thomas lilley

Yes, I haven't updated this is a while but I've not been doing anything. I'm on summer holiday now (YAY!) for four months so I am killing time with Pokéobsessions. Anime, games, tis all FUN. And I've discovered iStore, so I'm losing all my money on my legal downloads xD.


And that was a lovely LONG meme :). I shall update properly soon, I promise :)

Hello! Tis I, Tom! Well, that's hardly surprising, who else would it be? My title sounds rather ageist, but I don't really care. My (rather short) flist are all within my sort of age range so I hope that no-one's gonna go all crazy mad on me. besides, it's true. I don't see many adults having to do exams, do you?

Well, I shall indeed start this entry off with some exam NEWS. I have failed Italian, I am sure of it. The test, which according to Elena was 'easy', was officially the most difficult thing I have ever had to in my life. I was all "HUH?!" whenever the person on the tape spoke and I spoke to Marianne and Çilé (doesn't she have the best name?! I has enveh!) afterwards and they were just as perplexed by it as I was. So, that doesn't bode well for us as a class. But, I don't want to think about it. I'll get annoyed if I do. I have a writing exam on Thursday but that should not be too bad. It's only 150 words. That's an extended parapgraph, not an essay.

French and German writing are on THE SAME DAY! Grrr. In fact they are both in the morning. I have French from 9-10:30, then German from 10:45-12:15. It sucks majorly. It's almost as if the exam people want to punish us for learning languages. Oh, well. In fifteen days it'll all be over. HOORAY! Then I can have my four months off :D.

( So, I went to see Iron Man... )

Tomorrow is the German Language Project Presentation :(. I am so very afraid of doing it. But I'm always like this before presentations. I'm sure I'll be fine :)

( New Moon is finished! )

Oh! Ludmilla finally came through with her promise and I now have all of Juli's discography. German musik is fantastic, I actually love it. I'm going around singing random German lyrics to myself. I must look certifiably insane. Oh, well, what's new?

Tommeh wants a shiny header. He can make one, but has no idea of how to add it to the top of his LJ :(. It is official, I has teh enveh of Jane and everyone else with shiny headers. Although, I did change the scheme of this one so now it is shiny and RED :) Speaking of shiny image things, I has a new icon :D. It is made, not my I, but [url=http://the-lucky-stars.livejournal.com/]the-lucky-stars[/url], whom I saw on dear Jane's flist. Sorry, Jane, but you don't get a link, everyone knows who you are xD.

Now, onto what I have been doing with my time recently. Well this can be summed up in three words: Twilight. New. Moon. I have indeed been reading these two books (New Moon is the second, it's just got two words in the title!). These books took me a while to get into (Twilight more so) but I actually am addicted to them now xD. And the film is coming out in December and I saw the trailer today and had a bit of a fanboy squee attack :). I'm over Robert Pattison as Edward now, he does seem to fit it well and I have no issues over Kristen Stewart for Bella. And I want some Rosalie lines! I shall be an upset Rosaleh!fanboy if she stays quiet for the whole thing. And Rosalie fanpeople are the most angry ones, as she's so cold and mean herself. We has to be like her!


Uni's been a bit of a bitch again, but it's exam time so it is to be expected. I have so far done one exam (French oral) and it went all right save for the fact that I invented a word (focuser - to focus). But, it went OK. Three exams on Thursday though :(, so I will have an update for you then to let you know how it went.


Oh, and if you're wondering: my title is a quote from Twilight. I'm not a druggie and have taken to talking to said narcotics. Just to put your mind at ease.

Tis I, again! I know I only update like 10 minutes ago, but there were things that I had FORGOTTEN TO INCLUDE!

Firstly, we must mention the random day of randomness, known as Friday's the 18th (although, I was sure it was the 17th) of April when Tommeh and Janeh (janey_xox) met each other at the Worthingz! Now, Worthing is fun indeed, it has all the things for a crazy day out! It has a Pizza Hut, which is where Jane and I actually LIVE. I'm sure of it. We've met three times and of all these three times, we has been to pizza hut =P. There is teh PIER OF TEH YEAR! We loves Worthing Pier, because it is fun and cool and shiny. And it vibrates when people walk on it xD. Also, the wind was interfering so we could not hear each other properly! But, twas a fun day nonetheless.

I still be at the uni library, but that is because it is RAINING HEAVILY! Like, torrential downpour! And, this where teh title comes from; the person sitting behind me said it and I thought it was rather funnily phrased, so I has stolen his QUOTEZ!


