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NYUHHHHH so unbearably hot. I do not like having to have multiple fans on in my room in order to allow me to sleep.

I am in the middle of packing right now but it is taking an age because my room is so hot I keep putting off actually having to go into it. I have ended up packing about triple the amount that I took to America, despite the fact that I will be there for 2 months less, haha. I guess there are no weight restrictions this time, so I can just bung everything in there without having to worry. It's a bit awkward because I know I will have a uniform, but I will not be on shift all day and I will have my one day off a week and therefore I've gone with 9 regular tops, 4 nice dresses and 4 nice tops as well as some nice jeans. 17 outfits for 5 weeks, in which I'll have my laundry done once a week anyway. I have no idea what is wrong with me. To be fair the nice tops and dresses I am not planning on washing. But still.

Lucy, I hope you can see Harry Potter with me!! Otherwise I WILL just go on my own, haha. At least one of my days off will be spent at the zoo. It is impossible for me to go to London and not somehow end up at the zoo. Even when it is not scheduled in, I always end up there. I will usually go just to stare at the penguins for a few hours. I have a ridiculous amount of London zoo penguin memorabilia now. I know once a week I will have to be going on a trip to a different part of London - knowing my luck I will pay to go to the zoo, only to be leading a trip there the next day. It isn't listed on the list of potential places I may have to lead, but you never know. As for the weekly non-London trips, I am happy with 4/5 of them. I love Leeds Castle, I've never been to Oxford, Chessington World of Adventures is always fun (oh man I hope they let me on the bubbleworks as I will be with children) and Brighton is glorious. And then Canterbury. Where I live. Yay. Not.

For the London trips, personally I am hoping to get assigned to Madame Tussauds. The last time I went there I was about 6 - I have always refused to pay for it since. Others on the list that I would like are Shakespeare's Globe Theatre (nerd), Camden Lock Market, Buckingham Palace (never gets old), the houses of parliament (I AM going to be prime minister one day...) and Westminster Abbey. I've never been on the London Eye (again, too expensive) and I don't recall going to the tower of London. I've not been to the British Museum or the National Gallery but it doesn't look fun, and I have been to the Science Museum so many times I don't really fancy going there again. There's supposed to be one musical that we all have to go to but I don't know which it is. PLEASE BE LION KING.

How much would it suck if my day off each week was the non London trip? I would constantly be asking if I could come along anyway.

Stuff that I still need to pack:

Phone and charger

Camera and charger

Alarm clock (in the morning)

Make up, hair brush, tweezers, razors, period stuff, pills, face wipes, shampoo

2 books

Writing equipment

2 bags

Sunscreen

Passport, other documentation

I think that's everything.

SO I will be finishing on August 10th. I assume I will be coming home that night, it depends on when I feel like getting the train to be honest. My internet access will be very limited, and I can't say for certain I will actually be using it. BUT feel free to leave me comments letting me know how things are going for you! I will try and check my email on my day off each week. I assume LJ will be blocked, but I'll be able to reply through my email. If you have my phone number I will have it with me, but please text only as I am working really odd times.

See you all next month and have a good summer! (Okay, I'm actually leaving first thing tomorrow morning and will probably be back online tonight. But, you know, just in case)

Someone wanted to know what my voice sounded like...now you know.

It is so hot that I have refused to leave the house all day. UGH. My stomach HURTS and all I can do is eat chocolate and complain about said stomach pain.

I have finally completed watching every single season of 24. I will go back in a minute and watch the bonus features on the 6th season, can't be bothered with that right now. The only season I disliked was season 2. Except, I didn't just dislike season 2, I absolutely detested it. I think overall season 3 was my favourite. It is hard to tell. Because I have literally watched all of them in seven weeks with no days off they have become very merged into one (with the exception of bloody season 2) and it doesn't help that whatever is going on at the beginning of a season generally has absolutely nothing to do with whatever is happening at the end. I have four main thoughts:

As much as I love Kiefer, he looks goddamn ridiculous when he cries. His face becomes incredibly slappable.

On the opposing side, I really really hate Audrey. Her face is never not slappable.

If I was a lesbian, I would totally marry Michelle. I don't think I have ever contemplated this with any other series, so I guess it should count.

Not that many people know how to fly helicopters, goddammit.

