Think Positive!

Today started off not so great. A good number of bad things happened before noon. But then the day got much better, so we're just going to focus on those things.

THING #1: I got my replacement camera! I spent a long time comparing picture quality, because while I didn't want to spend a ton of money, I also have two months of picture-taking to go (possibly more while I'm waiting for my other camera to be fixed), and I wanted them to be fairly good pictures.

THING #2: The camera I got (Fujifilm AV130) is pretty good quality and cost about forty pounds less than I thought I'd have to spend for a worthwhile camera. Hurrah!

THING #3: So now I can take pictures!

THING #4: Tomorrow morning, I head out to a hotel by Stanstead airport so that I can make my 6:30 a.m. flight to ITALY on Friday.

THING #5: I'M GOING TO VENICE SOOOOON!

THING #6: After all of the [bad things that we're not going to talk about], none of it mattered. They let me into the show tonight with no problems.

THING #7: Oh, yeah- Laura and I saw The Complete Works of Shakespeare: Abridged tonight. It was AWESOME. I have been obsessed with that show since tenth grade when my English class watched it. I knew the entire show by heart, and I was surprised to realise just how much I remembered when I watched it tonight (I haven't seen it in years.) The show that I saw was different than the filmed version of the play that I watched over and over, for a few reasons. One, it was British-ised. A good deal of the lines were changed, the American football scene was changed to rugby, the Titus cooking show segment was specifically a parody of Gordon Ramsay's F Word (which I wouldn't have gotten if I hadn't read it in the program), and the verses of the Othello rap were almost entirely different.
The other huge difference was that there was a girl in it. This gave Laura and I much hope. The show is always done by three men, with one of them putting on wigs and bodices to play the female parts. It's very funny, but I've always wished that I could be in the show. Well, while it wasn't as funny with a girl playing the female parts, it was close. We both really enjoyed it and I'm so glad I finally got to see the show.

THING #8: In my inbox this morning were my novel edits from my second reader. The first reader I had didn't do such a great job- basically, she just said that she liked it and made some formatting suggestions. While I know that this novel is way better than my last one (or at least I hope), it is definitely not that good that it only needs some formatting changes. The girl who sent today's edits did an amazing job. She did like it, but that didn't stop her from kicking my butt in her comments and pointing out all the things I knew were there but just skipped over in hopes of them going away. I am very happy :)


Oh, also- some people seemed to think that I was being super grumpy in my Dear Blank entry. I did not compile that in one day- I've been getting those together since January and saving them in a document. I am not that unhappy of a person. (Plus, not all of them were bad...)

Okay, time to go finalise my packing for my trip!

Dear Blank, Please Blank: London Edition

Dear Person On the Tube,
Thank you for giving me that shove out of the car when there were too many people in my way who wouldn’t move and I needed to get out.
Sincerely, No Really, Thank You

Dear Girl With a Handful of Five Pence Pieces,
Use the freaking coins- only machine to top of your card by two pounds next time.
Sincerely, the Girl Who Actually Has a Cash Note (and the ten people behind me)

Dear Flatmate Who Hasn’t Washed Their Dishes in a Month,
What on earth are you using to eat and cook with? Also, it’s gross.
Sincerely, Everyone Else in Your Flat

Dear QMUL Blackboard,
You know what helps a student get their online assignments from you? You actually working and not crashing students’ computers when they try to access you.
Sincerely, Okay Maybe I Shouldn’t Have Procrastinated But Whatever

Dear British TV,
You know I love you. You’re very interesting. But it’s hard to watch you when you show one part of a TV show on Monday at nine and then on Thursday at nine the next week and Wednesday at seven the following week.
Sincerely, Consistency is Cool

Dear Male Residents of Flat,
When you invite someone over, it’s generally considered polite to answer the door when they ring the buzzer, not sit in your room as your friends lean on the doorbell until one of your flatmates (who is not acquainted with this person and therefore technically should not let them in) get its.
Sincerely, Keep This Up and They’re Not Going to Be Your Friends For Much Longer

Dear Marks & Spencer,
WHAT DO YOU SELL? I always thought you sold food, as all of the branches I entered did. But then I go to Canterbury and in the windows are mannequins wearing everything from just underwear to three-piece suits, and within are racks of clothing.
Sincerely, Explain This to Me

Dear Flatmate With the Strong Cockney Accent,
I can hear your phone conversations. Everyone in the building can. Also, do you have raves in your room every night? Because the music is certainly loud enough.
Sincerely, My Ears Are Bleeding, How Are Yours Not?

(Inspired by this site.)