Meme

I'm bored so I Stole this from Den.

Q: WHO IS THE 4TH PERSON ON YOUR RECEIVED CALL LIST?
A: My sister.

Q: WHAT'S the MAIN RINGTONE ON YOUR PHONE?
A: Polyphonic version of Charly by The Prodigy.

Q: WHAT WERE YOU DOING AT MIDNIGHT LAST NIGHT?
A: Watching 'Family Guy' on BBC2 whilst changing my bedsheets.

Q: WHAT DID THE LAST TEXT MESSAGE ON YOUR CELL PHONE SAY?
A: "Oh no they can't kill charlie! x" It's refering to the season finale of 'Hotel Babylon'. I replied by saying that his survival probably depends on how much moolah the BBC have offered Max Beasley to return for series two!

Q: WHOSE BED DID YOU SLEEP IN LAST NIGHT?
A: My own.

Q: WHAT COLOR SHIRT ARE YOU WEARING?
A: Mauve.

Q: MOST RECENT MOVIE THAT YOU WATCHED?
A: 'Wedding Crashers' at the Cinema. 'Carry on Doctor' on TV. There wasn't much else on yesterday afternoon!

Q: NAME 3 THINGS THAT YOU HAVE ON YOU AT ALL TIMES?
A: Phone, purse, keys.

Q: WHAT'S THE COLOR OF YOUR BEDSHEETS?
A: Pale blue and white.

Q: HOW MUCH CASH DO YOU HAVE ON YOU RIGHT NOW?
A: About a fiver.

Q: WHAT IS YOUR FAVOURITE PART OF A CHICKEN?
A: If it's dead a Drumstick. If it's alive none of it. I think they're terrifying creatures and that decision was made before bird flu!

Q: WHAT'S YOUR FAVOURITE TOWN/CITY?
A: Cardiff.

Q: I CAN'T WAIT TO...?
A: Have some dinner. I'm hungry.

Q: WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME YOU SAW YOUR MUM?
A: This morning.

Q: WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME YOU SAW YOUR DAD?
A: Last night.

Q: WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME YOU TALKED TO THEM?
A: I this means my parents the answers are as above.

Q: WHO GOT YOU TO JOIN LIVEJOURNAL?
A: People on a bulletin board called Moletalk used to talk about it so I grabbed a user account code from one of them.

Q: WHAT DID YOU HAVE FOR DINNER LAST NIGHT?
A: Full roast dinner followed by apple sponge.

Q: HOW LONG HAVE YOU BEEN AT YOUR CURRENT JOB?
A: Since October 25th 2004.

Q: LOOK TO YOUR LEFT - WHAT DO YOU SEE?
A: A fellow student actually using the library for it's intended purpose and doing some work.

Q: WHO IS THE LAST PERSON YOU SPENT £50 ON?
A: Probably my mum at Christmas.

Q: WHAT'S THE LAST PIECE OF CLOTHING YOU BORROWED FROM SOMEONE?
A: Not sure...

Q: WHAT WEBSITE(S) DO YOU USUALLY VISIT MOST DURING THE DAY?
A: Hotmail when no one's looking!

Q: DO YOU HAVE AN AIR FRESHNER IN YOUR CAR?
A: I don't have a car. If I did I wouldn't have an air freshner. They tend to gas me!

Q: DO YOU HAVE ANY PLANTS IN YOUR ROOM?
A: No. Plants don't survive long in my posession.

Q: DOES ANYTHING HURT ON YOUR BODY RIGHT NOW?
A: My throat, my left foot and my tongue which is covered in ulcers :(

Q: WHAT CITY WAS YOUR LAST TAXI RIDE IN?
A: London.

Q: DO YOU OWN A CAMERA PHONE?
A: Yep, but because I'm on pay as you go I can't send pictures unless they're black and white (too many mbs!).

Q: WHAT'S YOUR FAVOURITE STARBUCKS DRINK?
A: Chocolate cream frappuchino.

Q: RECENT TIME YOU WERE REALLY UPSET?
A: Not sure. Had a bit of a wibble at work back in November. Think it was probably hormonal.

Q: HAVE YOU BEEN IN LOVE WITH ANYONE?
A: Yes. The less said about that the better I feel.

Q: WHO DO YOU THINK WILL REPOST THIS?
A: No one.

Another week, another journal entry

I'm really, really tired as I've got a sore throat and I didn't sleep well last night. I felt so bad yawning my way through the three hour lecture that's just finished. It must be pretty demoralising being a lecturer when someone in the front row can't stop yawning.

