Monday, March 30, 2009

Peter Heatley

Cute boy, he just walked into my room with his arms open and said 'eh ohh big hug' like Dipsy. Cute :)

Get the bubbly, I'm going to University.

Monday, March 23, 2009

Today

So I didn't feel too sad and worn out, Marcus sent me a few little surpirses on Facebook.
They're all links to websites where I can look at newfoundlands. (L)!!!


My heartbeat says 'mar-cus, mar-cus, mar-cus' *swoooooooon*

I hate it when tutors swear at me.

It's not as cool as they think.

This is the worst day I have ever had at college- even worse than the time when My tutor stood on the toilet in the cubicle next to mine to see if I was okay over the top of the wall.
I find out this morning, two days before my interview that I have to have twenty boards in my portfolio. Great. I had about 7. I have never heard anything about twenty boards or any kind of amount me need to have, so now I'm desperately running between printing materials trying to scavenge a few decent prints that I can lie about in interview. I also have to come back to college in parent's evening tonight to do more darkroom printing, that's if I have the negatives of course. If I don't I'm absolutely fucked.
It's good of them to be strict and let us know how shit we are now, at crunch time, rather than when we can do something about it, properly. I feel like asking for my student survey sheet on tutor's abilities back so I can mark them down, now. SPITESPITESPITESPITESPITE.

Get well soon Marcus Barnett!! x

Saturday, March 21, 2009

Index Print

Marcus Barnett in the form of a puppy. (L)!!!

Today was great because my mum disappeared for ages and then called me outside, she said 'just look at these two little dogs!' When I got outside I was looking at gorillas.

it was exactly this!! One of them was 11 stone, and the other was 12 stone. They were so fluffy and had cute faces that were bigger than mine. One of them laid down and crossed it's front paws over each other! AW.

I got some nice pictures developed today.

Marcus and I spend Friday afternoon on the park with bread and berries. It was lovely because the sun was shining but it was really quite cold :|. The duck mates were sat together sunbathing which was really, really nice. Marcus said 'aw!' at them as soon as he saw them (L). A mum and her little daughter came towards the duck and the little girl said 'we've got no bread!' to her mum, so I offered her some of our loaf, she took the pieces, ran back to her mum and waved and smiled when she got over there. Cute overload or what?! The ducks didn't want the bread though, but she chased them a long way saying 'they don't want it' but continuing to throw it at them. How lovely :)

Success at tesco with my prints, so portfolio is looking alright.

Got mum a great cat-related card for mother's day. It says 'bloody cat stole my milk float again' and someone has drawn a picture of a cat driving a milk float. She'll love it :)

I went to see Damo Suzuki last night with klaus. It was great, he and his (very well dressed) band played a song for, must have been, over an hour. People were doing voluntary contemporary dance, throwing themselves all over the place. None stop laughter :) A man who was dressed in combat gear went around with a disposable camera, taking pictures of people and women's breasts, then he threw the camera up really, really high and it landed on a person behind him. Then, he collected his camera and rested his head on the stage as if he was stretching his legs back and he stayed there for a long time. Classic character. Nobody gave a fuck and it made for great viewing.
The rate the band were playing and amount of dancing people were doing made Marcus and I feel sick and we went for his train.

This is him.

Natasha Richardson has died :| heartbreaking. I'll never be able to watch Parent Trap again, now :(

I'm coughing so hard I think I'm damaging my eyes. This morning I coughed up my whole beans of toast and then some! Later today I coughed so hard into the toilet, I felt like I had nudged all of my insides and when I was gagging, nothing was something out, so it was squeezing even harder to get something out, but nothing came :( It was so painful and I cried. WIMP.
When I came out, mum had medicine ready for me (L). Let's get better.

Wednesday, March 18, 2009

please, please, please

fuck ooooooofffffffffffffffffffff.

