An Education was a really great film. I saw it ageeees ago, can’t remember why, but I’m glad I did. Anyway, since I have a new fangled interest in Peter Sarsgaard I’ve been watching his other films haha. I love this interview! They’re so charming together, for lack of a better word.
I am SO wasting my summer. Thing is… I can’t get a job, start doing my TEFL course or anything until my sixteenth birthday which is still two weeks away. So I’m trying to fill my time with photography, working out, learning French, writing and watching TV. I’M BORED! And everyone has disappeared 
I’m so aloooooone!
Anyway! I’ve started a photo blog: http://danabeaton.tumblr.com/ That is if I keep to it. I also joined that 365 Project to try and keep myself motivated to take more photos throughout the holidays, but I keep forgetting my camera. I HAVE, however, finished two films so I’m gonna get them developed tomorrow. And they awesomely enough give you the photos on a CD too, so you don’t have to scan every single one. WOOHOO!
I have added the first official chapter to my new story, Dirty.
I have been scribbling in a notepad for WEEKS, writing lengthy diary entries and ramblings every time I was pissed off, depressed or had a brilliant idea and I finally know where I want to go with this story. This is the one I really want to tell, more than Opposites Attract, more than anything else. I just hope that wall doesn’t pop up out of nowhere again.
Please please please comment on dA or here about what you think of it so far. I know it’s not much.
Guess what I got again? Another spam comment!
I’ve been managing to go to the gym a lot this week and hoping to keep it up. Today I spent 25 minutes on the crosstrainer, 2000m on the rowing machine, 10 minutes on the squat chair thingie and then 5 minutes on the treadmill to cool off. I’d probably stay on longer, but the council gym has this weird thing where a session is an hour and if you ask for longer they have to get the manager involved, so there’s no bloody point. I had no problems at David Lloyd. You could just come and go as you please. And they actually had showers that WORKED. But it was expensive there… and we live too far away to use it regularly.
Have to go an do my English homework as well as finish my art pictures. If I leave it for the weekend (oh shit, it’s Saturday tomorrow!) then I’ll just be stressed out!
Take care!
I keep getting spam comments coming up on my page where I have comments waiting to be accepted. It’s so irritating. How’s this: PISS OFF.
On a lighter note… this week has gone by much quicker than I expected it to. I still have my English analysis to do as well as the pictures for my art project, that I’m planning to draw with my wacom tablet. I don’t know how my art teacher is going to feel about me using two different paints on my painting, but I need to. It looks better in oil, but the irises have to be acrylic so I can use the acrylic based transfer on it. Any advice on this?
Had my drama group again tonight. It’s totally weird being the new one… it’s not like starting at a new school. It’s going into an environment where everyone already knows each other and talks about people or teachers you don’t know (well those who go to the same school) and they all know each other. Then I come in and I know I can’t expect everyone to act neutral just for me. They should carry on as usual, but it’s just weird for me. I haven’t been the only new one in a group for so long.
are so annoying sometimes. I won’t go into huge detail but I will bring up one thing! There’s two English papers in the two different exams. I got an averaged A in English Literature which was awesome! Then the English Language I got an A* in one paper! I was raving! I’ve never gotten an A* ever and I really want a good English grade because of art/film/screenwriting aspirations. But the second paper… I’d apparently left out a question, which I either mis-read on what/how many you were supposed to do or wasn’t told to ignore the unstructions and it ended up being a D, even though I got a 28/30 and 23/30 on the questions I did do! One of the English teachers told me my answers were brilliant but because I’d forgotten one… I think this is where I use my brother’s annoying “facepalm” word. At least it only averaged up to a B, but man! I HAD AN A FUCKING *!
It’s only the mocks… but I wanted to use them as predicted grades for part-time jobs and applying to schools. So would it be wrong of me to put A* instead of the B on my CV? Since I know I can get it and would have if I’d done the question!
What do you think of my new theme? I liked the simplicity of the last one, but I wanted something different and I liked this one! I can’t really blog about much because I have so much studying to do and I’m already procrastinating… I have to catch up loads with Latin, because I didn’t learn it much in class. My plan for this weekend is to do physics, maths, latin and german. I have those over Monday and Tuesday. Then I can spend Monday and Tuesday revising the subjects for Wednesday etc. Ugh… Revision advice is always welcome.
Nothing much else has been going on. I’ve been ill for a while, so mainly recovering and trying to study at the same time. My two week long migraine still hasn’t disappeared. Maybe it has something to do with me stressing about school? Well, my doctor suggested I see a counsellor. Yay, a head shrinker! Doubtful. If I don’t talk to my friends, I’m not gonna talk to a stupid lady in stupid white coat (my imagination is running away with me).
Funniest Supernatural episode ever: Yellow Fever
I’ve been writing more of my novel. I think I’m as far as 24000 words, but I’m too lazy to check. I use Celtx for writing my stories too, because it’s prettier than OpenOffice. But unfortunately it doesn’t have a word count, so I have to copy and paste, which I’m too lazy to do. Remember to check out http://missdanabanana.deviantart.com for updates and any new photographs I’ve taken!
