I hate Irish weather.

[rhondacrockett]

Rain! Rain rain rain rain rain. And I had to walk through it up to Elms Reception, waaaaaaay up the Malone Road, because the stupid people forgot to get me to sign for my keys. I am now sitting with massive wet patches just above my knees where my rain coat dripped water on to my jeans. My legs feel cold and horrible and GRARRGHH!

Yeah, I didn't make it on to the internet at the weekend like I'd hoped. I spent Saturday running from pillar to post, trying to get shopping and laundry done - especially the laundry, cos of course I never had the right money for the machines first time round, so I had to run out and buy some utterly pointless thing just to get change, and our nearest shop is two streets down - and on Sunday, the libraries were all shut, so no computer for Rhondy.

I did get work done in that I finally read Gulliver's Travels and Moll Flanders, which are the first books I'll be teaching on in *checks* one week's time. Shit. And I still have to go register for this academic year. Must remember to do that.

I had so many dreams last night. In one of them, I was walking down a concrete space between two buildings (it was too wide to be called an alley, but it wasn't a road or yard either) and there was a jeep/MPV parked in the middle; I got this anxious feeling I was going to be mugged and then this evil-looking Latino guy jumped out from behind the far side of the car and was waving a knife in my face o.O'' A cop car came out of nowhere, only it turned out to be my family lawyer instead. Then all of a sudden, it was nighttime, and the lawyer got the (now very confused) would-be mugger to help my family shift our stuff into storage, cos we had to hide it from someone. Oh yes, and Kevin Costner played my dad. And this guy played the mugger. Only without the beard.

Then I had another dream where I was in a queue for a tour through some tourist attraction, which you walked through in a line, and this old BITCH with white hair reached her arm (which must have been stretchy cos I was some distance ahead of her), grabbed me round the stomach and hauled me back down the queue so she and her old-woman friends could take my place. Being hauled backwards by an arm wrapped round your stomach is SORE, people. By the time she'd stopped I couldn't breathe or talk from the pain, just glare in fury as she and her friends walked past me. Her friends had seen what she'd done but none of them said anything; they put their backs to me and gossiped as if there was nothing unusual about them advancing up the queue like this. Later in the dream, when the pain subsided enough to let me talk, I cornered one of them and let rip about how could they just stand back and let their friend jump the queue and seriously hurt someone into the bargain. I was so angry in that dream.

And on Saturday night, I had a dream that Dickens had left behind an unpublished story about a guy who becomes a vampire in order to find a way to make his beloved live for ever. But she dies anyway and the vampire takes over a pleasure cruise-ship, luring rich hedonists on board and sailing off with them. This story was being filmed as a movie but it was being done in modern dress. I was the story's heroine, who figures out who the mysterious captain is and saves everybody. Weirdly, the scenes which were supposed to be on the ship were not filmed on a ship, but instead were set in back gardens or on the pavement in front of a coffee shop. Maybe it was a Lars von Trier movie.

LAST PERSON WHO...

x. Slept in your bed: Me!
x. Saw you cry: I have no idea. I don't cry properly, I just get teary-eyed.
x. Made you cry: See above.
x. You shared a drink with: My mum and my sisters.
x. You went to the movies with: My sister Sharon.
x. You went to the mall with: Mum, one brother and both sisters.
x. Yelled at you: My brother Philip.
x. Sent you an e-mail: Ruth.

HAVE YOU EVER...

x. Said "I love you" and meant it?: You mean apart from to family members?
x. Gotten in a fight with your pet?: No.
x. Been to California: No.
x. Been to Hawaii: No.
x. Been to Mexico: No.
x. Been to China: No. (Why do all these surverys mention China?)
x. Been to Canada: No.
x. Dreamed something really crazy and then it happened the next day: My dreams are too crazy to ever happen. More's the pity.
x. Wish you were the opposite sex: No. Except when I'm getting period pains.
x. Had an imaginary friend: Unless you count that imaginary game show where I was one of the usherettes...

RANDOM TID BITS...

x. Do you have a crush on someone: Not at the moment.
x. What book are you reading now: None.
x. Future son's name: If I have one, I'll surprise myself.
x. Do you sleep with a stuffed animal: No.
x. What's under your bed: Shoe bag, laundry bag and two fold-down boxes.
x. Favorite sports to watch: Gymnastics, ice-dancing and showjumping.
x. Siblings: Two brothers, two sisters, all younger.
x. Location: Northern Ireland.
x. College plans: To leave it and NEVER COME BACK.
x. Piercings/tattoos: None.
x. Boyfriend/girlfriend: None.

EXTRA STUFF...

x. Do you do drugs: No.
x. Who are your best friends: Lesley, Ruth, Eed, Marzi.
x. What are you most scared of: Being despised and physical pain.
x. What clothes do you sleep in: Pyjamas.
x. Where do you want to get married: ...I dunno.
x. Who do you really hate: Whoever forgot to make me sign for my keys.
x. Do you drive: Yes.
x. Do you have a job: No.
x. Do you like being around people: Yes.
x. Are you for world peace: Isn't everyone?

STUFF...

x. Have you ever liked someone you had no chance with : Yep.
x. Have you ever cried over something someone of the opposite sex did: No. Like I said, I don't really cry.
x. Do you have a "type" of person you always go after: I suppose so.
x. Want someone you don't have right now: No.
x. Are you lonely right now: No.
x. Song that's stuck in your head a lot: It depends what I've been listening to. The most recent song to be stuck in my head was "Poison" by Alice Cooper lol.
x. Do you want to get married: I'm not bothered at the minute whether I do or not.
x. Do you want kids: See above.

FAVORITE...

x. Room in house: The kitchen. It has yummy food.
x. Type(s) of music: Rock, indie, acoustic, pop, country, power ballads, eighties stuff, some rap and hip hop. But generally anything with guitars in it.
x. Band(s): Bon Jovi, Train, The Who, Matchbox 20, Feeder, Tom Petty, Ryan Adams, Bryan Adams, Aerosmith, Maroon 5, Anastacia... many others too.
x. Color: Spring Green.
x. Month: I like the sound of the word "January". Plus it's my birth-month.

IN THE LAST 72 HOURS, HAVE YOU...

x. Cried: No.
x. Bought something: Loads.
x. Gotten sick: No.
x. Sang: Yes.
x. Wanted to tell someone you loved them: No.
x. Met someone new: Yes.
x. Missed someone: No.
x. Hugged someone: No.
x. Kissed someone: No.