I just turned 19. ^^ Drinks were bought and the bartender of Suburban, our favourite bar, named a drink after me.

Today (all two hours of it) has been good.

You know what's fun about uni?

Not having a little sister who clogs up the phone line. xD

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I did some good revision today - my brain is spilling over with itty-bitty facts about histones (each made of 2xH2A, 2xH2B, 2xH3 and 2xH4, doncha know?) and the central dogma. Cell Biology may not be my favourite part of the course, but it is damn interesting sometimes.

Unlike Biochemistry. Biochemistry should take a hike. A very long, possibly bear-attack-filled hike. That would make me happy.

I'm saving OB (organism biology) and EBE (Ecology, Behaviour and Evolution) for last since they're actually fun to study.

Also, get me - exams aren't until late June and I'm revising NOW. I have never been this terrified of failing motivated before.

...sometimes, I want to give up on a degree entirely. My student loan for next year alone will be £3,225 for tuition and nearly £6,000 for my maintenance loan. I am scared senseless by such a vast sum. Curse living in London being so expensive.

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To end on a good note: I revised and tanned at the same time today. Trampolines soak up the sun beautifully.

Also, happy Earth Day, people~

I HAVE SEXY NEW GLASSES (OKAY, THEY'RE NOT THAT SEXY, BUT I LIKE 'EM!)

( IT'S A GOOD THING JON LIKES THE SECRETARY LOOK )

Jon: -talking about a movie- It was that guy who was in the other stuff.

...

This is what you get for dating blonds. :p

My family amuses me sometimes, mainly by being able to work books into everything.

Today is Easter Sunday. Naturally, I got an easter egg (hotel chocolat, praline-filled and far too tempting) and (wait for it) a book.

When my birthday rolls around, I can expect books. When Christmas Eve gets here, it's a tradition for my sister and myself to be given an 'early' present - a book (surprise, surprise) and bubble bath (to use in the bath in which I'll read said book.) Halloween - book. St David's Day - book. May bank holiday - book. Chinese New Year - book and money to use on books. Hell, whenever Helena or I need injections, we are generally bribed with books.

I am not complaining. ^^

Also, I have just watched the first episode of the English dubbed version of Ouran High School Host Club. I am...pleasantly surprised to find that I actually enjoy an English-speaking Haruhi. This is odd because I disliked Caitlin Glass in Fullmetal Alchemist. Tamaki's voice-actor isn't bad, either (I believe he's also responsible for Fai in Tsubasa...?)

Hunny makes me want to purchase earmuffs. That, however, can also be said of his japanese counterpart.

Anyway...HAPPY EASTER!

It has been an up and down sort of day.

Up: it was sunny. I lay on the trampoline and basked. Magpie lay on my face and purred himself half to death.

Down: I was at work, summarising medical notes, and entered that the patient had undergone a bilateral vasectomy, as stated in the paper notes. It did, however, strike me that the patient in question was, uh, FEMALE. Turns out that the paper notes had become messed up and I had to spend two hours sorting the mess out.

Up: I am watching 'Walking with Dinosaurs'. Except, right now, the dinosaur is swimming. It makes me giggle.

Down: Work again. In short, I hate it. My employers have changed what my work entails and without gaining my permission first! This is very much a no-go, and amounts to them taking a task normally done by six-eight receptionists and giving it solely to me to do. The receptionists have not had any duties added and I have gained neither a pay rise nor any lessening in the work assigned to me. I am very much aware that this is because I am both the youngest paid member of the surgery and part-time. This stinks of exploitation, but I need the job. :/

Up (because I want to end on a happy note): I am making stew for dinner. Parsnips! And my mother and I will be hitting Hotel Chocolat tomorrow. I crave praline...

(Sorry for the moaning - Jon went back to Blackpool the other day and I miss his silly blond head.)

Tagged by erisabesu . And when asked to choose a Naruto character that I like for me to write about, who wouldn't pick Tayuya? xD

( It's all about the Tayuya... )

Not dead.

Really, really really not dead.

However, have sucky roommate. Spend little time in room at university. No WiFi at university.

See the problem?

Wow, I used to be good at this LJ thing...

PS: Uh...happy 2009? In, um, April? ^^;

So, it's 11pm and I still haven't finished packing. Mostly because I was foolish and allowed myself to be dragged out for dinner (mmm, Japanese food) but I'm still sitting here and trying to remember whether I've already packed my sheets and finding the odd packet of something that SHOULD have gone in the provisions box.

