Merry Christmas everyone! I can’t believe it’s this time of year again – it only feels like Christmas was 10 months ago or so! What? IT WAS!?!?!

Hmm, well, must be a time zone difference thing. Either way, its Christmas! Or – atleast there are some people who think it is… Let’s set the scene, November 1st, the day after Halloween, and we go shopping at our ‘local’ supermarket – Harris Teeter, and the first thing we notice – Christmas products on sale! Now, we think its a bit early, but we go along with it…

Today however in the bookstore on campus, they were playing music from a radio station, and, nevertheless, they were Christmas songs. It’s November 5th I would like to add. It’s a bit strange, but again, we go along with it… buying a few campus t-shirts and such with Christmas songs on in the background… its all good.

When I got back to my flat, being bored as always, I could either do work or do nothing. So, I decided on the latter… after a while I decided to check out the same radio station’s website which was playing in the bookstore. What do I find? Christmas songs – all weekend. They’re even playing Radio Jingles saying stuff like “Wishing you a very Merry Christmas K104.7″. Even while I write this, ‘Santa Claus Is Coming To Town’ is playing in the background.

The question is. When is early, too early?

Yesterday we went to Discovery Place here in Charlotte. It’s like the Science Museum in London if anyone has ever been. Anyways, the building was split up into different exhibits, mainly being about, the body, physics and such, illusions, a rainforest area, and the main part being all about Movies! The movie part was a featured exhibit which is going around the country, whereas everything else is pretty much standard. The ‘normal’ stuff though was pretty good – some piccies in the gallery of course!

The movie part had costumes and props from alot of films, such as Pirates of the Carribean, Star Wars, ET, I,robot, Titanic, Indiana Jones to name a few. Pics below, and more in the gallery of everything from there!

From left to right, Indiana Jones, Keira Knightley’s Dress in Pirates of the Carribbean, Catwoman

From left to right, I,robot, I,robot Drawings, Star Wars

Find more photos in the Discovery Place album in the gallery by clicking here

But no! It wasn’t over just yet… we could also pay a little extra to make and appear in our own ‘movie’. So, we did, along with a family. There were a few sets and we basically were all given mini acting parts in each to tell a story… watch it below!

OK, it was a couple nights ago, but I still remember part of it vividly. For whatever reason I’m back at school (Westlands that is), but obviously it doesn’t look like Westlands but some big castle or something, as buildings and such always look completely different in dreams - even though – I knew – its was Westlands… anyway, I was there with my mates, and Mrs T organising some sort of party or something, anyway, for whatever reason I suddenly have to go feed my cats. Now, I don’t have any idea why they were at school, but hey, I went and picked up thier food bowl, put food in it, but when I put it back down I squased one of my cats… The reason is because for whatever reason I was dreaming that my cats were like spiders, the size of spiders and everything, andso when I put the bowl back down, I accidently put it onto of one and squased it… yea…

 So that was my amazing crazy dream. Other than that I’m here surviving through what would seem to be an insect bite every hour… well.. not that much, but I do keep geting bit everyday by a couple! Damn them! But, everything is going fine, the majority of our lectures are ok, one may be slightly of concern though, but it looks like we’ll just have to wait and see how it goes…

This weekend we’re all going to the mall on Friday, a Car show thing at the uni on Saturday and then an American Football game on Sunday! So, theres no rest for the wicked!

As promised I’ve put some pictures up in the gallery, click on each folder to see other pics, then click on each pic to see a larger version! I’ll keep putting more up as I take them!

What?!?! Who!?!?! Why!?!?!

 Yes, you arn’t dreaming (or having a nightmare – which is more likely in this case) – this actually is a new blog post! YES! Brand spanking new! I can’t really believe it either! (Well, I can, cause I’m writing it….) ANYWAYS! This one is gonna be short and sweet, I’ll post another one in a few days – honest(!)

 The reason for the lack of posts, the last being 2 months or so ago… is, well, I forgot the password – how foolish of me. Yes! There is a lost password button I could have – and did press! However, it regenerated a new password and emailed it to my email address – but, since updating the site .com address a couple months back all of that email was getting lost and I could do was change my email to my hotmail one… simple right? Ha! Not really, Kingston Uni was blocking the ports I needed to access the admin area to change the email to get my new password…. so… I’ve been helplessly lost – waiting to come back home to change it! – Which I have! Yay for me!

 What? Why didn’t I change it at easter when I was home… er… I forgot?

 Anyways there’s loads to talk about… America, Exams, Ending Uni (the 1st year anyways!), ABC1!, and er… there is other stuff, I just can’t think at the mo!

I’ll write about that stuff (or atleast some of it) in the next post… but for now I just remembered I should read Myles’ blog as its been out a couple days! (I expect some cross promotion from you aswell Myles – AHEM) hehe….

The hunt for a decent phone signal has well and truely become beyond a joke now, for the past two months I’ve had the worst signal I’ve ever had with any phone I’ve had, and it really is making me irritated, it seems that the majority of the time when I want to make a call, I have to actually find an area with signal, and plan my steps incase I walk into a dreaded Orange signal black spot, which for me they seem to be very frequent, but now I’m having concerns that it could be my phone, other than Orange… even though it did begin when they had technical problems in my area, which I had them confirm to me via email… but still, if it carries on much longer I may just move networks back to O2, I’m getting stressed with all these missed call text messages filling my inbox like theres no tomorrow…

I also was in my sister’s car an hour or so ago, at the traffic lights on the dual carriage way near to the local Sainsbury’s, the lights went green, and my sister stalled… followed by a loud bump from the car behind who had jsut shunted us, pulled over round the corner and the driver in the other car was friendly enough, no damage or anything though, so all’s ok I guess…

Anyways, I’ve completed the job of having to type hundreds of 1′s and 0′s to record SATs results for Torbay Council… and oh my was it a tedious long task, but hey, I’m getting paid…

Also, on Tuesday I got a photo that I took of an incident from the previous Saturday night printed in the local newspaper, at the top of page five, and I got mentioned in the caption underneath… you can look at scanned pics here, or go searching through all those old papers hehe.

Anyway’s, thats enough for now… go to the gallery by clicking the link on the right, to look at some updated pics and new galleries – including the sixth form prom photos!