Since I applied for some of my jobs. I know they can take a while, its just that I'm not exactly a wait around kind of person.
So I applied for another job today. Though, currently I'm not sure if it's gone through or not. I applied for it via the internet, so shouldn't I have technically speaking gotten an email from the company telling me they got the job application, or is it something only some companies do?
Ah, I don't know. I'll leave it for today and check tomorrow, it is getting really late.
It just really depresses me when I notice how broke I am, and how much I clearly need to get a job, so I'm applying anywhere I can, everywhere I can for as many hours as possible.
It's sad actually. I hate being to broke and vulnerable.
But on the plus side its finally Easter holiday.
It's not much of a holiday though, with the ever looming presence of the exams, I find that this is NOT going to be a holiday, rather its going to be revision, revision, revision.
I hate how this Easter and next Easter are going to be the same. I'm not sure about Uni, that is if I ever get into University. I'm not with the current report card I've brought home.
You see, I work really really hard on my school work. Harder than most kids and I don't want to explain to my parents that I'm not doing that good in school. I've got two D's and two C's, and to be honest with you that's not going to get me into any University that I want.
It just depresses me that I work so hard for something and it doesn't pay off. I work so hard, harder than most, and everyone else seems to be flying by me.
I just hate how everyone else can get A's in the subjects but I get Ds even though I've probably worked a lot harder on the work than they have. Does anybody understand where I'm coming from? I seriously feel like crying from all the stress I'm feeling. I hate, hate, hate how thick I am. I'm not the least bit intellectual in the world.
I don't want to tell my parents that I'm not doing any good because they'll have a go at me, and I'll have to tell them that I'm having trouble's focusing in class, that sometimes when I look at numbers they look different to me than to anybody else. That I hate how everyone else in the class understands Maths whereas I'm still struggling. I hate how everyone else in the class gan get A's whereas I'm still struggling to get a C.
It's just depressing.
I hate to talk about what depresses me because it makes me even more depressed. I'll have to do some creative writing to maybe lighten my mood. It usually does.
I just hate it. Hate how everyone else seems to have an advantage over me. It's always been the same though. People think I'm smarter than I actually am. I can't stand it.
I hate being so fucking depressed over it. I can't stand it.
It just shows to me that I'm definitely not going to be showing my report this year to my parents. I'll make up some lye about it. They can survive one year, anyway, at least they'll see the marks at the end of the year. That can be more of a report to them.
I'll have to think of one soon because Sara will be getting hers soon. Then the questions for mine will start coming. I might have to come clean and say I've had it for a while and I didn't want to give it to them because its so bad.
Anyway, I'm off, leaving you on this clearly depressing note.
Wednesday, 31 March 2010
Tuesday, 30 March 2010
I've applied for yet
Another job. This tallies up my current application level to 4. Do you think any of them will get back to me? Probably not. You know what, I hate how long it takes for companies to get back to you. It's such a depressingly long wait.
So today, just now basically, I applied for a job in the Carphone Warehouse. It would help if I was the least bit interested in mobile phones, but sadly, I'm just not, a job is a job, right?
Actually, I think working in the Carphone Warehouse could be very good in comparison to some jobs I've applied for as of late. But to be perfectly honest, the idea of being a waitress is still very appealing to me. I'd very much like to work in a restaurant, waiting tables. Is that a good thing or a bad thing? Waiting tables just seems a bit more adventurous to me.
But as I said before, a jobs and job. Their looking, I'm looking. You can't really go wrong here. I lied through a lot of it. Well, not technically, I answered as honestly as I'm capable.
So, that's it really from me.
We're finally on Easter break tomorrow. I really can't wait to finish school. Good times. Good times.
Hey, you never know, maybe I'll have like 4 different companies offering me jobs at the same time.
Yeah yeah, don't get your hopes up, Bec. Don't get the hopes up.
Sorry it's a short blog today, I've been caught up in television.
So today, just now basically, I applied for a job in the Carphone Warehouse. It would help if I was the least bit interested in mobile phones, but sadly, I'm just not, a job is a job, right?
Actually, I think working in the Carphone Warehouse could be very good in comparison to some jobs I've applied for as of late. But to be perfectly honest, the idea of being a waitress is still very appealing to me. I'd very much like to work in a restaurant, waiting tables. Is that a good thing or a bad thing? Waiting tables just seems a bit more adventurous to me.
But as I said before, a jobs and job. Their looking, I'm looking. You can't really go wrong here. I lied through a lot of it. Well, not technically, I answered as honestly as I'm capable.
So, that's it really from me.
We're finally on Easter break tomorrow. I really can't wait to finish school. Good times. Good times.
Hey, you never know, maybe I'll have like 4 different companies offering me jobs at the same time.
Yeah yeah, don't get your hopes up, Bec. Don't get the hopes up.
Sorry it's a short blog today, I've been caught up in television.
Monday, 29 March 2010
Not much really to blog about
At the moment. It's coming to the end of school. I kinda got into this mind set where I had to have a job by Easter. You know, signed the contract and I'm on my training type of thing. Obviously that one didn't work out.
I just hate how long companies take to get back to you. It's sick. Or it could be the fact that I hate waiting. It's not that I'm an impatient person. I just can't stand waiting for companies to get back to you when you've devoted time to apply for their jobs. I mean, especially with that T.G.I. Friday's job I applied for, I spent about an hour on that one.
Applying for jobs just seems to be getting easier and easier for me. I'm so used to clicking the buttons, putting the same information in all the time.
Gah, I just want the company to get back to me. My life would be so much easier if they got back to me sooner. I wouldn't worry about keeping my phone charged, obsessively checking my emails. All that kind of crap. I hate it. Hate it. Hate it.
But I don't have time to be complaining at the moment. I need to be getting to bed. Coursework day tomorrow in school. It's one where you can't take it out of the school, you have to do it in an alloted time. Sucks really, but there's not much I can do about it.
So I shall be off. Hopefully things will be a little perkier tomorrow.
I just hate how long companies take to get back to you. It's sick. Or it could be the fact that I hate waiting. It's not that I'm an impatient person. I just can't stand waiting for companies to get back to you when you've devoted time to apply for their jobs. I mean, especially with that T.G.I. Friday's job I applied for, I spent about an hour on that one.
Applying for jobs just seems to be getting easier and easier for me. I'm so used to clicking the buttons, putting the same information in all the time.
Gah, I just want the company to get back to me. My life would be so much easier if they got back to me sooner. I wouldn't worry about keeping my phone charged, obsessively checking my emails. All that kind of crap. I hate it. Hate it. Hate it.
But I don't have time to be complaining at the moment. I need to be getting to bed. Coursework day tomorrow in school. It's one where you can't take it out of the school, you have to do it in an alloted time. Sucks really, but there's not much I can do about it.
So I shall be off. Hopefully things will be a little perkier tomorrow.
Sunday, 28 March 2010
The Thing
That I'm going to talk about briefly now, is of course, as usual, jobs.
I've applied for quite a lot of jobs over the past week. A lot in my case tallies up to about 3. But still. It's a lot nonetheless. For me anyway.
So it started last Tuesday, on a fairly boring afternoon after school, where I'd just finished one homework and I was in transition of going onto a different one, and the thought came to me 'why don't I do a little job searching online?' Of course, those weren't my exact words, but oh well. So it started first with 'swansea jobs' or something along those lines in google search box. Where nothing came up. So I went to fast food restaurants. Promptly, after not being able to figure out the Burger King website, I went to McDonalds, then to KFC, to have the joy of finding out that they were hiring. I applied. Thirty seconds later. Rejection. So I try different places. A lot, if I can remember, to end up on a place called studentbeans.co.uk, which led me to Pizza Hut, where I applied for a job there. I'm still waiting to hear back from them. Then on my travels on Student beans, I discover that there are a lot of restaurants hiring at the moment. Well, they were according to them anyway. So I decided to go into town yesterday, with my sister, and went job hunting again.
Where upon arrival, I went to Franky & Benny's. They weren't hiring. T.G.I. Friday's, the lady said, check out website. I tried Chiquito, they accepted a CV. Pizza Express, nothing there.
So it was a pretty busy day that day.
Then today, I applied for a job in T.G.I Friday's. Waitressing. I applied for a job in Lloyds TSB, HSBC, but I've been rejected again from them.
So, it's all in due course. My horoscope for the week shows some promising signs for at least one of those three getting back to me pretty soon.
Good times, eh?
Hopefully all three of them will get back to me pretty soon. Since them, I've been checking my emails and my phone constantly.
The wait is so nerve racking. I can't believe it.
Still waiting for a job to come.
G'night!
That was a strange last sentence, wasn't it?
Just thought I'd mention that.
I've applied for quite a lot of jobs over the past week. A lot in my case tallies up to about 3. But still. It's a lot nonetheless. For me anyway.
So it started last Tuesday, on a fairly boring afternoon after school, where I'd just finished one homework and I was in transition of going onto a different one, and the thought came to me 'why don't I do a little job searching online?' Of course, those weren't my exact words, but oh well. So it started first with 'swansea jobs' or something along those lines in google search box. Where nothing came up. So I went to fast food restaurants. Promptly, after not being able to figure out the Burger King website, I went to McDonalds, then to KFC, to have the joy of finding out that they were hiring. I applied. Thirty seconds later. Rejection. So I try different places. A lot, if I can remember, to end up on a place called studentbeans.co.uk, which led me to Pizza Hut, where I applied for a job there. I'm still waiting to hear back from them. Then on my travels on Student beans, I discover that there are a lot of restaurants hiring at the moment. Well, they were according to them anyway. So I decided to go into town yesterday, with my sister, and went job hunting again.
Where upon arrival, I went to Franky & Benny's. They weren't hiring. T.G.I. Friday's, the lady said, check out website. I tried Chiquito, they accepted a CV. Pizza Express, nothing there.
So it was a pretty busy day that day.
