I haven't updated in weeks. I was actually going to start a new LJ, because experimentiv started to annoy me with the connotations associated to it. Most people read it as experimentiv (kinky and stuff) whereas originally it was supposed to read Experiment IV, after a great Kate Bush song. But I am awful at thinking up usernames (see; experimentiv) and the best I could do was pondliving, hence why I'm sticking with this one.

I have a job interview on Friday. My first ever proper interview! It's to be a library assistant and if I get it, I will literally be the happiest person in the world. I'm fairly confident, just because the criteria for applying was 5 GCSE's with Maths and English above C grade. I told them that I did have those over the phone and when I asked if they'd like to hear my other qualifications they said no. Oh well. I just need to show that my experience as a receptionist and bar person is good customer service experience. I think it is, it shows I've dealt with a range of different people. MP's and CEO of companies as a receptionist (albeit, getting them coffee and showing them to meeting rooms) to drunken freshers screaming for vodka. I'm adaptable.

I went to a house party on Saturday. Fuck me I felt out. It was my friend's sister's party and I think she's 19 now or something. But a lot of her friends were either 16 or 17. Every time I met someone it kinda punched into me that I'm 21, unemployed and living at home. Hardly worth the extortionate debt I'm in. Speaking of debt I finally plucked up the courage to look at how much I owe and fuck me, I have never closed a window so quickly in my life.


Also, check out this awesome video from the people at The Guild and the amazing Felicia Day. I have such a crush on her. Is there a word for a gay guy having a crush on a woman aside from 'confused'?

My last entry while at uni. I leave tomorrow morning at 8.30am. Currently sitting in my room surrounded by suitcases, boxes and loads of those Sainsbury's bags for life (I never really did grasp the concept seeing as I have 15 of them). Three years. Three whole years. Jesus. Sounds cliche but it does seem like it has gone really quick. Was it worth it? Most definitely! It has been a blast, a blast with ups and downs but a blast none the less. And I got a degree out of it, a 2:1 degree. I'm now a bachelor of arts or some shit like that but more importanly I got over 1200 photos tagged of myself on facebook from uni. I have no idea what I'm going to do next, but I really want to move out of my mum's place. It's been alright the last three years going down between terms and stuff but I don't think I can deal with living at home again. Especially after this year, I've become used to living by myself. I have flatmates but I only saw them in the kitchen or on nights out. But I'm rambling.

My ode to Lancaster with the words of Beverley Craven

"Lancaster, promise me you'll wait for me 'cause I'll be saving all my love for you. And I'll be home soon."

It's over.

It's exam time! Well I say exam time. I have two exams...and one is a multiple choice exam. Pretty easy right? Except the multiple choice exam covers THE ENTIRE COURSE as opposed to normal exams where you can just study four books in depth. I should be worried. But I really cannot muster the energy. I'm more worried about sleeping through my alarm and not being able to eat breakfast. I don't want my tummy rumbling during the exam. Also, the multiple choice exam is 90 minutes...on about 55 multiple choice questions. Surely it won't take that long? Will it? And it's on a Saturday which makes me sad. Looking forward for it to be over and I can start to concentrate on a proper exam which I'm actually looking forward to. It's for my Women Writer's course which I love and from my tutor has said it isn't going to be that hard. Then I'm finished with university!

Now onto important topics. Graduation Ball (Grad Ball). I'm so torn. I want to go but I don't really want to pay £57 for a ticket (+ suit + drinks during the night). And out main 'act' for Grad Ball is Alesha Dixon who no one liked until she won Strictly...we've got her and Bjorn Again (an Abba tribute band), The Puppini Sisters (who after a youtubing, I find that they can butcher Kate Bush) and Frankmusic. Now Frankmusic I would like to see because I've heard a lot of positive things about him. So that's Grad Ball. I mean last year they got the Sugababes! We get a girl band reject. And calm. I think I might end up going for the experience and the fact that mummy said she'd pay for my ticket but inside I'll be protesting this atrocity

Until then it's just exams. The first thing I'm doing after my last exam is going and buying some trashy books. Any recommendations? I'm going to continue my tradition of reading a Jodi Picoult book for the lulz but I'm open to suggestions. Having a month off of just lazying on the field reading trash will be bliss.

