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Hi there. My name's Leanne, and this is Dusty Rose, my blog/li'l site type thing created on 10 June 2002. Without the inspiration of the great designers of my acquaintance, notably Ms. Clare Wood, it would not be here and your life would never have been enriched by seeing it. Show your gratitude by going here.
I did not make this layout, but I do think it's gorgeous. Some other (clever, talented) person did.
At this moment...
Watching: Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Reading: The Lord of the Rings by J R R Tolkein
Hearing: Avril Lavigne, Let Go
Feeling: Lonely.
Monday, September 16, 2002
This looks bad, me blogging once a week, if that, but lately I just cannot be bothered with the internet every single day. That'll have to change, as I'm not keen on the phone and I need to keep in touch with a lot of old mates somehow. I miss everybody sooooo much - last week, uni was mostly horrid. I'm gonna be sick to my back teeth of Liverpool city centre soon. This morning, I turned up and there was hardly anybody there, let alone anybody I recognised. I sorted out some admin crud with the school office, then, and went to the pictures BY MYSELF (how sad??! but I couldn't find anyone to invite) before catching my train home. Haha, but my family were shocked. The rest of these three years will HAVE to be less depressing than this.
Signs, by the way, is a so-so mushy sci-fi tale.
Monday, September 9, 2002
I'm officially in university now. Oh, and Florida was brill, apart from the villa robbery and thievery of my dad's ruby ring and everything else...damn you to hell, Florida Choice! I was bad not saying bye to everybody before I left. Sorry, peeps...
So my university building is quite small and nice, and the people are cool. In the middle of the day, everybody seemed to be slinking off so I did too, and I turn a corner and it was like the gates of heaven...Liverpool town centre is right there! I shopped, oh yes. I had an awful feeling I'd hate uni, but it won't be too bad, not with Waterstones so close!! I bought that Harry Knowles book (incredible - possibly the best �13 I ever spend!) and sat on this stone bench to start reading it. Sad, I know, but I was one of hundreds of lost souls in that city today. Then two girls sit by me eating lunch. It's a whole 3/4 of an hour before the one nearest me, my little pal Alex, recognises me, or I recognise her! But that's how great that book is...
Saturday, August 17, 2002
Results were quite chuff-worthy on Thursday...3 As and a B. But now I'm freaking out cos I bet I'll be the only one at JMU not actually living in Liverpool. Ah well, might be fun to go out, get pissed with everybody else, then slink off in a taxi before they start spewing, and then recover in my own bed while they have to sleep soaked in each other's vomit eeeeee! In other news, I'm off to Florida in less than a week, and I wasn't really looking forward to it (except for the food) til yesterday when I looked at the tickets and saw all the places we're going! Yayy! Not just Disney, like I thought.
Tuesday, August 13, 2002
Right now, I have a bottle of wine and a bottle of bubbly chilling in the fridge ready for Thursday...either to celebrate with or drown my sorrows in, when my results are through. I'm getting freaked out now, about that and university. Freshers' week my butt, I'm gonna be so scared. Must cheer up...
I'll daydream about Ewan dressed as Curt Wild, ironing for me lol. In other Ewan news...
Sunday, August 11, 2002
Meeeep, I have a new driving instructor, and I'm expected to take at least four lessons before I go away on the 23rd, starting with one a 11am tomorrow. Driving is so crap. Best start trying to pass my theory now, argh. Well, at least if people alot dozier than me have past it, it must be possible. My mate gave me copies of our holiday snaps yesterday, lmao they're all just of us drinking in various locations. Must get mine developed...
I've vowed not to spend any more money, but I just can't stop. I can't go into Waterstones and come out without buying anything. I got this book of true (yeah, right) ghost stories, then made the mistake of reading today while I was home alone, the tale of a woman walking into her own living room one day and seeing herself dead in a coffin. Guess what happened to her a few days later! Meeep. I've got the Sleeping Beauty books at long last too, and all I can say is...woah. Hot f*cking stuff. Gawd, I'm disgusting.
Thursday, August 8, 2002
My aunt just reminded me that a week today it's my results day...eeeeeep...I know I shouldn't worry given that JMU only want C, C and D off me, but it's still a horrible prospect. Ugh, last year I was sick, I was so nervous. It didn't help that today I was shopping with my cousin for stuff for uni. That was depressing. I'm getting all nervous now, but I'm excited at the same time. Everyone I've met there already is cool. I've made my first friend to cling to, a sweetie called Alex (I just hope that at enrolment, which I'll miss, she doesn't make a whole bunch of other pals who I'll hate!) and I'll be studying my two favouritest things in the world - books and writing. I must be lucky, cos I know that many people who really hate what they end up studying.
I didn't spend too much money, for once. I looked at the LotR DVD - luckily, it's way out of my price range so I can't buy it yet. I watched this hilarious kids' cartoon at my cousin's house - 'Don't Eat the Neighbours' - omg, so many shows, full of grown up humour, are wasted on kids' TV channels! I checked up 'Big Wolf on Campus', too, to see this Danny Smith, object of Clare's desire. Looks like a dark-haired Mr Reynolds to me! I'm not in work tonight YAY!! I'm getting some vids in instead. I fancy a Ewanfest.
Tuesday, August 6, 2002
Lord of the Rings is out today. Yesterday morning, I was queuing up in Smiths buying another DVD (I'm on a roll buying those) and all the posters for LotR were tempting me sooooo much to reserve a copy, for the sheer hell of it. Advertising really works. I didn't in the end - I'd watch it once maybe then let it sit collecting dust. I'll read the books first (by the time I get through them, probably, all three films'll be available in a box set, really cheap). Ohh gawd, this is where I start thinking of loads of reasons why I DO want it and end up running back this afternoon to buy it, arghh...
I'm in work tonight, eeeep. Gawd, I hate it. I can't wait to go to America, but then again, when I get back I'm starting university right away. Ack, and cos the day we get back is my enrolment day, I'll miss that, and when I get in everyone'll know what they're doing except me...
Monday, August 5, 2002
She rang again, the stranger. Same slow, squeaky voice (can't tell whether it's a kid or a grown woman) saying exactly the same stuff. I nearly bloody burst into tears in front of my brother and his friend. Then she rang twice more, really quickly, but Mike managed to put her off. This is so f*cking horrible. I can't ignore it. The only reason I was petrified going out shopping this morning is I was so sure it'd be a one-off, that she wouldn't ring again. I'm not a happy chappy today.