Then today, I applied for a job in T.G.I Friday's. Waitressing. I applied for a job in Lloyds TSB, HSBC, but I've been rejected again from them.
So, it's all in due course. My horoscope for the week shows some promising signs for at least one of those three getting back to me pretty soon.
Good times, eh?
Hopefully all three of them will get back to me pretty soon. Since them, I've been checking my emails and my phone constantly.
The wait is so nerve racking. I can't believe it.
Still waiting for a job to come.
G'night!
That was a strange last sentence, wasn't it?
Just thought I'd mention that.
Saturday, 27 March 2010
Posting from
By iPod for the first time in a while. It's a bit late to be turning on my computer so I apologize before hand if some of the sentences don't make any sense.
So I've come out of my depressive state more or less since yesterday. Though it is weighing down quick heavily on my mind still.
So I went job hunting today. Again, as a I should say. It didn't go much better from the last time I went job hunting. In all of the restaurants I went looking in only one of them took in an application. It's quite depressing actually. So, I'm really hoping that that place gets back to me quickly, and Pizza Hut for that matter. I'd like to see something from them too. I don't think many people realise how desperately I need a job. Do I come across as someone who doesn't need a job all that much?
Anyway, I think I'll stop my rant here. So then I know I've got something to do blog about tomorrow. Another reason is I can't stand typing on my ipod. It's so damn annoying.
So I've come out of my depressive state more or less since yesterday. Though it is weighing down quick heavily on my mind still.
So I went job hunting today. Again, as a I should say. It didn't go much better from the last time I went job hunting. In all of the restaurants I went looking in only one of them took in an application. It's quite depressing actually. So, I'm really hoping that that place gets back to me quickly, and Pizza Hut for that matter. I'd like to see something from them too. I don't think many people realise how desperately I need a job. Do I come across as someone who doesn't need a job all that much?
Anyway, I think I'll stop my rant here. So then I know I've got something to do blog about tomorrow. Another reason is I can't stand typing on my ipod. It's so damn annoying.
Friday, 26 March 2010
100 BLOG POSTS!
So I've finally reached 100, and I can say happily that I'm really proud of myself for getting here.
So I thought today would be a pretty happy day considering that it's my 100th blog post, but obviously, as usual I was wrong.
We sat a full English Language exam this week in lessons, and I knew from the instant I looked at it I was not going to do any good in it. And I didn't.
And to put the cherry on the cake. My mum and Dad promised to take Sara and me to Ikea tomorrow, they decided to go today, they even asked if I wanted to mitch school to go with them, even after I told them that I couldn't because of an English exam I was doing.
It just really shows to you how much attention you get in your family, does it not?
That really aggravated me today. This week has not been an easy week for me. I don't know why, but hopefully, I've gotten all the bad days I'm going to get out of me for a while now so that maybe soon everything will start looking up. Maybe I'll do well in my exams. Hopefully. Currently, I'm ruling out the idea of EVER GOING TO UNIVERSITY, because that's how bad I'm doing in school at the moment. I hate the fact that I work so hard for something and it never goes right for me.
I hate that nothing ever goes right for me, I can't get a job, I can't get good marks in school. I can't get anything. I'm constantly stressed with school, and I don't know what to do about it. I'm always jealous of everyone else's ability to be a fast learner whereas I'm such a slow learner.
I hate it.
I seriously can't stand my life at the moment, it's just proving to be more and more pointless as the days go on. I'm not getting good grades in school, which means I'm not going to go to university, which means I'm never going to write a book because I'll be stuck in some dead end job struggling to afford anything.
I'll never be loved. I'll never have kids. I'll never have anything.
I hate how life just throws these harsh realities at me.
I hate how everything is just a harsh reality. I just want one thing, well two things in my life to go well, a good job and a good education, but no matter how hard I try, I just can't seem to make anything work.
I'm just a failure.
I just need to accept the fact that I'm never going to amount to anything in my life. I'll become a tramp on the street begging for money. I'll have little 14 year olds laughing at me because I haven't showered for days on end. I'll never be an author like I want to be.
I'll never be anything.
This was supposed to be a happy blog, wasn't it? Considering it's my 100th and all, I'm just really depressed, tired, stressed etc etc. I just don't know what to do with myself anymore.
I'm literally losing the will to go on. I'm losing the motivation to even try anything anymore. I just wish sometimes my life was like something out of fiction, where there is always a happy ending. There's never going to be a happy ending for me.
So that concludes our oh so happy 100th blog. See ya soon. I'm sure things will turn around eventually.
So I thought today would be a pretty happy day considering that it's my 100th blog post, but obviously, as usual I was wrong.
We sat a full English Language exam this week in lessons, and I knew from the instant I looked at it I was not going to do any good in it. And I didn't.
- I looked at my report card. Fail.
- Pizza Hut isn't replying to me.
- I'm in desperate need for a job.
- I'm not allowed out to town tomorrow.
- Everyone just seems to be that much smarter than me.
And to put the cherry on the cake. My mum and Dad promised to take Sara and me to Ikea tomorrow, they decided to go today, they even asked if I wanted to mitch school to go with them, even after I told them that I couldn't because of an English exam I was doing.
It just really shows to you how much attention you get in your family, does it not?
That really aggravated me today. This week has not been an easy week for me. I don't know why, but hopefully, I've gotten all the bad days I'm going to get out of me for a while now so that maybe soon everything will start looking up. Maybe I'll do well in my exams. Hopefully. Currently, I'm ruling out the idea of EVER GOING TO UNIVERSITY, because that's how bad I'm doing in school at the moment. I hate the fact that I work so hard for something and it never goes right for me.
I hate that nothing ever goes right for me, I can't get a job, I can't get good marks in school. I can't get anything. I'm constantly stressed with school, and I don't know what to do about it. I'm always jealous of everyone else's ability to be a fast learner whereas I'm such a slow learner.
I hate it.
I seriously can't stand my life at the moment, it's just proving to be more and more pointless as the days go on. I'm not getting good grades in school, which means I'm not going to go to university, which means I'm never going to write a book because I'll be stuck in some dead end job struggling to afford anything.
I'll never be loved. I'll never have kids. I'll never have anything.
I hate how life just throws these harsh realities at me.
I hate how everything is just a harsh reality. I just want one thing, well two things in my life to go well, a good job and a good education, but no matter how hard I try, I just can't seem to make anything work.
I'm just a failure.
I just need to accept the fact that I'm never going to amount to anything in my life. I'll become a tramp on the street begging for money. I'll have little 14 year olds laughing at me because I haven't showered for days on end. I'll never be an author like I want to be.
I'll never be anything.
This was supposed to be a happy blog, wasn't it? Considering it's my 100th and all, I'm just really depressed, tired, stressed etc etc. I just don't know what to do with myself anymore.
I'm literally losing the will to go on. I'm losing the motivation to even try anything anymore. I just wish sometimes my life was like something out of fiction, where there is always a happy ending. There's never going to be a happy ending for me.
So that concludes our oh so happy 100th blog. See ya soon. I'm sure things will turn around eventually.
Thursday, 25 March 2010
1 blog post until 100
To be honest with you. I'm quite upset.
I hate how some people just have the natural talent of being smart and don't have to do anything and all the answers just come to them. I'm like the complete opposite of this, I work my ass off most days for hours and I still don't get anything higher than a C grade in classes. I've got loads of D's this year, and I don't think I've worked any harder on work in my entire life. It just really upsets me when people like my sister, who hardly does any work in school, comes home with report cards for A*'s and such.
I think it upsets me more often than not because I'm really jealous. I'm a really slow learner and things just don't stick. I'm distracted in lesson all the time, I can't focus on anything for a long period of time. The only thing I have close to me is my writing.
That's probably one of the reasons why I get really angry when someone else in my family confesses to be writing fiction as well. I sorta claim writing to be something that I want to do and no one else can do it. I do it because I'm afraid that that person will do a better job than me even though I've worked on it for so much longer than them.
For example. I've been reading and writing for as long as I remember, when people ask me what was my favourite TV show as a kid, I have nothing to say to them because I was reading some book, or writing something, and it really makes me feel out of it. But writing has always been something I loved, so when your older brother starts to take an interest into reading/writing at 17 years old, with no clue about the type on industry he wants to get into, or the dedication that goes along with it, it just really pisses me off. He's always challenging me about all these books he wants to read. Honestly, he's only read like 3 books in his entire life and claims to be like some literary genius, I mean, I know I haven't read every book in my life, and I know my writing isn't the best in the world, but its the only thing that I can call 'mine', you know?
But I guess, no one wants to hear of my insecurities, right? I mean, he fact that everyone seems to be smarter than me has nothing to do with the way my life is constructed, and my emotions as a person. Is it normal to be heavily distracted inside and outside of lessons? And be a slow person all together? I mean, it's become more apparent lately, but I've always been distracted and I can't focus on one thing for too long. My dad, he has tourette's syndrome could that be a reason why I'm slow, random, distracted and so on? It just makes me so confused that I don't know what to do about it any more.
Like when I write my blogs at night these days I'll get distracted and go somewhere else and remember I have to be writing here, then like five minutes later my mind will be somewhere else, its common for me, as I've grown up with it, but as I become more aware of how people around me act, I kinda get the feeling that I act completely different from the people around me.
Anyway, enough ranting from me, one last thing though, PIZZA HUT STILL HAVEN'T GOTTEN BACK TO ME! Admittedly this is only like the 2nd day, but I can't help my get my hopes up that I'll even be considered for the job!
I hate how some people just have the natural talent of being smart and don't have to do anything and all the answers just come to them. I'm like the complete opposite of this, I work my ass off most days for hours and I still don't get anything higher than a C grade in classes. I've got loads of D's this year, and I don't think I've worked any harder on work in my entire life. It just really upsets me when people like my sister, who hardly does any work in school, comes home with report cards for A*'s and such.
