I think I adore the community iconaday , it's just like a normal 50/100 icon challenge but the themes are posted once a day, rather than all at once (you can join in at any theme number and don't have to do 100 in a row, if the themes don't fit you can skip over them.) The comm doesn't seem to have as many active members as it should do so go join lol - any fandom (even bands/actors) are accepted!

I claimed Arthur, as someone has already claimed Merlin and, even though I only have 12 icons so far I'm gonna post those ones and keep updating it. I'll also make posts at major points (25, 50 and 100 icons.)

The themes are above the icons (there is an artist's choice one once a week.)

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So; I've been given the second Tech and Change assignment and it is writing an individual report - we've been given 12 topics to choose from and apparently we can even select our own if we get a lecturer to agree to it! The only problem is, I'm not sure which one I want to pick. They are all at least semi-interesting (some are more interesting than others) - any suggestions?


Oh but what to pick? *semi-brain flail*

Once again one of my flatmates has gone home for the weekend and won't be here for the cleaning inspection on Monday. Yet again she has left a note on Friday stating that she has done her duty for the week (vacum corridor, clean kettle, toaster and side of fridge and side of freezer) and asking us to clean up after ourselves.

I shall not clean. I am already doing my cleaning for the week and another flatmate (there are four of us.) I don't mind cleaning up for him because he did it for me when I went home at half-term and, even if he hadn't, he asked face-to-face rather than just leaving a note on the kitchen table. Plus this is at least the third time out of eight she has done this, and another three times she just didn't do any of her duties and got fined 18 quid each time. She just... doesn't clean! She goes home for the weekend but we'd all like to do that and can't because of the inspection first thing on Monday morning.

I did clean the hob for her last Tuesday though, and if I was in a better mood I might hover the corridor but I doubt it.

The other flatmate (another one here) has the bins this week and hasn't taken them out at all yet (there is one and a half bin bags and a carrier bag full) and it is making me retch when I go into the kitchen now. I know I should just take it out myself instead of moaning but I don't dare go near enough to it at the moment, I can barely get into the door! Luckily he should put them out some point today though!

On the plus side I am still enjoying Doctor Who! Just finished The Idiot's Lantern in season two so apparently it is first season of Torchwood next. I've been told by Dan who lives upstairs (my halls of residence is made up of 59 - I think - blocks of 12 people, each four to a floor, one to a room, so three floors in total) that I have to get caught up before the Christmas special airs. He says I'll cry at the end of season two (of Doctor Who) though, which might happen - I almost cried when Mickey stayed behind and I did cry a lot at the end of Father's Day (oh that was such a sad episode.)

The Daleks scared the shit out of me when they hovered outside station nine in The Parting of the Ways - I didn't expect that at all!

I told my mum the other night that he was cool because he watched Merlin and Doctor Who. I possibly need a new definition of cool.

Plus I need to find someone who remembers watching Coupling,nobody I ask seems to know what it is but it was such an awesome show! I was watching a bit of Jane and the Truth Snake the other day - ahh memories!

The internet has been dreadful today, which is probably why I'm feeling a tad riled about the note. I don't know if it is someone with a wireless router again or if it is just because everyone here decided to go on at the same time but it shut down for a bit a while back (though not for everyone) and for hours afterwards it was taking around two minutes or more to load a page - even to load an e-mail! I've put all my icontests up for adoption (which is kind of sad as they were such fun to mod but I don't have time to keep them and merlin_land going - esspecially if the internet keeps going down on me.)

So, in conclusion, to my non-cleany note-writing flatmate I say, well, my icon says it all really *ninja*

For Goodness Sakes! I've just recieved my marks back for the third programming assignment (5/5 so 15/15 so far - yays) but yet again I don't understand why someone gets a 0.5/5 alongside comments that say that they haven't submitted the work... what?

How is not doing the work getting a 0.5? I should have brought this up at the Student Rep meeting, other people in class have been wondering about the same thing.

I'm worrying about getting the Tech and Change exam marks back from last Tuesday. Hopefully tomorrow we'll be told what the 'individual report' is supposed to be, there is nothing up about it on Study Space, all I know is that it is 50% of the module mark, with the other half being the test.