So, yes this is all. Two updates in one day. I is making up for LOST time! Oh, and we gve hugs to Jane for planning to help me with mood images :)

Yes, look at that. A German title, well done to me. Well, I am beginning to question why I chose to have it in German since I'm about to kill the next person that says anything remotely German to me. But, nevertheless, the German essay and oral presentation on youth drug addiction in Austria is COMPLETED!!!!!! YAY! *runs around like a headless chicken on happy pills*

Of course I still have other essays and presentations to prepare for (such as my French one which is on animal protection [why must all these subjects be so mind numbingly dull?] and my language research) but I'll handle that later on. Tomorrow probably. It's now ten past four in the afternoon and I've been here since 10 this morning. SIX hours plus in the library (as I'm probably going to stay a while longer). I feel so intelligent and geeky. In fact, I shall make that my current mood :). Speaking of those moods, I need to figure out how to get cool Heroes pictures like Jane has. Or, even DW or Alias, if I can find them. I dunno why, but I'm tempted to just waste a load of my time and make my own xD. I'm weird like that.

Oh, and that brief mention of Doctor Who leads me onto this cut
So, yes, I am now hiding out in the library, working hard on my many different languages. I think that my french essay on the environment ought to be next. Well, we'll see. I'll probably update tomorrow again, I'll likely be in the library again xD

Oh, and since Heroes is starting again on BBC2 this week, here is a Milo/Peter Petrelli icon for you to look at :)

Well, it has certainly been a while since I have updated this eljay (I shall call it that now). Shame on me, indeed! But, what is there for me to talk about?

Well, I went up to Elle's for her birthday and got rather intoxicated, only to solidify Jane's opinion on my alcoholism. The pictures on facebook are rather interesting and amusing. So, yes, that was rather fun indeed.

DW returned! YAY! And Tom has much love for teh Donneh. I didn't think I'd like Donna much at all, but I really rather do like her. I like her more than I like Martha at this stage of teh season. Martha is all very pretty and nice and stuff but she was a bit too clever to be a companion. Not to suggest that Rose or Donna are stupid, just that Martha was cleverer.

And, finally, as this will be a short entry, I have been to uni and back THREE times today. Like a boomerang! First left home at 8:35am for Language and Text. Returned here by 10:15 (I took the bus with Flick). Then I went back at 1:30pm for French Speaking then returned here at about 4 (coz Lang Research was just group work) and I'm about to leave in about half an hour for Italian, to get back here by about 9:30. Lots of walking and travellling for the Tommeh today! I shall be thin in no time at all! xD. Actually that reminds me of something Elle said when Mum said I looked slimmer: "Elle: Yeah, it's coz he doesn't eat and can't be bothered to get of his, slightly less, fat ass to get food."

Twas rather amusing.

So, that is all for today. I may start watching DW episodes again so that I can have the return of the REVIEWZ! That'll be rather cool :D

Why does you do it BBC!? Why must you make everyone cry so? This is probably going to look like a very short entry, but tis so full of spoileryness that it'll be behind a cut :-p.



So, that is all from me today. I hope that I worked the cut well. If not, well, I have much to learn on LJ still xD

I stole this here meme from Vix :-p and filled it in due to boredom xD:


Open iTunes/iPod or Windows Media Player or Winamp to answer the following. Go to your library and answer the questions, no matter how embarrassing it is.


How many songs: 664 (ooh, I wanna get two more xD)

Sort by song title:
First Song: 3x5 - John Mayer
Last Song: Zerrissen - Juli

Sort by time:
Shortest Song: The Soup Song - The Mighty Boosh (0:27)
Longest Song: Lenny/Man On The Side - John Mayer (8:46)

Sort by artist:
First Artist: 3 Doors Down
Last Artist: Zac Efron *embarrased at Hairspray song*

Sort by album:
First Album: 19 - Adele
Last Album: Yeux Ouvert  - Sinsemillia


Top Three Most Played Songs: (would have been Panic! songs but I had to recopy them)
1. Apologise - OneRepublic
2. Mercy - Duffy
3. Speakerphone - Kylie Minogue

Search ....

