This is a short hello everyone, goodbye everyone message as at 3am I'm heading off to Lanzarote! WOO HOO! Me and my two best friends are heading off for a week of fun in the sun and really looking forward to it, especially after the crappy weather we've been having here all summer. It's our final hurrah so I'm sure it'll be great. Anyway, better dash, still got all of my packing to do....whoops....

Chat when I get back!

Hey everyone! Got my A-Level results on Thursday and managed to clock up 4As, yeo! Was completely delighted and most of my friends got what they wanted too so we were hitting a school disco to celebrate! We slapped on our uniforms (or shorter/tighter versions of them *looks about innocently*) for the last time and went out and boogied on down. It was so much fun, one of the best nights out ever. The music was real 90s flashback, we had Spice Girls, S Club 7, Macarena, Britney, B*Witched....lots of really random, completely awful songs with actions that you couldn't help but love!

As much fun as this was, it means I got into the University of Manchester, my 1st choice, but actually have to leave now. Completely terrified. Don't really want to go any more... so many of my friends are staying in Belfast and going to Queens...they're going to have great fun without me and I'll come back and they'll have forgotten all about me, or even worse, found a new friend to take my place so not need me any more. I'll be devestated!

*Ahem* So when I'm not having a break down, I've just been working and on the Tinternet really. Buffy Fests seem to have come to a halt since it is someone elses turn to organise the next day so naturally it hasn't been done. (Fecking boys, they're useless!) Also, spent an oddly long amount of time re-doing my Veronica Mars review cos the original was done a few years ago when I'd only seen part of season 1, so feel free to have a nosy. It's uber long! That's all for now.

Kind of temporarily abandoned tv.com there but I'm back. Not too much to report, basic summer stuff only with worse weather this year of course. I've got a job now which is good, sorting post for Royal Mail. It's a bit far away and 12 hour shifts from 6pm to 6am but it's really good money, £6.70 an hour which is about £80 each shift I work, currently planning about 3 a week so I'll be nicely minted

Also last week we had Day 3 of Buffy Fest. It was really good, best day yet I'd say, started at about 11.30am and it went on til about 3am. We had one break but that was it. There was plenty of banter and more annoyance over the huge amount of dungarees but in general good Buffy Festing, all 22 eps. We are getting pretty far behind now, cos every time it's someone else's turn to host and therefore set the date it takes them like 2 weeks to sort it out. Now we have like 3 weeks to watch 4 days grr arrgh. We better get it done before summer is over! I'm going on holidays on the 30th and when I get back I only have a day or two until I have to go off to uni and I'll have better/more important things to do than spend an entire day watching Buffy. (No, I can't believe I just said that either.)

It's been a pretty epic weekend so far. On Friday me and my friends had Day 2 of Buffy Fest (I know that Day 1 was ages ago) and it was class. We watched all of season 2 and it was a lot of fun. It got off to a dodgy start cos we were all out the night before so the 10am start time was optimistic at best. I got there 40mins late and my friend's mum had to go wake him up. When our other Fester arrived it was 11.30 and we were all still half asleep. We were worried that we would all fall drift off and the spirit of the 1st geek would come into our dreams and try to kill us in our sleep. While there was some sporadic napping, it never happened that we were all asleep at the same time so that was something

The main things that stuck out about season 2 watching it all in a row is that there are a lot of amazing episodes surrounded by some truly poor ones and that there are a ridiculous amount of dungarees worn. It pained me. We finally finished about half 3, sleepy but pleased with our accomplishment.

The sleep was not to last too long though seeing as I had plans to get up this morning and get the last Harry Potter book. Unfortunately my need to sleep an extra few hours overcame my need to read (something I'm still appalled at) but I surfaced around 1pm to discover that my wonderful mother had already got my a copy. I got stuck in and finished at 11.30 and all I'm going to say is that it's fantastic. I laughed, I cried (both happy and sad tears) and from Chapter 30 onwards the pace was so intense I literally sat with my mouth open. To fellow Harry Potter fans who may not have finished yet: you'll love it and it's a great end to 7 books and 10 years.