The Dangers of the Zoo

(My MSPaint is being really silly so I've had to quickly doodle my pictures... I'll come back and fix them later:D)


A little while ago, I was very kindly invited to spend a fun-filled day at the zoo with my family, woo!
I agreed to go, and got up RIDICULOUSLY EARLY in order to travel for 2 hours in a car with 3 kids, 2 teenagers and 2 overworked adults.



(I wasn't very excited)
And my little cousin Ben decided he was going to be carsick IN the car, which was really very unpleasant and didn't set the trip off to a particularly good start... But once we got there, it started to be a much better day!

I saw some ducklings

and a cute little tiger

and a pig dribbled on me...


But the WORST part of thw whole day was when I was casually minding my own business, turning a corner when BAM!!!
There's a menacing looking sloth just dangling in front of me and I swear to God I have never run so fast in my life. My sister thought it was really funny, but I disagreed...
(That doodle is pretty much a photograph by the way, even with the blood, speech bubble and scary black aura)

Now may be a good time to mention that I have a terrible sloth phobia.

They're horrible.
Also, don't ask where the phobia came from because I honestly couldn't tell you, haha!
#mysterious

Conclusion:
SLOTHS SHOULD NOT BE ALLOWED IN ZOOS!
Or at least put a warning up or something, tchhhhh

Kids, ey?

I have a little 12 year old brother called Alex, and I love him, so if I get the chance, I like to take him nice places:D
So this week I offered to take him to the cinema to see whatever he wanted to see, which I thought was a bit brave, but I like presenting myself with challenges..
The first challeneg was that he took literally 3 days to decide between the five 12a's showing at the cinema, then finally chose the one film I knew nothing about.
~~Battle Los Angeles~~
Alex told me it was:


That doesn't necessarily sound quite as exciting to a 19 year old female, but I thought "sure why not?"

The second challenge was that Alex sneakily managed to convince me at the very last second that it would be a good idea to bring his friend along..

The third challeneg was that I was on my own for the whole ordeal. I'd desperately tried to convince my sister to come along to help me on my plight, but she's not the biggest fan of going to the cinema to see films she doesn't want to see with two hyperactive children.... and she refused in quite a convincing way...


Haha, don't worry, although she was assertive, she didn't actually set herself on fire or anything, that would be a tad extreeeeme...

ANYWAY.
I took the two crazy boys to the cinema and it was a brilliant film!


(This is an almost exact summary of the plot by the way)

And the fourth and final challenge was making them both decide what they wanted for tea. EVENTUALLY, after a million decision changes and constant nagging from Alex's favourite older sister;), they decided they wanted a chinese takeaway (which my sister very kindly paid for as a way of apologising for deserting me earlier). Win!
Though all they wanted were noodles, chips and rice.
...

Kids, ey?

Revision activities.

It happens 3 times a year (stupid University term system), and everytime I treat it like I don't know it's coming.

"Oo, I'll just laze around the house doing nothing till Week 9, yaaay- OH WAIT!?"

So, I've had to do a little bit of crazy revision the past few days, but I've enjoyed several different kinds of revision breaks....

ACTIVITY#1

ACTIVITY#2



ACTIVITY#3


ACTIVITY#4



ACTIVITY#5


The exams went really well by the way;)

Quote blog!

"Gandhi is in my bed.. Surrounded by chickens" - Sam



"I had a lovely birth............................... day" - Jen's Nan

".. impromptu sex."
"Or dirty liasons."
"..Aren't they the same thing?" - Hannah and I



"some people r hot" - the intellect that is Jen



"I'm going to go home and boil a cabbage!" - Emma


"LOS LOCOS IS CLOSED!" - Random bizarre-o in the Ziggys queue



"I think Count Dooku just flipped me off" - Matthew


"..... we had absinthe?" - Jen

"heilan' coo" - Amy speaking scottish

Interpretive Imagery

I say Sir, how do you do?

My least favourite fruit

The dreaded pear.

We don't get on.
They're dry and bland and the texture of them in my mouth makes my tongue hate me. The only thing they're good for is ruining fruit trifles and salads, and they're basically just like reject apples. I have a seriously great distaste for these bad boys, but today I found out that I am one.
That's right, ladies and gentlemen, I have discovered that I am a pear.

Poor pear.
But yes! I have measured my waist-hip ratio and not only discovered that I have the exact same ratio as Marilyn Monroe (oh yeah.) but also that I'm a pear shape.
Though as good as that sounds, all it means is that I have a bit of an arse and a modest bust, but a pretty dashing waist.
Yay..?
I don't understand why we need labels for female body shapes, nevermind the amount of labels that we actually do have! I had to wade through an abundance of fruits before being able to read what health risks I carry by simply having weight spread around my hips. It's ridiculous!
You can be an apple, pear, carrot, column, spoon, banana, hourglass, bell, and my persnoal favourite, a butternut squash...?!!?!
Surely a woman's a woman, regardless of how well her body resembles a fruit?
Also, I'd rather be something that people don't eat.