I really should get off lj; I have to come up with a list of high level functional requirements for a fictional way to locate friends on maps on your mobile. I think I possibly need to come up with a list of low level functional requirements and perhaps even a use case story but I'm not quite sure, I can't remember what I promised to do for the team assignment in Systems Analysis and Design 1 (which is really bad because I only agreed to do it on Friday, I probably should have done it on Saturday when it was fresh in my mind.)

Ugh, I need a night out, I'm getting sick of my room.

I accidentally did something that I shouldn't have done on Friday and spent £20 on the first season of Doctor Who (my mum would probably flip if she found out) but... it... is... awesome! I'm trying to pace myself in watching it, partly due to not having much money and partly because the whole of Kingston seems to be out of the season two boxset (they only have the four episode single discs) but the pacing isn't working out too good. I'm currently on The Empty Child and I had no idea Captain Jack had an American accent - I remember watching the first few episodes of Torchwood when it aired but I must have forgotten it.

That accent though = *swoons*


On an unrelated note I'm going to start and post my fanfic and graphics back over here rather than on my fanfic/graphics comm - I'm currently signed up to three icon challenges (well, two but one is twice) which is scifi100 for Doctor Who Season One (see current icon being used) and iconaday where there is a daily theme posted and you can either make an icon for it or skip it for your claim(s) and you get to 50 or 100 in total - for that I've got Criminal Minds: General and Merlin: Arthur.

Speaking of Merlin, yesterday's episode was epic! I accidentally flailed a bit when Arthur said that all magic might not be bad but then Merlin had to go and ruin it - the bugger.

Anyhows, I'm off back to swoon some more :D

I have now got a brand new computer (after breaking mine) but there is a huge problem with it (even if my flat mate says it isn't a problem at all, according to him I am not, in fact "totally screwed" as I put it.)

I've lost all of my screencaptures that I take from DVDs (it is easier than downloading other people's ones or going through galleries only to find the exact cap I'm looking for isn't there) and that is fine. If I was on either of my old computers (the desktop stored over a hundred miles away or my old laptop that now won't turn on and stay on for more than ten seconds or so) I could cap my DVDs.

Losing my caps wouldn't be so bad as I do love organising the pictures but... I can't cap! I use KMPlayer and it has always served me well. On my desktop it worked perfectly but then on my old laptop I downloaded the latest version and it doesn't work, it comes up with this stupid "Impossible to work at superspeed mode, or there is no KMP transform filter" message whenever I try automatic capping and none of the results on the official forum help, none of them - and these posts asking for it are going back to 2008!

On my old laptop, what I did was just copy the older version from my desktop over to that and the old version worked perfectly fine and I went on my merry-iconing-way but I don't have access to either machine now! I can't get an older version and I can't find any way to cap! I've spent all of yesterday afternoon watching (most of) the second half of season four of Supernatural and I can't make Castiel icons - not even with his puppy dog eyes!

On the plus side I'm about to possibly fall in love with the Torchwood fandom. On the downside I wouldn't be able to icon if I did :(



So, does anyone either know where I can find a virus-free older KMPlayer version, how to fix the blasted problem, or a good (free) alternative? I need help, otherwise I am totally screwed!

A few things (which are all inter-related)...

a) Arthur Pendragon is a fantastical prat, but then again, so is all of Merlin. One of the best shows I have ever seen! If you are a merlin fan I demand that you check out pendragonstills and merlin_land :P
b) I recently saw an American (I think) talking about how cute Bradley's (see icon, plays Arthur) teeth are because they are wonky. Are bad British teeth in fashion? If so I'm ultra-fashionable haha!
c) I want to be at University right now, like, right now, like right, right now because I'm sick to death of being home.
d) I'm not sure if I should join the LGBT group when I'm at Uni - I want to but I'm scared that I'd end up being the only girl there :( I never joined the one at college as I was in class when it was held but as I'm bi and not a full lesbian I don't know if people would think I was one of those annoying girls who just snog their mates when they're drunk to make their boyfriends horny.
e) I detest having a nut allergy. On the day everyone moves into halls (Saturday) a load of people are going to Nandos, been organised on facebook but I can't eat there because of my allergy.
f) So instead I shall sit in the common room and watch the premiere of season two Merlin (or if someone else has already claimed the tele I shall wander about and then watch it the second it goes on iPlayer.)
g) I LOVE how for once the shoe is on the other foot and that we British get to watch a show that Americans have to wait to watch! Isn't it fantastic?