At this point, I'm just going to give up, go to bed, and get up at 5am. I'm exhausted - offering to do the early shift, starting at 7:30 and then working through until the numerically equal time in the pm was a silly, silly idea.

I am...not nervous. Surprisingly. I am excited and not at all wistful to be leaving home behind. I will miss my mother. And my cat. But since they're a mere hour away on the Tube from my halls of residence, I believe I shall cope somehow.

It is a lovely new beginning.

I just wish I'd been more organised about packing. And could find my other red shoe.

So. My computer decided to eat half of itself up as an afternoon snack. Again.

This is my unamused face.

...when the hell am I supposed to get this fixed/a new laptop before I start the university course (which requires ownership of a functioning computer) on Saturday?

This week has been...stupidly busy. Like, run ragged, fall into bed exhausted kind of busy.

I licked three hundred envelopes today. Three fucking hundred. Yeah, seriously. My tongue is wankered beyond belief.

Which is fine, since there's no way this is going to be a problem if I have no one I want to kiss. In the least emo/wangsty/drama-whore way, Andy and I took our leave of each other last night. More messily than I would have liked, but meh. It was planned. We knew it was coming. And I am surprisingly fine. No, I'm more bothered by the nasty cold I have - according to the guru-formerly-known-as-my-mother, this is what happens when you start a job that exposes you to a hundred different people in a day.

The fact that they are sticky, germ-infested people doesn't help.

I am in an oddly benevolent mood and seem to be...exuding fondness from my very pores. I hope you all are having a lovely Friday. If you aren't, then I offer virtual condolences and tea.

Have a beautiful weekend, people - I plan to do just that.



[Note to self: you say you're straight, but you have a ridiculous girl!crush on Emilie de Ravin.

Note back to self: I am surprisingly okay with this :D]

I am drowning in a veritable tidal wave of lists. Lists of what I have, lists of what I don't have, lists of what I need and lists of what I might possibly need, but can't carry.

Preparing for uni is exhausting.

I am slightly less worried about going and being a social outcast now. Last Saturday was the offical Pre-Fresher's Week, ahem, 'Piss Up.' And it was correctly named. Meeting people proved very fun and I am now at least vaguely convinced that there are some people at Imperial who will at least tolerate me.

Yes. I'm paranoid. Hush.

I managed to not meet anyone doing my course, or my hall, but the people I did meet were fun - even the second years. A bunch of us ended up moving on to a gay bar in Leicester Square (I sat on Alaster's lap and was told by Hilary, in tones of great shock, that I couldn't sit on a guy in a gay bar, so I promptly sat on her :p) then we headed back to Hilary's since she lived in Barbican and was therefore the closest.

It has to be said, that I'm pretty good at making new friends. Keeping them amused is the issue. [/vaguely emo moment.]

No matter. I am excited since we're going out to one of my favourite restaurants tonight and there's live jazz!

Watch me ask them to play Diana Krall.

PS: I've joined a roleplay with tao_empress :D See my happy face!

Uh-oh. I am addicted to fanmix.

Remember, kids, file-sharing is wrong!

Mmm.  Wednesdays are made of a fair amount of win.  Mainly because I don't need to be at work until half twelve and therefore don't have to be up at seven.  Granted, I only stayed in bed until nine, but my body seems to operate so much more smoothly when I've woken up naturally instead of via the Alarm Clock of Doom.  I think I need one of those light alarm clocks...

Anyway.

I've had an interesting morning so far and, look, it isn't even ten in the morning yet.  Some of you will be familiar with the plight I am about to lay before you.  You are browsing online, casually, not really looking for anything in particular, then - lo and behold! - a roleplay advertisement jumps out at you.  Now you're generally leery of ads for rpgs, but you know the person doing the advertising and you trust their judgement so, out of politeness (and the realisation that you haven't had a decent roleplay in farfarfar too long) you go over to have a look.  You perk up as you browse through the premise, the rules, the setting and all that.  You are pleased by both the originality and the playability AND the fact that the rules are coherant and don't seem tailored for stupid people.  You check out the taken characters and continue to be tickled - the ones you play aren't taken and the character base seems neither too large or too small.  The roleplay beast within you stirs fretfully and points out that, while you have work to do right up until term starts, who needs sleep?  Sleep is for wusses!