I have a dreamwidth account! I am Celebration over there. I don't know why I am linking you because there is really no point being added to both, I am just going to cross post. I have had a quick look around dreamwidth and it seems okay although very very empty right now. I have customised it a bit but aside from that I am just going to leave it until I come back. This inspired me to go and look at my old Deadjournal, which I kept from 2002. Good lord I was a bloody moron when I was 14.

Let's talk about my summer work! I am leaving on Sunday. I finish August 10th. I am not taking my laptop with me but presume there will be internet access, although it will be limited and I don't know if I will bother using it. Although I probably will. I expect livejournal will be blocked, BUT, feel free to leave me comments with random thoughts or telling me things that are going on in your life that I am missing! I am expecting I will be able to reply through my email, even though it won't let me load the actual site itself. I will be getting one day off a week and will be working 24 hour shifts the rest of the week. Yes, really. There should only be one day a week when I am literally active for 24 hours straight, but all the others I will be working 7am - 11:30pm, and will be on call during the night. Ung. I will be an activity leader by day, an events manager by night, and a tour guide by weekend. Holla. I will keep a written journal and backdate the entries when I get back, if anyone is actually interested.

I decided to save all my Sims updates for one big update a week so that I no longer feel like I'm spamming everyone.

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In non Sim news IT'S TOO HOT. I have a giant bruise on both of my legs which means I cannot wear a dress PAH.

EDIT: Do not appreciate. I just got an email to my university account, which is about, and I quote, "Mentoring to enhance the university experience for students from ethnic minority backgrounds." So whereas Early Childhood Studies wants mentors for all the year ones, English just wants it for the not white ones. And it does specify this basically, it wants you to help teach them study skills and help them with their understanding of books. THIS INFURIATES ME. To me it almost seems racist as they are suggesting that coloured folk can't do these things for themselves, but it infuriates me that anyone gets special treatment. Everyone applied the same way, everyone required the same grades, everyone can bloody do things the same way with no special help or funding, thank you.

I start my London job first thing Sunday morning. (the 5th, not the one that's just coming up.)

My mum is refusing to drive me over there as she does not like driving in London and keeps complaining that she doesn't know the way. No shit, that's why we own a TomTom, an object of which it's entire purpose is to tell you how to get to place.

There are apparently engineering works somewhere in between here and there on that morning, so that's no good.

So, start looking at hotels. Normally I'd go with hostels, but NOT the day before I need to start a job... Then I decide to check the tube map. Oh, how surprising, THE TUBE IS DOWN THAT DAY. FFS.

Okay, trains are running there from Victoria. Unfortunatley, Victoria is where everything is. And therefore all the matches I find on google are about £200 per night. Uh, no. The few I find that are under £50 require me to stay there for two days.

ARGHHHHH.

Also, Google is completely pissing me off right now. I'm trying to look at all the hotels along the train line. So I put them in, and it comes up with all sorts of places that I did not ask about. If I bloody wanted a hotel in Elephant & Castle I would have asked for it, STOP IT.

I have upped my budget to £70 but now whenever I click check availability on hotels for around that price it is suddenly like, "£310, please." FUCK YOU THAT IS NOT WHAT YOU JUST SAID WHY MUST YOU LIE!

Tiffany is a teenager. Yay! Okay cablesleep I have kept picture updates up until they are all teenagers is this enough picture updates to satisfy you forever now?

( Sims! )

I tried to watch Mamma Mia last night but I failed. I gave it fourty minutes and it was not improving. I don't get why it is is so popular. Don't get me wrong, I like cheesy. I love Hairspray, I love Camp Rock, and I love High School Musical. But Mamma Mia is just awful. I think the problem is that many of the characters are so unlikeable I just want to jump through the screen and headbutt them all. Singing into song for no apparent reason is fine by me just don't be so bloody unlikeable. AND STOP SCREAMING.

Sigh, I should be graduating this year. If I hadn't taken a year out, haha. All my friends that didn't seem to have finished this year. I AM BORED WITH UNI. It sucks as the only reason I gave in and went back to uni was because I couldn't find a job anywhere. Now we have a colossal job problem there had better be something out there. I don't want to do a bloody post graduate degree.