I think it upsets me more often than not because I'm really jealous. I'm a really slow learner and things just don't stick. I'm distracted in lesson all the time, I can't focus on anything for a long period of time. The only thing I have close to me is my writing.
That's probably one of the reasons why I get really angry when someone else in my family confesses to be writing fiction as well. I sorta claim writing to be something that I want to do and no one else can do it. I do it because I'm afraid that that person will do a better job than me even though I've worked on it for so much longer than them.
For example. I've been reading and writing for as long as I remember, when people ask me what was my favourite TV show as a kid, I have nothing to say to them because I was reading some book, or writing something, and it really makes me feel out of it. But writing has always been something I loved, so when your older brother starts to take an interest into reading/writing at 17 years old, with no clue about the type on industry he wants to get into, or the dedication that goes along with it, it just really pisses me off. He's always challenging me about all these books he wants to read. Honestly, he's only read like 3 books in his entire life and claims to be like some literary genius, I mean, I know I haven't read every book in my life, and I know my writing isn't the best in the world, but its the only thing that I can call 'mine', you know?
But I guess, no one wants to hear of my insecurities, right? I mean, he fact that everyone seems to be smarter than me has nothing to do with the way my life is constructed, and my emotions as a person. Is it normal to be heavily distracted inside and outside of lessons? And be a slow person all together? I mean, it's become more apparent lately, but I've always been distracted and I can't focus on one thing for too long. My dad, he has tourette's syndrome could that be a reason why I'm slow, random, distracted and so on? It just makes me so confused that I don't know what to do about it any more.
Like when I write my blogs at night these days I'll get distracted and go somewhere else and remember I have to be writing here, then like five minutes later my mind will be somewhere else, its common for me, as I've grown up with it, but as I become more aware of how people around me act, I kinda get the feeling that I act completely different from the people around me.
Anyway, enough ranting from me, one last thing though, PIZZA HUT STILL HAVEN'T GOTTEN BACK TO ME! Admittedly this is only like the 2nd day, but I can't help my get my hopes up that I'll even be considered for the job!
Wednesday, 24 March 2010
2 Posts until 100
And unfortunately it's not going to be a long one today.
To be honest with you, I'm just really tired, and I want people to get back to me. If I didn't mention it yesterday (I can't really remember if I did or not) I applied for quite a lot of jobs yesterday, most of them I've already been rejected from, but I applied to work in Pizza Hut and so far I haven't heard anything back from them. I'm taking that as a current good sign because I really need a job. I have like a whole list of other places I want to try too for a job that have advertised openings.
Anything goes really at the moment, I just need a job, anything goes, anything goes. I'm willing to work anywhere now, I've even lowered my standards to places like McDonalds for a job because I'm that desperate.
But yeah, not much else going on in my life at the moment, well today anyway. We have crappy ABCh lessons tomorrow, I think in English its something like PSHE, I'm not sure, translated ABCh stands for Personal and Communication studies. Or something alone those lines, my brain isn't functioning properly.
So that'll be it for me for today. Life just sucks. I'm not sure whether I want to get my hopes up on getting a job, I haven't even been asked for an interview by anyone yet.....
To be honest with you, I'm just really tired, and I want people to get back to me. If I didn't mention it yesterday (I can't really remember if I did or not) I applied for quite a lot of jobs yesterday, most of them I've already been rejected from, but I applied to work in Pizza Hut and so far I haven't heard anything back from them. I'm taking that as a current good sign because I really need a job. I have like a whole list of other places I want to try too for a job that have advertised openings.
Anything goes really at the moment, I just need a job, anything goes, anything goes. I'm willing to work anywhere now, I've even lowered my standards to places like McDonalds for a job because I'm that desperate.
But yeah, not much else going on in my life at the moment, well today anyway. We have crappy ABCh lessons tomorrow, I think in English its something like PSHE, I'm not sure, translated ABCh stands for Personal and Communication studies. Or something alone those lines, my brain isn't functioning properly.
So that'll be it for me for today. Life just sucks. I'm not sure whether I want to get my hopes up on getting a job, I haven't even been asked for an interview by anyone yet.....
Tuesday, 23 March 2010
3 Posts until 100
Okay, so today has been more about jobs than it has anything else.
I've been really stressing about how much money I have, or how little money I have, so I've been hunting like a wicked witch for a job, part time, preferably Thursday evening, Friday evening, and weekends. So far, I applied for KFC, they immediately rejected me. I thought that was strange, but you can't meet everyone's expectations. I tried Waterstone's again, nothing. Vue Cinema's, nothing, McDonalds, nothing that works with the times they want me to work. The Pizza Hut, I read somewhere and heard their hiring. So I've applied there, so far there's been no immediate rejection, though I know its going to come sooner rather than later. I called Subways and they said they were accepting applications but weren't hiring. So it could be months before I hear from them, by then I'll hopefully have a job. I'm going to try La Baguette du Jour next time I'm in town, then Harvester, Pizza Express. Anywhere that seems to be hiring. Anywhere that's going to pay me.
So it's been a pretty dismal day all together.
Rhiannon won't even look me in the eye nowadays. Well, since yesterday really when I told her I wouldn't waste my dying breath on her quiz. I'm not funding her trip to Venezuela, I'm not trying to sound mean or anything, its just I need money, I can barely afford to keep myself let alone keep Rhiannon and her damned trip. It's 3 and a 1/2 thousand pounds to go, and they raise the money instead of paying for it themselves. I'm just not that open minded for paying for someone else to go on holiday.
I'm just pretty mean spirited like that.
So yeah, I've calmed down a bit now after my rant yesterday. To be honest with you. I was overreacting a bit, more to the thing on Sunday I guess than to the thing yesterday. I still am quite peed off about the standards that woman thinks she's setting.
Oh well. There's just not much I can do about it.
That's all from me folks. I've not been feeling well and I need to get some beauty sleep as I am extremely tired. Night!
I've been really stressing about how much money I have, or how little money I have, so I've been hunting like a wicked witch for a job, part time, preferably Thursday evening, Friday evening, and weekends. So far, I applied for KFC, they immediately rejected me. I thought that was strange, but you can't meet everyone's expectations. I tried Waterstone's again, nothing. Vue Cinema's, nothing, McDonalds, nothing that works with the times they want me to work. The Pizza Hut, I read somewhere and heard their hiring. So I've applied there, so far there's been no immediate rejection, though I know its going to come sooner rather than later. I called Subways and they said they were accepting applications but weren't hiring. So it could be months before I hear from them, by then I'll hopefully have a job. I'm going to try La Baguette du Jour next time I'm in town, then Harvester, Pizza Express. Anywhere that seems to be hiring. Anywhere that's going to pay me.
So it's been a pretty dismal day all together.
Rhiannon won't even look me in the eye nowadays. Well, since yesterday really when I told her I wouldn't waste my dying breath on her quiz. I'm not funding her trip to Venezuela, I'm not trying to sound mean or anything, its just I need money, I can barely afford to keep myself let alone keep Rhiannon and her damned trip. It's 3 and a 1/2 thousand pounds to go, and they raise the money instead of paying for it themselves. I'm just not that open minded for paying for someone else to go on holiday.
I'm just pretty mean spirited like that.
So yeah, I've calmed down a bit now after my rant yesterday. To be honest with you. I was overreacting a bit, more to the thing on Sunday I guess than to the thing yesterday. I still am quite peed off about the standards that woman thinks she's setting.
Oh well. There's just not much I can do about it.
That's all from me folks. I've not been feeling well and I need to get some beauty sleep as I am extremely tired. Night!
Monday, 22 March 2010
4 Posts until 100
I'm actually really really proud of myself for keeping up with my blogging. I think this is the most I've ever blogged on one site. I considered moving back to livejournal for a while before I decided that this blog site is probably the easiest to navigate, and the one with the least amount of advertisements. I never really knew how to navigate livejournal.
Some time later....
Hm, I don't really remember posting THAT much on there. Seriously. There are 62 blog posts scattered on there over the course of two years. The last one on there over a year ago. I just blogged on there to say I have a new blog. Not that anyone looks at that one.
I noticed one thing though on that blog. My dream of becoming an author has not changed. I guess potentially I was a bit more motivated to become an author back then. Full of grammatical mistakes, immature ideas. It also didn't help that it was fanfiction on there. It makes it even worse that there was a HANNAH MONTANA fanfiction on there. I don't even remember writing that one.
Its like that funny story, did I tell you about it? Where I was looking through all the stories I'd written, and there was one there that I completely forgot about writing but it was like 50 pages long? God, now that was a funny day. I honestly didn't remember writing that one. Of course, I read over it and remembered writing it in some sort of trance. I remember making loads of paper notes on it, I just can't find them anymore. I wouldn't have been stupid enough to have binned them, so its a question of who stole them?
Speaking of stealing. I'm quite ticked off at the English Department in my school at the moment. There are two main reasons for this. The first one being that the teacher my sister has has no ability for teaching GCSE English at all. Honestly, the woman doesn't have a clue. Sara isn't learning anything. It's getting so bad she coming to ME for some answers. You know you have a problem when you come to me for answers.
Sara told me that the teacher they have for English currently hasn't even done an English degree, the woman majors in Psychology, so why she's caught up in teaching English is beyond me. But yeah, the English department has seen it fitting for her to teach TOP SET English.
I always thought that Sara was over-exaggerating when she mentioned her being a crap teacher, but when she asked me to look over her coursework for help because the teacher wasn't competent enough to give a straight answer, I was shocked really. The marking on the coursework wasn't up to a standard at all. I'll admit and say Sara's essay wasn't the greatest, but I told her where she can raise her marks on that one, but the way she marked it was unbelievable. There was no explanation as to why she was marked down in some areas, why this was done wrong. I explained it all of course, I've done this course. I had always believed thought that the teacher could have done something so simple.
