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Now I've completed Pokémon Ranger 2, I only have 2 DS games left to complete. Pokémon Diamond and The World Ends With You. Diamond is a game that requires a strategy guide, so I have to play that during the hours of light - whilst TWEWY, I just can't be arsed. It's approaching nearly a year of owning the game and never actually playing it. If I don't play it before Thursday anyway...
 
In Media Studies today, we continued on watching the documentary on slasher horror films. There was lots of Freddy Krueger. I might go as him this year to Ian's Halloween party. I was Leatherface last year, so I ought to be another film character. :)
 
Oddly enough, today marked a day where English was mildly tolerable for once. I sat at the front and Siobhan sat next to me. We didn't speak though.
The lesson was mainly making diagrams and mind maps. What a way to get my photographic memory - namely visually induced - working.
 
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I got a surprise in Photography.
I said to Paul: "Oh, I know someone who wants to come back and finish their Photography A2" - meaning Shelly, of course.
 
He says: "Oh, Michelle? I know, she's downstairs, re-enrolling."
Hayley and Roxy were like: "THAT WAS MEANT TO BE A SURPRISE."
I was just like: "LOL."
 
As I was working on the editing process of the images I'm using for my icons project - Shelly came in and grabbed me around the shoulders from behind.
Paul sent her off with a camera - but didn't explain the project to her properly at all. She only actually understood it when Michelle and I explained it to her. :/
 
She was really upset at the end of the lesson - apparently Paul was being a twat to her about her sitting with me. Apparently she's a distraction. Well clearly not; she was with me for the entire duration of the AS, and I got the highest grade out of everyone, ditto Ash. It was Shelly who nearly failed - so that means she's a distraction to herself then? Knob.
 
Apparently he was a cunt to her about going out with David when they were in Acklam. So it's probably about us being together too. Oh, and she added that he's supposedly homophobic. Seriously, who the fuck isn't at this college?!
 
Even Rosemary is - she insisted that she wasn't, but she told me that she was getting Mindsay blocked on the college servers around the time of the blog-related-occurances. But if she did that, why am I sat here in college writing this in the LRC? Hmmmm?
 
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On the way back to the bus station, I stopped at Home Bargains and bought the bag of wonder like I did on Friday. The same contents: crisps, Coke and chocolate - then I got the bus home.
 
This served as my sustenance for yet another Super Paper Mario marathon.
I'm working on sidequests currently, I'll go to chapter 8-1 when I've finished them all. INCLUDING the Pit of 100 Trials...

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Fridays are so pointless. Well, the lesson itself isn't, but the fact it's right in the middle of the day and I need to go into college for just one and a half hours seems relatively pointless. :(
 
Because I didn't have to get up until fairly late, I made up my lost hours of sleep that I used last night to play Pokémon Ranger: Shadows Of Almia instead. Yeah, I said I'd finished it in my older blogs - but then there's the matter of the epic amount of sidequests. Being the obsessive completionist that I am - they must ALL be finished. It's the law.
 
Mam drove me into college about 10 minutes before Film Studies and I hung about on the ground floor playing Solitaire and listening to Judas Priest. My current 'play-on-repeat' song is Electric Eye. I've learnt most of the words - I'll be able to do it on GH:GH vocals soon. :)
 
(I'm writing this in the LRC at college and I'd just like to say that THIS SPACE BAR IS A PILE OF WANK.)
 
Anyway. Film Studies was one of those handout lessons. Sarah gave us a wodge of sheets about Mise en Scene and we were to fill in the blanks on them. I shot through this - I didn't even need to use the word banks at the bottom of the sheets. Tee hee.
 
With all this free time I'd rendered myself, I wrote a few more coursework notes in the back of my notebook and wrote the lyrics to Electric Eye all over the front cover. :)
 
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On the way to the bus station, I stopped off at Home Bargains and landed myself a bag of tasty junk food items for £1.01.
Two bags of crisps, two Reisen bars and a can of Coke.
 
These were promptly taken home and enjoyed during my Super Paper Mario marathon. :)
I'm currently at chapter 7-2. It shan't be long now...

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Media Studies seems to be looking more interesting at the moment. We're studying the slasher horror genre, so Sarah had us watching documentaries about it today and making notes. Lots of gory clips and commentary from the directors - so this was fairly entertaining.
In Photography, I sat with Michelle and we both did some work on editing our photos. This icons project is seriously wank. I like the work I did over the break - so I want to get on with that, but noooo...
And as always, English was relativley shite. I despise the group and the subject matter is just pissing me off currently. Angela better start changing the lesson directions or I'm going to become a terror.

