"I find penguins at present the only comfort in life. One feels everything in the world so sympathetically ridiculous; one can't be angry when one looks at a penguin." – John Ruskin
Am in Birmingham in a hotel room so going to be short (yes, I really need to write longer posts soon…). The journey was okay, we got the assistance we needed at both Newcastle and Birmingham New Street (which I still hate, but it’s not as bad when someone’s taking you out). Spent the evening out with my mum, and am now absolutely knackered. We went for dinner at a posh Chinese restaurant, and had pork dumplings, crispy duck, lobster and oysters (very posh). It was all very yummy, and I’m now stuffed.
Tomorrow we’re going to see the Prisoner stuff, so I’m looking forward to that. Need to sleep first, though.
Today was a day of doing not very much. I woke up, messed around on my computer, had a bath, napped, played on the computer, raided, and will be going back to bed again in a minute.
Tomorrow I go to Birmingham with my mum. We are going to meet Maggie Kirkpatrick and Glenda Linscott on Sunday, after watching Retrospectively, Rita. We are staying two nights, which will mean missing college on Monday. I’m planning on taking my laptop, and my phone works as a modem (yay custom ROMs :D) so will be able to get online even if the wifi doesn’t work/is too expensive. I’m really looking forward to meeting them as I watched a lot of Prisoner Cell Block H when I was little (there wasn’t much else on at 4am…) and even now am a bit scared of the Freak. I’ve been catching up with some of the episodes and it’s reminded me of why I loved it- over the top storylines that I understand, brilliant characters and big dramatic events. I want to catch up even more now, but with over 600 episodes it may take a while.
I’m not at all ready for going, so will sleep now and get up earlyish tomorrow to get ready.
Another bad day, especially pain-wise. Currently my options are 1) bribe my doctor to give me some painkillers that maybe work, preferably without killing me or 2) become an alcoholic, since that’s the only thing I can currently get that works.
Had Computing today. I finally gave the presentation on storage devices (it’s really hard to present when you’re in lots of pain, half asleep and can’t really remember what it is you’re meant to be talking about, but I muddled through it). Then we had 20 minutes to research and create a presentation on an output device (laser printer for me). I panicked. There is simply no way I can research how something works, translate it into Danni-ish, retranslate it into something that’s understandable by other humans, and sort out the presentation in 20 minutes. I struggled last lesson with the 40 minutes for an input device. Of course, it didn’t help that I already wasn’t coping because I was exhausted and in more pain than is normal even for me at the moment.
Told Simin I’m not going to be in on Monday, as I’m travelling back from Birmingham at the time of my lesson. She wanted to know why, I fumbled a reason that vaguely relates to the actual reason (my thoughts and speech were very jumbled at this point, though I’m hoping it wasn’t too noticeable).
Johan picked me up, and I demanded to go to the MetroCentre as I was hungry. Probably not the best idea, but I did find a purple bag (I’ve been after one for months, and it was only £5) and got curry at the Wetherspoons curry night thingy. Also got vodka at Wetherspoons, which helped with the pain and not-copingness a bit.
Time for bed. Luckily no college tomorrow, so sorting stuff out before I go away for the weekend. I’ll explain more about that tomorrow.
This is a very short post because I’m still exhausted, and also in a lot of pain and not coping with it.
I made it to college today, and I don’t think I made a fool of myself in Computing. I chatted to my friend Sarah afterwards, got my lunch then attempted to nap in the chill out room (but couldn’t because all I could hear was the table tennis). Then I watched the fencing for a bit then went on my laptop, then came home, buying a hoody on the way.
Since I got home I watched the WoW Insiderstream then played Facebook games. I also received my Deathy pet, so I logged into WoW for a few minutes to collect it.
Now I’m about to go to bed. Luckily I’m only in college for Computing tomorrow evening, so plenty of time to sleep and maybe even do my homework. Here’s hoping.
I didn’t make it to college today. I think the last few days/weeks finally caught up with me, because this morning I couldn’t wake up. When I did, I sent an email to my lecturer, read TV Tropes for about 20 minutes and then slept again for several more hours. I’m still really tired, and I’m taking it easy, just watching stuff and reading simple things (like TV Tropes… yup, I’m still stuck there). I’m also in a lot of pain, but that’s not new.
Johan bought Call of Duty: Black Ops last night (he went to a midnight release with Colin). I was fast asleep, so have no idea what time he got back. He was also very tired this morning.
Tomorrow I have Computing in the morning, and watching Enrichment in the afternoon. I’ll be taking my laptop to use during the time between Computing and lunch, and I might install Kudos 2 on there.