"sex", how many songs come up?
2  -   FutureSexLoveSounds - Justin
       Sexy? No, No, No  - Girls Aloud

"death", how many songs come up?
0

"love", how many songs come up?
33

"you", how many songs come up?
68

"wish", how many songs come up?
0

First 10 songs that come up on Shuffle:
1. Going Under - Evanescence
2. Keep Holding On - Avril Lavigne
3. Angry - Matchbox 20
4. So long, Jimmy  - James Blunt
5. Song For Ten - Murray Gold
6. Split Screen Sadness - John Mayer
7. Fascination - Alphabeat
8. Belief - John Mayer
9. Better Life - 3 Doors Down
10. Break The Ice - Britney Spears


[[How odd that i get 3 songs in a row that begin with S, then an F, and then three that begin with B...]]

Well, I think it's official. I'm addicted to LJ and blogging xD. Well done, Jane, your job is done. But, it all fairness, it is helpful for me to randomly rant about things and stuff to calm myself down and procrastinate doing anything of importance. In fact, a German essay sits beside me, needing to be done but not looking like it will be done at all by tonight. Tomorrow I shall write about the guy lost in the jungle (ein Mann, in der Dschungel!!) but I just cannot be bothered now.

Oh, I have discovered the wonder of YouTube for music listening. LiveLounge is an amazing thing and I've spent much of my day listening to random covers of random songs via YouTube as well as mashups of songs. It's all cool and fun :D.

And that, ladies and gents, is all that I've been doign today. Tomorrow is the return of the SEMINAR, who knows if I will survive such a perilous ordeal!

Hey, check me out. Two days in a row. Booyakasha! WTF is booyakasha?! Let's just erase that from our memories forever. *shwoom*. Erased!

Anyways, let us move onto what I have been doing today: hating on daylight savings time. Why go forward an hour when my mind wants to go back?! I put back the hour on my watch, but my phone set itself automatically so when I woke up (at 12:30pm xD) my phone said half twelve but my watch said half ten! I was so confused that my head nearly exploded! No lie!

After six hours of doing nothing (other than having a shower and randomly doing the washing up) I exited the house and walked to Trafalgar Halls of Residence to meet with Mel and Sam, Mel's housemate, before we went to the Registry for a pub quiz. We got a few, but not many, of the question right (we wanted to call Pat Sharp 'James Matthews' but it was, apparently, wrong!) and managed to get 5 out of 10 on questions on STD's. Well done us xD

Well, after a few beers we headed on back to Mel and Sam's flat and started a loooooooooooooooong discussion about Mel's story that is totally secret and confidential that only Sam, Becky and I are privvy to. But we managed to create a totally new character, only to kill him for the purposes of character development. But we then got sidetracked and eventually Mel and I reenacted a possible stabbing, using a tomato ketchup bottle as a knife. We're imaginative, see? But we established that getting shot in the kneecaps is the worst, as the cartiledge won't grow back. Kill Bill 2 tells me this. 

Oh, and one thing to say for Mel: "Hrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrggggrhrrrhrrrr. Jimmy, has Mel done that, yet?" 

And then, as she kindly allowed me access to her computer so that i could BLOG, Mel read out the Lord's Prayer and, like the guttered teenage that I am, I kept sniggering as things like 'my cup will overflow' and 'your rod will comfort me'. I was then told off by Mel for being blasphemous, and there is where the title quote comes from. 

So, this be Tom heading out now (and having to walk back home at half 12am alone...) and we thank Mel for allowing me to blog today. Kudos to Mel!

Quote:

OK, well, Jane says this will help so get ready for perhaps the biggest rant I will ever write xD.

Firstly, can I just say how much I hate the German language? I think I'm about to go over to Germany, find the people who invented this language and shoot them for inflicting such a God awful way of speaking onto the world. No offence to German people, but the language is just...foul. I do not like it. I do not like learning it. In fact, no, I HATE learning it. I do not want to do it anymore and it's become more of an obligation to the university that I learn it, not because I actually want to. This is somewhat of a brash turnaround as a few weeks ago I was singing the praises of the langauge but now, I just hate it again. It's hard and all the people; literally ALL the people in the class are better than me even if they claim they're not. I've never felt as stupid and ignorant as I do in that class. It makes me wonder why I bother at all with any of it.

People have said that I'm a major perfectionist with a mainstream inferiority complex. As much as I want to deny that, I can't. It's true. It's so incredibly true that I never even noticed it before. But that doesn't change the fact that I'm terrible at German. Any questions that I got right today were either because I a) guessed or b) read them off of Abi's work. I had no idea myself.

