ID embarrassments...

It's summmmmmer! :) The rest of the exams went pretty well, feels like they were a good decade ago at this point!

Was my little brother's birthday today, headed over to Tesco to get a box of matches to put on his birthday cake and ended up getting IDed...it was pretty embarrassing, they told me to come back when I'm sixteen...oh, so a year and a half ago then?! When I explained that I am in fact seventeen and a half they all but laughed in my face! Eventually I was given the matches, but 'just this once'...for my eighteenth someone else can buy them!!

Oh, how very cringe...

Exams and the like...

The last thing in the world I want to do is jinx them but...*deep breath*...the exams are actually going surprisingly okay! The three essays I knew for history all came up today (lucky much?!) so I'm in pretty high spirits about the whole thing. It makes me feel pretty silly to say I was nearly physically sick last night while I had a frighteningly realistic vision of myself looking at the exam paper and not knowing a single thing on it!

Biology tomorrow, I'm a bit worried about that, but I guess the worst is over at this stage- only three exams to go! :) In other news, the old mobile's a bit banjaxed, dropped it a good ten too many times, but I guess it's held up pretty well for a twenty nine euro job so I can't complain!

Anyways, I'll keep this post short and sweet like my skirt (quote random girl from MUN) and sign off to bed now at the daring hour of 9.35! Wish me luck and apologies in advance if tomorrow's post is of the angry and tearful variety...all depends what raises its ugly head on the biology exam. Anyone wish to join me in a prayer for genetic crosses?! Stay classy Blogspot!

PS. Niamh's still so deep these days. She buys cards made by the physically handicapped in impoverished countries and cites ignorance over waterborne diseases as her least favourite aspect of western society...that is no joke. A humanitarian if ever there was one...

Makes me mad...

I've never really paid much attention to the whole 'size zero debate', mainly because some people just naturally are size zero and telling them how ugly and undesirable they are doesn't solve anything. I just think people are the size they are and if it's not a health risk just leave them to it. However, I read an interview in the paper today that really made my blood boil.

Peaches Geldof is the face of a new underwear campaign aimed at young girls. I've never been her biggest fan, she has nice clothes but is kind of annoying to be honest, so I give her a wide berth. But if she's gonna go around saying she's a plus size model then I'm gonna take that as a personal insult. Yes, she said that. The interview I read this morning was all about how she's a role model for bigger girls because they look at how 'curvy' she is and find that inspiring...this woman is a size eight!! That's the smallest size many highstreet shops stock! If Peaches is plus size then what does that make the rest of the world?!

The interview came complete with a paparazzi photograph of Peaches frolicking around on the beach in her swimming togs looking quite sweet and normal...with a caption underneath talking about how it doesn't bother her how 'unflattering and wobbly' this photo makes her look! If that's the case then I spend my life walking around being unflattering and wobbly because that's the way I myself and most humans appear! I just can't wrap my head around it...

It makes me sick how she seems to really think she's being a role model. I've read interviews with her where she condemns fashion magazines for 'making people feel ugly'. Maybe she should look around at the rest of the world before she starts going on about how 'curvy' and 'pear shaped' she is because she's not making anyone feel good but herself.

Back in black

I'm back! Went to a drama contest last night with my good friends Niamh McDonagh and Aisling Murphy...started off fabulous, especially when we thought only two people had entered...turned out there were actually nine people and they all did two pieces each that lasted a good ten minutes and some were a bit snoooozesome...also the theatre place was a good two hundred degrees hot! Niamh and I's solution was to subtley remove a good ten items of clothing while the lights were safely off, who could have predicted they'd come on again so suddenly...shocking for those around I can only imagine...

Another personal highlight was the speech by a very famous, drunk and respected member of the drama teaching community, an extract follows below...
'This feis used to take place in a church, except all the priests died...except for of course Father Michael...my dad died...it's good to have friends...especially Anne, Derbhaile, Anne and Anne...DON'T MOVE MY PROP...'
I had to eat the belt I'd taken off to stop myself from laughing at the poor soul...

An absolute hero won the cup in the end whose piece included the line 'Ethel looks like something that'd eat their young'...deserved.

Just spent half an hour teaching my thirteen year old brother quadratics while he screamed about how 'ABUSIVE' I was being...fulfilling stuff, teaching.

Annnyways, better dashio like pistachio mannn...

Turning over a new leaf...

I'm rather awful at the old consistency. I start blogs, diaries, studying, new days resolutions and the like most days and I don't think I've managed to keep a single one of them going for more than a week...I've promised myself this time is different though so wish me luck! I started this blog to write nice things about my good friend Niamh...she'd like you all to know she's very deep.

Annnyways, I guess I should probably get on with posting the juicy details of my personal life on the internet. We'll start small...on the upside of today, I got to go home early and have chicken soup cos of this cold I have...a whopper arrangement, cheers Shereen :) On the downside, my mother took away the Percy Pigs before I decided I wanted a third one...they're now with her in the car on her way to Dundrum...some people...

I love Cruel Intentions, such a good film. Katie agrees with me. Watched it yesterday and was blown away...that Sebastian one...wowzers!! Plans for today include watching Made and filling a shoulder bottle up with water and pretending it's vodka tomorrow...I might explain later.

Shout out to fellow bloggers Nicole and Lorcan!! Woo!! Should probably go get some study done for the 'random revision' test I have in biology tomorrow...making it sound like a game doesn't make it much funner. :(

I'm not promising I'll ever be on this site again, but if I am you'll know I've become a better person inside. Huzzah! That Niamh one is such a deep thinker...