화요일, 6월 01, 2004
today, it rained.

thank goodness for umbrellas and devices of the like. that's the great thing about britain -- you never know when the weather might change, so i figure from now on i'm going to make it my resolution to ensure that i either have some form of head covering or umbrella-like implement whenever i leave the house. and that's also because i have a real spiffy brolly that i like very much, so better get that out and about more often.

we wanted to go watch harry potter today, but lo and behold, when we got there, a) the place had transformed into a creche, and b) all the tickets were sold out! till next week! the spending power of tiny tots and their ability to predict trends is the most acute i've ever seen. to be frank, there's no reason why the shows shouldn't be sold out, because 5 year old kids who want to see the movie have to get mum and dad and maybe brother and sister to come along as well, hence less kids bring their various hangers-on and voila: the movie theatre fills up twice maybe three times as fast. thus, to allow more kids to watch the movie, they need to spill over to other show times, to which those kids bring their parents or whoever, and so that fills up fast as well, so the rest need to spill over... oh you get the idea. sometimes, i feel, independence is a good thing. for one, you can go watch movies unchaperoned.

to take a break from sounding like the world owes me a living, a sentiment which i notice has been running high for some time now, i wish to say that it is only a grand total of 20 days before i see my family again! joy! rapture! but then again, results are (rumoured) to be released on the second week of june, so God help us. it's that mixed feelings bit you know -- feeling rather unstable at the moment. i guess there's no way i can really celebrate until i get my results, which give a nod to my 'prowess', if i may be so bold to say so, in the affirmative. if the word 'resits' comes up even once, i will... actually i don't know what i'll do. by right nothing like that should happen, and i'm praying that it doesn't. just thinking about it gives me the heebie-jeebies.

speaking of which, what is so wrong about the word 'heebie-jeebies'? apparently there seems to be some sort of joke about it that i don't know about or something, 'cuz everytime said word makes an appearance in one of my sentences, everyone starts chuckling, some surreptitiously, some not so surreptitiously. what, i ask, is so funny?

right then, better trot off and read the spoilers for the o.c. seth! seth! i am currently very displeased with his behaviour on the show, making the ardent admiration-for-indie-boy feelings that well(ed) up before ebb a little.