Rihanna is M.I.A. That is all.

Normally I don’t buy into all of this vampire nonsense. Whenever there’s a new vampire movie, television show, or book I usually turn the other cheek straight away and not even give it a chance. Yes, I have watched Twilight – and yes, I thought it was one of the most over rated movies of our time. After watching it, I swore to give up vampires for good, and never give another of its genre the time of day again. After a recommendation from two of my closest friends for the series “True Blood”, however, I had to give them another chance. I have to say – I was proved completely wrong with True Blood. It is an amazing series, and I’d recommend it to anyone.

I guess I got a little soft on vampires. They’re not all bad, right? Well, congratulations, Daybreakers, you officially reinstated my ban on vampire multimedia. I knew this movie didn’t look too promising just from the adverts and promos, but I decided to give it a try for the sake of Sam Neill. After taking on one of my favourite roles ever in “The Tudors” as Cardinal Wolsey, I decided I’d watch this steaming pile of crap for his sake.

I’m not going to just sit here and bad-mouth this movie without evidence or support. So, let’s start with the good. The acting, for the most part, was convincing and well-done. I’m usually very critical over bad-acting but this movie does not fit into this criteria. Some of the ideas presented in the movie were very promising. They introduced a lot of new elements to vampires that were very clever. For example, the cars with built in “daylight mode”. A vampire could drive around during daylight by setting his car to this mode – the car then automatically covers it’s windows and a set of cameras act as the view out of your windshield and rear-view mirror. How cool is that?

… But that’s about the only “cool” thing about this movie. The plot was the biggest downer for me, especially after watching True Blood. The whole “synthetic blood” thing has been done. I know they used it in a different way but it jus seemed old to me. The ending was the worst of all. No, the ambiguity didn’t come off as clever or artsy, it just seemed like they ran out of money and said, “Hey, you know what? We’ve definitely got two hours of film here, let’s just cut it off at the climax and have no falling actions and hope to fuck we can get a sequel!” No. You’re not going to get a sequel to this movie. What you are going to get is a lot of pissed-off movie goers wondering where the rest of your fucking movie is.

Before concluding I just want to mention one more thing. The animation for this movie was very poor. The “subsiders” or whatever they were called, looked fake. I know it’s hard to make a half man, half bat zombie look realistic, but there’s no excuse with today’s technology. Bad animations these days only leave your audience laughing, and when you’re trying to set such a dark mood, animation have got to be pulled off properly.

I honestly can’t say any more about this movie. It was boring, uninspired, and just another vampire failure you can add to the long, long list.

“Now it’s day I’ve been trying to get that taste off my tongue. I was dreaming of just you, now our cereal it is warm. Attractive day in the rubble of the night from before. Now I can’t walk in vacuum, I feel ugly, I feel my pores.”

How relatable is that?

Dyin’ with the flu again. I can’t go to school one day without catching something. Was a disgusting, diseased place. I really hate it.

I’m almost done the 50th reunion website. Yay. I just got to figure out this database shit, but I think I’m good.

Going to see Avatar this weekend finally, thank Jebus. I’m pretty pumped. I love having things planned for all upcoming weekends..

• This weekend: Avatar.
• Next weekend: Jenna’s.
• Weekend of February 19: Party Bus.
• Weekend of February 26: Celeste’s birthday.

Just a reminder, Celeste’s is where the Meeker party was last year. Just sayin’.

Lesley loves True Blood.

Okay, so I said I was going to blog more this year and really I am. I just have so much on my plate right now. I just finished  midterms – more on that later. And I’m working on a 50th reunion website for the school. I’m also really close to finally finishing my Tudors fan site. I’m so excited about it. I need to be finished it before the forth season (in two months and 10 days ). I have the gallery as done as it’s going to be before opening and I have a lot of the writing done. The biggest bitch for me now is going to be writing episode recaps. I may have to cheat a little with those.

