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I'm so bored. I've been for a walk around Campus, and my friend and I went to a garden with a pond in it. It was dark but I realised there were some new features around the pond that hadn't been there the last time we'd been there.

I said, "oh look, a statue of a stalk!" and shone my torch on the statue, at which point it spread its wings and flew off. I said "f***ing hell!" and my friend laughed at me.

That was the excitement of my evening. This place is dead, and I can't think of any topics to make.

'Forget happiness I'm fine, I'll forget everything in time'

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Hmm,Callums obviously with Jono or something or other,3 missed Phone calls tonight..I was asleep! Honestly,im so glad I didnt have my phone on bley loud or there would have been hell to play I tell thee!

I dont feel much better,didnt go out and stayed in and have been having "Power naps" and drinking alot of lucozade.

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Im alot better than yesterday thankfully,went into town this afternoon with my parents cos they wont leave my side incase I faint again,although saying that they've just gone out to Asda..:-?

Sat on msn at the moment,trying to find suitable prom dress ideas on the internet and singing along at the top of my voice to the zutons-see I must be better.

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I've just been to the library to research cultural landscapes in geography or something. I have to talk for 3 minutes about one of five themes in the study of landscape geography, but I haven't yet identified any themes of landscape geography, so that could be a bit of a problem. I am going to go back to the library at some point and take a dictionary, because I don't understand most of the superfluous long words used by the books.

Now, I'm just sitting around doing nothing really.

'Forget happiness I'm fine, I'll forget everything in time'

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One word:BORED theres only a certain number of times when you can sing West side story tunes to the top of your voice before you know your going crazy and msn is dead and im housebound. :cry:

Okay and im now playing celebrity 2 word tango with myself,ive downloaded the jingle and everything..

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I got to paint my room today me and my friends made loads mess and got more paint on ourselfs than the walls we still act like teenagers but it was fun:biggrin:

Haha classic,my room needs another coat of paint soon actually.

Im rather sad actually,already started working out how much I can spend in this years L Big freeze..haha oh dear Ema.

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Oops, some guy decided to throw a pint over lead singer Bobby tonight which caused him to stop playing, threaten to leave two songs in, and Mani threatened the guy with a mic stand. Haha. Great entertainment though. Thankfully the guy was thrown out and they continued their gig.

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