *sigh*.

Here comes take 100,002

Got milk?

Woah.  I've been through 24 pints of milk in the space of two weeks... mooo

Doll Face

Pretty Doll,

Inside the music box

Rosy red cheeks

And dark brown eyes.

How do you 

Dance all day

Without your feet

Getting tired?

Round and round

You will go

If I wind you up

Dancing slowly, to the music.

Oh Pretty Doll

Inside the music box

How I love

To watch you dance.

Pretty Doll

Inside the music box

One day you 

Will be free

But for now, 

I will wind you up

To watch you dance

Inside the music box

Pretty Doll, 

Inside the music box

Oh, how I love

To watch you dance

Oh, How I love, 

To watch you dance,

Oh, how I love 

To watch you dance...

Thumberlina Dance, Thumberlina Sing

So St. Trinians night is sold out, about 1000 of us are rejected and cant get in.  Turns out you had to buy tickets. *shrug*  

So that means either a night in watching movies by myself, or going to the LRC to do some quiet studying.  Sad isn't it?  Go to collage and sit in your room with no friends.  I'm feeling a bit lonely right now.  I'm about to reply to Marina's email, and I really really just want to go and give her a great big hug :(  I found this really old picture of us at school in like year 9.  Crazy stuff.

I'm also missing film night tonight :(

And my friend from down stairs has gone home for the weekend.  So I think I will just sorta end up floating around for the weekend.. *sigh*  At least now I've got quite a bit of work to get on with.  Right now, however, I'm going to go for a run around the field outside my window, 4 or 5 laps should do me good (I can't seem to stop eating at the moment)  And I think I'll go for the study option.  The LRC is really calming and quiet, which gives my orchestra room to breathe and expand, whilst I tuck into a book about orchestration, theory or Danny Elfman.  I'm actually in the mood for reading, which is incredibly unusual for me... lol

Oh well, I've cheered up a bit now, since the beginning of my blog.  Hopefully the stars are out tonight.  I have got so many stars playing gently in the back of my head.  It seems to be on continuous loopback at the moment, which is really nice, as it truly is the best song i've ever heard in my life.  Hopefully Marina will come and visit next weekend.  That would be lovely :)

Post blog:  the stars are brighter than ever tonight, even

 with all the light pollution from the cities that surround.  ipod blearing, I ran 5 laps and walked 4, then danced to "oh, Helen" as I smiled at the fact that she liked it :)  It's nice to know that though we are all so far apart, I can still make my friends laugh.  I then stretched out and collapsed in a wet and sticky pile of mud so that I could get a proper look at the stars, with "stars" blearing in my ears.  Perfect.  Falling into the mud was such a me and Marina moment that for a second, I could have sworn she was right there next to me.  And I smiled at the fact that a group of stars form the letter "M".  So now I'm going to get in the shower, as I am extremely muddy, and its spreading round my room at quite an alarming rate haha.  

Shu ba bap King doin dong boom bam.

Well it looks like Friday is gonna be the day that will be closest to a day in school.  I start at 9 am and have lunch actually at lunch time, then back for a lecture till 4pm.  The day starts off with a practical ensemble session, where we have singing lessons, learn about different instruments, how they're played.. we sing as choirs and perform as groups, and it's stimulating for the brain at that time in the morning!  Next semester, we will be forming Gamalan ensembles and steel drum ensembles!  We look at alternative methods to scoring, and how we each interpret them from a performance view point.  It's all quite exciting.  my lecturer seems to have some form of agressive attacks and swears randomly and loudly at people.  He himself seems to find it entertaining. 

I've just finished my second lecture, which was styles and trends, and course work includes and essay and a post modern composition.  I'm thinking of fusing jazz and orchestral, with beefy beats and pop singing.  That should be a bit of a challenge :)

I'm now scoffing left over rice, veg and cheese, which is actually really nice lol.  Next I actually have a composition session. Woop!

Tuxedo Junction

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I have quite literally just danced round my room like a complete loon.

HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!

I'm in such a GREAT mood!!!!  I've had a day off, so FULL with just composing and singing and more composing and singing.  

My head is filled with memories of Helen, and she'll find out soon! (hehehehe I'm evil)

I've got a grin the size of a cheshire cat after talking to Thomas, a nice phone call from my dad, and finishing off this thing that fills my head up with thoughts of Helen!  HAHAHAHA!!! (having one of my very violent giggling fits, it's a wonder (bra) I can type, let alone breathe lol yar har har!

Tu tu and such likes!  sleep well world, the stars do shine and I'm so elated I might actually fly to the moon and back tonight! :D

Stars, Music, Imagination, Dream...

Sleep tonight, everything will be alright,

Sleep tonight, good night..

Sleep tonight, sleep with the stars tonight,

Sleep tonight, good night..

jeeeeeeezzzeeee!

Another bloody deafening fire alarm.  Right smack in the middle of recording vocals into a great track.  *sigh* (nothing was on fire)

Well what an eventful day it's turning out to be! I'm back in my room for another hour because my first lecture was moved to 11:30 instead of 1:00, but they forgot to tell us. lol

Techniques and technology anyone?

So I've just had my first lecture, next two - 4 till 7.