Then there's the fact that the teacher could not be bothered to read the WHOLE PLAY with the kids. She read one scene and told them to write an essay on it. No wonder there are such bad marks coming out of her class if she's not teaching them everything that needs to be taught.
It just astounded me that this kind of teaching is going on. Doesn't anyone agree with me?
The second problem isn't so elaborate. Its more of an annoyance. I'd spent weeks perfecting my English Language creative writing coursework. And I mean A LOT OF TIME. Then today, my English teacher turned around to the whole class and said that she would like for us to write a new piece of coursework! Jesus Christ. If she wasn't happy with it the first time round why did she get me to do so much with it? I know this one is done for a fall back, but she told me that my coursework was working towards the upper grades and not much needed to be added to it.
That annoyed me at the time. But of course, as you can tell I just can't be bothered anymore.
To be honest with you. I don't really know why I used a lot of capitals in this blog. I never know really, do I?
But I'd better be off. I've got an early morning tomorrow.
Some time later....
Hm, I don't really remember posting THAT much on there. Seriously. There are 62 blog posts scattered on there over the course of two years. The last one on there over a year ago. I just blogged on there to say I have a new blog. Not that anyone looks at that one.
I noticed one thing though on that blog. My dream of becoming an author has not changed. I guess potentially I was a bit more motivated to become an author back then. Full of grammatical mistakes, immature ideas. It also didn't help that it was fanfiction on there. It makes it even worse that there was a HANNAH MONTANA fanfiction on there. I don't even remember writing that one.
Its like that funny story, did I tell you about it? Where I was looking through all the stories I'd written, and there was one there that I completely forgot about writing but it was like 50 pages long? God, now that was a funny day. I honestly didn't remember writing that one. Of course, I read over it and remembered writing it in some sort of trance. I remember making loads of paper notes on it, I just can't find them anymore. I wouldn't have been stupid enough to have binned them, so its a question of who stole them?
Speaking of stealing. I'm quite ticked off at the English Department in my school at the moment. There are two main reasons for this. The first one being that the teacher my sister has has no ability for teaching GCSE English at all. Honestly, the woman doesn't have a clue. Sara isn't learning anything. It's getting so bad she coming to ME for some answers. You know you have a problem when you come to me for answers.
Sara told me that the teacher they have for English currently hasn't even done an English degree, the woman majors in Psychology, so why she's caught up in teaching English is beyond me. But yeah, the English department has seen it fitting for her to teach TOP SET English.
I always thought that Sara was over-exaggerating when she mentioned her being a crap teacher, but when she asked me to look over her coursework for help because the teacher wasn't competent enough to give a straight answer, I was shocked really. The marking on the coursework wasn't up to a standard at all. I'll admit and say Sara's essay wasn't the greatest, but I told her where she can raise her marks on that one, but the way she marked it was unbelievable. There was no explanation as to why she was marked down in some areas, why this was done wrong. I explained it all of course, I've done this course. I had always believed thought that the teacher could have done something so simple.
Then there's the fact that the teacher could not be bothered to read the WHOLE PLAY with the kids. She read one scene and told them to write an essay on it. No wonder there are such bad marks coming out of her class if she's not teaching them everything that needs to be taught.
It just astounded me that this kind of teaching is going on. Doesn't anyone agree with me?
The second problem isn't so elaborate. Its more of an annoyance. I'd spent weeks perfecting my English Language creative writing coursework. And I mean A LOT OF TIME. Then today, my English teacher turned around to the whole class and said that she would like for us to write a new piece of coursework! Jesus Christ. If she wasn't happy with it the first time round why did she get me to do so much with it? I know this one is done for a fall back, but she told me that my coursework was working towards the upper grades and not much needed to be added to it.
That annoyed me at the time. But of course, as you can tell I just can't be bothered anymore.
To be honest with you. I don't really know why I used a lot of capitals in this blog. I never know really, do I?
But I'd better be off. I've got an early morning tomorrow.
Sunday, 21 March 2010
I'm really, really proud of myself today
For finally completing my English Literature coursework. I don't think I've been this devoted to actually finishing a bit of homework in my life. I will admit to getting sidetracked quite a lot and there wasn't really that much left to type, but its the fact that I finished it that counts, right?
Because I'm so happy I'm actually going to post what I wrote. I renamed it and everything so that I would be able to differentiate between the two different versions I've written. The first version being the really sucky version. I'm not denying that this version ain't sucky, because it is. I can guarantee you that one. Hm... I actually wonder if I post this essay now on the internet I'd be considered for plagiarism? On second thought, I'd better not put it up then. I don't want anyone to rip off my work either. I do have quite a bit to talk about today anyway.
Well, its not a lot really, its just one person, this one person like totally pissed me off today. And I'm a person that's really hard to piss off, I'm quite laid back in nature, I don't really give a shit about much. But I find it really offending when someone comes into your house, and you know insults you. Or certain family members.
Take for instance my grandfather, I know he can be really moody and grumpy, its one of the reasons why we call him grumpa sometimes, (not to his face, obviously, but its all lighthearted joking nothing serious) but this person would take it ten times worse and say really, really, really mean things about him. He's not even part of the family, he hasn't even known him for more than like a year maybe! That's what really bugs me, you can't go around people's houses and start insulting family members without any respect. Trust me, this person just doesn't have any respect at all for my family or anything besides himself. He goes around parading to be this big person, like he's better than someone else. He keeps calling my sister a slut and a paedophile, he tells her she's going to be the biggest slut to have ever existed. It's really cruel and it gets her down. Then there's the fact that he kept telling me today that I smelt. I know. 'OMG, HE TOLD YOU YOU SMELT? GASP!' It doesn't sound that bad, but I'm a hygiene freak, so when someone questions your hygiene and tells you on repeated occasions that you smelt, it really offends you. I'm really self conscious of smelling, and I hate to smell, and to hear that broke my heart literally.
I just HATE people like that. It really grates on my nerves the way this person thinks he can parade around thinking that he can say whatever he likes about people whenever he does. I know he badmouths my family behind our backs too even after everything we've done for him.
It gets to me.
I know I shouldn't let it rattle me, but it does. I can't deal with it when people are that ignorant of people's emotions. Just because he's had a pretty shitty life (well when he was with his parents, he's gay, their homophobic, they did nothing physical from my understanding besides throw him out when he was sixteen) doesn't mean he has the right to throw everyone else's life into shit.
Gah, I really shouldn't let this get to me. I know I shouldn't let this get to me, I'll only be sinking to his level if I did. But I just need to vent. I really can't deal with it without writing about it.
I know I'll look back on this in a couple of months, years, and think, what the hell was I going on about? But for now, I know I've got it off my chest.
So yeah, like I said, lot to talk about, just not a very diverse subject. I said I was going to talk about the Little Vampire, didn't I? I just don't have the heart to do it anymore.
I'm going to let it go for now, but if it happens again, I don't know if writing about it is going to help me.
Because I'm so happy I'm actually going to post what I wrote. I renamed it and everything so that I would be able to differentiate between the two different versions I've written. The first version being the really sucky version. I'm not denying that this version ain't sucky, because it is. I can guarantee you that one. Hm... I actually wonder if I post this essay now on the internet I'd be considered for plagiarism? On second thought, I'd better not put it up then. I don't want anyone to rip off my work either. I do have quite a bit to talk about today anyway.
Well, its not a lot really, its just one person, this one person like totally pissed me off today. And I'm a person that's really hard to piss off, I'm quite laid back in nature, I don't really give a shit about much. But I find it really offending when someone comes into your house, and you know insults you. Or certain family members.
Take for instance my grandfather, I know he can be really moody and grumpy, its one of the reasons why we call him grumpa sometimes, (not to his face, obviously, but its all lighthearted joking nothing serious) but this person would take it ten times worse and say really, really, really mean things about him. He's not even part of the family, he hasn't even known him for more than like a year maybe! That's what really bugs me, you can't go around people's houses and start insulting family members without any respect. Trust me, this person just doesn't have any respect at all for my family or anything besides himself. He goes around parading to be this big person, like he's better than someone else. He keeps calling my sister a slut and a paedophile, he tells her she's going to be the biggest slut to have ever existed. It's really cruel and it gets her down. Then there's the fact that he kept telling me today that I smelt. I know. 'OMG, HE TOLD YOU YOU SMELT? GASP!' It doesn't sound that bad, but I'm a hygiene freak, so when someone questions your hygiene and tells you on repeated occasions that you smelt, it really offends you. I'm really self conscious of smelling, and I hate to smell, and to hear that broke my heart literally.
I just HATE people like that. It really grates on my nerves the way this person thinks he can parade around thinking that he can say whatever he likes about people whenever he does. I know he badmouths my family behind our backs too even after everything we've done for him.
It gets to me.
I know I shouldn't let it rattle me, but it does. I can't deal with it when people are that ignorant of people's emotions. Just because he's had a pretty shitty life (well when he was with his parents, he's gay, their homophobic, they did nothing physical from my understanding besides throw him out when he was sixteen) doesn't mean he has the right to throw everyone else's life into shit.
Gah, I really shouldn't let this get to me. I know I shouldn't let this get to me, I'll only be sinking to his level if I did. But I just need to vent. I really can't deal with it without writing about it.
I know I'll look back on this in a couple of months, years, and think, what the hell was I going on about? But for now, I know I've got it off my chest.
So yeah, like I said, lot to talk about, just not a very diverse subject. I said I was going to talk about the Little Vampire, didn't I? I just don't have the heart to do it anymore.
I'm going to let it go for now, but if it happens again, I don't know if writing about it is going to help me.
Not going to be a long post
Again today, I've been having a movie marathon with my sister and her friend.
I'm really tired, and there's not much been going on today with my life.
All I can really do is hope that Subway get back to me by Monday as I am really excited to hear, I've come to the conclusion if they're not going to get back to me, I might as well do the job myself and ring them to see what's going on.