So you decide to apply.  You're transferring the guidelines into a word document, the creative juices veritably gushing out your ears, when you think that it would probably be a good idea to check out some of the logs before you join.  Just to see what you'll be competing against to get accepted.

You do.

You are horrified.

Wangst.  Lots of it.  Short posts, drama-whoring, annoying ooc additions.  And this is only in the first three logs.

You run.  Fast.

*grumbles*  This used to happen a lot to me, but I still haven't learned.  I'm still painlessly gullible, easily lured in by a professional front, only to be hit broadside by sloppy players and lazy mods who don't enforce the standards they proclaim.

Players make a roleplay.  And I am tired of crappy muns ruining what would have been a bloody good roleplay if the moderators would just remove the dross!

I am now going to go and bake to soothe my ruffled fur.  Scones, I think, the ones that use a hedonistic amount of buttermilk in their making.

The amount of rain that has fallen today is astronomical and several wonderful thunderstorms have made me all giddy and the cats skittish.  All of our gutterpipes overflowed and sent water cascading down the windows like a waterfall.  A dirty, leaf-filled waterfall.  The only downside is that our television is located in the extension, which has glass skylights.

Heavy rainfall + glass roof = noise loud enough to necessitate subtitles.

My heart skips with glee at the prospect of a nine hour day at work tomorrow, with an eight am start.  Though I'm exaggerating, I think - this job has proved to be fun and interesting at the same time.  The learning curve is and remains steep since training involved me being thrown in at the deep end, but I enjoy dealing with people, even sick, crochety ones.  The computer appointment book system we use is fairly cumbersome, but that's my only complaint!  Frankly, I thought that as a student summer employee I'd be dumped with all of the menial, mindnumbing tasks - I am currently conjuring up memories of my work experience where I did nothing but make cups of tea - but the practice manager seems to consider me a longterm investment since I'll be in the area for three years.

I have little to complain about.  And maybe the sun will come out tomorrow.  And the world is definitely a much brighter place with the knowledge that, for the first time in about a decade, my sister goes back to school on Thursday and I don't have to join her.  *wicked*

Though this smacks of making an introductory post on livejournal, enough 'old' friends are on this journal that it certainly merits a catching up post.  It's been...a while since lellian was updated and, naturally, certain things in my life and indeed about me have changed since then.

So, this is the lowdown on Kiran, in as brief a summary as possible.

I'm eighteen now, which in England makes me a legal adult.  I finished school a couple of months ago, having taken Biology, Chemistry and English Literature as my final A-levels.  In terms of universities, I applied to Oxford to do Biology, gained an interview, did jazz hands in said interview and promptly got rejected.  (Yay for that~)  I got offers from Imperial, UCL, Southampton and Nottingham for the same subject, choosing Imperial as my first choice and UCL as my back up.  In the middle of August, the A-level results were released and - very happily - I passed with straight As.  I'll be heading out to Imperial on the 4th October and will, for the first time, be living on my own.

The fear of independence is currently dormant.  Expect some panic as the date draws closer.

Currently, I'm working as a receptionist in a GP surgery and actually making some pretty good money out of it for a student's summer job - mainly because I'm working a thirty hour week which is a lot for temp work!  The point of this work (aside from saving up enough money to make my penniless student existence less penniless) is to pay for the trip of a lifetime that my friend Amy and I arrived back from recently.  This mammoth trek was a six week excursion to North America that started in New York City, worked across Canada from East to West, then wound its way up to Alaska and back before we had to fly back home for results.  It was...one of the best experiences of my life.  Simply.  Also because I got to spend time with hysteriachan and ginny_t along the way.  There will undoubtedly be a report at some point because it deserves to be written about.  There are even videos.

In terms of slightly more personal issues, I'm currently going out with a lad called Andy.  We've been together for nearly a year now and, while we're probaby going to amicably end things before university starts, we're a good match in many ways, aside from his being the most english person I've ever met.  When you find out the guy you're dating has never had noodles before and you're a nice oriental girl...well, it's shocking.  We're a fairly disgusting couple what with me having been Deputy Head Girl of my school and him having been the Head Boy of our brother school.  Yes, we were poster children and, yes, we went to prom together.  It doesn't get cheesier than that!

Not that much else has changed in all honesty - I'm still short, still chinese, still a blackbelt (so watch your manners!)  I'm still cheerful (most of the time), still a cuddlebug and still a complete whore for sunshine.  I just have slightly longer hair now and I'll put a few recent pictures under a cut to illustrate this.

( Portraits of a Lell )