I'll be on edge for the rest of my life now.

The day I went deaf.

Okay, admittedly the title of this blog post may be slightly more of a metaphor than it seems to be. Partially because I'm not deaf, and haven't ever been deaf, and partially because it's not even really about me at all!

This blog post is about my poor 3 year old headphones, as the one named R has suffered a slight malfunction today and subsequently poor L is now an only child.
And it completely wasn't my fault at all! (Just to make that clear). All I did was sit down and possibly snag the wire a teeny tiny little bit. Then R started making silly hissing noises so I played with the wire a bit and then R stopped making any noise at all...

L was devastated and sank into a deep state of headphone-depression which meant he couldn't continue to full capacity and I had to put him into a retirement home for his own good.
My iPod however, boldly carried on and then ran out of battery without me realising.........

And if you don't feel sorry for my poor headphones because they're inanimate objects blahblahblah, instead, just imagine the situation on the train as this is all happening:


Very sad indeed!
(and check out the angry birds on my phone;D)

ANYWAY.
The consequence of all this is that I've had to adopt some new baby ones that'll hopefully arrive within 1-2 business days:)
Meet the new L-R team!

THEY'RE PURPLE:D

Clever Procrastination

I'm so easily distracted it's ridiculous.

Anyway...
Today we shall discuss why my way to procrastinate is by far the best way.

So, today I set myself targets of what I wanted to get done, and I thought about how good it wuold be to get it all done..... Then I thought how much I wanted to understand the anatomy of the brain...
Quite a heavy distraction.
So initially, I looked up posters and things, trying to find one that wasn't a horrible, gaudy colour and was unsuccessful, so I reasoned that perhaps I could draw a brain just as well and label it from a 'meta-analysis' of other anatomical drawings.
And this is the result of some mega procrastination:

I love that the camera didn't pick up the clever shading at all, but nevermind!
It's a brain!:D
And it's a rather lovely one too.

So, task achieved, I thought I should get back to work... BUT THEN! I had the idea of redrawing the brain as a colourful helper chart to help me with my degree...


And there you go.
A good hour of pencil-related crazy.

31 days.

Today feels like a strange day.

Picturesque

I think this is my favourite picture in the whole world.

Twitter is challenging me to a battle

I can't post tweets anymore!
Everytime I have a particularly good thought, I go to put it on twitter and everytime I do, I get this silly message saying there's been an error and it can't post my tweet.
"try again in a few moments"
Raaaaaarrrr.
This situation calls for an old friend...

Just a quick thank you!

Well.. Where to start?
To be honest, since I last wrote in this properly on the 23rd, it's been a little bit of a crazy ride. Within the space of a month, I've been the happiest and probably the saddest of my whole life.
It started off amazingly on Christmas day with my genuinely wonderful fiancé ♥, and then shortly after New Years, some awful news, a difficult decision and a very long, heartbreaking evening have led me to become an awful lot more responsible than I'd like to be. I'm still not over it, and I don't think I will be for a while, but I think I've come out stronger so I'm optimistic that things will be okay.
But throughout the whole experience, I have learnt the value of a truly good person. I'm lucky enough to have some amazing people in my life, and I'm forever grateful for all the care that they've shown over these past few weeks.
Thank you guys:)

Brain scribble

Hello, sorry for not posting a silly blog for a while! There's been some crazy things going on...
Anyway, back to the really important news of the day... #fanfare
I have invented a concept!
I've been working on my essay all day, and then I got completely distracted and read a journal about dyslexia, which is NOT what my essay is about, at all. And I read a word wrong (ironically) and confused myself for a second, bu this inspired me! What if this momentary spasm of understanding had a name...? Well I gave it one:)
The 'brain scribble'... coming to a store near you.
Haha, no, basically, a brain scribble is a moment in time when you feel like some things have become a little bit jumbled in your head.
FOR EXAMPLE,
you could be revising and accidentally confuse one theory with another -> brain scribble
Or you could be trying to organise your day and not know what to prioritise -> brain scribble
Do you see what I'm saying?:D It's a brain SCRIBBLE.
I'll draw a diagram to help explain.
This is me on a normal day, casually exposing my brain to the world as I jog on by.


The only scribbles there are the natural scribbles of the folds and fissures (sulci and gyri) of the cerebral cortex;)
NOW!
This is me on a rare moment where I briefly confuse things in my head:


See, a SCRIBBLE! This is as accurate as an MRI by the way.
And my facial expression has remained the same because I'm a good actor, not because I forgot to draw a confused face or anything...

So, that's what I've got for you today.
Join me next week when we'll be evaluating how far I've actually got with my essay...

A tribute.