Oh dear God – I have to get offline – this is getting ridiculous now emski! I’m just getting over-excited.

Ok people, I’d like your help.

I’d like to compile a list of words which I hope to use in my social experiment…I would love you all to give me:

1. words that sound sensual/sexual/dirty/erotic
2. words that sound disguisting/distastful/repulsive

Even if you only give one word each that would be great!

First one to start the ball rolling – my housemate thinks “squirt” is the most repulsive word she’s ever heard

Still online here now on my third blog of the day I decided to look at my “blog stats” and the results were startling – it’s not even 4pm and today’s my biggest day in terms of hits and views!

I thought fabuliso for a second and then came to my senses – why today of all days have I received 20 times as many views as usual? Well…my friends…it turns out to be that in my ’social experiment’ blog, one of my tags is “naked”, which seems to be quite a popular search! Might search it myself and see what turns up (maybe not while sitting in a crowded library computer room though…), I’m pretty sure my blog has disappointed many a fine pervert today…and hopefully helped them see the error of their ways.

I’m seeing another experiment coming…so this is a warning for my near future blog…he he ho ho ho

Also helps you understand why all those blogs by women talking about their sex lives are so popular. Should have used that as inspiration for a theme for my blog and then if we have to write about the progression of our blogs I can talk about attracting all sorts of randomers to my site who have a particular fascination in…tags.

Poor defenseless girls should be wary of testosterone fuelled men with egos and a mind to score.

Yeah right…

Guys should beware psychotic (and usually alcohol induced) frenzied attacks from our best of British ladies!

If a guy says no, it means no….unless you’re determined/desperate and you get him drunk and seduce him anyway.

How’s this for a warning!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/4253849.stm

I’m getting excited…I will actually be going out this weekend for the first time in 4984688385234850923893486946 years. Well, it feels like that anyway. I’m probably getting a little bit carried away though – I didn’t want to ever have to do this on my blog but I feel the need tonight – I can’t work!

I’m really pissed off! I spent all today geeking it up in the library for an essay I’m doing – I finished getting all my quotes from the novel in question, 6 books of secondary sources, a detailed essay plan so all I need to do now is write it up…..actually, at about 9pm all I had to do was write it up. I’ve refused to go to bed until it’s typed up….this is the easy bit for goodness sake! I’ve typed up my introduction, my first two points and then my motivation died. I tried to boost it by having a small break, nothing. I got fed up with myself and typed up all my quotes, footnoted them and typed my bibliography. All I need to is is write the blurb to connect all my quotes together and actually turn it into an essay…but it’s now after 01:30 and I’m getting up at 06:00 for a full day of work and class :-s

La la la la, I think I’ll forget about it again and think of going out again! Taking on board various comments from my previous entry I’ll be doing a bit of experimenting with different types of dressing and trying to collect different responses (if sober enough…if not, analyse photos and facebook wall messages). So…my dressing social experiment will include:

• 999 night this friday – I wanted to be a fireman! Very disappointed to have no luck finding anything though for anyone above the age of 8. So police instead, and the ‘nakey-scale’ will be low to medium
• rocky horror show next thursday – ‘nakey-scale’ will most likely be off the scale. Thinking combination of corset and dog collars, but maybe wear a wig to disguise my nakedness…

• chav night – I’m still worried about this. As someone who’s never worn a tracksuit in their whole life, never even owned hoop ear rings (not saying people who wear hoops are chavs by the way!)…but yeah, wardrobe issues aside, ‘nakey-scale’ is stone cold. In fact, this will be thee most unattractive unflattering thing I will EVER wear and to be honest, I’m a little bit worried about photographic evidence. I’m thinking I’ll be pregnant though…
• come in your kit night – sports shirt and shorts/jeans/skirt. Boring! ‘Nakey-scale’ will be at the bottom again.

So let the trauma begin!

P.S. random useless piece of information by the way…in good old Northern Ireland (that’s Norn Iron in the local accent…beautiful, isn’t it?) we call ‘chavs’, ’spides’, and female versions are called ‘millies’, which makes it quite amusing when we hear of English girls called Milly. Also country-bumpkin weirdo people are called ‘culchies’!

After Tom and Gareth’s comments on my last post I want to get your opinions on something – the union, in particular, how people dress and act in the union.

I have trouble trying to explain to my friends back home what it’s like here and giving excuses as they appear shocked from seeing new pictures appearing online…75% to do with my outfits and 25% to do with poses. ok…making this sound really dodgy but as Holloweigens you should know what I mean!

Going to a normal club about town you know what music you’re getting, you know what sort of people will be there and you know how to dress. Anything too outrageous and you can expect abuse, stares and feeling awkward. However, I feel that we’re free from these sorts of restrictions at uni – please tell me everyone agrees with me! :-s Our uni is small, incestuous and you tend to half recognise most people on a night out even if you don’t know them. In one way that’s quite depressing, but in another way, it gives a community feel and you can have more of a laugh because it’s almost like you’re surrounded by friends. I don’t know if I’m epxressing this well enough. Hmm..