I hate everything about this university business and having to put together a portfolio that they're probably going to turn their noses up at anyway.
fuck off, fuck off, fuck off, fuck off.


Grandad got taken into hospital again.

Monday, March 16, 2009

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Today, I had a really nice time in the sun and grass with Marcus. Always a pleasure.
Mum went wild, I got better prints from Tesco.
I got shouted at by Michelle.
Bad things happened to a lovely, lovely girl.
I left my pendrive at college.

Saturday, March 14, 2009

baby drop them keys,


Marcus Barnett: 'Barry gave me a bloody good backrub yesterday'



Thursday, March 12, 2009

Wednesday, March 11, 2009

When I'm on trains

I almost always get spoken to by quite an interesting person or two, but not so interesting if they are drunk or smell bad. A while ago, it must have been January and I had been to Chorley pubs with Marcus. I was waiting for the train at 12:30 and an old man who drinks real ale started talking to me about phones and technology, and we got onto the subject of darkroom photography, he has lots to sell because he used to made enlargers as a profession! How interesting indeed. He said he would send me a book on darkroom photography and that I should go to a meeting held every third Tuesday in Barton or somewhere.
It took ages for him to send the book and I just got it! It's really nice :) His name is Ken I think. His handwriting is difficult to read, but it seems a charming letter and he has encouraged me to ask around if anyone would like to buy his equipment. Aww, thanks Ken, you're a keeper. I'm going to write back and ask him to send me some of his prints.

Today it is two months since Marcus and I became boyfriend and girlfriend, we spend nice times together. I was going to take a picture of Marcus in front of the charity shop that he bought McBain from a while ago, because it has closed down :'( but there were men inside.
Yesterday was the best weather we have had all year, it was really pretty to be out and about it, but I was in a bad mood and unsociable all day. Sorry.


Today we have an 'off day' but I still must go in and 'help out' at open evening. How tedious. This must be the down side of having only 4 people in your class.

Monday, March 09, 2009

Scratchy Tights.

Hello,
Nicola's birthday was a really nice day spent. We had our picture taken reenacting the time where I gave Nicola the flowers, we took pictures in the toilet of Nicola Duck's big 18th! We go some absolutely wonderful deals in Urban Outfitters. Bloody good stuff getting to the counter and the lady telling you that the jacket worth £55 was actually reduced to £9.99 :|!!!!!! We did some nice things in Selfridges and made each other laugh loads. Gussy wussy and Lindylooloo took us to The Livingroom which was just lovely! We had cocktails! I hope Nicola Young had a lovely birthday time, yeah.
Later, I got alot off my chest. Although the only thing I said I wanted from her was done by text. Not appropriate.

Today I went into Manchester with Michelle, Vicky, Susan and Amy to have a little shadowing session in doubletake studios. It was great! The lady I shadowed was really fun and we chatting loads about all sorts. THEN, we got our puppydog gay boy. He was all lovely and muffin like with his cute little eyes and blonde hair and suit from Tesco. Aw (L)
We went upstairs to retouching too, which was nice. Again just chat, chat, chat with Mike and I did abit of this and that on the computers, editted my favourite boy's pictures :) (his name was Alek). They turned out pretty sweetly :). He loved it! We came home and I photographed a portfolio for some girl in the textiles class in about 10 minutes, SWEET QUICK WORKING BABY.

Here are some of the photographs I took in regards to this post...bits and bobs :)








Sunday, March 08, 2009

Ida.

Nothing much has happened, or it has and I will remember later.

We have a new downstairs toilet which is nice and white and clean. It's really shiney and makes me not want to do my business in there...didn't stop Barnett, mind. ¬¬

I give in my college work, finally! Ready and it's all finished and I worked really hard on it, she gave it back. I was fuming. She wants me to do an 'extra' final piece, as if I don't have an fmp to start. She called me clever after that, which hasn't happened since high school! She also compared my fmp idea to magpies. So the title of the project will have something to do with magpies in it :)

That night, Marcus and I went to Coda. It was really funny the way people were dancing and most people were very friendly, although on the whole, they looked smacked up on drugs. I liked it, until we shamelessly got kicked out. Sorry Marcus D:
Too, too drunk.