Another four week hiatus. Go me.

Back at Uni after Easter hols.  Am concentrating on getting my creative writing portfolios finished. Am currently doing 2000 words a day and am half-way through my main portfolio with the other ones done.

Am starting to wonder if I should either bother with it. It looks like we're all gonna get killed from Piggy Flu anyway. I know the news are kinda scaremongering people but I'm quite worried. I don't want to die because of Babe! But I don't want to live through it and have to fend for myself in some weird tribe like situation. I'm not good with the whole defending my territory and I really don't like baked beans. I hope I'm so far north that it won't effect here.

In other news. Bea Arthur died. This is so upsetting she was an absolute legend! The Golden Girls is just absolute classic comedy. Here is a little youtube vid of her and Angela Lansbury singing Bosom Buddies.

Just watched Merlin 1x03 'The Mark of Nimueh' and did a rambling commentary along side it. This is a product of being bored on campus when everyone has left. After the cut of course.

( Enter for Merlin loving and Gwen hating... )

I met Will Young once. Well when I say I met him, I more like screamed at him. Well not screamed. I'll explain. I was at a gay club in London with a friend having a smoke (ah the days before the smoking ban!). It was in the chill out part of the club and we were just sat down...chilling. Enter Will Young and an entourage. I was quite drunk, as I usually was when I was 17 and able to get into a club. So regrettably in my drunken state, I went up to Will Young and semi-yelled at him 'I VOTED FOR YOU ON POP IDOL, YOU'RE AMAZING!!111! I LOVE YOU!11!'. Or something along those lines. He smiled politely, looked a bit scared and I was dismissed. To be honest I never watched Pop Idol and was more of a Gareth Gates fan anyway. So yes that is the story of my meeting with Will Young. I came out of it with a hangover and an ashamed feeling.

1) I got my Lit and Film project completed. Did an Alice in Wonderland fanfiction piece. I struggled on the essay part which had to explain my ideas and themes. Ended up rambling a bit, but I'm just glad it's over.

2) Went out with the gang on Thursday. It was a really awesome night, just drinking and dancing the night away. It seemed to pass so quickly but it was awesome. And we posed with enough room for Rob to photoshop some photos. Here is one he did of me, him, Angela Lansbury and Bea Arthur.


3) Finally got around to seeing High School Musical 3. I was not impressed. The first half was an utter shambles! It picked up a little bit during the second half, but I think I preferred it when they had little budget. And what was with the English chick and the retard they threw in for the sequel. LIke, ew. Saying that, I have had the soundtrack on a couple of times since. My favourite song is 'Walk Away' because then you can reenact Baby V's attempts to convey emotion.

4) Spotify.com = awesome beyond words. Download it and rejoice.

1) I've been ill since Friday. Fun times. I haven't done any work, or been to any seminars (which was only one), instead I've been reading Eclipse and just generally trying to get better.

2) I think Thursday might be the reason why I'm ill. I started drinking at 2.30pm and stopped around about 2.30am. It started as an innocent drink before a seminar, followed by post-seminar drinks, followed by popping down to the LGBT social to see what was going on, followed by actively joining the LGBT social until they had all gone home and we hit another club. The LGBT social was just ridiculous, every stereotype you could imagine. And then there were the two people with KISS makeup on...I stayed away from them.

3) Uni has been going well. I haven't been doing much re: my social life, but to be honest that doesn't bother me. Usually there is some form of drama so I've cut back. Instead I've just been observing people, it is quite an interesting hobby, just sitting back and watching how people act, what they say etc. Insightful too.

