You'd probably think I'm lying when I say that I've never had a sunburn before until now (well, my nose has been, but that's a minor thing).

The tops of my arms ache so. There's going to be a charming tanline there one day. After the skin starts to peel. So I spent the entire night putting a wet cloth on the tops of the arms. Call me a sissy, but really, I'm just not a masochist.

Except I probably am seeing as I refused sunblock before I went out into the sun.

And if not a masochist, well, just a very vain teenager.
Oh, well done.
 

Stephenie Meyer's somewhat phenomenal rise in the writing world has caused an influx of vampire/werewolf themed stories to spring up on Fictionpress. An important note: I honestly don't care if you're writing about vampires. That's cool. What is somewhat annoying is when you have tweens writing stories and you can tell that they've taken bits of Twilight and throw it into their own stories, with really bad grammar, no characterisation and absolutely no originality (apart from changing some names). If you love Stephenie Meyer's world so much, then use FANfiction instead of butchering up her work. Since when did werewolf versus vampire love stories get popular on Fictionpress? Well written ones, fine. But anything that's like a cheap imitation just pisses me off.

And Twilight the film. Who else got incredibly irritated when watching the trailer? Vampire DO NOT fly, damn it! Sure, they run fast, but they don't FLY. And those people still hung over Gaspard Ulliel not getting the part of Edward? Get over it.

How stupid is this? I pack everything I need to for uni and then realise that I need my iPod charger, so I have to dig through everything and now, everything is all messed up. Hence, I need to pack all over again. Grr. 

Went out for dinner last night and my friends decided to spend the entire night mocking me about the waiter, who they thought I was checking out. Uh, yeah right. It got worse when the waiter reportedly started looking at me too. What the hell? I don't get checked out because I'm a diminutive Asian girl. So, they spent the entire night trying to get a photo of him. Which was incredibly embarrassing. Ah, that's my friends for you ;) But it was very very fun indeed. Good food too (ooh, assonance), and lovely dessert. Amounted to about $26 per person, which isn't bad at all. I think I'll visit again... when that particular waiter isn't around!

So, I got my fillings today. It didn't hurt because the dentist said the cavities weren't deep. I have silver bling bling in my teeth now (trying to get into my gangsta side because in the next chapter of 'The Nightmare Before Christmas', there's a whole section where I make fun of gangstas -insert evil laughter- it's going to be hilarious... I hope). I also make fun of poncy stuck up people in business suits. I could probably post the chapter, but the obsessive compulsive person in me refuses to update unless I have the quota of eight pages or more filled. So, I'm just waiting on two more pages before I update.

Got my NCEA papers back today. Ouch. Really, the same bloody thing happened in physics like it did last year: I answered all the damn calculation questions right up to Excellence level, but I couldn't explain what I was doing, hence the big fat Achieved. Meh, Level 3 with Excellence still. I'll take it gladly.

Aha, I visited school on Monday to show a new girl around and the deputy principal gave me the queerest look as if she was trying to say "Grace, what the hell are you doing back here? I haven't been away from you long enough to say welcome back." Mr. WJ (the Year 12 Dean) didn't swallow my joke of "I'm back because I failed seventh form." Heh. But university soon. And I can't freaking wait.

New doctor in the ward. Typical, she was wearing her stethoscope. Pretty soon she'll learn that NO DOCTOR wears their stethoscope around the psychogeriatric ward. It just isn't done. Simply because we don't give a shit whether or not you're got one or not.

 RULES:
A. List seven habits/quirks/facts about yourself.
B. Tag seven people to do the same.
C. Do not tag the person who tagged you or say that you tag "whoever wants to do it."

1) I talk to myself out loud, despite being caught repeatedly by people walking by. Like today when I was yelling at myself for checking out this guy and then realising with disgust that it was my childhood bully. Ew. The man working in his garage gave me the strangest look when I walked past.

2) I sing a lot. Only because I like to hear my own voice. Narcissistic, isn't it?

3) Despite writing romances, I hate Valentines Day.

4) Hannah Montana is SO the new Harry Potter. Okay, maybe not THAT much, but still. She totally rocks my socks. I've even started sounding like her. Creeeeepy. Seriously, the most played song on my iPod is 'The Other Side Of Me'.

5) I procrastinate every minute of the day. Like now. I'm supposed to be asleep because I start work at 7am tomorrow.

6) In my opinion, every boy should be funny. Seriously. 

7) Chemistry is my bitch :D

And now, good night.

