It was perfect. Apply for a teaching degree and after two years if its not what I'm looking for I'm free to go with a year of (paid!) teaching under my belt. If it turns out I love it I have a career for life.

One problem I didn't see- Mum trained as a teacher.

I saw how hard she fought to have Cat keep doing A-level art because it was something the Mum had done, how did I miss that when it came to teaching that she would push me just as hard as she had Cat?

*sigh*

The worst part is the more she pushes, the less I feel that teaching is a good idea. I don't need the presure of doing this on my shoulders. I don't want to be living her life for he because she never got the opertunity to teach!

*sigh*

Current total for Comic Relief is £59 million! I'm truly stunned. It seems when times ger rough, we get more generous. Go UK!

Plus, Robert Webb wins Let's Dance for Comic Relief. I think the best man won, particularly given the lengths he went to:
www.youtube.com/watch

Missed a lot of the first part of comic reflief, but I did manage to see David Tennant snog Davina McCall. I'll give £50 if I can get one of those!

Now we're on to Catherine Tate meets Little Britain

It's gonna be a good night!

8.59- Mamma Mia! I will miss French and Saunders

9.35- Nearly £30 millions already! Go Britain!

Just watched the pilot of Castle...

( Sooooo good! )

So I signed up to twitter yesterday (after only six months of saying 'I should really do that') and I'm having soooooo much fun playing around on it. I am particularly enjoying Davina McCall and Alan Carr.

Oh yes, and Eddie Izzard has one...how cool is that!!!

Just heard this news report on the radio and had to giggle a little bit

http://cnnwire.blogs.cnn.com/2009/03/09/australian-man-wrestles-kangaroo-intruder-in-his-home/

It was made all the more amusing by a post I read on naominovik  yesterday about a fan art she recieved from someone about Granby being attacked by Koala's in the next Temeraire book.

And speaking off, there's going to be another Temeraire book! *squeeeeeeeeeeeeee*

I haven't been on LJ for ages and I log onto my friends page and what do I see, loads of reviews of SGA!

And because I'm on the other side of the world with a limited broadband capability, I can't watch it!

Australia is becoming a more and more annoying place to live. No books, no DVD's and now no Stargate. Roll on Feburary is all I can say...

Why is it that the books I always refuse to read because they're too popular turn out to be fantastic books? One of these days I'm going to find a fad that really has more hype than it deserves.

*sigh*

So I think it has to be official, my name is Claire and I'm a Twilighter.

*sigh*

And the worst bit is that I can't even get my hands on Eclipse and Breaking Dawn because I'm in a tiny little town with only two tiny bookshops, neither of which will get the books for another two weeks at least.

I miss London. You never run out of books in London

http://tammypierce.livejournal.com/17674.html

This is a list of books that are most often petitioned to be banned.

Some of them I understand. I mean, Chaucer can be a bit raunchy at times, Twelfth Night involves cross-dressing and men thinking they might be gay, and the whole Harry Potter thing has been discussed more times than I want to count.

But James and the Giant Peach? Really?

I had to study both Twelfth Night and Of Mice and Men for GCSE's. Both are considered classics (at least by me), and people want to ban them?

Sometimes I worry about people.

Got up late, as is my tendency nowadays, and walked into Bethesda to do some shopping. Managed to find a comic shop and picked up the most recent Buffy comics, but they didn't have a Shep action figure or the third Chuck comic that's been released so I'm going to have to find another, bigger store in DC before I leave to get those.

Lunch was at Potbelly's (score!), and I'm starting to worry about finding good sandwhiches when I get home. There is just nothing as good as a pizza, no peperoni with mayo on white *sigh*

My final stop was at Barnes and Noble; bought Melting Stones (Woohoo!), Snow Queen and Kushiel's Avatar. They didn't have all the circle books to buy for Tom, so that's going to be another stop in DC when I get into the city. Also sat down to have a strawberry-lemonade and read a few chapters of Melting Stones before I made my way home.

I'm really glad that I managed to get Melting Stones before I left. It gets very annoying to have to buy all my Tammy books from Amazon.com because the stupid UK publishers don't promote Tammy's books the way they should. *rasberries*

Anyway, this evening I sat down to watch Andy Murray lose to Roger Federer in the US Open final. In a way, I'm glad that Federer won. I just hope that Murray will get to more finals, and wins them. It'd be nice to see a Brit win Wimbledon.

And now, I'm being a big geek with Uncle John watching Star Trek: TNG fan favourites on Sci-Fi. It's been too long since I watched TNG. I think I hear mininova calling...

Someone need to sack the line judges at the US open!

Andy Murray should have broken Federer's serve in the last game. He SHOULD be a game ahead, but the judges don't seem to be watching the base line!

I like my relatives. They not only have cable TV so I can watch Stargate Atlantis live for the first time...ever, they also have a huge HD TV (which from certain angles really makes Joe Flannigan's hair look a little grey).

I can even record it to re-watch later when there's no one about interupting the general Pegasus fun.

And on tuesday I get to watch Eureka as well. I just wish I could have US TV in the UK. THAT would be really fantastic.

