beauty, glue and zen buddhism

This blog may or may not be coherent. I had it well structured in my head about half an hour ago, but then I kind of forgot about it and remembered it, so yeah...

A year ago things were slipping to say the least. Currently, nothing's perfect but it's a lot less unperfect than it was this time last year. I'm rather happy with right now. =]

A year ago I was living in Manchester. I miss it a lot and still agree that it's a better place than Wales. I loved it there, but I've realised that I definitely prefer not living with my mum. It's not because I don't like my mum, it's just that we're not compatible in a residential environment.
Manchester was beautiful. The buildings were a lot more interesting than the ones here. I liked all the variation in the structure and architecture there. I found all the graffiti and dark alleys and stuff beautiful (not that there's not any of that stuff here, but it fits in better with Manchester). I've always found beauty in decay, and the beauty in urban decay is no different. Wales is beautiful too, but in a more stereotypical way with the beauty in nature and whatnot and there's still a satisfactory amount of urban decay. Meep. I wanna say something about chav culture here but I can't think what to say... Fuck it, there's beauty everywhere!!

I've been learning all about Zen Buddhism (for sociology homework which now has diet coke spilled all over it) and it seems to make more sense than most religions/philosophies/whatever.

Ooohh... on Sunday, I was fixing a yoyo and got superglue all over my hands. Stupidly, I rubbed my eye and couldn't move my finger from it. I felt like a right retard sitting in A&E with my finger stuck to my eye. Eventually my finger got seperated. Unfortunately, my eye is still glued together. I have a patch on it and people keep making pirate jokes. The pirate jokes were funny at first (like the whole situation was!) but now I'm getting fed up of them. I'm also fed up of only being able to use one eye. I wonder how long it'll take for my eye to open. So far no amount of water, soap, salt, vaseline and other random crap has worked. My eye is so fucking itchy and annoying. It's gone all swollen and ick. Cyanoacrylate is evil! But still, LOL@me :P

In applied sciency biologyness I got 77% in a test about the heart, the cardiac cycle etc. I was rather proud of that, as I don't think I've got over 50% in a test without cheating for years! I also got 9/20 in psychology and that was without any revision, so yay! I keep doing better in things than I expect. =]

Must dash, need to tidy my desk! Hoobletoodledoooo!

A rather pointless entry...

Once again, I find myself sitting on the ground outside at 3am. It's nice out here, but it gets really cold really quickly. The sky is wonderful. So many stars and it's a beautiful shade of dark bluey black. I love the way that everything is so dark and there are no other colours but grey, blue and black at this time in the morning. It's weird, I'm wearing a stripey top at the moment, but I can't see the stripes.

I can hear my Sweeney Todd dvd from out here. It's evidently a lot louder than I thought it was... I hope it's annoying the neighbors!

I'm back inside now. It was fucking freezing out there! The dvd player is making funny noises. I don't like it. It's rather scary. Technology seems to hate me recently. Earlier it was my laptop, then my other laptop and now the dvd player!

Wow.. I've been writing this for almost an hour. (I've been doing 5 million other things too but meep!) I guess I have nothing even vaguely interesting to write about tonight.

I have eaten a ridiculous amount so far today... Possibly about 2 days worth of food. Not sure why though. Tis rather bizarre.

I'm watching Gothika for the first time in a few years. I'm actually getting quite into it, I didn't really like it a couple of years ago. I guess I must have grown up a lot or something... It's funny how you can find a film incredibly boring and a few years later find yourself liking it.

Anyways, I'm off to watch the film. Laters.