So this must be my shortest post yet. I was going to stop typing after there's not much going on with me today, but I decided to add the bit about Subway because y'all know I'm obsessed with getting a job.
So there could possibly be things I need to talk about, well want to talk about tomorrow. For instance, the film 'The Little Vampire' or homework or something.
So until then, I shall bid thee farewell.
I'm really tired, and there's not much been going on today with my life.
All I can really do is hope that Subway get back to me by Monday as I am really excited to hear, I've come to the conclusion if they're not going to get back to me, I might as well do the job myself and ring them to see what's going on.
So this must be my shortest post yet. I was going to stop typing after there's not much going on with me today, but I decided to add the bit about Subway because y'all know I'm obsessed with getting a job.
So there could possibly be things I need to talk about, well want to talk about tomorrow. For instance, the film 'The Little Vampire' or homework or something.
So until then, I shall bid thee farewell.
Friday, 19 March 2010
My parents just help me realise
How much I hate staying up late. For most 16 year olds staying up late is a normal occurrence, but for me its the complete opposite. It's only 22:44 (currently) and I really can't stay up much longer.
The only reason I'm up so late tonight is because I was minding the kids with my sister whilst my parents went out drinking with my uncles.
It sucks really.
Another thing that really irked me (it probably also has something to do with the fact that I'm really tired, I didn't sleep too well last night) was the insults one of my uncles was throwing at my grandfather. This uncle, whom I won't mention as I know he google's himself...., isn't even blood related to the family, and he just thinks he can insult him behind his back to our faces and expect us to be fine with it. Personally, I'm not, but I don't really have much of a backbone to stand up for him.
But yeah, I'm too tired to carry on. I really need my sleep.
Goodnight.
The only reason I'm up so late tonight is because I was minding the kids with my sister whilst my parents went out drinking with my uncles.
It sucks really.
Another thing that really irked me (it probably also has something to do with the fact that I'm really tired, I didn't sleep too well last night) was the insults one of my uncles was throwing at my grandfather. This uncle, whom I won't mention as I know he google's himself...., isn't even blood related to the family, and he just thinks he can insult him behind his back to our faces and expect us to be fine with it. Personally, I'm not, but I don't really have much of a backbone to stand up for him.
But yeah, I'm too tired to carry on. I really need my sleep.
Goodnight.
Thursday, 18 March 2010
I didn't realise
How late it was.... Of course, its about the same time that I blog everyday, but I didn't really notice the time go by.
I tried to do some Math homework, but I didn't understand it at all. So I went on to fanfiction, I haven't been on fanfiction properly in ages, and Kingdom Hearts fanfiction really grabs my attention lately, so I've been reading this mpreg fic. Its good so far, addictive, not amazing, but good enough to read.
Do you ever get one of them fanfictions? I tend to choose a lot of them like that, I have a thing where I can't really be bothered to read really serious fanfiction. It's not my style. I'd do it if it was a really really good one. Some fanfictions just try to be too serious for the subject, you know?
So if I'm talking about stories I think I should really mention this idea I have, its for a teen novel so it is probably going to be cliche and totally unoriginal.
So I'm thinking about writing a story about a girl who's been in a coma since she was thirteen, she dreamed of a world where she's wanted. Where these people are chasing her down, claiming that she has something they want. That she's someone that they need. But when she wakes up, everyone insists that it was all a dream and nothing like that would happen to her, but people she dreamt about are starting to appear in reality, and before she knows it, she's being chased down and wanted all over again.
That's what I have so far. Its in the early development stage, so its probably going to change LOADS by the time I'm through with it. Once I've worked on the idea, spread it out a bit more, put some twist into it, and write it up it should be a lot different from that idea. That's just how I roll, I think of an idea and by the end of it every thing has changed.
I like writing like that though, I mean obviously some elements of the plot will stay the same like the coma and waking up and being wanted will probably stay the same. But I'll try and make the story a little more original than what it sounds now. I might even leave out the wanted part and just write about a girl coming to terms with the fact that the life she knew was all a dream. It's probably a very confusing time for coma patients like that. I need to do quite a bit of research into the idea first though. You can't write a novel without looking into the idea first, right?
That's more or less all I have to talk about at the moment.
I'm still waiting to hear back from Subways. I was going to call them today and I lost the courage. I'm determined to call them tomorrow if they don't get through to me tomorrow. I hope and pray that they at least get back to me, even if it is to tell me that I'm not experience enough for them to hire me, and if they call to tell me that I think I might rant to them some shit about equal opportunities and I'll never get experience if they never hire me. The usual. Its like EMA in school. I don't qualify for EMA because my parents earn over the limit. They never consider though the amount of family members, how much money gets spent on what. I mean, if they can give EMA to school students who HAVE A JOB then they can obviously afford to give EMA to people like me who lives in a big family and the money could be helpful.
But I'm done ranting. Its not like the people who run EMA is going to do anything about it. Equal opportunities my ass.
I tried to do some Math homework, but I didn't understand it at all. So I went on to fanfiction, I haven't been on fanfiction properly in ages, and Kingdom Hearts fanfiction really grabs my attention lately, so I've been reading this mpreg fic. Its good so far, addictive, not amazing, but good enough to read.
Do you ever get one of them fanfictions? I tend to choose a lot of them like that, I have a thing where I can't really be bothered to read really serious fanfiction. It's not my style. I'd do it if it was a really really good one. Some fanfictions just try to be too serious for the subject, you know?
So if I'm talking about stories I think I should really mention this idea I have, its for a teen novel so it is probably going to be cliche and totally unoriginal.
So I'm thinking about writing a story about a girl who's been in a coma since she was thirteen, she dreamed of a world where she's wanted. Where these people are chasing her down, claiming that she has something they want. That she's someone that they need. But when she wakes up, everyone insists that it was all a dream and nothing like that would happen to her, but people she dreamt about are starting to appear in reality, and before she knows it, she's being chased down and wanted all over again.
That's what I have so far. Its in the early development stage, so its probably going to change LOADS by the time I'm through with it. Once I've worked on the idea, spread it out a bit more, put some twist into it, and write it up it should be a lot different from that idea. That's just how I roll, I think of an idea and by the end of it every thing has changed.
I like writing like that though, I mean obviously some elements of the plot will stay the same like the coma and waking up and being wanted will probably stay the same. But I'll try and make the story a little more original than what it sounds now. I might even leave out the wanted part and just write about a girl coming to terms with the fact that the life she knew was all a dream. It's probably a very confusing time for coma patients like that. I need to do quite a bit of research into the idea first though. You can't write a novel without looking into the idea first, right?
That's more or less all I have to talk about at the moment.
I'm still waiting to hear back from Subways. I was going to call them today and I lost the courage. I'm determined to call them tomorrow if they don't get through to me tomorrow. I hope and pray that they at least get back to me, even if it is to tell me that I'm not experience enough for them to hire me, and if they call to tell me that I think I might rant to them some shit about equal opportunities and I'll never get experience if they never hire me. The usual. Its like EMA in school. I don't qualify for EMA because my parents earn over the limit. They never consider though the amount of family members, how much money gets spent on what. I mean, if they can give EMA to school students who HAVE A JOB then they can obviously afford to give EMA to people like me who lives in a big family and the money could be helpful.
But I'm done ranting. Its not like the people who run EMA is going to do anything about it. Equal opportunities my ass.
Wednesday, 17 March 2010
I'm pretty proud of myself
I actually finished some Welsh homework tonight.
As most of you can probably tell, I'm pretty lazy. That also includes being lazy with homework. I usually tend to make up excuses and lie, but I was determined tonight to do my homework. I was a little discouraged at first. The lazy part of my brain was trying to reason that I could always say that I'm ill, which I am. I feel sick, but I was still pretty determined to get it finished.
My logical reasoning in the end was 'I'd have to do it anyway, so why not now and get it over with?'. So I sat down. Loaded up a couple hundred tabs and did research. It wasn't a lot. Four sides of A3. Pretty cool, huh?
I just don't think I've done it right. Miss will look at it and go 'do it again, it's all wrong'. And to that I'll tell her to shove it, I spent a lot of time on it, namely about an hour and I wasn't going to redo it to her standards.
I think I'd have to do it anyway. Life just sucks like that.
One thing that seems to be on the mind of many at my school is the head-boy/girl elections running. People are just worrying about how much votes they got. Everyone thinks they've lost. I don't get the thinking behind that, obviously someone has to win it, so why can't they just build a little bubble of hope like I would do and watch it get smacked back down when your best friend gets the job instead of you.
If I ever ran for head-girl, the speech would go something like 'if you vote for me, I promise permanent orange juice! Go me! So vote y'all. I don't think you care for anything but the Orange juice, right?' .....
Of course, I'd vote for someone if that was what they were promising, and free as well would help. I'm just an orange juice junky. I'm sure I'll grow up orange faced. I can say anything about my hair turning ginger because it already is! Lol.
Oh the joys of family genes.
Anyway.
I'm going now. And one last parting gift. I find it personally amazing that I've only now noticed that Rick Riordan has a blogspot. I'm like totally following him now! Go Rick! I really want to read the new Camp Half-blood series. I hope Percy's in them. I don't think they'd be the same without him...
As most of you can probably tell, I'm pretty lazy. That also includes being lazy with homework. I usually tend to make up excuses and lie, but I was determined tonight to do my homework. I was a little discouraged at first. The lazy part of my brain was trying to reason that I could always say that I'm ill, which I am. I feel sick, but I was still pretty determined to get it finished.
My logical reasoning in the end was 'I'd have to do it anyway, so why not now and get it over with?'. So I sat down. Loaded up a couple hundred tabs and did research. It wasn't a lot. Four sides of A3. Pretty cool, huh?
I just don't think I've done it right. Miss will look at it and go 'do it again, it's all wrong'. And to that I'll tell her to shove it, I spent a lot of time on it, namely about an hour and I wasn't going to redo it to her standards.
