I can't give off the excuse that I've been busy as my reason for not writing to my blog for so long. I just can't be bothered, until today, well there's nothing else to do!
It's just the beginning of the Easter holidays, even though Easter was about 2 weeks ago. Not really much of a holiday though, I have a lot of coursework to do.
Not that I hate school. It's just the work you get set to do when you're not there. The homework has nothing to do with what you were taught in the lesson! And as if that isn't bad enough, the ones that actually bother to do the work actually get set more work in the form of an extension task. How rewarding. Rant over (I think).
Wednesday at school was a bit strange. It was a bit of a ghost town. 3/4 of our year had gone up to London (or, as we say in Devon, Lendin) to learn about Jack the Ripper. 6 hours sat on a bus either way. Thank god I didn't take History. It was quite enjoyable with so few of us, I could actually get a word in edgeways. Oh, and we got given cake. That also made things better.
On Thursday Jeri called, asking if I wanted to meet her the next day. What sounded like 'the beach' on the phone, actually turned out to be 'the bead shop'. There was me, with my bike ready to cycle on the Tarka Trail to Instow, and Jeri was giving me a strange look, like 'what've you got your bike for? you only live a 10 minute's walk away from town!' sort of look. It was a bit of a nuisance to be honest. First of all the bike fell over in the street blocking the pavement when I left it outside the shop, so I had to go pick it up every 3 minutes, and then I had to lug it home after a not-so-successful recording session at Jeri's place, which by the way is at the bottom of the steepest street in the world. Along with the bike though I brung home the bracelet I made with the beads we bought, which has bells on it! Everyone can hear me coming now!
Yesterday I listened to the lovely Colin Mochrie interview on blogtalkradio whilst stuffing my face with Fruit Allsorts. Go listen to it if you haven't already - http://www.blogtalkradio.com/OLIVIA
Or even better, download it so you can listen to it over and over again wherever you go! It's just 2 hours of lovelyness.
I've been in quite a good mood this week. Only 3 weeks and 5 days til I go and see Air Traffic, and my Envy & Other Sins CD and Whose Line DVDs arrived. Step Across is one kick-ass song, I'm telling you that.
As for the DVDs well, they didn't arrive at my house. They arrived at the local Post Office, and I had to pay an extra 12 QUID in customs fees before I could receive it. Stupid government, £4 of it was fricking VAT. But at least it worked in my DVD player, I was worried that it wouldn't because it was a different region, but I seem to have cracked the region-free code for now! And in conclusion I say that paying £35 for both the DVDs was finally worth it.