Generally I feel that for dress up nights, which are usually once a fortnight get people excited a bit more and just as guys like the excuse to wear girls’ short skirts and little tops, the girls have to take it a step further. You can be a bit more extravagent, random, risquee…whatever you feel like and it isn’t a big deal because it’s ‘only the union’ and the social codes are different between it and other clubs.

 But the question is…have we taken it too far? Tom and Gareth both say they’re repulsed (i’m putting words in your mouths, but that’s the suggestion you were giving) by bigger girls wearing hardly any clothes. Is this an issue for our union? Are we lowering the tone by girls leaving nothing to the imagination and looking easy? Do some people think people go too far with their outfits?…on moulin rouge night I saw girls wearing babydolls with stockings…is that a lot worse than corsets and ruffle skirts?? And if weight’s an issue – should we be saying that some – slimmer girls are allowed to dress scantly clad but there should be a limit (weight, size, measurements) so we don’t disgust people??

I’ve never thought too much about this before because I always thought you could dress a bit crazy at the union and it was only a laugh and did no harm. I don’t find the way I dress makes people look at me differently (unless maybe everyone’s just used to it by now..) and although there’s always the odd drunken sleaze, I find that if you’re dancing with your friends then people know you’re not on the look out and leave you be. One of my friends, who is usually on the prowl when we’re out, moves away from our group when dancing so guys see that she’s interested. I’d love to be some sort of wildlife documentary presenter about different types of people at the union…maybe my next post!

 But please – I’d love to hear your opinions on this one!

I was flicking through random blogs and 2 out of 5 were really interesting! I don’t tend to come across articles that really inspire me that make me want to write about the topic…but I stumbled across a blog that’s full of short stories and a bit of poetry (haven’t looked through it all so not totally sure what all is there) but the most recent post was about the topic of finding inspiration itself!

 Please read it – it’s short and INCREDIBLE

http://lingoslinger.wordpress.com/ the story’s called ‘Blank like me’

I’ve got an hour before starting work and I’m hiding from the rain in the library. Usually I’m good and I read Ulysses like I should do for class, but I was up at 6am this morning and I really need no help to fall asleep right now. Strangely, just thinking about work (Founders Dining Hall) at the moment – it appears I’ve become quite proud?…no, not the right word, attached maybe to my job. Partially because I’m one of the two longest serving students still there at the moment so I have a special status where I tend to ‘delegate’ a little bit more now and I get special privileges with the chefs liking me like getting away with wearing perfume or they pretend they don’t notice I don’t wear my hat in the kitchen a lot (don’t get worried..I’m not flicking my hair over as massive saucepan of soup :-p) But yes emski, to the point please!

Did anyone read in the last Orbital an article by some first year about the disgrace that is Founders food? I wish it was available online so I could link it…hmm…don’t think so. Anywho, it was a scathing report moaning about chicken with a bit of blood, giving off about catering for people with particular food needs, in particular, the vegetarian section. Oh! And she managed to slip in the odd offensive comment about the staff and patronise the head of catering. Hmph! I was almost tempted to reply to her article in the Orbital…but I decided to take the mature approach…and instead studied her photograph so I can recognise her and remember to spit in her food/be particularly stingy with the portion/over charge her. MWAHAHAHA!

Now to defend my dear Founders. I won’t deny it, it’s not perfect. I lived in Williamson Halls in first year and ate there for dinner for a year (..and put on a stone come to think of it..). We all like to make little jokes about the food occasionally and slag it off in a teasing way, and I make no excuse that is the horrendous costs of eating there if you don’t get the 50% discount! But aside from that, you stick with it because you asked for catered halls, you’re getting cheap food and you don’t have to cook! Some things are just right to be sent back – something in it, not cooked through, etc. It can be gross, you take it back, you get a new one/something different/a refund – end of story! When a chef makes a chicken dish he’s cooking 50 chicken breasts at a time and then a percentage of them get temperature checked.  A pink chicken breast is not good for the tummy…a bit of blood does not hurt you…although I’m not trying to persuade that you should all eat bloody meat if that’s not your thing. This girl (and she will only be called a “girl” because her general written skills are not worthy of being deemed as anything more mature) moaned an awful lot about the vegetarian dishes – meh. Some of the dishes are good, some are a bit crap. Depends how many chefs are on and if they have functions to cook for as well, at the same time. Same with all the food really, but we’re students – who are we to be all that fussy? Cheap and chappy me thinks! Every night the chefs prepare food for general meat eaters, halal meat eaters, vegetarian food and individual dishes for wheat allergies etc. I don’t think they’re doing too badly!

Eugh…my argument isn’t as convincing/angry as it first was in my head…but the sleepiness is controlling me completely at the moment, but as a final bitchy comment about this girl and her meagre attempts at writing – she also wrote an article in the Orbital about how girls at Royal Holloway degrade themselves by dressing scantly-clad at Halloween by dressing up as bunny girls etc. and what a bad image this is portraying of us. It was gay but I thought everyone’s entitled to their opinions…what annoyed me was that she ended her article by saying that despite everything she just wrote she was getting out her bunny ears for the Halloween night at the union. **rolls eyes**

People like her make me feel like we all have that much better a chance at being successful in the world of writing, whatever direction we end up going in!