4) Music-wise, currently on repeat are Jason Mraz's 'We Sing, We Dance, We Steal Things' and Lily Allen's 'It's Not Me, It's You'. Both albums are pretty good. Highlights include 'Make It Mine, 'Lucky' and 'A Beautiful Mess' on Mraz's side and 'Fuck You', 'Everyone's At It' and 'Who'd Have Known' on Allen's side.

5) I think I've decided on my Lit and Film Creative Project. I'm going to write some fanfic (Ew!) and look at the roles of the author and the validity of fanfic as an adaptation. Should be fun. Just need to find a film to write fanfic about. I'm going to look for one that was adapted from a book but is so changed it could be seen as an individual piece. I'm very very tempted to just fuck it and write Harry Potter slash just to freak out my tutor but I actually want to pass this year so...

6) I can't believe it's Valentine's Day on Saturday. I didn't even realise! Single, yet again. Oh well. I don't care, you don't have to stress out about gifts and what not. I've already got some Ben + Jerry's in the freezer should I decide not to go out and stay in with rom-coms.

1) So I haven't updated in about 14 weeks. I'm a bad LJ-er. But I plan to rectify this.

2) I quit my job. I couldn't deal with working till 5am. It was all very informal, I sent an e-mail and was stopped being put on the rota. End of. I probably won't miss it, I'll miss the people but aside from that it was a shit job which I hated.

3) In light of previous point, this term at uni is going really well in comparison to last term. I've only missed one seminar so far and my tutor was totally cool about it. And I'm actually enjoying it all. Last term, I was a mess. Barely going to anything and just dossing around. Now, it is pretty awesome. I do have a 'creative project' due for my lit and film module and I have no idea what I'm going to do. I might just write a novelisation of a film, put my writing skills to good use.

4) Lancaster is pretty okayish. Kind of boring to be honest. No one seems to be going out as much and if I'm honest, most of the time I cannot be bothered to go out. On the plus side, I'm saving a lot of money. By this point in term I'm usually down to about £700-800, but I checked today and I've got about nine hundred quid. Which is awesome, as I have some birthdays coming up soon.

5) I have a twitter! At first I was like 'twitter? it's just a facebook status update thing.' BUT the amazing, awesomest Stephen Fry has twitter so that persuaded me to check it out and so I've joined. If there are any twitter-ers out there, add me as a friend please as I have no friends at the moment. I'm at https://twitter.com/charlessime

6) That is pretty much it at the moment, I promise to update a bit more frequently from now on.

7) Also Paris Hilton's British Best Friend is the most amazing, trivial piece of awesome/crap I have ever watched.

As per every summer for the last three years, I'm doing a week at my mum's work. It's an easy job as Receptionist with very good money which should tide me over until I can find a more permanent fixture for the summer. It is going quite well actually compared to previous years where I'm just been waiting for myself to cock up but second day in and I've been doing dandy. In all honesty I don't really have anything to do except sit here and occasionally answer the phone. I should be doing my reading for next year but the environment is so draining.

Aside from earning enough money to level out my overdraft, I haven't actually been doing that much. I've been out a couple of times which as been eventful. In one of the outings I was witness to a Polish man attempting to put his hand up a woman's skirt. Before I even really took notice, the woman had chased him off the bus.

Went out on Saturday which was just so diabolical. Basically, I drank too many bottles of Magners which not only fueled my drunkeness but also lingered long enough to leave me almost bedridden the next day. Somehow I managed to scuffle to the living room where I collapsed for the rest of the day and had to endure such wonderful programmes as Holiday Showdown and Holiday Airport. It wasn't even a Sunday so there was no Come Dine With Me to placate me.

On another note, I finally was able to try out the World Of Warcaft trial and am surprised to find it so addictive. I mean you don't actually do anything except fight and run from one end of the place to the other but it is oddly satisfying so much so I may invest in a paid account. For a while all I seemed to be doing was wondering around as a ghost trying to find my body but then I realised I was like level 8 and everything else was level 18 so the odds were stacked against me. That'll teach me for being adventurous.