oh my goodness Amplifaction was a damn good episode - well worth waiting for :)

Even if I did feel stupid crying when Spencer was leaving the message for his mother :(

I have somewhere to live when I get to Uni and I'm still finding my room number hysterical even though it was like, the day before yesterday that I got the confirmation - the halls are grouped into groups in different locations and each group has numerous flats, which have numerous floors (A = Ground, B = Middle and C = Top) which have numerous rooms in them.

I... am in 01A1 of a certain halls group; that's right - the first room in the ground floor in the first flat - hehehe! On the downside I might not get any sleep if everyone has to walk past me (not sure of the layout yet) but on the plus side, I should be near the exits in the case of an emergancy.

I had my tooth taken out the other day and I need to have the tops of my two front ones filled in on Thursday which is rather scary because I'm really scared of needles - eep.

...to try watching Merlin for a few reasons;

[x] everyone who watches it seems to love it

[x] I refused to watch it because I thought the two actors were approximatley 14 years old and therefore thought the fandom slashing was a bit icky (not sure how old the characters are but that would be less icky if they were under 16 rather than the actors - if that makes sense) so I decided to look it up online, which was followed with omgwtfnoway-ness that the guys who play Merlin and Arthur are both older than I am! They look loads younger than me! Or maybe I just look old :p

[x] I desperatly need cheered up after the idiots at Student Finance have fucked up again

[x] I really want to get out of the house so I'm going, even if I just look at prices (bit worried how much money the dvd would be)

[x] My mum always tells me off for not watching English shows and only watching American ones.

On the downside apparently it isn't faithful to the ledgend but on the plus side I pretty much jack all about it. Although I did walk up that hill in Glastonbury when I was a kid on holiday; all I remember is that it was huge (though to be fair it was probably tiny, I just had short legs... still do - only 24 inch inseam 0_0 even though when I'm sitting down I hardly look shorter than people at all)

So - I am off to HMV to see the prices, I miss having Zavvi around, it was always so much cheaper and a much more fun store as well (ours had stairs.)

I really do enjoy trying to remember dreams (have a dream journal as audiopineapple as well) and every so often they turn fandomy. Night before last it was a rather scary Supernatural one about demons and last night a CM lesbian one, though I'm not sure if it was Emily or Elle with JJ - I think Emily but the other characters looked like they did in season one. Either way, Reid had secretly filmed them and was showing all the other guys - how out-of-character is that! :S

Needless to say the second dream was a whole lot better than the first lol.



I like fandom dreams, but I still haven't had one quite as weird as Locke from Lost sitting crosslegged upside down on the ceiling.

I threw out my red shoes (okay, peachy-red) out a few months ago. If I hadn't I would click my heels together and mutter "there's no place like London." Then maybe it would be *checks calender* 52 days from now and I would at Uni and I would have something more to do of an evening than watch Supernatural DVDs and play Farmville on Facebook.

In 24 days I'm going to the pre-uni meet up. I'm so pleased that the people set it up, there's a chance I might even meet someone I'll be in Halls with (we are all going to the same campus and two halls serve that campus.)

In better news I have lost 15% of my body weight, 31.5 pounds gone so far :)

In the past, CM has surprised me with plot twists quite a few times but tonight's episode - that was just ridiculously obvious. An okay episode in total but still... obvious to the point of fault.

Okay... I didn't mean to make a Garcia comm but the idea had been floating around in my head for ages. There are ones for almost every other CM character, but not Garcia (though there are two Garcia/Morgan ones.)

So, if you like the Queen of All Knowledge, head on over to garcia_love  for discussion and Garcia-related goodies :)

I'm not sure what happened when I tried to transfer my files from the itunes on my old computer to my laptop (aimee) but it somehow fucked up and missed out huge swathes of songs. It cut a portion of the B artists, including Bowling For Soup but more annoyingly it demolished my M artists - vanishing Madeline Peyroux and the majority of My Chemical Romance into thin air! It only left me with Black Parade and the second live album.

