Blogging, v2.0

Going to try a slightly different approach to writing this today. I shall write some now and then some more later and then maybe even more at a later point and so on. This is to try to prevent myself from finishing this thing at about half 1 in the morning and feeling dead when I wake up. Here goes...

18:19 Today has actually been pretty good so far. I went to college and had 4 lessons (all in a row as well!) but I started very early so at least I got the afternoon off. I watched Muse's performance on Jools Holland (forgot to watch it last night, damn irc distracting me...) and they were pretty good, the performance of Uprising was a bit off but they did United States of Eurasia brilliantly. Matt just looked so damn awesome screaming out the EURA-SIA! bits while playing the epic main theme on a huge white piano. I now cannot wait until November (I'm seeing them for the first time!). Also played Ratchet 3 for a couple of hours, I'm now blitzing through challenge mode and should be done with the game soon.

My sleep pattern has gotten so retarded this week, it's ridiculous. I'm getting about 5 hours sleep each night, at first it didn't really affect me but now I am finding it increasingly hard to stay awake during the day. Hopefully my new plan of not staying on irc forever (and writing my blog earlier) will mean I'll stop slipping into unconsciousness all the time. I don't really want to cut back on irc, but I feel I absolutely have to in order to get anything in my life done ever. This is for two reasons, the first and most obvious one is that if I am spending a lot of time doing irc I won't have much time for anything else. The second reason is that if I am on irc for the ridiculous hours that I am currently I am too tired to do anything else. Sorry for going on like that, I suppose it's quite boring to read but I have been thinking about it a lot (what with it beginning to affect me so much).

My hair is really gross today, this is because I didn't have enough time to do it in the morning (what with me oversleeping by half an hour - once again my sleeping habits are at fault). Not only did I not have enough time to sort it out so it looked nice, I also haven't washed it for four days now. I wanted to this morning, but (surprisingly...) I didn't have enough time. I'll do it tomorrow, I don't have to go into college until quite late. At college no one seemed to care about it anyway (but then again why would they?). Another thing that happened at college today (and this is really fucking weird but so awesome at the same time) is that someone actually came up to me and told me how much they liked my blog. I didn't even know that said person read it! This is ridiculous, my musings are surely not that good? It's odd, within just over a week of starting this thing I have unwillingly created a small (but growing) fanbase for myself. I'm not really sure what to think of this. Is it good that people enjoy the stuff I talk about on here? I mean, some of it is pretty fucking odd (well that's how it seems to me anyway). Anyway I would like to say a big thanks to anyone who reads this, you guys have exceeded my expectations (I didn't think I'd get any followers when I started). This is also post number ten and I feel that is a bit of a personal milestone (I know it's not that much, but I didn't think I'd keep going with this for that long. Also FUCK YEAH DOUBLE FIGURES).

I should probably stop right now, I have a growing mountain of homework that I keep neglecting. I'll continue this later.

22:37 I am very very very happy. I got through so much maths homework this evening, I am very proud of myself for suddenly being so productive. It's not even due in tomorrow as well, why am I suddenly loads more organised! It's ridiculous. BUT. That is not the only reason I am happy. Over the past few days I have developed a very real connection with someone. She will always listen to me (no matter how weird I'm being) and she is always concerned if there's something up. We can literally talk about anything together and not get bored, it's so awesome. I know these things might not seem that massive, but to me it's very comforting to know that I have someone like that to talk to. I rarely do either, so it's quite a nice change for me. I would just like to say thank you to said person, you have helped me in so many ways.

I listened to Modest Mouse a lot today. I must've listened to that one album I have at least 5 times in a row earlier, but it is justified excessive listening because the album is SO DAMN GOOD. I also listened to The Beatles quite a lot (I put Please Please Me onto the computer and went through the other two albums again) and surprise, they are still just as awesome as before. I have been listening to various Muse songs on shuffle for the past couple of hours, I'm really getting back into them what with the release of their new album and all. I also really like The Resistance now, some of the tracks are stupendously good. I don't hate any of them anymore either, which is good. I have also gotten Lucy into Neutral Milk Hotel which is awesome, they are one of my favourite bands. I owed her a musical favour anyway what with Modest Mouse, so now we're even.

My mother has been doing me a few favours (really useful ones as well) in the last couple of days, which is surprisingly uncharacteristic of her. Yesterday she sorted out my duvet so that the cover (I took the cover off in summer as I didn't want the duvet itself, it was too warm. I was then obviously too lazy to put it back on when it got colder again) was back on and so that it didn't look like I had stabbed someone in my bed anymore. She also gave me a pinboard yesterday with like a million pins in it. It's so good, I've always wanted one of those things so I can just pin random shit onto my wall. Speak of the devil, she just came in the room and started obsessing over all the random junk that she thinks should be tidied away or given to my brothers or other meaningless things. She also took away most of my lego today. It's a relief to have a bit more space, but I was quite sad to see it go. I like my random junk! I don't want my room to be tidy, it's fine the way it is. I don't see her logic anyway as I'll be leaving home in a years time, a year more of living in a not very tidy room isn't going to make much difference surely? I will actually be quite sad to leave my room, in the however many years I've lived in it I have made it my own. It's a bit heartbreaking to think of it being used as a spare room or whatever once I'm gone...

Something I have been thinking about a lot since I started this thing is my story that I started writing earlier this year. Many of you will not be familiar (if any) with it, so I will give you a brief overview. I had a really weird but awesome dream (it was also very long and had the essence of a plot and everything) sometime around the beginning of this year and it was so good I decided I'd write it down (just so I could remember it later). Pretty soon this turned into me starting a story based on it, although not entirely the same, a lot of the key details were missing from the dream (such as names for the characters) and the plot was very vague. As a result the more of it I wrote the more I started having to make up rather than use the dream as a solid template. This only made the experience all the more rewarding and fun though, so I kept writing it in short instalments all the way up until May, when I decided to stop to concentrate on exams. Over summer I was too unmotivated to do anything about it so it just sat there unfinished for ages. I tried to start writing it again but it was too hard when I did as I hadn't actually written anything for several months. However, since I started this blog it's like my writing gears and cogs (and my creative levers and pulleys) are slowly whirring back into action after lying dormant for so long. I feel like my brain is gradually getting back into the rhythm of writing, which is great, after all it is one of my favourite things to do. So, this is the question: Should I have a crack at starting the story again? Or should I just leave it to rest, forever unfinished? Okay so that's two questions, but I'd still love to hear your thoughts on the matter. If I did keep it going I would post all of the old parts of it onto here, of which there are currently 7. If you would like me to do this please don't hesitate to ask, it's nice to find someone who is actually interested in my writing.

Another question I would like to ask you guys is: Do you like the new blog format? I know it's not that different, but it somehow feels better to write it in parts at different times of the day. Your opinions on the matter would be very much appreciated.

...and so concludes my 10th post. Sorry it was so damn long/disjointed.