Things aren't good with Grandad which isn't helping matters. The people who run his sheltered accomodation have told him that unless he has a carer he'll have to go into a nursing home. Grandad has refused point blank to allow a carer into his bungalow so we're stuck. Dad really doesn't want to put Grandad in a home but if the sheltered accomodation won't have him any more there isn't anything else to do. I wish he could come and live with us but our house is tiny and there is no downstairs loo so it's not possible. I'm really worried about my parents as they're not getting any younger and a twenty mile round trip to sort Grandad out each day probably isn't doing them much good.

On a slightly more positive note, my Amazon order arrived. The 24 Hour Party People soundtrack is brilliant. I'm not sure whether I've gone on about this before but I love 'Ever Fallen in Love' by The Buzzcocks so much. If I had to choose one song I wish I'd written it would be that one. It's such a simple song but so effective. I've also been watching odd fragments of The Tribe Series Two. Series Two has been relased by a different company and the packaging isn't anywhere near as nice as the 'Sanctuary' packaging for the original release of Series One. Packaging is just a minor concern though as the series is great. Last night I rewatched the brilliant scene in which Ebony threatens Patsy who thinks she lead her to her death the previous day. I'm going to try and make some icons but the tribe icon making community seems a bit hostile (mainly miserable American teenagers as far as I can see) so I'll be hiding from them and hoping I haven't unknowingly pinched any of their ideas! The remainder of my Amazon order consisted of the brilliant debut albums from Hard Fi and the Arctic Monkeys. Oh, and a book about business research methods but we won't dwell on that...

Tuned in to the season finale of 'Hotel Babylon' on Thursday. The ending was very dramatic although I couldn't figure out what possessed Steven Berkoff to take a part in the show. Shouldn't he be making ground breaking experimental theatre or something?! The bad news is that there won't be any more Dexter spottings on TV for a while :( The good news is that 'The Family Man' starring Trevor Eve and featuring Lee Ross is starting soon. There's going to be an article in the Radio Times next week. I'll make sure to cut it out and scan it if Lee's featured. As I was at home on Saturday afternoon for the first time in ages I watched 'Faith in the Future'. We're now on to the second series and, as I predicted it is much improved by Simon Pegg replacing Charlie Creed-Miles as Jools. The best thing was that Julia had her hair in long dreadlocks which looked suprisingly good. More than a little of her own personality creeping into the role I think.

I'm not sure what else has happened. I've done quite a lot of reading for uni I guess...

Cardiff bloke seems to have gone to ground. I hope he's ok as the weather has been bad in mid Wales. If you're reading this Cardiff Bloke *waves*.

That's all for now.

Book meme

Gacked from Meg ages ago but I haven't had time to do it until now.

Book Meme
Here are the current top 50 books from whatshouldireadnext.com. Bold the books you have read. Italicise the books you might read. Cross out the books you probably won't read, ignore books you have no opinion on. Pass it on.

(I've just realised I don't know how to cross things out so I'll but a * beside the one I probably won't read instead!)

The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger
The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy - Douglas Adams
The Great Gatsby - F.Scott Fitzgerald
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
The Time Traveler's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger (I'll have to ignore this one, I know nothing about it)
*His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman (Friends reckon it's too scary for me)
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Harry Potter 6) - J.K. Rowling (I'll read it when it comes out in paperback because I'm tight!)
*Life of Pi - Yann Martel
Animal Farm: A Fairy Story - George Orwell (I probably should read it. I've seen the animated film...)
*Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
The Hobbit - J. R. R. Tolkien
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
Lord of the Flies - William Golding
*Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen (I don't need to see it. I've seen it on TV a million times)
1984 - George Orwell
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Book 3) - J.K. Rowling
One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez (I don't know anything much about this one either)
Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini (nor this one)
The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
Slaughterhouse 5 - Kurt Vonnegut (or this one)
Angels and Demons - Dan Brown (or this one! Not doing too well here am I!)
Fight Club - Chuck Palahniuk
Neuromancer - William Gibson
Cryptonomicon - Neal Stephenson
The Secret History - Donna Tartt
A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
Wuthering Heights - Emily Brontë
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
American Gods - Neil Gaiman
Ender's Game (The Ender Saga) - Orson Scott Card
Snow Crash - Neal Stephenson
A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe - C.S. Lewis
Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides
Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Brontë
Good Omens - Terry Pratchett, Neil Gaiman
Atonement - Ian McEwan
The Shadow Of The Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
*The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway (no chance, I'm not that intellectual!)
The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
Dune - Frank Herbert


I wonder if I will actually read the one's I said I wanted to. A guy I used to share a house with kept a bookmark with a list of all the books he wanted to read written on it which is a brilliant idea. I never got around to starting my own one though.