So, midterms are over. How exciting! I’ve got my World Geography mark back – 91%! Take that assholes! I went to one third of those classes this year and I owned everyone. Fuck ya. I’m not sure about English. The exam was mediocre in every way and I don’t feel too good about it to say the least. I rushed my ass off and I was running on no sleep. Ugh, I don’t think I did too well. Earth was alright too. I studied like a mother fucker though. I’d say I got like a 70. Well, I hope I got that much. Math I reeeeeally don’t know about. I feel like I did good but who knows, right? I could of done horrendous. Just because all my answers came out nice doesn’t necessarily mean I did well…

So – that party bus I was ranting about. Well, turns out I rant with a purpose. What a load of bullshit. The fucker broke down. I don’t really want to get too much into it but we’re getting a free one eventually. I don’t think I’m going to go on the next one unless my friend Melissa goes. I hate them, and some of the people who are on them. I reeeeeally do.

So I’m taking an extra day off for the weekend. Haha. I just can’t face school right now. Like, really. Leave me alone.

I bought my grad dress . Although there’s some problems with it. They didn’t have any in my size so they told me the next ship date would be March 26th (grad is like May 25th or something) – but they said they had one in stock in one size down. Seeing as I was ordering the fucker one size big for safety I didn’t really mind and it has a corset back so it’s not like it ultimately matters that much. But then they told me it was in pink and the one I ordered was blue. Ugggh. So then I asked them when would it arrive if it were to ship on the 26th. This was Wednesday and I still haven’t heard back from them. I’m so anxious. I love my dress, I want it so bad. Here’s a picture:

In Blue/Green

You likey?

I have this whole vision of what it’s going to look like. I’m going to have my hair down, curly/wavy. Not over-done, kind of natural looking. Within the curls in a few places I’m going to have yellow and aqua hair jewels. Minimal to no jewelery. Just really natural. I have the biggest obsession with blue and green. There’s just something really aquatic and natural about them. They just scream “earth”.

Wow, last nights post was pretty intense. I’m sorry. I guess I was just in one of those moods. I won’t delete it though, nah. It’s something interesting at least.

So a few things: Why does everything I touch turn to shit? Seriously. I just tried adding a widget to display my Facebook statuses. It works, don’t get me wrong, but the styling of it looks horrible. So I tried to change it. Realizing I had to go and change the actual PHP file for the plugin I changed some echoes (the only thing I’ll even let myself touch in PHP) and it worked but it completely DESTROYED by backend. I’m serious. It destroyed my admin panel. What the fuck does a plugin file have to do with my admin panel?! I don’t get PHP.

I’m addicted to Gossip Girl. I’m a horrible human being. I watched ten episodes last night and I’d be watching more now if it wasn’t for my sister stealing my external hard drive. When she gets off work at eight I’m totally going to watch some more.

So, I didn’t go to school today. Girl troubles. Well, more than that I guess. It wasn’t just stomach cramps or anything. I think almost every girl can relate to problems with the cycle. Seriously. Has anyone out there ever had a normal period without the aid of contraception? I’m thinking not. I’m getting so sick of it. I’m going to the doctor this week to get birth control. That’s it, I’ve had it.

Exams this week, boys. I have to get my ass in gear. I’m going to do some math tonight, I think. And some Earth, too, probably. My exam schedule is as follows:

• Friday, January 22: English
• Monday, January 25: World Geography
• Tuesday, January 26: Earth Systems
• Thursday, January 28: Advanced Math

Not a horrible schedule actually, minus the fact that 3/4 of them are in the morning. I’m loving level three though. My first year of high school I had eight exams. This year I have four! Even though they’re all publics, they’re not hard publics. Last year I had my hard publics (biology, chemistry). Earth and Math are going to be the worst. Not that Earth is difficult or hard to understand, it’s just so much memorization. And for Math this year there’s so many little equations and rules you have to remember, it’s gross. But I’ll get through it, I always do!

… And after exams? Party bus, maybe? I don’t know! I really don’t! People need to stop asking me if I’m going because I don’t know. On one hand it’s the end of exams and I really should get drunk and have fun. On the other hand, I’m really sick of party buses. They’re sloppy and messy and not so much a time. I don’t think there’s anything else on the go, however, so I’ll probably end up going. Think mom will give me money for it? Ha, it’s going to be a struggle, I’ll tell you.

Well, anyways, I’m going to go try and figure out the styling on the God damned Facebook status widget. And maybe add a countdown widget too. New layout coming soon maybe! I’m thinking something simple and easy on the eyes. Lots of white! I need some inspiration first…

House is on tonight!