I think I'd have to do it anyway. Life just sucks like that.
One thing that seems to be on the mind of many at my school is the head-boy/girl elections running. People are just worrying about how much votes they got. Everyone thinks they've lost. I don't get the thinking behind that, obviously someone has to win it, so why can't they just build a little bubble of hope like I would do and watch it get smacked back down when your best friend gets the job instead of you.
If I ever ran for head-girl, the speech would go something like 'if you vote for me, I promise permanent orange juice! Go me! So vote y'all. I don't think you care for anything but the Orange juice, right?' .....
Of course, I'd vote for someone if that was what they were promising, and free as well would help. I'm just an orange juice junky. I'm sure I'll grow up orange faced. I can say anything about my hair turning ginger because it already is! Lol.
Oh the joys of family genes.
Anyway.
I'm going now. And one last parting gift. I find it personally amazing that I've only now noticed that Rick Riordan has a blogspot. I'm like totally following him now! Go Rick! I really want to read the new Camp Half-blood series. I hope Percy's in them. I don't think they'd be the same without him...
Tuesday, 16 March 2010
I've been wondering
If maybe I should like jazz up my page or something. It is looking kinda bland isn't it? White is such an ordinary colour. I'll think about it more tomorrow.
That is if I don't die from the Welsh work I have to do....
That is if I don't die from the Welsh work I have to do....
I've been wondering
If maybe I should like jazz up my page or something. It is looking kinda bland isn't it? White is such an ordinary colour. I'll think about it more tomorrow.
That is if I don't die from the Welsh work I have to do....
That is if I don't die from the Welsh work I have to do....
In ten more
Blog posts I've officially reached one hundred days of blogging. All though there have not been 100 days so far this year, God, I think we're a bit far off, but if I count my random blogging before the New Year I think I've done pretty good. I've posted 72 so far, 73 after this one is posted.
I can't help but wonder as I sit here listening to music how much of an angelic voice Amy Lee has, Breathe No More is playing and it's such a lovely song. I could listen to it all day.
Which in all actuality brings me on to the point of music. I don't personally get some ideas behind fans of music. As most of you probably know 'The Bird and the Worm' by The Used is the backing track for the Clash of the Titans remake trailer. They cut the vocals and remixed the song a little, changed the order around a bit. They make it sound really epic (the original is epic too, don't get me wrong. That was the first Used song I ever listened to about a year and a half ago. Since then I've become a major fan...) and I checked their youtube video for the song and that's all that seems to be in the comment section is how great the Clash of the Titans trailer is, how much different they make the music sound.
One person actually had the nerve to say that The Used were copying the music from the Clash of the Titans trailer. Now that's what really irks me about some people. This person obviously didn't do some background research to see that the song itself came out in like 2003... I think. It's the same in the book industry. Somehow every book invented is ripping off Twilight. Come on people! There isn't even a diverse enough plot in Twilight to say that anything is copying it! Its more like Twilight's copying other books.
I found that Twilight copied loads off Darren Shan. Does anyone else agree? I thought there were some similarities in the book to similar to be coincidence. But everyone blew me off when I mentioned this first. I noticed it more in Breaking Dawn. Of course, then, my friend thought that something like Darren Shan was something only nerd like me read. They were too wrapped up in their idiotic bubble that Twilight was the best thing ever invented.
I will be honest and say that I never really liked Twilight from the beginning. In fact, I've always thought it was a poor excuse for the paper its written on. I acted like I liked it because it was expected of me to like it. I wasn't allowed to have a free opinion then in terms of friendship.
I'm quite happy to say that my friends have matured since then.
But moving on.
We had Head-Boy, Head-Girl speeches today. I did not run for Head Girl. Jeez, why would I want to? I hate going to school, I don't bother much with school, so why would I want to try and get other people interested in partaking in events in school? It just didn't make sense to me so I never bothered.
But yeah, it was a really hard choice for me. And I voted for the people based on how interested I was in their speech, not really on the content of their speech. I felt quite guilty that I didn't vote for some people. But I don't necessarily regret voting for the boy and girl that I voted for.
All in all, I think that went well.
But I have to be going now.
I have noticed that I say that a lot at the end of all of my blogs these days. I should just really start to blog sooner than ten at night so the events of the day are a lot fresher in my mind than what they are now.....
Moving on. Until tomorrow night.
I bid thee farewell.
I can't help but wonder as I sit here listening to music how much of an angelic voice Amy Lee has, Breathe No More is playing and it's such a lovely song. I could listen to it all day.
Which in all actuality brings me on to the point of music. I don't personally get some ideas behind fans of music. As most of you probably know 'The Bird and the Worm' by The Used is the backing track for the Clash of the Titans remake trailer. They cut the vocals and remixed the song a little, changed the order around a bit. They make it sound really epic (the original is epic too, don't get me wrong. That was the first Used song I ever listened to about a year and a half ago. Since then I've become a major fan...) and I checked their youtube video for the song and that's all that seems to be in the comment section is how great the Clash of the Titans trailer is, how much different they make the music sound.
One person actually had the nerve to say that The Used were copying the music from the Clash of the Titans trailer. Now that's what really irks me about some people. This person obviously didn't do some background research to see that the song itself came out in like 2003... I think. It's the same in the book industry. Somehow every book invented is ripping off Twilight. Come on people! There isn't even a diverse enough plot in Twilight to say that anything is copying it! Its more like Twilight's copying other books.
I found that Twilight copied loads off Darren Shan. Does anyone else agree? I thought there were some similarities in the book to similar to be coincidence. But everyone blew me off when I mentioned this first. I noticed it more in Breaking Dawn. Of course, then, my friend thought that something like Darren Shan was something only nerd like me read. They were too wrapped up in their idiotic bubble that Twilight was the best thing ever invented.
I will be honest and say that I never really liked Twilight from the beginning. In fact, I've always thought it was a poor excuse for the paper its written on. I acted like I liked it because it was expected of me to like it. I wasn't allowed to have a free opinion then in terms of friendship.
I'm quite happy to say that my friends have matured since then.
But moving on.
We had Head-Boy, Head-Girl speeches today. I did not run for Head Girl. Jeez, why would I want to? I hate going to school, I don't bother much with school, so why would I want to try and get other people interested in partaking in events in school? It just didn't make sense to me so I never bothered.
But yeah, it was a really hard choice for me. And I voted for the people based on how interested I was in their speech, not really on the content of their speech. I felt quite guilty that I didn't vote for some people. But I don't necessarily regret voting for the boy and girl that I voted for.
All in all, I think that went well.
But I have to be going now.
I have noticed that I say that a lot at the end of all of my blogs these days. I should just really start to blog sooner than ten at night so the events of the day are a lot fresher in my mind than what they are now.....
Moving on. Until tomorrow night.
I bid thee farewell.
Monday, 15 March 2010
I've only just noticed
That collectively between both of my blogs I've posted 100 blogs now. Yay! I should have really celebrated this yesterday when I noticed, but obviously I didn't, so go me!
It's now just the countdown for this blog on its own to reach 100 blog posts. Do blogger do like some special thing if you reach 100? Or is 100 to meagre a number? Maybe they do it at 1,000. Now that's a long long time away now. Maybe two years. Over nine hundred away from this day.
As you can tell I'm in a really strange mood. I think its more for the fact that I'm still awaiting word from Subways. If I think about it his way, when I applied in Vue, I applied on the Saturday and they got back to me by Thursday. So I applied on Saturday this time and so maybe they'll get back to me on Thursday? Right? Hopefully.
Have any of you heard about Hilary Duff's adventures in novel writing? I'm not really sure what to think on this one. I'm going to keep to my thing of anyone can write with decent grammar and a good story. Obviously, Stephenie Meyer failed at both elements in this which is why Twilight is such a crap book series.
I'll check out the books. I might rent them from the library or something when they become available. It's something I'll probably do over a holiday though. It's not something I'm dying to read.
On the other side of life. I'm saving to go to Florida! My friend and I have this crazy idea of saving up to go to the Wizarding World of Harry Potter in Florida. The main problem to this course would be that I have no money and probably never will have any money. Life just sucks like that.
Doesn't the Wizarding World of Harry Potter look really amazing though? I think the Hogwarts castle is one of the things that has to be most amazing about it. I'll ear mark it to make an eventual trip there before I die. Which hopefully isn't too soon.
But on that last depressing note. I'm going to have to go. It's pretty late now and I have school tomorrow.
I just have one thing that I'd like to say!
I just want Subway to get back to me! I can handle the news be it good or bad!
It's now just the countdown for this blog on its own to reach 100 blog posts. Do blogger do like some special thing if you reach 100? Or is 100 to meagre a number? Maybe they do it at 1,000. Now that's a long long time away now. Maybe two years. Over nine hundred away from this day.
As you can tell I'm in a really strange mood. I think its more for the fact that I'm still awaiting word from Subways. If I think about it his way, when I applied in Vue, I applied on the Saturday and they got back to me by Thursday. So I applied on Saturday this time and so maybe they'll get back to me on Thursday? Right? Hopefully.
Have any of you heard about Hilary Duff's adventures in novel writing? I'm not really sure what to think on this one. I'm going to keep to my thing of anyone can write with decent grammar and a good story. Obviously, Stephenie Meyer failed at both elements in this which is why Twilight is such a crap book series.
I'll check out the books. I might rent them from the library or something when they become available. It's something I'll probably do over a holiday though. It's not something I'm dying to read.
On the other side of life. I'm saving to go to Florida! My friend and I have this crazy idea of saving up to go to the Wizarding World of Harry Potter in Florida. The main problem to this course would be that I have no money and probably never will have any money. Life just sucks like that.
Doesn't the Wizarding World of Harry Potter look really amazing though? I think the Hogwarts castle is one of the things that has to be most amazing about it. I'll ear mark it to make an eventual trip there before I die. Which hopefully isn't too soon.
