play until midnight

I see by reading Dessa's blog that I am Miss Pink! :D  I guess it's because I'm a girly girl.  We went to a restaurant on Edgware Road last week, to a place called Abu Zaad, where she ordered in Arabic, which I thought was pretty cool.  I'm not confident enough in my Chinese speaking ability to be able to order in a restaurant.  The food was yummy, and very well priced.  It was good to have a chat and see peolle I hadn't seen for a little while.  With the use of N's iphone, we were able to look at facebook and hot friends.  Sadly, I could not think of any :(


It was graduation last week; went along as I was in the library and SAF.  Saw many people in their gowns, saw a few friends and familiar faces... I can't wait to graduate!


I have done much work this week... lectures and the like, reading and writing... I feel a bit overwhelmed by  the first module.  Although, when I started my placements last year at NP and CX, I had lots of information thrown at me at one time, so it seemed stressful but going through it, it wasn't too bad.  I am hoping that that is what this year will be like.


Went to see the new Heath Ledger film.  Yes I have referred to it as this, because
a) if I say "The Imaginarium of Dr Parnassuss" most people won't know what I mean
b) everyone knows who Heath Ledger is
c) it's easier to say


It was good because it was very different.  All the characters were played very well.  Tom Waits was an excellent Devil, and Lily Cole was great as Valentina.  She has an alien like look about her, which is probably why she got scouted.  I love her though.  She's very pretty.  But the story kinda.... I didn't understand what happened in one bit, where the Devil and Valentina are dancing, and then she goes through the wrong door.


Had a general knowledge quiz from P the other night, as he asked me how did I rate my general knowledge.  He then proceeded to ask me what I thought were specialist knowledge questions.  It made me feel a little dumb, but I think I'm happier with someone who knows much more than I do.  My one general knowledge question for him.. he got wrong though.  I at least got a few right.


It has become insanely cold and I realise that I am totally not prepared.  What have i done for the past three years then?  I must have worn something!  But now I look at my wardrobe and all I can see is summery stuff.


Went to buy a travelcard from the station except the student part of my student oyster got cancelled...  Because I have a young persons railcard, I am entitled to an extra 33% off from daily price capping, so I had it loaded a few weeks ago.  Today, the lady charged me almost £65 for a travelcard (was almost painful!) and told me to ring the oyster helpline.


So the man was not useful at all; told me to go back to the station and transfer the travelcard to another oyster (which I had to pay for) and then wait for a new oyster in the post.  Anyway.  The long and short of it was that the man who loaded the YP railcard CANCELLED my student discount on my STUDENT OYSTER (I was not even aware such a thing is POSSIBLE before the expiry date!!) but I was helped by a very nice ticket agent who
a) gave me a full refund, even though he said I'd lose £3.40
b) reloaded my student discount
c) fixed the railcard problem!


Say what you like about TfL and the buses that are delayed and tube strikes and tube maintenance at weekends, and rude staff, and crazy prices (er, actually, that's a lot to complain about) but my opinion has totally changed.  I didn't lose any money, it only took an hour to sort out (half of that was on the phone and half of that phone time was waiting in a queue!) so I went home and wrote a thankyou comment on the TfL website, and requested that it be sent to the man who helped me.


I am sooo glad I have 3 years (including this one!) of studentship to go :)  Discounts, no council tax, cheap stuff, free stuff, cheap transport.... YAY! =)


What else..... I think I am ill.  But in that halfway house phase where I know I have symptoms but nothing that's outwardly obvious so no one believes me.  I would just like to be ill already and get it over with.  Ooh, that reminds me.  I have not done those note things for a while... maybe soon.


Been looking for more girly films to download, and also want to expand my nail polish collection.  It's currently 2. :(  So I shall publish my Christmas wishlist very soon.