During my beasty break, I wandered into town.
I got myself a £1.99 King Deal from Burger King and sat on the green benches outside while I ate it. I can cope with the mustard, mustard is okay. I can pick out the gherkins - I just fucking despise tomato sauce. I end up wiping it off the bun with my napkin, but only because I'm too nervous and meek to simply say: "Can I have that with no sauce, please?"

I'd aquired some cash so I went to CEX and bought some Gamecube games.
I've decided that I need an equal balance of Gamecube and PS2 games. The 'Cube will always be my favourite, but the way my wishlist is looking, and the price of some of these PS2 games, I'm going to end up with more. I have about 50 'Cube games currently, so I'm going for 'Cube-exclusive titles as well as some others that are available on both - but I'd rather play with 'Cube controls.

So today I got XIII and Spyro: Enter The Dragonfly.
This is insane. I've bought 5 games this week, and THREE of them are SHOOTERS.
The genre I despise with a passion. I'm trying to broaden my gaming horizons, perhaps. Ian's told me that XIII is good - and I read the back cover, it's all cel-shaded comic-strip style graphics - so it looks okay... We'll just have to see if the whole shooting narrative fucks it over.

During the rest of my break, I sat in the LRC and finished off Pokémon Sapphire - beating the Elite Four.
So I've marked it down as BEATEN on my Backloggery. I might go for the full Hoenn Dex. Fuck the National Dex, I can't be chewed.

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The only glaring bad things about today was what occurred with my mam at about 12AM and the fact I ate WAY too much at nana's and rendered myself with an upset stomach.
 
Mam and dad were both on early starts, so I went there at about 9:30. I hovered about in the kitchen for a while, talking to nana and grandad, then I directed their attention to Play.com.
They'd been asking me what I wanted for my birthday and I'd had the idea when I was in the car of them getting me a CD and a game from there. Nana is a bit funny about inputting her details onto online stores, but grandad doesn't seem to be arsed - after all, he's a teleshopping addict and the possibilities of theft are the same, thereabouts.
 
So after I'd reassured nana it was safe - the amount of stuff I've been ordering with mam's Egg card recently proving it - I made them an account, saying they could use it if anyone else wanted DVDs or games for Christmas presents, for instance.
 
Shelly was going to order Abigail II: The Revenge for me, but apparently it's been out of stock for ages and if she had, I wouldn't have gotten it in time for this weekend, so. Either way, I ordered it for myself with grandad's card. It's still out of stock, so I'll just get it when it comes. I can wait.
They always spend £20 on everyone, so with the £12 I had left, I got Final Fantasy VII: Dirge Of Cerberus. It was one game on my wishlist that stuck in my mind of being £12. :)
 
After I'd sorted this, I was nominated to sort out their "Solitaire saving problem" - which just looked to be a saved game that wouldn't go away. I did what I could.
 
When I was leaving the bedroom to go back into the living room, grandad took my hand and slipped me £30. I was confused as to why - then he said it's because they apparently give out more for 18th and 21st birthdays. Can't be bad. I thanked him and put it in my pocket. I'm going to save it. My birthday money, I'll halve it - spend half on games and keep the other half in case there's anything I need it for.
 
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Nana didn't have any green beans this week, so I had peas instead.
I can't decide if I like peas or not. They have a proper bodged flavour. I can tolerate them, but I wouldn't say they're proper nectar, like green beans are.
 
Ash hates peas, Shelly loves them and I can tolerate them. Ah, another thing we all share a different opinion on.
 
After we'd eaten, nana and grandad sort of took it in turns to play Solitaire. They'd swap around every hour or so - nana would clean and grandad would watch the football while the other played.
I was laid on the bed continuing with Super Paper Mario.
 
I finished off chapter 7 - which wasn't as daunting as a task as I'd first predicted.
What a fucking weird twist though! I'm glad like, Luvbi was a right slag. :)
 
I think after 10 hours of gameplay, I've actually developed a small liking for this game. I'm still not rating it 4-star-excellent on my Backloggery, but it's risen from a 2-star-decent to a 3-star-good.
I got annoyed with it when I was at the 78th level in the Pit Of 100 Trials and I got killed by some bastard shadow monster. I had no sodding mushroom shakes left and I was miles away from the next level, so the fuckers ended up killing me and I wasted like an hour of my life in that hole.
 
Sigh, that happened all too often in Paper Mario: TTYD too.
 
So I swapped to Spyro: Enter The Dragonfly.
I really expected it to be shit - as all the new Crash and Spyro games after the PS1 era got sucky, but it's surprisingly decent.
 