I have a meeting with my teacher tomorrow but I don't want to go. I don't want to go and hear that she thinks I 'could do better' or that I need to 'work harder'. I am trying, it just doesn't show. On the plus side, my stress needed and outlet and instead of being destructive (even if I nearly did smash a window on a booth at the beach), I channelled this rage into something productive and actually tidied my room. It's strange, I can actually walk across the room without tripping. Also, FYI, don't go to teh seafront when it is windy. Just don't.

Secondly, can I just say how much my mother needs a slap? Or at least just a brain to listen to what people say and at least feign sympathy. But no! She seems totally incapable of doing this. She seems to find in 100% impossible to accept that I have problems that she cannot fix. I told her I was struggling in German, her reply was "Move down a group.". What, pray tell, would that accomplish? All it would do is waste a year of my life as I'd have to go into 3a when everyone goes up to 4a when I've already done 3a! It's IMBECILIC! Next, I tell her that I have "no motivation to go to the lessons, let alone do the work.". Her response: "Just chuck it in, then."

Yes, thank you, that's really motivating.

Eventually, I just so exasperated with her that I told her I had to go and for her not to tell Dad as I'd tell him myself later. (remember that, it's important) and I hung up on her before she could try to control my life even more. I was down at the seafront by this point and was going to listen to some music to calm me down (electro!Kylie would have been very helpful here xD) only for me to turn my iPod on and for it to say that it had run out of battery. I nearly screamed and threw the damn thing in the sea. Thankfully, I restrained myself and stormed back to the house and when I got there I went straight to my room and, oddly, started to tidy it. I must have been severely pissed off as I never tidy my room voluntarily.

My sister called (as I text her asking her to) and I told her the stuff that had been happening and at least she sounded like she cared before remarking that I shouldn't have spoken to Mum. Yeah, I'd figured that out by this point. Nevertheless, Elle's phone call did put me in a slightly better mood. So, I went downstairs and put some washing on and came back upstairs and online and spoke to Ed and he told me that Mum had told Dad everything and that he was annoyed that I hadn't told him myself.

I HAD TOLD HER NOT TO SAY ANYTHING

But no! My mother had to, didn't she? She had to go and piss me off even further. And now, my dad's not even going to call or talk to me because he thinks I purposefully snubbed him; a notion I'm sure my mother enforced. It's just incredibly frustrating. Why tell him when I asked her not to?

She's coming down on Saturday, but I managed to talk Ed into coming as well so I would not have to deal with her as only Dad as a backup. Hopefully she'll have developed at least one brain cell by then.

Well, here I am. After about three years of talking about getting a blog I'm actually getting on. Now, aren't you all so very proud of me?

I suppose that the logical thing to do for this first post would be to do a little introduction to me and my randomness and mention what I am most likely to talk about in this, the most shiniest of shiny blogs :-p

My name is Thomas ****** Lilley. I have a middle name, but I will not divulge it and those that do know it have equally embarrassing middle names for me to very publicly announce (A). I was born and raised in 'Arlow Tarrrrn (which is Harlow Town to all you non-Essex people) on the 27th February 1989. Grew up, went to school, all that jazz (except I didn't have a saxophone....that would have been cool.) and am now at Portsmouth uni :). Now, here is what I am likley to talk about.

University

Now this section is where the rants will be housed. Whenever something happens at uni that I will need to mention, it'll go here. Like, for instance, today I found out that I actually do have to resit my infernal German exam after my teacher told me that I probably wouldn't have to! How annoying! Now I won't be able to get a job at the summer as I'll only be at home for a month as I have to come back for the exams and I won't be able to get a week of work. (why do they have to be a week apart?!)

Relationships

The bane of the adolescent life. If any of my friends and/or family warrant a mention they'll go here. Now, I'm not going to promise that I'll be painting people in a positive light if I'm on a rant, so don't make preconceived judgements of these people. They just happened to have greatly annoyed me that day :-p. Today, little has happened on this front as I haven't actually got off the sofa since half ten this morning :-p

Obsessions

ALIAS! HEROES! DOCTOR WHO! TORCHWOOD! All are full of win! It makes me happy to talk about them (as Tash found out as I told her the end of S2 Heroes :$), but yes. this will all go here but I will, to the best of ability, avoid spoiling people as I'm nice like that xD

So, yeah, that is all for my first entry. Remember comments are like glitter = so incredibly shiny and fun :D

- Teh Tommeh :D