I have chosen the RAF, by the way. I just plain like it more. Even though the army has more varied jobs (though I would be applying for the exact same three at both) I know I prefer the RAF, and I would probably be bitter if I didn't end up there. AND because the RAF takes longer with applications, so if I don't get in there I can apply for the army shortly afterwards, haha. Something I find odd is that when it comes to the armed forces my mum does not seem to object. Everything else I pick (regardless of whether it requires a degree or not) she claims is something that anyone could do and I am just wasting all of my potential, blah blah blah, and yet she is fine with me going and getting myself blown up. Ho hum. So come September I will put in my appy for the RAF, I am also applying for a few graduate retail programs and government programs, and then uni. I pretty much want things in that exact order, by the way. I know all the military things seem to be making a lot of staff redundant at the moment so they are going to be stricter, but hopefully the fact that my family is military on both sides will help.

On a somewhat related note, my mum is currently furious at me. She has been doing belly dancing for a few years now (it disgusts me too) and as such does a lot of sit ups. She attempted to motivate me and challenged me last night. We both assumed that she would of course be able to do more, being that I hate doing them and therefore never do. She managed 60 something - after about a year of doing them nightly. I managed 131 before she got annoyed and left the room and therefore I had no reason to continue. Heh heh heh. I can still only do about three push ups before I start getting confused and humping the floor again, but she can't manage one, so I win again. My mum is away next weekend because she is doing a belly dancing show. I refuse to accept this. It is wrong. SHE IS OLD. No one wants to see that.

Sims post! Emily is an elder and Chase is a teenager. Now just Tiffany has to age up into a teenager in a few days, and then you have ages before you'll have to put up with another update. You may celebrate this.

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YAY SIMS!

In other newwwwsssss, I start my summer job in two weeks. I probably should have mentioned this sooner but I'm not going to have internet access for about five weeks. I think. I might have internet access but I'm assuming I won't. (Which means I will come home and hate my current Sims. And will then start my new family in Riverview where everyone must wear old fashioned clothes. And then you'll have to put up with constant updates about them for a week too. Hey at least I warn you.) I am going to be in London, doing an assortment of strange stuff. I get the mornings off, hoorah. In the afternoons I will be helping with various sports, in the evening I will be arranging activities such as parties and quizzes, on Saturdays I will be running a tour to random parts of England and on Sundays to random parts of London. Awesome.

I watched What Happens in Vegas last night. I wasn't expecting it to be as amusing as it was. It was of course completely predictable but overall still enjoyable.

Films on my sky plus box that I really need to watch before I leave:
The Mist
21
Mamma Mia
The Eye

I also watched Shutter the other week. WHAT AN AWFUL MOVIE. It was so bad it was hilarious. Making people Japanese does not automatically make them creepy, you stupid producers. The ending with the big reveal was just HIDEOUS. The twist was ( Spoiler, but the movie is shitty so you don't want to watch it anyway )... Terrible Absolutely terrible.

I am having issues choosing between the RAF and the army. The army is much bigger, and therefore would have more jobs available. The application process is also shorter. However, I just plain like the RAF more. I imagine both the jobs I'm looking at would have more of a variety in the army being that there is more than just planes, but I JUST PLAIN LIKE THE RAF MORE. IDK. I feel I would be less likely to get bored in the army, but I like the RAF more. This is more complex than it should be, start being logical, head. When I get back from my summer work I am going to have so much to do. I have about fifteen things on my list of jobs that require you to apply more than 9 months in advance. And then I'm still applying to do a post graduate degree, just in case everything else fails. SIGH.

( Sims )

I can't do a goddamn stupid bloody push up. ARGHHHH. I need to do the proper manly ones and I can't. I thought I could, but then I suddenly thought about it while I was doing it and realised I was basically just humping the floor rather than doing it properly. My brain cann't seem to physically work out the mechanics and my boobs do not like moving. Even now I am aware that I am doing it in quite a retarded way I still can't seem to do it, the only way I can get my chest to go down is if I force all my weight there but then I just fall on my face which I'm pretty sure is still wrong. Even when I do it the girly way with my knees on the ground I have the same problem. It is absolutely bizarre. BEND, ARMS, you useless lumps of meat!

The sit ups are fine, I don't enjoy doing them but I am already over the number I would need to do to pass the fitness test.

The running I assume is fine. I'm not really working on that though, the place I'll be working for summer has a gym I can use for free so I figured in the mornings I would use the treadmills there as then I will know exactly how fast I can do it in and know that I'm actually running the correct amount. (I had my driving lesson this morning and I kind of measured the amount of miles with that but it isn't exactly right as I wasn't paying that much attention due to, you know, driving) I used to do a lot of running so I have no problem with this really. I'm probably not exactly on it now but it shouldn't take me long to get it back if I'm not.