It made me smile when I sat down, to see the USB box was bright green and just like the one back in the studio :)  First lecture on the history of sampling - really interesting and I took 5 pages of notes, all of stuff I had no idea about, (like the first sampler machinery and the fact that Les Paul was the first guy to create the multi track tape recorder) until he was talking about the 70s onwards.  I'm one of only 5 people that have seen logic pro 8, let alone used it, and the next three lectures are all practical, learning the basics of logic and sampling.  My tutor was a guy I hadn't met yet, and he was really nice, took time to answer questions and explain everything fully, and I really enjoyed it.  Crazy to think that all my lectures are on music, and I can't wait to explore just some of the many topics I have to study here.  No more RS, unless it envelopes the subliminal political and religious messages put forward by Steve Reich through his method of tape loops. :)  I'm now gonna scoff some lunch then copy up my notes, download the presentation and head off to my next lecture on engraving. :)

Nice To See You, To See You...

What a weekend.  Of the kind of weird crazy kind that your brain tells you didn't actually happen.  So both Mr. S and Thomas were over, and I first met up with them in TK Maxx down the road.  I just wanted to leap at both of them, but as usual some unknown force holds me back.  I was so happy to see them, it was like the first time on ichat, when I just couldn't stop smiling.  We then walked back up to campus, where I showed them round, and after that I continued with the last lectures of induction week.  Now knowing where to go, they picked me up in the car at about fourish and we drove along to St. Albans... not much there but quite a pretty town, ending up in TK Maxx to find Thomas a velvet jacket, but in the end, he got a really nice pin striped jacket that really suits him.  For some reason there also seemed to be rather a lot of lingerie in shop windows, and also signs for viagra and hair loss shampoo. lol.  And that was the town centre haha.

They then treated me to a very nice meal at Bella Italia, and we ended up watching Big Fish to end the evening off.

Saturday proved even more adventurous.  The first text I received was "our hotel is on fire" (and Thomas' socks hehe), but I couldn't reply, so it was slightly worrying.  I met up with them for the open day, following them to various talks and finding out some information I didn't know!  I even got to look round the studio, which I haven't been able to see yet. :)

I also fell asleep on a sofa out side one of their talks that lasted about two hours (!).  After that, we spend ages trying to decide what to do with our day, and ended up going to Stevenage...  It was a yet another great day out :)   I wasn't expecting to have another meal paid for me, but they took me out again this time to Frankie and Benny's for another lovely meal (thank you so so much).  I don't actually think I stopped laughing once for every moment spent with them, and it showed me that lunacy is definitely lacking in my life over here.  Which sucks (big monkey bum poo).  Again, we ended up watching a film, this time Edward Scissorhands, my favourite film ever.  I then got taken home, and as soon as I started to walk away, the tears came once more.  Wow did I cry hard... they're leaving tomorrow. :(

So tomorrow came, and here I am.  As they drove away, I waved for as long as I could see them, and when they were half way down the road, the tears started coming again, and once out of sight, they flowed out even harder, and I'm sure it must have been a sight for the security guards, to see a student in the middle of the street bawling her eyes out, practically sitting on the wet floor with her head in her hands.  So many words to say, but not enough air to say them it would seem.  My brain just seems to melt, along with the words trapped inside.  Ten weeks.  That's not that long, is it.  I just miss them so so much.  A great weekend, greater than greatness itself.   Harder and harder and harder to say good bye, time please just stop.  A scene in Big fish is perfectly true.  You wait such a long time for such a great moment that you never want to let go of.  When that moment comes, time seems to stop, but then it moves at extra high speed to catch up with itself, and it's as if you dreamt that moment, it hasn't actually happened yet.  But in fact, it has.  But after all its not good bye really, is it?  See you in a few weeks.  TTFN, ta ta for now.  I'm just so glad I actually got to see them.  For see you in ten weeks is better than see you in eleven. :) 

Goodnight...

Boy, I'm mighty tired!  Got a song revloving round and round my head, a rather energetic multi cultural kinda irish dance piece I'm in the process of writing.  My heart has been racing for the whole of today and I have no idea why, how strange.

I had a great day yesterday, going on ichat for the first time, and seeing some friendly faces that made me smile from ear to ear.  I love technology, and I indeed love my mac!  I have endless arguments with my house mates (who are computer scientists) about which is better, a PC or a Mac.  (Lyle, stop arguing) Macs are just so much better, full stop.

So what a great day... that was until three am, when it felt like I had just managed to fall asleep, when the bloody (LOUD) fire alarm went off.  Fuckin scary.  Whole corridor filled with smoke, evacuating outside thinking what the hell is going on.  Panic.  Turns out some twats thought it would funny to let out a fire extinguisher through our bathroom window.  *sigh*  At least we know the fire alarms work lol.  Welcome to Hertfordshire!!! *Cheesy Grin, Larger Than Life American Advert Accent*

Today was pretty good too.  Started off with a two hour theory lecture. My brains fell out.  (of what I had anywho).  I've started to make friends with my house mates.  I enjoy spending time with them and i think they're getting used to my craziness and fits of hyper activity. lol.  They've even become accustomed to my odd shoes. :)

And now I'm really looking forward to tomorrow 

I saw the plough at ten pm, and now I'm off to bed

I'll sing my lungs out in the morn, but now I rest my head :)