A Curious Girl: "Some animals live outdoors, and others in cans..."

*sigh* there's never enough time to write things down, is there?

I meant to write about last weekend - I went to Sara and Bryan's, it was cool, we watched Ten things I hate about you and Thirteen Ghosts (freaky, scary film, but bits of it just don't make sense. Couple of painfully cliché plot moves too... Pretty good though), and Shrek which I like more every time I see it, for some reason *grin*.

It was so nice to see Sara again - I mean, it was nice to see Bryan too because I like him but Sara's one of my best friends! And I hadn't seen her in aaaaages!

Amazingly klutzy moment on the way there, though. I had a sudden brainwave, called them to ask if they'd like me to bring a bottle of the red wine I've got, went back to my room to get it, got on the bus and realised I hadn't picked up a corkscrew. No one under the age of thirty seems to own a corkscrew, so I decided I'd text her and ask if she had one, but realised my phone had mysteriously vanished. I needed it if I was going to get to Sara's, as I didn't know where she lived or what time my train would come in. I promptly got off the bus, walked back, picked up the phone which I'd dropped in my bedroom when I'd got the wine, and got the corkscrew, the story ended happily, although I lost some money on bus fares. I'm now trying to work out the moral of the story. Maybe that forgetting the corkscrew saved my skin... or that remembering the wine cost me half an hour and bus money. Or maybe that I should plan my trips more thoroughly so that I'm not rushing around trying to get everything together...

Friday we watched Mary Poppins, with sing-a-long subtitles! I'd forgotten just how great that film is. The children actors are good! Dick van Dyke's Cockney accent is terrible! Dick van Dyke's old man voice is brilliant! It's great! It's fabulous! It's supercalifragilisticexpialidocious! I'm going to get an umbrella, a carpet bag, some singing lessons, and a job as a nanny! Oh yes!

*Ahem*. Which reminds me, rehearsals for the performance of Mary Poppins are going great. I discovered the real reason I'm a feminist is so that I can march on stage singing 'Sister Suffragette'.

Yesterday (yes, this is another of those, I did this, that and the other entries. And I don't care!!! Take that, you picky reader-oriented reviewers!)... Where was I? Oh yes. Yesterday Dougsoc went to Meg's to watch the Eurovision Song Contest. We all placed votes on each song - I think our top three were Germany ('Let's get happy and let's be gay.' Actually I really liked that song, it needs to appear in a cheesy disco some time), Belgium (too talented for Eurovision) and Austria (my personal favourite. I actually voted for them by phone. Having a backing group of plastic animals and random heavy metal interludes.

"Well, the animals of this world,
I rather like them,
But my true favourites are
The rabbits and the bears, the bears.

Almost all the birds will soon be dead
Almost all the bugs will soon be dead
Adam will be left in his bed
Having to start again with Eve"

Sing it with me, people.

Our lowest score went to the United Kingdom. Well, I think so - Dr. Who James gave us 12 on the grounds that it was us, but the rest of us gave nil points, apart from Richard, who gave the UK 'i'. The square-root of minus one.

I actually rather liked Cyprus for the song 'Feeling Alive', because no English speaking person would say 'I'm feeling alive when you call out my name'. I thought the slight mistranslation was cute :)

We gave the Ukraine lots of points, but only because they had a ballet dancer/cortortionist who was very good. The song, as I recall, wasn't great.

I wasn't at all grabbed by Russia's 'song'. Gah. Was not music. The most interesting thing was watching the two girls run around and wondering if they were going to kiss on stage, or something.

Can't believe Turkey won. I really didn't like their song, gave it one of my lowest scores.

Watching the scoring for Eurovision is actually fun. Ooh look, Greece gave 12 points to Cyprus and Cyprus gave 12 points to Greece! Ah yes, Greece. Didn't like their song either, though it had a good guitar bit. Gary gave that lots of points, but I think it was more to do with that woman's dress...

After Eurovision, James, Richard and I went back to campus and ordered take-away, then talked, played on the piano, sang silly songs and told jokes for ages. There's something comforting about the way, when you're talking late at night, nothing seems to change, time doesn't seem to matter, or even exist. No pre-scheduled slots, no busy people rushing to and fro, just quiet, and darkness, and conversation that doesn't have to be about anything. After a silence elapsed when we'd run out of jokes, Richard looked out of the window, and said, "It's light!"

It's strange seeing that side of the morning - apart from various campus wildlife, there was no one about, a rare sight in full daylight. When I finally went to bed, I went to turn the light off and realised that my light wasn't on, that was the sun peeping around the curtains...

Random word for today: transcendental

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