So, so, so nothing much happening, except I have a date with the dentist again. See over where I live, there's free dental care for people who aren't off to uni yet. So basically, once a year I get my teeth checked. This time round, the dentist didn't even attempt to clean them. He simply said "Hmm, a forty five minute appointment with the Dental Hygienist and then you're getting two fillings, one on either side."

Ah, SHIT?!

I'm going to have needles inserted on BOTH sides of my mouth. Um, ice cream anyone?

Started packing for uni... I am going to be a freaking BAG LADY.

Went over to the general wards for work on Friday. I hated it. Completely and utterly hated it. Usually, I'm based around the psychogeriatric wards and the people there are so very nice, from the nurses to the doctors. The general ward was disgusting. The nurses were kind of friendly. Well, they did say hello. But all pleasantries stopped there, because they simply clumped around themselves and refused to talk to you because *I* was a health care assistant and NOT a nurse. Oh, the HORROR. The doctors are worse. When they walk past you, they simply act like you're not there, because you don't have a stethoscope hanging around your neck. Seriously, they walk around like the bloody stethoscope is a badge of honour. The doctors at the psychogeriatric unit DO NOT carry stethoscopes. In fact, you can't tell them apart from any other person because they're just so nice. And the cleaner! Apparently the cleaner doesn't have a name. She's just called 'The Cleaner'. The nurses bitch about the health care assistants and the health care assistants bitch about the nurses. Vicious, huh? There's a real sense of hierachy, not to mention petty politicalness. 

Umm, what else? Oh, I'm packing for uni already. It's uber fun :)

I can go to UNIVERSITY because I passed NCEA (with Excellence).  

Close call man, close call. Disappointed with biology because the Excellence I thought I would get for Animals and Plants, I got an Achieved. Even more screwed up: I got a freaking Excellence for Evolution. 
Chemistry and Statistics went well. English is always a wild card. Last year I did better than I thought I would. This year I did worse than I thought I did. Physics... yeah, let's not go there. I knew for two of the papers I would get Achieved, but I thought I would have gotten Excellence for Atomic Physics. Let's just say it was the opposite end of the spectrum... well, not to the point that I failed. But meh, at least I have UE because I was considering a polytech course in case I didn't get UE...

OTAGO, HERE I COME! 

Finished 'Dressed to Keel' by Candy Calvert. Interesting mix of romance and mystery, but really, she should have stuck with the romance. I'm not saying that the plot was boring, but it was a little predictable. The lead man, Luke Skyler was hot (hello, the man is smart, wears glasses, has a nice chest and can dance... plus he looks like Matthew McConaughey... like the guy he played in 'The Wedding Planner'... damn, he was so hot in that movie... moving on...). The romance aspect of the plot was fine, but the mystery itself wasn't as polished.

PLOT SPOILERS AHEAD

Halfway through, I had already deduced that Luke was an undercover FBI agent investigating the mysterious jewelery heists and the perpetrators were the Greenbaums. I mean, it became obvious when it was stated that the Greenbaums like living on ships. Uh, okay, strange retirement scheme.

 But, I admired the lead Darcy, and trust me, I have troubles sympathising with the female leads of romances. Mainly because they're dithering idiots, which is somewhat ironic coming from me seeing as I write stuff on fictionpress in the romance genre... 

I also polished off her second book straight afterwards (this was at 12:30am and I had started to read her first one at 10pm). The reason for the crime this time was rather interesting, and the plot was all the more interesting because Darcy's ex was involved. The second one was more humourous, but some minor details smudged. Luke finds out that Darcy kissed her ex and somehow, forgives her after hearing an explanation from Darcy's best friend. Very fluffy, but unrealistic. But then again, the entire plot is rather surreal seeing as it IS fiction. All in all, I think it was an honest attempt at a cross genre book and I will be looking out for the third book. 

Another book in the romance-mystery genre is 'Million Dollar Baby' written by Amy Patricia Meade. The plot was more focused on the crime aspect, rather than the romance. The romance was thrown in there when comical relief was needed, but it was effective nonetheless. The tension between the two leads was very much there, but I thought the author relieved it in a rather lack lustre way -  when the female wasn't in a position (aha, pun unintended) to enjoy it, i.e. when she was feeling low in spirits. However, I don't know if that was the author's intentions because the relationship between the two leads is still very much unresolved at the end, hence prompting the reader to feel the need to read the next book. The mystery aspect of the plot was interesting; it had me guessing, and this time, it took me awhile to work out the guilty party because I was thrown off by a very good plot twist. Already searching out the next book... mainly because I want the two leads to get together.

And now, I am going to read the physiology book and try to decipher how blood pressure works. Fun fun fun.