Buffy

So my Women and Media seminar paper is are supernatural women feminist or post feminist? My focus on this is on tv shows. This means I will spend the next couple of weeks watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Charmed, and the other show I haven't decided on yet (suggestions are welcome!). I'm leaning towards The Vampire Diaries at the moment, or True Blood, but I don't really know.

So Buffy is actually amazing. I never watched it when it was on TV and now I wonder why, aside from I was only 6 when it came out.

But yay, uni work that means I get to watch TV.

And buy text books about Buffy and Charmed. That actually exists! Amazing

Aberdeen's Gone Wild

Craig and Edwin dragged me out after work. Really. I went to meet them for one drink, just one! And just cause they wouldn't stop harassing me and phoning me until I agreed to that. But no, they kept buying me more drinks, and shots. But not drunk so YAY! And I only spent £5.

But seriously, THE FUCK has been going on in Aberdeen?! Last night there was so many groups of people dressed up in weird costumes. Really, there was a group of jelly fish! Jelly fish! Who the hell dresses up as a fucking jelly fish! And there were cowboys and indians, which is normal, and there was the playboy bunnies, still normal, with a guy in a dressing gown, trying to be Huge Hefner I think?

Then tonight there was like an army of people in AC/DC style tshirts but it was AB/DN. No idea what that was all about but by the time Underground closed most of them didn't have much of the tshirt left. I've never seen so many topless guys or girls in bras in a club in life.

Life Eh?

Sometimes I wonder what it would be like to have a normal life. One where there was no drama, or at least a day without any drama.

So last night Jade put a spike through her hand at work. Yeah that really happened. You know like in resturant's there's a spike that the checks go on when the food is served? Well Jade somehow (and I'm not quite sure how) managed to put that about half a cm into her hand. It wasn't fun, and I'd imagine quite painful. Queue my very bad attempts at first aid (what do you do when it's the first aider that needs the first aid?!) and some convincing that she should go to ARI. Fun times. 

So instead of the uni work I had planned for tonight, I ended up working. And it was busy. But it's all money at the end of the day, and I suppose the more of it I make now the better it is for me when I have too much course work to do and can't work much. Fun times.

Also, work made me miss Hollyoaks :( unimpressed with everyone going on about how good/sad/shocking etc it was on Facebook. Fuck off!

Twilight

So continuing on from last week and my Disney princess' are shit rant from last week, today Twlight get the piss taken out of it. Let's go.

Bella really needs to grow a pair of balls! Could she be any more pathetic? Saying that, she's bad enough in the film, in the book she is even worse. She sees the guy and instantly falls in love, pines after some guy that hasn't even spoke to her, acts a bit pathetic, finally gets with him when he saves her from some other guys she can't fight off then ditches all her friends to worship the ground he walks on.  All the while trying to avoid being eaten by him or his family. She then nearly dies because of him but has a mental break down when he mentions leaving her. All in the one film. Yes Robert Pattinson is hot as, but really get over it! (And he's not even that hot in Twilight. Now R-Patz in Remember Me, hell yes.)

So take the next film, New Moon, oh no he leaves her. Queue a montage of her sitting for months upon months staring out a window looking depressed. You're 18, move on. Suddenly, shiny new hot Jacob appears and Edward is out of the window, until she almost kills her self and has delusions of him appearing. He's not real you are clearly just way too obsessed! A lot of stupid behavior later and she saves him from killing himself because life just can't go on if their not together.

Third film, Eclipse, the scary vampire from the first one is coming after her, oh no. So get an entire vampire family and wolf pack to look after you and fight for you. Why protect yourself? I can't even remember what's pathetic about her in the last film. Or rather two films since they split it in two. 

Bella, man up. Never really noticed before how annoying she is with it all. Think about it, with True Blood Sookie fights just as much as the supernatural people do, she doesn't hide behind the guys to protect her. And Vampire Diaries, Elena tries to fight, and helps come up with the plans, but Bella just pathetically whimpers in the background, trying to convince Edward nothing can go wrong in their strange relationship. In Spiderman, Mary Jane gets kidnapped, but through no doing of her own, she still tries to fight out of it. In all the horror films out there the damsel in distress still at least try to survive and get out. Bella needs to go MAN THE FUCK UP. And teenage girls look up to this love sick idiot.

Sick Again

So once again I missed a post last night, but I was sent home from work early sick. I had mental bad cramps and ended up being physically sick so I got put home from work, lasted about 5 minutes in my living before the smell of food made me throw up again and then just came to my bed, where I want between sleeping and running to the bathroom. I hate being a girl. 

I've spent the whole day in bed feeling shit again today. And sleeping. Really I should be doing uni work but that can wait. 

Student. Child or Adult?

So being a student is like being a kid again. Seriously, nap time, Disney, any excuse to stay in bed all day and watch tv, a love of onsies. The list is endless. But while we want to regress to a child like manner, unfortunatly we're forced to grow up at the same time, moving out, being responsible, jobs, housework, cooking, cleaning, food shopping (which is really hard not to just buy crisps and cookies!) all while juggling the uni course work needed to pass. Yay. And people say students have it easy.

Like today I've been to uni, the library, Asda (and managed to actaully buy some real food and not just crap for a change), cooked my supper (which was really just one of Asda's ready meal curry and rice but still!) had a nap (cause it's been a long day) and looked up journals and read half a text book. And now it's time to chill out and watch mindless TV, before a weekend full of work. Can't wait! 

It really is time to start doing some non uni related things, that's not just going to work. Time to get a life! Or at least try!

Disney Part 2

So continuing on from yesterday's rant of how shit Disney Princess's are...

1. So on to Belle. She does appear to be smarter than the others, she actually reads books. Wow. She does something other than housework or singing and making friends with animals. Evidently none of the Princesses have the best people skills. And she does reject Gaston, who is (apparently) handsom and rich and all that, but a total dick. So yay her, he just wants someone to be a mother/housewife. So we're back to that again. But at least Belle had the balls to tell him where to go, since none of the other Princesses bothered they just went along with the shit dealt to them. She also had the balls to go save her dad and live with "the beast" who is really just a prince with a curse on him. Of course it would never be that simple, she tries to run away but gets attacked by wolves and can't save herself. Lucky for her the beast has a heart after all and swoops in to save the day. She nurses him to health, the fall in love, defeat Gaston and life happy ever after. Again.

2. And on to Jasmine. She starts out by running off to live as a commoner and meets Aladdin, a street rat. Turns out her dad is trying to force a marriage on her. So in swoops Aladdin. He pretends to be a prince and lies the entire relationships but it's fine, since he eventually saves her from Jafar and confesses. So as long as the guy eventually tells the truth and saves you from evil then it's fine he can be a lying scumbag. *I love Aladdin but it is pretty shit on Jasmine.* Moral of the story, fall for the guy fed you bullshit. 

3. There is Pocahontas and Mulan who are not quite as bad as the rest but are still shit. And then Merida, who is kick ass and takes no shit! But I can't be arsed getting into that right now. 

So Disney has great role modes. And magic false expectations. Maybe one day the guy who always lies to you will become your prince. Or running away and loosing a show will help you get a guy. Or just be an amazing housewife. No thanks. Real life is so much more interesting. 

*Be right back away to find a fictional prince.