Saying that, it's technically Spyro 4. Crash 4 was good too - but after the 4th one, it started getting shite. (Not counting the spin-off games like CTR and Crash Bash, of course.)
 
Some of the dialogue is fucking weird.
Nana thought the pigs on the island level were amusing - and we were both like WTF at the tiki idols who do the drumming and sing in their weird tiki talk. Funny at first, but then it got very vexing.
 
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Nana went mental with the tea today though.
Along with the usual sausages, crackers, cheese and cakes - she did a 9" pepperoni pizza as well.
So I had a slice of that along with my usual stuff, but maybe I drank too much apple juice.
 
I was okay until about 10PM when I got home. Then I got the growly stomach and realised I had an upset stomach. So this led me to take the gut-dehydrating tablets to make a natural cork up my arse. :)
 
I took a shower, straightened my room - then I played a few gigs on Guitar Hero: Greatest Hits.
I did a few songs on vocals, mainly the newer ones that I've recently learned. Electric Eye and Beast & The Harlot, for two. :D
 
Then I switched to bass. I played it on medium so I could finish those songs that don't have scores. I was surprised at myself, I only cocked up one song, and that was via an overstrumming accident.
How I like the shiny 100% stars.
 
Mam was in my room later on, insisting she make an account on Twitter so that she can follow Eddie Izzard.
She just didn't seem to take it in when I said "Mam, I've never used Twitter, I NEVER WILL. I know NOTHING." - she kept on asking me how she did things.
HOW THE HELL WAS I SUPPOSED TO KNOW?! PRAY TELL!
 
This is where Dixie learnt two lessons:
 
1. Never set your MSN to show the last part of your last conversations.
2. Never ask mam to respond to someone on MSN for you.
 
I asked her to tell Shelly that she was on the PC, but our last conversation section was there - namely me expressing my distaste about being kicked off the PC and being spoken to like shit - via my exclamation of "Mam's a cunt" - thankfully, it didn't implicate either of our mams. So I danced around the point and said I didn't know if it was directed at her or Shelly's mam.
 
She was all high and mighty and was like: "MURR, WHY WOULD IT BE ABOUT ME?"
For a second, I felt like saying to her: "BECAUSE YOU ARE A CUNT SOMETIMES...??"
 
- But I didn't.
 
It was strange. As soon as mam started being all pissy, my stomach upset started up again. I got the burny bowels and the squeezy intestines and I needed to go and explode again. I wonder if it was rendered by my uncomfortable emotions. Thus leading my stomach to also become uncomfortable to mimic?

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Thursdays are now destined to be super-shitty.
Why? Because the college timetable opens with English Language as the morning lesson. Just no. I can't fucking face Angela at 9AM.

And I'm so thankful I've ended up with Angela, because if I'd had Sue - today would have been my first and last A2 English lesson. Fuck that.

But it was a waste of time. All she did was hand out endless wodges of notes and dividers for us to categorise shite. I was so bored I resorted to doing what I did for the entire course of year 11 English lessons - writing all over my ringbinder with gold pen.

I also used silver and permanent marker. I wrote RADIOACTIVE SAUSAGE on the back with black, then outlined it in silver. It looks proper mint. :)

In my break, I started working on a new drawing. I continued it throughout Photography and the break afterwards, as in the Photography lesson - due to the sever being all fucky and not letting us log-on so we could edit our stuff - we practically ended up doing nothing.
Oh, we had a mini-lecture on manual settings and apature, but I'm still pretty in the dark about them. :/

Either way, here's my drawing.
Ashleigh Sparrow, naturally. DATWBSVOH must be saved soon... I hope it manages...



Oddly enough, it doesn't have any major glaring mistakes. I did her hair a bit of a weird colour, and I made her look a tad TOO angry and psychotic - but I didn't cock up the hands - which is good. :)

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When I got home, I ate pizza and played Banjo-Kazooie.
I loaded up the save I started last time Ash asked me to play it - and I fully completed 4 more worlds - bringing my grand total to 8/9 worlds complete.
I'd even managed to get all 100 fucking notes on RUSTY BUCKET BAY. Something I'd never done before.

Bloody Click Clock Wood was causing me the most aggravation, but after I'd sat there for another hour pissing around with guides and attempting to calm myself  after numerous suicide jumps from the top of the 100-foot high tree - I managed to get all 100 notes on that level too.

But then I was faced with the final boss.
I don't know if I was tired, or if I was just shit - but I just couldn't do it.
I ended up turning it off in the end.
I plan to re-attempt it tomorrow... If all goes well, we have a shiny 100% completion on our hands.