Filed under: HOT OFF THE PRESS ! | Tags: new look, news, plan, robin hood, sick
I’m fairly sure I’ve double-dosed on relaxation medication and paracetamol, not to mention hot lemon, but I am feeling better. Which means I’m crazy enough to make a blog update. Good enough to post something, at least, as long as I can, well, figure out what to post. If you’re reading this, you probably don’t want to hear any more half-assed anecdotes about my history; or maybe you do, I don’t know. It’s certainly, dare I say it, kind of fun. Or maybe you really do want to hear, if you’re the police, who are probably waiting for me to slip up since this was in the papers yesterday. Come to think of it – the boys in blue are always waiting for me to slip up, huh? The Sheriff of Nottingham to our Robin Hood. Although I reckon the Paladins have more of a claim to that title, who are exactly who the police should be going after rather than us. There are bigger nutters out there. Not that we’re nutters… Um, back to the newspaper clipping.
Sorry guys, “we both know [I] can escape the police even in this sorry state”, to quote a friend of mine. Oh yeah, and I know it’s a bad scan but that was never my strong point, technology. I can work an ipod, this laptop functions, and I can turn on the microwave and that’s the long and short of it. The “fraud” mentioned which doesn’t quite do things justice might I add isn’t my handiwork, so credit where credit’s due. I’m not so proud as you might think. Or maybe it’s just being sick making me so Samaritan – you’ll never know, haha. I’m certainly more willing to snuggle up under a large duvet with friends when I’m like this than I would be on any other day of the year, as some friends have learnt the hard way when they’ve tried to before.
Alright then, what else is there to say. Well, Manchester University might have a student union of sorts who are interested in the project I mentioned a few posts back, so if I can rustle up any more press I’ll let you all know. All the plans are, effectively, finalised, and I’m going ahead with it my end of Nottingham come rain or shine. I might be in Scotland around that time too, summertime that is. Please post your interest/questions here – you don’t need to be a member of WordPress to post, and I’d love to hear from people about anything. Flame or fame, whatever’s your game. And that’s enough with the Doctor Seuss rhyming although I have to say since my childhood that guy was a pure genius. Might have inspired me if I hadn’t had bigger plans. -cough- You didn’t hear that. But hey, we’re all entitled to a little grandiose plan or two! Speaking of which, we’ve got a new look, made by yours truly. I especially like the Robin wearing my hat, looks pretty god huh? Kills time when I can’t get out of the house.
That’s about all I have to say. More tomorrow, I guess.
- Robin Hood, starting to feel better.
Filed under: ALL IN THE PAST !, CHARITY INFORMATION !, HOT OFF THE PRESS !, OTHER ! | Tags: 17 again, charity, coffee, little john, love, make poverty history, movie, plan, robin hood
Okay, so I promised I’d keep this baby updated once a day? I lied. I was studying – even Robin Hood has to study if she wants to keep her day job. You’d think I’d know the difference between polar and non-polar by now but I majored in history not chemistry. So, here we go, little update in the form of two things: a proposition for you all, and a movie review. I’ll start with the review ’cause it’s easier to say, if a little out of character for me to have gone to see a film like this in the first place.
There’s this film out now with Zac Efron (who, ussually, I would precede with the words ‘Oh God why’) and Matthew Perry (whose name I add ‘yummy’ to, even if I am a woman in my twenties or maybe in spite of…) called 17 Again. It’s sort of a one-way Freaky Friday, but that it’s a guy who falls over a bridge – bear with me on this – into a whirpool and gets home to find he’s reverted to his seventeen year old self, the point in his life where he felt he frankly screwed everything up. You know, dropping the chance of a basketball scholarship ’cause he got his girlfriend pregnant – well, seventeen years on he wished he hadn’t, and it actually turned out to be better than it sounded! Piqueing my interest, of course, when his best friend, thinking the kid is an intruder, attacks him with an orc’s ax, a sword, and then a red light saber. Topped up with two cups of coffee I was killing myself laughing by the end of the film, which I just got back from. My rating – 89%. Would’ve been in the 90s% range if there’d been more geeky stuff. Those parts reminded me of my own past, eh Little John? Light saber fights sound familiar? And it also reminded me of a part of turning seventeen I would want to relive. Unfortunately there is a man out there who I know knows he can steal my heart and break it into a hundred pieces, even my rock of a heart. Of course, my prom date blackmailed me into said prom and sweet-talked me into a dress (which I wore jeans and Doc Martin’s underneath, granted) but what we had back then, well, part of me wouldn’t mind it back, but Robin Hood…. maybe gets in the way. The Merry Men for one wouldn’t be chuffed.
Now, before we get onto the seriousness, you might have noticed that I had two very large cups of coffee, which I gave up for Lent and ever since have been drinking in the daily bucketloads, often in absence of food. One cup, caramel thing with extra caffeine, came from The Coffee Bean, and the White Chocolate Mocha I’m finishing off now came from Starbucks. I’m no coffee, conneiseur, so I’d love to hear what you think was best, hence the following poll. Plus… I’d love some more comments. ^^; Shameless plug much?
Now…. Robin Hood again, eh? I had a proposition I wanted to put to the world, which is mostly why I want comments today. Actually, it’s maybe good that I didn’t post it yesterday, ’cause I didn’t have it finalised until… ooh, five minutes ago. I have sort of got exams in May, but after that I’m a Freebird – please, no Lynard Skynard people, it’s already going ’round my head. What I’m going to do my best to organise here is a world-collaboration for making poverty history. It’s something I’m going to do regardless of whether it sparks interest on this blog, but if I get enough interest here I’ll post up details and a date and see how much we can raise. The idea is you dress up as Robin Hood, and don’t steal, but go out like that, with a collecting bucket, rustle up as much small change as you can – maybe do a small show in your local park, or if you’re in school, get your class to perform in the yard after class or something. Even if it’s just a matter of walking through the streets loudly talking “like ye merry men of olde in ye merry forest of Sherwood”. That’s what I’m rustling people up for. Bit of Men in Tights-ing. And there’s a handy way that you can send all of this to Make Poverty History, and they have lots of resources you can use to advertise too. So… Post if you’re interested, eh heh. Wow, me, shy? Shock!
- from Robin Hood with crossed fingers and an over-active imagination x