But on that last depressing note. I'm going to have to go. It's pretty late now and I have school tomorrow.
I just have one thing that I'd like to say!
I just want Subway to get back to me! I can handle the news be it good or bad!
Sunday, 14 March 2010
I'm not as
Bothered about getting a quick response from Subways. I don't know what it is. I think it could be the fact that they never told me how long they'd take to get back to me, or even if they were going to get back to me. You see with Vue they said they'd get back to me within ten days which means it dominated my mind for the five days before they got back to me.
I mean, sure, I do think about the job, but I've been through the waiting process now, I'm not as bothered. I mean, of course I'm bothered to know if they want me, there wasn't anything on the application form to show that they wouldn't want me. I haven't got any experience or references so I think that would hold me back, but hopefully everything will be okay in the end.
I'm still keeping tabs on other sites to see if they have anything going. I'm determined not to work in McDonalds or some fast food restaurant, and I've just realized a mistake that could hold me back as well. I misspelt restaurant, bummer, I put the u in the wrong place. Hopefully they don't look at it seriously in the spelling department.
Gah, I suck. That's going to nag at me now. I did the application in the shop so I guess they could give nerves to me, right?
I promise you this blog post isn't going to be all about jobs. I think people (well I know people don't read these, but who cares?) would get really bored of hearing the same story every day. I would anyway. I'd be like 'SHUT UP ABOUT THE DAMN JOBS FOR ONCE IN YOUR GOD FORSAKEN LIFE'.
So I guess I'll just move on then, right?
To be honest with you, I haven't really done much today. I've got an English Literature presentation tomorrow and I'm really quite nervous about it. My ffriend, whom I'm doing the presentation thing, said that she didn't know about speaking it out, so hopefully I spaced out and she heard it better than the way I said it. Life sucks. I'm not much of a public speaker.
Do you ever get one of them feelings where you don't know about what you blogged about before a certain subject came into it? I'm kinda getting one of those feelings now. My blogs have been dominated since last Saturday about work, before that even, so now I'm really struggling to cope on what to blog about. I've not done anything significant besides obsess over Logan Lerman.
I watched Gamer today if its any consolation. It wasn't exactly the best film in the world. I mean, it had its moments and a film I'd only go back to if I didn't have any other films to watch and trust me, there are a lot of films I'd like to see.
But that is all for today, I seriously have to be going.
I mean, sure, I do think about the job, but I've been through the waiting process now, I'm not as bothered. I mean, of course I'm bothered to know if they want me, there wasn't anything on the application form to show that they wouldn't want me. I haven't got any experience or references so I think that would hold me back, but hopefully everything will be okay in the end.
I'm still keeping tabs on other sites to see if they have anything going. I'm determined not to work in McDonalds or some fast food restaurant, and I've just realized a mistake that could hold me back as well. I misspelt restaurant, bummer, I put the u in the wrong place. Hopefully they don't look at it seriously in the spelling department.
Gah, I suck. That's going to nag at me now. I did the application in the shop so I guess they could give nerves to me, right?
I promise you this blog post isn't going to be all about jobs. I think people (well I know people don't read these, but who cares?) would get really bored of hearing the same story every day. I would anyway. I'd be like 'SHUT UP ABOUT THE DAMN JOBS FOR ONCE IN YOUR GOD FORSAKEN LIFE'.
So I guess I'll just move on then, right?
To be honest with you, I haven't really done much today. I've got an English Literature presentation tomorrow and I'm really quite nervous about it. My ffriend, whom I'm doing the presentation thing, said that she didn't know about speaking it out, so hopefully I spaced out and she heard it better than the way I said it. Life sucks. I'm not much of a public speaker.
Do you ever get one of them feelings where you don't know about what you blogged about before a certain subject came into it? I'm kinda getting one of those feelings now. My blogs have been dominated since last Saturday about work, before that even, so now I'm really struggling to cope on what to blog about. I've not done anything significant besides obsess over Logan Lerman.
I watched Gamer today if its any consolation. It wasn't exactly the best film in the world. I mean, it had its moments and a film I'd only go back to if I didn't have any other films to watch and trust me, there are a lot of films I'd like to see.
But that is all for today, I seriously have to be going.
Saturday, 13 March 2010
A successful but unsuccessful day
You know when you get one of those days? Ones where you expect a lot more to happen than actually did.
Okay, so my main intention when I was going into town tomorrow was to look for a job, I really didn't have that much attention for Mother's day. I was determined that today I would overcome my fears of actually going into a shop and asking for a job.
But then, we were kinda side tracked. I knew that my sister had to get birthday presents for her friends, so I told her to get those first, and then we'd do everything else.
This was obviously spoken about like last night or something so we knew how we were going to do things in town. But. There's always a but. When we went to see my Mum and Dad this morning, my Dad said about getting my mam Mother's day presents. That he would give us twenty and get whatever my mother asked for as long as it was in this price range.
That one shook me off course a little, but we decided to go and get her stuff anyway, before I went job hunting. So with all that over with, we started the hunt.
First stop. WH Smiths. Sorry No Vacancies.
Waterstone's. Sorry No Vacancies.
Subways. I applied for a job there. This was the only place I got lucky. I don't know when they'll get back to me, what anything is like there. But, I met a really nice girl there who helped me a lot with my application form and the staff in general seem really nice there, so I'm hoping to get word back pretty fast from them.
Sugacane. The queue was too long so I decided not to bother.
So after I printed off like 5 CV's none of them came into use. I guess they'd be handy now if I went into Town job hunting again, but life isn't looking so promising at the moment.
It doesn't help either when my cat Sox is getting into fights nightly and is coming home bloody and we don't have the money to get him checked out. It also doesn't help that my Father and Mother were on strike last week so we're down a lot of money. Meaning that there ain't much money to spare anymore.
Life just sucks for me at the moment. I don't know what to do about it anymore.
So I'm really hoping that things turn around.
I've learnt better than to start praying. God doesn't answer my prayers.
So on that happy note I'll be leaving you.
But guess what.... I actually did some homework on a Saturday. I know. A Saturday. The world must be ending... Nah, I needed to send it to my friend Ffion because she had other stuff to do and I wanted to get it out of the way for her.
I'm actually quite proud of my achievements today. I could finish off the day happier if I had a job though. I could finish off the week with some kind of recognition from Subways that my application was even looked at.....
Okay, so my main intention when I was going into town tomorrow was to look for a job, I really didn't have that much attention for Mother's day. I was determined that today I would overcome my fears of actually going into a shop and asking for a job.
But then, we were kinda side tracked. I knew that my sister had to get birthday presents for her friends, so I told her to get those first, and then we'd do everything else.
This was obviously spoken about like last night or something so we knew how we were going to do things in town. But. There's always a but. When we went to see my Mum and Dad this morning, my Dad said about getting my mam Mother's day presents. That he would give us twenty and get whatever my mother asked for as long as it was in this price range.
That one shook me off course a little, but we decided to go and get her stuff anyway, before I went job hunting. So with all that over with, we started the hunt.
First stop. WH Smiths. Sorry No Vacancies.
Waterstone's. Sorry No Vacancies.
Subways. I applied for a job there. This was the only place I got lucky. I don't know when they'll get back to me, what anything is like there. But, I met a really nice girl there who helped me a lot with my application form and the staff in general seem really nice there, so I'm hoping to get word back pretty fast from them.
Sugacane. The queue was too long so I decided not to bother.
So after I printed off like 5 CV's none of them came into use. I guess they'd be handy now if I went into Town job hunting again, but life isn't looking so promising at the moment.
It doesn't help either when my cat Sox is getting into fights nightly and is coming home bloody and we don't have the money to get him checked out. It also doesn't help that my Father and Mother were on strike last week so we're down a lot of money. Meaning that there ain't much money to spare anymore.
Life just sucks for me at the moment. I don't know what to do about it anymore.
So I'm really hoping that things turn around.
I've learnt better than to start praying. God doesn't answer my prayers.
So on that happy note I'll be leaving you.
But guess what.... I actually did some homework on a Saturday. I know. A Saturday. The world must be ending... Nah, I needed to send it to my friend Ffion because she had other stuff to do and I wanted to get it out of the way for her.
I'm actually quite proud of my achievements today. I could finish off the day happier if I had a job though. I could finish off the week with some kind of recognition from Subways that my application was even looked at.....
Friday, 12 March 2010
This is the kind of stuff
That keeps me from having free lessons in school.
You see, I always took free lessons to mean what they say on the box type of thing, where I'd sit there and read a book, or mess around and do nothing for lessons at a time.
But no, i was sadly mistaken. This is what I spent my free lessons doing today:
JR: and congratulations you’re our youngest guest ever on the show (1.0) DR: really 
JR: okay (2.0) you are old enough (.) you could get married I believe if you want to (.) with your parents consent 
JR: now there are (.) seven in total when it’s completed (1.0) six so far released (.) kay (.) I read the first four (.) I don’t think I finished the fifth (.) I’ve got the sixth one waiting
JR: wouldn’t that be a great moment if that happened live on tv
The pitch change when Daniel Radliffe says “ oh God ” (line 69) shows Radcliffe’s surprise at Jonathan Ross not having read all of the current Harry Potter novels, in the line his voice changes pitch unintentionally because of the fact that his voice is breaking, which creates humour to the audience in the show and Jonathan Ross.
You see, I always took free lessons to mean what they say on the box type of thing, where I'd sit there and read a book, or mess around and do nothing for lessons at a time.
But no, i was sadly mistaken. This is what I spent my free lessons doing today:
English Language
This is a transcript of Daniel Radcliffe being interviewed on the BBC talk show ‘Friday Night with Jonathan Ross’ on the fourth of November, 2005. The interview was prior to the release of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, in which Racliffe stars as the main character.
0:30
JR: Daniel welcome to the show
DR: thank you very much
JR: and congratulations you’re our youngest guest ever on the show (1.0) DR: really JR: you’re sixteen years old
DR: that’s quite an achievement (.) that’s fantastic (.)