But now I have found two of the missing MCR albums, IBYMBYBMYL and Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge (and the Bowling For Soup one) and I am importing to my iTunes as I type and then going to lie down and listen to music and try to get some sleep (this is my own daft fault, I ahd a nap in the afternoon - should not do that, I can never get to sleep of a night when I do.) I still don't know where Life on the Murder Scene (found the two dvds but the cd is not in the case with them!), Black Parade single (I'm missing having Heaven Help Us on the iPod) and Peyroux are but I'm going to look for them later on today because it's currently 01:47 and I don't want to wake parents/pets rummaging through the spare room.

I am feeling rather hyper, I blame the diet coke and the fact that it is the weekend (whoop) so this post accidentally became longer than I planned.

And have an urge to make icons already; it was fun (and better than Twilight lol), although the cliff-hanger really pissed me off, I don't want to have to wait a week to find out what happens (although obviously she'll be alright) and I hate spoilers so I'm gonna have to just sit on my hands I guess.

The most annoying thing about that show is the setting as, although Southern accents are sexy, I miss tonnes of words because they're just really strong. It's like if you put a Geordie in the middle of Chicago or somewhere; nobody would have a clue what they were saying. This wouldn't annoy me in the slighest of course if FX had subtitles, because then I'd pick up what I missed, but they don't have them on any of their programs on the entire channel. Ugh. So, really, I'm not annoyed at the show, just the channel. It's the same with when I've been trying to watch Friday Night Lights on DVD, that doesn't have subtitles either.

I might try and see if anyone has set up a UK True Blood comm but I doubt it will happen. Most people'll probably watch it online over, like, the rest of the weekend and get up to American speed if they haven't already but I think I'll draw it out week-by-week. I'm bored out of my mind now that my college course is over and there are still *checks calender* 64 or so days until University starts and none of my shows I like, bar CM are airing at the moment (that was a good episode tonight: 'Conflicted' - aww for feeling-bad-for-unsub episodes.)

I'm a bit worried about my sister, nephew and brother-in-law at the minute. There's been an outbrake of swine flu at the area where they live (RAF base) and loads of people there already have it. Plus the death count for the UK is now 29 and on Monday it was 17 so it's getting a bit too scary now. They were saying that up to 65,000 people could die here in the Winter from it and I was thinking earlier that, in like 200 years, kids might get taught in school about the "population controlling virus of 2009 which blah blah blah", like we'd get taught about diseases and viruses from the past. It would just be considered something that happened, rather than something that was happening and it was a bit freaky to think of life like that. It creeps me out when I think that the future will be the distant past one day.

Hopefully I'll get my college results next week. I think I came quitehigh up in the class, I know of two people who will have got better than me - Michael S and Paul got Distinctions in 9/9 modules, I only got them in 8/9 and one Merit. Pah, never mind though, considering that most people are repeating the whole year next year I'm not that bothered. I only needed a pass to get into Kingston so I know that I've got that. It's just that I applied for halls of residence and nothing happens until the exam board send me my results, which I then send to Kingston who then say "congratulations, you're coming here in September" and then decide if I get a halls of residence place. There aren't enough halls for everyone to stay there their first year and everyone applies at the same time but then I think it's like a first-come-first-served basis, esspecially with regards to the choice of room (you have to pick three options out of a few) and I'm just hoping that I get my results before the A-Level results are published (which I think is in August) because, in theroy, if I send mine off before the majority of people send their results off, I may have a higher chance of getting the room that I want (En-suite - I don't want to share a bathroom with 6-10 people, I've had a family bathroom for the past 22 years and I'd like a bit of privacy now haha.) Hopefully it'll be in a better shape than the bathroom that we have now. We got a pumber in years ago and he fucked it right up, when you flush the loo you have to wait quarter of an hour until it can flush again and the shower leaks through to the living room and is covered in mould. I did warn my parents that they would regret replacing our old bath/shower combination with a shower cubicle but they didn't listen *rolls eyes*

Anyhow, I'll shut up now :P

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