Damaged Yet Delightful

In Which Lauren Is Interesting…?

So, I started a blog. Because apparently people are interested in reading about my ’super awesome’ life. Or at least, that’s what they told ME. See how interesting you find the following account of my day.

I was up until 5amish last night, so I slept until 1 today. I woke up to hear my dad telling my mum off. Apparently she finished half-smoking a cigarette, stubbed it out and left it on the PVC windowsill. It wasn’t right out though, and burnt into the plastic. It wasn’t a big thing - he walked in, smelled smoke and realised what it was and sorted it out - but there’s an ugly mark on the windowsill now and she’s sworn never to do it again. It’s too much to hope for that she’ll give up smoking altogether.

Then I spent the day sitting with a borrowed laptop, alternately goofing off on Facebook and Twitter (I @reply spam a lot when I have net access. It’s worse if people are visibly Tweeting, too. I do apologise) and actually doing some dissertation-proposal reading and note-taking. It’s due April 14th and I’m not freaking out YET, but I have to read two books (one involves sections critiquing the other) and I know as the deadline approaches I’ll be totally freaking out and will need some kind of emotional support, or someone to stop me drinking excessive amounts of caffeine, as that will no doubt only make it worse. Can you do that for me, anyone?

Lots of people are doing this Maureen Johnson “Blog Every Day in April” thing, it seems. It’s fun reading people’s blogs - I’m usually online when Christie posts her links to Twitter and FB and her posts are always so informative…dang, the Ravenclawness runs deep!

Anyway so this evening I spent hours choosing a blog layout and it turns out that the one that’s on RIGHT NOW (might not be when you’re reading this, bear that in mind XD) does not show the pages I’ve created, only blog posts. This is annoying. I love this layout. But I guess I’m going to have to find another one It only took me like two DAYS to find this. Ellie thinks I’m being insanely picky XD I’m not even going to attempt to argue.

The title of this blog, by the way, comes from a song of my friend Zoe’s. She released an EP online recently and it’s awesome. The song is called Broken Bird I’ll give you a download link at some point, if I log in to Facebook now I’ll just get distracted and stay up even LATER. And that would be bad.

Anyway, so then I just continued typing up my list of wizard rock. I’m attempting to list every album and song, alphabetically by band (it makes more sense if you actually see it) and it’s…taking forever. I have 27 pages already and I’m only partway through The Remus Lupins, with The Whomping Willows and the prolific Split Seven Ways (Zoe again, but in her primary magical guise) still to come. It may require a few hours’ work yet. But I’ve done all my Myrtles, Parselmouths, Draco and the Malfoys, Harry and the Potters and Oliver Boyd and the Remembralls so for maybe 7-8 hours’ total work I figure I’m not doing so badly. I have a LOT of wrock

Anyway, not much else to report. I saw Small Soldiers today which was funny, at first I thought the Gorgonites were the bad guys. I’m so judgmental - just because they’re monsters! We should never judge books by their covers.

On that thought, I’ll leave you XD Have a good day/night x