Posting News Articles.

I wouldn't even bother trying to write about something that involved being acurate and giving anything other than an opinion. I'm not knowledgable enough. This hasn't stopped me being asked to join "nowpublic.com", a new website of sorts. With the news articles being written by the members. I would love to cause trouble on there, but for now I'll stay tame and keep to writing what I know about.
My first article was about the 365days project, which I love dearly and worry about what I'll do when I finish. Here's the article as I wrote it. Already reading it back is a horror. I wish I had a nicer way with words.

"The project I'm undergoing is fast becoming a legend of the internet. The project, not my attempts, that is. Over 4,000 people are now signed up and either participating or watching the 365 days project. I think of it more as a challenge to myself. Each day to take a better photo than the day before. It's not always possible. The basic aim of the project is to take a self portrait every day for 365 days.

There's every type of person taking part, and that's part of what makes it wonderful. We all have this strange task to complete, and it's difficult to understand why that forms a bond, but it does. Today I reach day 223, and it's not been easy so far, but it's about to get a lot harder. All others who have taken part and either dropped out or are still strong 200 days in to it are all aware of how life can get in the way. I shall be going away for almost a month on a tour of the UK; and I hope that nothing terrible happens to my camera, or to me, that means I wont stay faithful to the project; at the same time I almost hope that I'm having such a wonderful time that I forget everything.

I digress; looking back at my progress so far, it's rather astonishing. However not everyone has had the same journey. In a year, it's unlikely that nothing sad will happen, and I've seen some very good long running contenders drop out because of somethingbad happening. I've been through the bad times, and I'm pleased that I took my camera along for the ride with me. I hate my face crying, it's offensive, but I shared that with the group, and the internet. It's not the same as crying in front of someone else, it becomes art.

Check out the group. Join in if you can.

http://www.flickr.com/groups/365days/ "

Hair and Trains.

As promised, I visited the hairdressers yesterday at 3:30pm. 4 hours later I emerged, stunningly sexy but in desperate need of a wee. FOUR BLUMMIN HOURS!? I suppose you get your money's worth! So now my hair is bright red and it's too damn cool! People in the street are staring at me, and I know why (or at least now I have something to blame). I walked past a couple of young men and one of them started saying "wakka wakka wakka!", then his friend joined in; I've got no idea what it means, or even if it's good or bad, but it made me laugh. Someone else said "WOAH look at that hair!" then a mate replied and the group laughed, but I didn't hear, so I kinda missed the joke.

Other news in the world of me is that I went to the train station and spent possibly about half an hour making a big queue, to buy my train tickets for this summer's tour. 12 destinations, but probably changing that a little bit, depending on how certain things are arranged... plus I'll be changing at stations and waiting for a couple of hours for connecting trains, that counts as practically a visit!

Now I'm going to stop staring at my hair and sit with my feet out of my window again. I'll start to make a list of essentials for my trip.

Perfect tea, to maybe wii?

I think I made the perfect cup of tea today. It was de-caf, but that still counts. For those of us who aren't allowed caffiene, but are not willing to give up tea, decaf is a God send! My tea was the usual milk and no sugar, it was the third use of this tea bag (and last), and I don't care what people say, the milk goes in last! Water and teabag in, remove teabag, add milk, equals perfection!

Other things that have brightened my day are, the weather, it's gloriously sunny but there's a lovely breeze to stop me from melting. I sat on my windowsill for a while until I gained too much attention from people in the street. That's one of the main issues with living in the centre of a city, no gardens, and everyone waiting for a bus can see you dangling your feet out of your window. It might take them a while to notice, I am three floors up, but they undoubtedly will. I even had a Chinese couple take photos of me, I smiled and waved for it.

In about an hour I'll be going to the hairdressers, this strikes major fears in my heart for a few reasons. It's been a fair while since I last went to the hairdressers and I've been chopping my own hair for a long time, I know it's a mess. They'll know it's a mess, I'll have to point out that I am aware before they think I'm a total hobo. It's going to be expensive too, hot damn, it's going to be very expensive! However I'm hoping they give me a lovely cut, a lovely colour and a lovely, complimentary, cup of tea.
My hair gets me a lot of attention, and is what most people remember about me, or say is their favorite of my features. I'm beginning to think I should probably pay more loving attention to my hair, but I'm far too lazy and tight to buy lots of posh hair products and all the very cheap stuff seems to work well enough.

I recently discovered new lows in my studenthood. Yes I am poor, yes I am still shelling out for the hairdressers, yes it's not very good. Anyway, I found a 'range' of shampoo and conditioner from 'boots'. 24p for shampoo! WOW! Hell yes! It's very worryingly bright blue, but it does the job; and for 24p I don't think I'd ever complain.

I think students live in some crazy paradox. Half the time we shell out copper coins for 24p shampoo and 11p noodles. Then the rest of the time we're spending £20 on DVDs, £30 on a pair of shorts and Lord only knows how much on a games console.

I know I am; minus the games console. I've still not quite decided which I want. The three contenders being the xbox 360, PS3 and wii. The wii is out straight away because if I fancy playing a computer game, I'm not wanting to break in to a sweat. I'm not fat, I don't need exercise sneakily labelled as "fun". I've already got a PS2, and I'm very fond of it so the PS3 seemed like an obvious choice, but I don't have a TV and if I wanted to use my PS2 in my current flat, I'd have to get a TV liscence. I bloody hate TV. BAH. The xbox 360 is the console that won me over the most, I was loving mocking it and "bigging up" the PS3, but then I played on my housemate's 360... and my oh my, it's jolly good fun! Gears of war and ranbow 6 are my favorite games. I'm not great at either, but they're great fun. I need to practice my thumb controll to beat the boys.