They're cancelling Atlantis....

I think the worst thing is I'm not even overly surprised about it. TPTB always said that running two shows at the same time was too hectic for them to think about doing it again, and then we get news that they're in talks about starting Universe...I knew it was going to happen.

I suppose the only good thing is that we get a tv-movie to round out the series, and if we're really lucky, they might start making Atlantis DVD's in the same vein as Ark of Truth and Continuum. Who knows, maybe if the sales are good enough, we might get a cinema release. I mean, both SG-1 movies were close to the top of the charts for atleast a few weeks, that's got to say something about the people who'd go out and see a Stargate movie in the cinema.

And I just watched Ghost in the Machine aswell, which was a fantastic episode!

Nugh. Not in a good mood right now

Yep, he's one of the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics mascotts. His same is Quatchi and he is a Yeti.

Is it just me, or is that the most fantastic thing ever!

Pictures paint a thousand words...

Dorctor Who and Torchwood today. Hopefully (finger crossed) I won't have too much trouble getting in to Ballroom 20, but whether I goet a good seat or not? Well, lets just pray shall we.

Not much after that. Probably spend my time wondering and buying things (cos I have sooo much money to spend!). There's an almost plan to meet up tonight for cake with some of the other Stargate people, so lets keep fingers crossed on that one.

Oww, almost forgot. Saw The Fringe last night as part of the new Wednesday night comiccon thing. My favourite line has got to be 'Exellents. Let's go make some LSD'. John Noble is a star in my humble opinion, and not just because he's good at playing crazy old men.

So, I have found another show that I will be watching sneakily come september. I've really got to get Sky one of these days... 

I'm really not sure what more needs to be said...



*SQUEEEEEEEEE*

Okay, all done

So, we back at the town hall with it's lovely wi-fi and braodband internet, as opposed to at the farm were the only access is dial-up. I had forgotten just how long it takes for dial-up to load pages!

Anyway, we logged on and Wil managed to find Raf (Brazillian from gap year) online using scype. We just ended a two and a half hour conversation with him, mainly remenising about our year in Taiwan.

It's strange just how many stories your forget/didn't know that come to the surface when you start to talk with others about the experiance. Wil reminded me about the rather druken night on the round Taiwan tour that ended in several drunk exchangers (mainly Luke) being locked in a room to make sure that they weren't found by rotarians, and how he actually had to stop american Alex from kicking the *beep* out of Luke because of some rather in appropriate comments he was making about some of the Taiwanese girls. I'm pretty sure this was the same night that Jake ended up sat in our room for an hour because he was pissed off at the guy as well.

*sigh* Good times!

In fact, we've been doing lots of remenising over the past few days about people and experiences from Taiwan. I've managed to get Melissa (Wil's cousin) interested in youth exchange, and she seemed to be pretty interested in my stories about the things we got up to while we were supposed to be studying (which we did so little of it's kinda wrong to call it a school study exchange!).

It's been pretty cool to talk about all the things we did over there. It makes me miss it sooo much. I'm not sure if anyone who's not been on exchange will ever understand, but these people became my family for a year. We had christmas and birthdays with them. When you got homesick, when you wanted to hit someone, when you wanted to kiss someone that you shouldn't, they were the peoeple you went to talk about it with. When you fell, they caught you and helped you get back up again.

They were the family we got to choose instead of the ones we had to like. I don't think I'll ever forget any of them, and in a way that makes me really sad.

Torchwood will be on 1-2 on thursday, and now I find that Eion Colfer is doing a Q&A session on Artemis Fowl 1.30-3

This is simply not fair!

Addition: On friday The Hobitt and The Big Bang Theory are also on at the same time, which is the same time as Continuum!

And 24 and Bones are at the same time! (-ish) which is the same as sanctuary!

Eureka and Atlantis play on friday night! That's gonna be sooooo busy


10:45-12:00 Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog— The story of a low-rent supervillain (Neil Patrick Harris as Dr. Horrible), the hero who keeps beating him up (Nathan Fillion as Captain Hammer), and the cute girl from the laundromat he's too shy to talk to (Felicia Day as Penny). This musical in three parts, created for the Internet and written by Joss Whedon, Jed Whedon, Zack Whedon, and Maurissa Tancharoen, premieres in its entirety on the big screen at Comic-Con. Room 6B

Oh, I have to see this!

Chuck and BSG are very close together, I may have problems there... and then I have Eureka which is again, close to Chuck!

Sixteen hours is a long time to be sat on a bus, or to be more precise three different buses with movement of baggage in between. However, I met some nice people who were also travelling across the bridge, so it wasn't as bad as it could have been. My phone battery ran out a few hours before the end of the journrey thought, so I was music-less for a while there.

Anyway, after arriving, I slept for a few hours then went to meet some people and go to a few interviews with Wil and his cousin Melissa. I also met a few people from the area, including the neighbours (who live a mile away!) and some other friends of the family. We ended up watching some fireworks in a place I can't remember the name of a few towns over. It was actually really nice to just spend a few hours talking to people and sitting out as it got dark. 

I have no idea what ele has been planned, but I think it going to be fun.