the weed called buses

today, I have made 4 bus journeys. that doesn't seem too bad considering it takes 2 bus journeys each way for me to get to school but today it was to town then from town, then back in to town then back from town. then what's worse is that there was only an hour's intermission between arriving home the first time then going back in to town, which makes my mum and myself seem like such materialists!

anyway, the buses. I live in Birmingham which is home to the 11 route and the 50. the 11 is the outer circle and the largest bus route in Europe. the 50 is also the most frequent bus route in the country and apparently Birmingham buses are the cleanest buses in the country. yet, as a frequent user of TWM (Travel West Midlands) I can confirm that all the regular users of the buses can do is complain!

the problem with public transport, to be honest, is that the public use it! I once stuck my thumb in some chewing gum that was stuck to a seat >.<

thank you for reading!

Shinoneiko

the weed called socks

from feet to footwear! considering yesterday's entry I thought this a rather appropriate continuation.

Despite the fact that it is currently August, my feet have been freezing all day so my feet have been wrapped in my thickest, fluffiest, woolliest socks. and despite the socks, if you feel my feet (if you don't have an aversion to feet, dear reader) then you'd find that they're still freezing! this begs the question, do socks actually work?

another advantage to these socks are that, in my house the entire downstairs is either wooden flooring or tiles which allows the wearer of fluffy socks to slide around until the sock wearer's heart is content :)

thank you for reading!

Shinoneiko

the weed called feet

sorry about the lack of posts. there's nothing wrong with minor neglecting after a long period of exams, is there? sorry for not posting anything for a while, dear readers, I just haven't had anything non-exam related to say!

by default, people generally have two feet (which can be reduced to one or none due to circumstance) but in general, people have them. People can also apparently have insufficient feet. now, as far as I'm concerned, as long as you have feet that can be walked on, feet are sufficient but apparently if you have too much or too little fat on your feet then you have insufficient feet which seems absurd due to the fact that as long as you are able to walk on them then surely they are sufficient!

I know some people who have an aversion to feet. One of these people happened to be my dance teacher so it was unfortunate that she had to check our feet to make sure that our ballet shoes fitted every so often! I confess that I don't really understand aversion to feet (wrists on the other hand...) but feet, other than my cheesy smelly ones are beyond me!

thank you for reading!

Shinoneiko

the weed called internet

There's nothing wrong with allowing a blog to go in to slight disrepair, is there? I've just been a little distracted for the past few days. no comments and 1 message in my inbox. from the Rep theatre. no-one loves me :'(

oh well, time for another rant which 2 people who I know of will read! I have 2 followers which puts me in mind of someone walking behind me in a dark alley. a thought which I have to admit, I am not fond of...I know them both though and neither would hurt a fly, let alone a me :)

the internet...the thing on which I am surfing at this very moment! it can be a wonderful thing (such as when I am blogging or facebooking or watching anime or checking the Radio 7 schedule for the evening) or it can be an annoying thing such as when it freezes randomly, can't connect or is being used to set homework. it was originally used by the military to share information, then as soon as it went public it was taken over by the porn industry. when someone says to you "the internet is for porn," the best thing to do is believe them.

you can also use the internet to watch TV programmes that you have missed because your digital TV is playing up again. isn't technology wonderful! it's also used to stalk people such as people you have crushes on in the months leading up to a relationship. internet stalking is fun, but should not be encouraged as it freaks out the stalkee.

thank you for reading!

Shinoneiko

the weed called porn

This seems like a slightly unusual topic (especially since I've only watched porn once, and that was by accident) but after the events of yesterday I decided that I had to.

yesterday, I went to an anime expo. in case you don't know what this means, an anime expo is basically a convention for Japanese comics and cartoons where grown adults have an excuse to dress up in pink wigs and (in some cases, cross-dress which is brilliant :D). in anime the porn is called hentai and within hentai there are 2 forms: yaoi and yuri, Yaoi is guy-on-guy and yuri is girl-on-girl. don't get those two mixed up, now!

my boyfriend got them mixed up once. we were talking about porn and I asked him what he's watched. he then confessed, with a large smile might I add, "I like yaoi!" this earned him a strange sideways glance and the question "are you bi?" he looked at me strangely and said "no, I just said that I like yaoi!" I corrected him and we laugh about it now :)

the reason I thought to write about this topic after anime expo is because one of the supervising senpais (6th formers) met someone who was dressed as a character called Gaara. they hit it off straight away, and by the end of the day she had earned a victory snog with him! that doesn't sound too bad. the problem was, she was dressed as a man so it looked like two guys making out which was rather funny :)

thank you for reading!

Shinoneiko

the weed called clockwork

After ranting for a while about digital the other day, I thought I'd explore the opposite end of the spectrum and look at clockwork. Frankly, I love it!

clockwork is a beautiful science! some people say that electrons and stuff are beautiful science, but frankly they're just a few tiny specks orbiting a blob so whoever said that needs an eye test. there's something which has to be loved about the way that all the cogs nestle together and move in perfect synchronism (is that the right word? someone comment and tell me!). you know those clockwork robots in Doctor Who? I love them! I really want one, just so I can take it apart and stare at it...

for my sins I have never owned a proper clockwork watch. my Grandad has one, and I love listening to it tick. my favourite clockwork watch ever is my friend's watch with no back to it and a glass bit under the face so you can see how it works. I want one! it's a truly beautiful piece of jewellry! (I probably haven't spelled it right...jewellery? too many e's)

thank you for reading!
Shinoneiko

the weed called digital

Yesterday in Tescos when I was in the bread aisle, I came across the rather unusual apparition of a digital toaster. there were several of them stacked next to the place where they hold sliced bread. now, what is the difference between my toaster in the kitchen (besides the fact that mine has some toast stuck in it from when I nearly burned the house down a few years ago) and the fancy digital one in Tescos? as long as they both cook toast, there is practically no difference!

the whole world is going digital crazy! suddenly it's digital switchover, digital clocks, digital radio, digital TV, digital toasters...I know the difference between digital and analouge waves so I can understand the ideas behind digital TV and radio, but digital toaster? toaster's don't pick up waves of any sort!

I must be the only person under 50 who is still in awe of the digital clock. You can't beat a good ol' ticking clock, so why digital clocks are necessary is beyond me. sure, they can show the time to the exact second but what is the point in that? if I wanted to check the time for the Simpsons, then I wouldn't make sure that I was in front of the telly at exactly 18:00:00 because it never starts exactly on time so if you did that then you might miss what Bart's lines are! I owned a digital watch once and I didn't like it so I soon swapped it for one that ticked :)

I have a digital TV in my room, but the digital channels on it don't actually work. I almost always change it to analogue, and the other times I just can't be bothered to watch it. The only thing better from this TV to my old one is that if I'm watching a DVD, the disc doesn't get stuck every so often. That's another thing, am I the only one left who's mourning video?

I must confess, I own a digital radio. I have it because I want to listen to BBC7 which can't be picked up from my analogue one (but Heart FM can't be picked up from my digital one, so it's best to have both). BBC7 basically has programmes which were on BBC4 from last week to the 1930's, but I love it! the only problem is, the alarm function doesn't work because, unless it's switched on, the time is stuck at when it was last turned off. other than that minor inconvenience, digital Radio and DVDs are the best thing that digital seems to have produced.

that was quite a rant, but I guess there's a lot to be said for digital :)

thank you for reading!
Shinoneiko