I have at least three months before I need to be able to do them, probably longer, but it is DRIVING ME MAD. I am resorting to reading guides on how to do it properly. Bloody hell. And they aren't helping at all, which is even worse. I am going to have to go trampolining next week as circuit training goes on in the other side of the hall at the same time, I am going to have to ask the instructor (who I mock each week) to show me how to bloody do them.

EDIT: Okay my arms have finally figured out how to bend. About bloody time. So my new training reigime is going to be ten girly push ups a day, and then eventually I will change it to five of each, and then finally the ten regular ones. In my googling I discovered that all girls seem to be completely deficient at this (probably explains why there is a girl version...) which is odd.

JACK IS OLD NOOOOO

( Sims! Don't worry now I've gone through all the life stages I will probably stop updating soon. Apart from teenagers, I haven't had one of those yet. Sorry. )

cablesleep wanted to know what Sims 3 children looked like, so I just played a marathon session until Chase grew up into a child. Conveniently, Tiffany aged up into a toddler at the same time. Technically I can age Jack up now as well, but the thought of him as an elder saddens me and so I'm just not going to play again for a while. If he gets liver spots I will be furious.

( Sims! )

As always, other Sims owners (3, 2 or 1 I do not care) I would like to see your Sims.

I went trampolining for the first time in a year. And annoyed the people that have never stopped going by the fact that I can still do somersaults better than them. I WIN.

My old friend Mike was there. I love Mike. We are very strange when we get together as we are those types that just connect straight away. We got very strange looks at first, as Mike is black. And therefore upon seeing him I exclaimed "Mike! My favourite minority!" They are our favourite kind of jokes though. There was a guy wearing his iphone on his arm like he wanted everyone to see it. I commented to Mike that if he did not stop, I was going to have to steal with it. He pretended to be offended and replied with "What? As the black person here, it is my right to be able to steal that phone. Dammit you're already wearing black person trainers, at least let me keep one bit of my stereotype." Whenever we are together we basically slag everyone off and then spend the rest of the time making jokes about the other persons race. We are strange. But I love him. And he is very attractive.

We are quite strange though as when together we are naturally inclined to start slagging everyone else off, even though neither of us normally would. We don't do it in a horrible way at all. Like I commented that an elderly person running circuits was clearly decaying. Okay that does sound mean haha but nothing personal and obviously nothing that is actually true.

Other than that my stamina is gone. I used to do ten minutes non stop and would have been able to continue. Today I spent about one minute, did about three somersaults, and then had to get off because I was clearly about to die. Then talked to Mike for about 40 minutes until I felt ready to copy the process. This does not bode well for the RAF's fitness test.

I went to one of the Royal Air Force's recruitment stores today. I went to talk to one of the people in their shops about becoming an intelligence analysist (why yes, I have watched far too many spy programs over the last month) and because I am loud and obnoxious I had a few people from other departments talk to me. The guy who deals with actual aircrew wants me to try out to actually be a pilot, as I have 20/20 vision and helicopter flying experience. It's odd that we went with the last one as I specifically mentioned I didn't want to do helicopters really, I like fighter jets. LOL. Clearly I refrained from mentioning the fact that I have severe difficulty with driving a CAR let alone a plane. Although, in theory, my issue with cars is other drivers, roundabouts and cyclists, and I guess that's not really a problem when you're in the air. He asked if I had any experience with flight other than the helicopters and I told him that I touched a red arrow once, and was angered that they wouldn't actually let me ride in the back, if that counted. He said that it did. I had to explain that the red arrows were parked at my ex's airport, I didn't randomly break into a compound just to get a picture of me touching one. He seemed to appreciate my terrible sense of humour, always a good sign. AND another dude suggested when I finish my degree I try out to be an officer. But I don't know about that, as though they start on higher pay and it sounds better that seems far too competitive to me.

Decisions decisions. Life would be easier if you could apply for multiple areas at once, if I go the pilot route in particular that's obviously a very long interview process. It would suck to do all that and then be told no after about 2 years and have to try again for another one.