DR: I didn’t even have to do anything besides be young (.) I didn’t even have to do anything then and everyone applauded [laughter] I might be rubbish (.) you never know
JR: hang on (.) you’ve got too much energy for me [laughter]
DR: I’m trying to prove to you that it’s not past my bedtime
JR: well no I can see you well well you’re obviously full of the vim and vigour of life (.) when were you sixteen (.) when was your birthday
DR: July twenty-third
JR: so you are now (.) coming up to sixteen and a half
DR: well (1.0) yeah
JR: now what can you do at sixteen (.) that you can’t can’t do at other ages you can’t legally drive yet can you
DR: no (.) seventeen so Rupert who who plays Ron’s having his lessons at the moment
JR: wow now are you a bit jealous about that
DR: no (.) not at all I’m going to be the worst driver in the world cause my dads a really bad driver and I think I’ve got his genes (.) rather than my mums (.) who’s an amazing driver but my dad’s terrible (.) I’m going down that road [laughter]
JR: okay (2.0) you are old enough (.) you could get married I believe if you want to (.) with your parents consent DR: I (.) could (1.0) I probably won’t
JR: okay
DR: cause (1.0) not yet (.) I mean
JR: playing the field for a little bit longer take it easy (.) um (.) you can’t vote yet =
DR: no
JR: you can’t drink alcohol yet =
DR: no
JR: so you’ve never tried alcohol =
DR: no
JR: no [laughter]
DR: it’s not actually a moral thing (.) I just tried uh a sip of wine once I didn’t like the taste very much
JR: right
DR: I think it’s something you get when you’re about eighteen (.) and suddenly you (.) start to like it [laughter] (1.0) I’ll probably try it cause (.) you know a lot of people do it so there must be something in it (1.0) I mean (.) I don’t I haven’t yet (.) no [trails off]
JR: and you don’t (.) I’m sure you don’t smoke at all
DR: no
JR: good good that’s sensible (1.0) do you know any adult jokes (.) that you can share
DR: do you [laughter and applause]
7:15
JR: I wish I could say it was a first but David Attenborough did the same thing when he was here (1.0) that’s great (.) presumably you’re a football fan then are you =
DR: no [laughter] um
JR: I’m sure this all makes perfect sense somewhere
DR: I I think I probably was at the time but I’m I’m not anymore (.) but Chris Columbus said at the end of that [Daniel pauses and laughs to himself] (1.0) sorry I’m just thinking about the eggs and that (.) um he said he said well if that doesn’t get you the part nothing will and it did
JR: yeah (.) so you think that was what did it for you
DR: J.K. Rowling saw that and thought (.) that’s my Harry
JR: that’s my Harry (.) anyone who can play match of the day on his cheeks (.) uh (.) they’re great fun books they’re a lovely read
DR: yeah
JR: now there are (.) seven in total when it’s completed (1.0) six so far released (.) kay (.) I read the first four (.) I don’t think I finished the fifth (.) I’ve got the sixth one waitingDR: oh God
JR: well don’t (.) was that your voice breaking [laughter]
DR: sorry
JR: wouldn’t that be a great moment if that happened live on tvDR: yeah on tv
JR: well it’s kind of (.) your voice isn’t going to break with your age (.) it’s it’s already
DR: my voice has broken [laughter]
JR: I still think it can get a bit deeper
How is conversation structured in television interviews?
In my analysis I will focus on how conversation is structured in television interviews, I will closely focus on a Daniel Radcliffe interview on the late night BBC show ‘Friday Night with Jonathan Ross’ prior to the release of the Goblet of Fire. The interview is structured on questions asked to Daniel Radcliffe for information about what he does in his own time, what he can do at sixteen, and about the new Harry Potter film that is to be released soon. These questions are asked by the interviewer Jonathan Ross and answered by Daniel Radcliffe.
The interview is structured on a formal and informal register, meaning that there will be overlaps in speech, but things like adjacency pairs will be present for example Jonathan Ross would say “you can’t vote yet” and Daniel Radcliffe would confirm this fact by saying “no”. Throughout the interview adjacency pairs are used for Radcliffe to confirm facts. This effectively creates conversation, showing that there are two participants in the conversation and interview.
Jonathan starts the interview by congratulating Daniel on being the youngest interviewee ever to be on the show with him “and congratulations you’re our youngest guest ever on the show” (line 3) this is to show that the ‘Friday Night with Jonathan Ross’ show is not usually done with younger people, aiming for an adult audience, perhaps Daniel Radcliffe was added to the show to add more of a variety to the show and the audience watching at home.
There is an overlap at the beginning of the show where Jonathan Ross says “you’re sixteen years old” (line 5) where Daniel Radcliffe overlaps by saying “really” (line 4). This shows that its spontaneous and that there was no planning done before the commencement of the interview, this also shows how conversation is structured throughout the interview, because it is spontaneous there will be such things as overlaps in the interview. This also shows that it is like a normal conversation as there will be overlaps in spontaneous conversation.
An example of some questions used in this interview would be when Jonathan Ross uses the interrogative “when were you sixteen (.) when was your birthday” he does this in hopes of creating an opening conversation with Radcliffe and share some knowledge to the audience about the actor playing the titular character Harry Potter. Jonathan Ross uses tag questions throughout “you can’t legally drive yet can you” tag questions are added for Daniel to confirm that the fact is true.
False starts are evident throughout the interview “seventeen so Rupert who who plays Ron’s having his lessons at the moment” (lines 19-20) this shows that Radcliffe is nervous, but it also shows that he is thinking about what he is saying, proving that the conversation is spontaneous.
Spontaneous speech is prominent when Daniel Racliffe is talking about the time where he played the Match of the Day theme by slapping his cheeks, and the whole audition process of getting to play Harry Potter, he stutters and then there’s a topic shift, and then he gets back on to the topic, he says “but Chris Columbus said at the end of that [Daniel pauses and laughs to himself] (1.0) sorry I’m just thinking about the eggs and that” this shows that the conversation is spontaneous, it effectively shows that there are topic shifts throughout the interview which is a main feature of conversation theory.
There are filled pauses throughout also for instance Jonathan Ross says “playing the field for a little bit longer take it easy (.) um (.)” (line 31) the hesitations by the interviewer are usually added to allow the interviewee time to think. Filled pauses can also be used as time for the interviewer to think of what questions to ask the interviewer, though most of the questions will have been prewritten before the interview so that the interviewer to know what kind of conversation to hold. This opposes the idea of the conversation structured in the interview as being spontaneous if the questions are prepared then perhaps the responses can be prepared as well, meaning that the interview is not spontaneous but prepared.
Word stress shows surprise, for instance when Jonathan Ross says “you’re sixteen years old” (line 5) he’s stressing on how young he is, and commenting on how young he is. The collocation in line 31 “playing the field for a bit longer” is used to perhaps make the interview feel spontaneous and show that conversation is being structured in the interview by talking about Daniel Radcliffe’s relationships. This is also a topic shift as they were talking before hand about driving lessons and about how Daniel Radcliffe is going to be a bad driver because his father is.
The collocation also in lines 11 and 12 “full of the vim and vigour of life” is used because Radcliffe is talking at an accelerated pace meaning that it was hard to Jonathan and the audience to keep up with what he was talking about. Jonathan Ross also uses the collocation “hang on” (line 10) to show that Radcliffe is speaking at an accelerated pace, making it hard to people to follow what he’s talking about. This is a feature of conversation theory because you need to have two participants in the conversation, but if Radcliffe is talking too fast for other people to understand then there’s only going to be one participant in the conversation.
The pitch change when Daniel Radliffe says “ oh God ” (line 69) shows Radcliffe’s surprise at Jonathan Ross not having read all of the current Harry Potter novels, in the line his voice changes pitch unintentionally because of the fact that his voice is breaking, which creates humour to the audience in the show and Jonathan Ross.There are many pauses throughout the interview. There is a two second pause by Jonathan Ross after Radcliffe finishes speaking about being a bad driver “okay (2.0) you are old enough” the pause here is to create humour at Radcliffe’s rant on being a bad driver, it could also show Ross’s shock after Radcliffe’s rant on being a bad driver because perhaps he was not expecting to get an answer like that. The pauses in the interview are mainly for creating humour on Jonathan Ross’s part, the pauses on Radcliffe’s part are usually because he’s pausing to think of what to say next.
In conclusion, conversation is spontaneous throughout the interview. There are arguments to say that perhaps the interview is prepared, but the overlaps, adjacency pairs and filled pauses, attributes of conversation theory throughout the interview show that the interview is spontaneous.
This shows to us that the structure of the interview is questions and answers which create an interview between the interviewer and the interviewee. This can create humour, but it can also be serious. The pauses throughout the interview can be seen as a device to allow humour into the interview, but also a chance to show that the interviewer and interviewee is thinking. The point of the interview is to question the interviewee on a specific subject. In this case, Jonathan Ross was questioning Daniel Radcliffe on the release of the Goblet of Fire, the latest (at the time of the interview) film in the Harry Potter franchise. There were topic shifts throughout the interview to structure a conversation between too people, and interrogatives were used frequently too to create conversation, and perhaps an atmosphere of humour.
Now just let me get this straight. This is a first draft so there is obviously going to be mistakes in it. So I wouldn't even begin to comment on that. Then there's the fact that I'm only posting this because I have a paper cut on a part of my finger that makes it really painful to type. So I'm not going to be post a long one today.
I've also got really high hopes for tomorrow. I'm going out job hunting primarily, but I also have to get something for my Mother, since it is Mother's day on Sunday. We can't go out this year because we don't have enough money, so my sister and I are planning on getting her something.
But the job hunting is something that I'm really hoping is going to turn out really well tomorrow. I've printed off five of my CV's and I'll see how that takes me.
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