*printing is taking fucking ages*

The next day I went and bought a box portflio, the man was very gentle and kind helping me out and showing me how it works, he even gave me 10% off. He said 'I could knock 10 % off for you' and I said 'that is really kind, thank you very much' and then we had a chat about the troubles with credit card machines when you're serving customers. It's a hard life.
I also bought a top which I later found out and a massive gaping whole in the back :| I didn't even realise when I was buying it that it was part of the dress. I was in Nicola's house when I put my arm through it in astonishment.
It was Nicola's Party and some people were incredibly rude. INCREDIBLY rude and disrespectful by ruining something really precious to Nicola Young. I actually couldn't believe what I was hearing, to know a 'friend' had been so malicious and full of this hateful intent. It made my blood boil. I hope she understands how upsetting that must have been to find. Utterly horrendous behaviour.
On the other hand, the rest of the people there were really charming and were involved in non-destructive activities, like dancing and making jokes and being respectful to Nicola and her family.
Cheeky, cheeky uncle andy was doing his naughty, naughty business again, on top form this time for the birthday girl :) Bev was a saucy Vixon as usual and Angus was the resident DJ...westlife, good choice Gussy. DJ GUZZYBOI.
It was a nice night :)
HAPPY BIRTHDAY YOUNG'N

Today I am going into Manchester with Nicola Young for her actual birthday event. Which will be very nice :)

Sunday, March 01, 2009

BEEFY,





I haven't written in a long time which was brought to my attention the other day. There is a lot to report, I just don't have the patience.

My sister's birthday party last Sunday was wild. Where was she finding these bowling champions? Skill in 5 little 13 year old bodies. It was incredible. They got a little bit excited, mind. Drinks were spilling, texts were flying back and forth, jokes were being cracked like eggs none stop! I loved it :) Mum and I definitely had a favourite in Emma, oh yeah.
Frankie and Benny's is an unusual place, no? I hadn't been before that visit. It was quite nice :) Man Boob City in the photographs on the wall though, sheesh! Best veggie burger I have ever had. Happy Birthday Young'n!

Back to college, worst few days of my life. Awful, awful, awful facilities 'available'. I think the btec first years/a levels who don't care about photography should stick to digital because there isn't much they can do to fuck up the macs, but there's an awful lot at stake in the darkroom/tank room. And they're doing everything they can to ruin it for the second years, who have important work to be doing. You can redo first year work. I think they should fuck off (given a few exceptions, i.e Kathy, Tom and Josh :)!) . So I had a few pretty bad experiences, and realised my beloved Pentax might be dieing (NOOO!!!!!) :(:(:(:(:( please, please, please no :'''(

Friday was nice. The end of the week. Couldn't bring myself to be disappointed in everything for the third day in a row so I skipped my lessons and sat in the Library from 9:30-2:00. Took loads of notes on Diane Arbus, which was pleasant. I think I quite like her earlier stuff, and learning about Doon and Amy, too. They were little cuties, I can tell you!!
That afternoon, Marcus and I went back to that cute little book shop in Leyland. The man who owns it was relentlessly rejecting a woman and her books.
'oh but surely your customers would be interested in a book on Polish culture?!'
'no they wouldn't.'
And with that he made her walk away with three bags fulls of hugely heavy books. (L) After she had gone, he said 'sorry you were dragged into that...' to Marcus and I.
We went to the upstairs area and Beefy Botham happened.



After this, Nicola and I spent quality time eating mediocre food and drinking mediocre wine. We went to the cocktail factory which was really pleasant. It was all quiet and nice beverages were served. I had a bloody lovely time.
This time next week she'll be an adult, and and angelic one, too! Excited :)