They seem to like the fact that my CV is erratic and that my summer work is always something random, and twice in different countries. I was a bit worried that my CV is filled with so many obscure things would actually put them off as it clearly shows my lack of commitment in anything, but it actually seems to be working in my favour. And the fact that I'm loud and obnoxious and talk to everybody against their will, although they didn't use that exact wording...

If my dad wasn't already dead, I'm sure he would be severely disappointed that I ever went to an RAF recruitment thing. He was in the navy, and always seemed to hate the RAF counterparts. Oh well. My plane would totally have kicked your ships ass. When I was a baby whenever his ship was in Portsmouth me and my mum would go on it and I would always cry immediatley on stepping onto the ship, I take this as a sign that the navy is not for me. He would be even more disappointed that the regular army is a potential backup and the navy is not even being considered. I do have a picture of me when I was about 7 wearing my dad's hat and I do look damn good in it, though.

On a related note, I just found some of my mums old photos from when she was my age. She looks rather like me. I don't know why I am finding that so unexpected, obviously logic failed me. She also had a boyfriend who looks exactly like a dodgy porn star with a giant moustache and drove a battered up old mini. THIS IS SO BIZARRE.

I went to a barbeque last night. There are mosquitoes. I didn't think there would be any this early, but as I made the mistake of wearing a dress, I found out that I was wrong pretty quickly. It was a strange bbq, that mostly revolved around a few of us watching other people play Guitar Hero for hours on end. Yeah. Oh and me getting harassed by Sarah's dog, who is cute but terrifying in the way that only Westies can be. What I found especially odd is that the burgers were proper great quality burgers bought from the butchers - and yet I didn't like them. And yet I LOVED them at the last one we were at - which was all Tesco's value range, meaning it was about 5p per burger. I'm glad I have no taste, I really am.

Most of my friends from university seem to have moved back home already, or will have done by the end of the day. There's a few left as we are having another bbq this week, but then they are off too. Oddly the people that used to live here but moved away from university, are NOT coming back. Always the way.

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Is it just me who gets really paranoid everytime I get an envelope marked PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL? I always sit there and wonder wtf I've done, haha :( I don't know why, because I don't think it has ever NOT been the bank. On a related note, American Express really really want me to have a gold card. They have phoned me twice trying to get me to upgrade. I don't really see the point. It doesn't appear to have any obvious advantages. In the last month they have called me twice, Mastercard tried to get me to be a gold member once, and my regular bank tried as well. All this month. LEAVE ME ALONE.

( My Thoughts on Big Brother so far )

The dog has been good under her medication. The steroids seem to have reversed the aging process a little as she is actually able to run around and jump up again. It has the strange side effect that she now shakes so violently she looks like she's vibrating. The vet told us this is normal, but I still never fail to laugh when I see her wondering around the house vibrating. However, this morning she spontaneously peed on the carpet. Right in front of me. Right next to some tiles that I could have easily wiped up. Right next to a goddamn door that she could have just walked out of. My neighbors do not like me because they were outside with their baby and I of course reacted with "WHAT THE FUCK WHAT ARE YOU DOING THE DOOR IS OPEN GET OUT GET OUT GET OUT" which being that she is deaf was overall unsuccessful.

So now I hate her.

I am keeping her locked out of the living room. It's quite sad as everytime I close the outside door and make a mad rush for the living room she assumes it is a game and chases me, only to give me sad looks through the window on the door when I close it on her. Ah well.

My driving went okay. My instructor is now wary of me. As before when it came to roundabouts I would be quite hestitant. Now I just go, only I go really fast so if someone else did happen to be coming along, I'd be out of their way. This is how he sees it anyway. It is not entirely true, I am aware of what I am doing and if I am about to floor it and someone else comes along I do stop before I've actually gone. If I am turning right I am slightly more hesitant as I drive slower as otherwise I have a tendancy to forget which exit I want, and if I am in the middle lanes it is worse because my ability to drive in a circle is terrible and I am constantly convinced that people on the outer lanes are not going to be paying attention and are going to drive into me when I try and leave. He thinks that I should be ready to do my test when I come back from my summer work, but recommends that I stop with the car noises before my test. Whenever I am driving too fast round a corner so that everyone gets thrown against one side, I of course feel the need to announce "Vroom" or "Wheee". He finds this amusing and has been known to join in, but apparently an examiner will not find it as amusing. Oh well. Also, almost immediatley after he told me I should be ready once I come back, I promptly drove into the curb despite my constant complaints that I was nowhere near it. Oh well.