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Well people, it's now Friday. And I go back on Monday. Ah. *attempts to distract you with awesome Doctor Who gif.*

5 Things To Do Over The Holidays

Well, it's Easter once again - at least it was last week - and when you go to school in France that means a two week holiday! Yes, that's right, you carcasses fit for dogs! (I'm trying out Shakespearean insults, just bear with me) I, Sophie 'Spud Girl'* Morgan have had a week off, and today begins my second week of luxury and far too much fan fiction for the brain to bear! I have, however, decided to make sure I do at least five interesting/stimulating/insanely stupid things THIS week, and so those three computer keys will not have pinged off my computer in vain.
                                                                                                                                                                           
1 - Research, write, and publish at least one web essay about Sherlock Holmes. NOTE: Theme should not be how brilliant it is. It could involve something to do with an obscure fact that the Conan-Doyle haters have picked up on. Do I know any obscure facts (apart from the Sigerson Conundrum)? Maybe Holmes hates ducks or something. I could definitely write about Holmes hating ducks.
                                                                                                                                                                        
2 - Exercise at least once a day. May seem obvious, but it's surprisingly easy to let the day pass blogging what you're going to do instead of doing it. NOTE TO SELF: Should I write a post about this?
                                                                                                                                                                         
3 - Launch an investigation in to why some people feel the need to walk around with their pants around their knees. Why do they do this? They sound like a lot of mammering beetle-headed clack-dishes to me.
                                                                                                                                                                                  
4 - Watch Downfall and improve my knowledge of the last days of Nazi Berlin.
                                                                                                                                                                                   
5 - Learn at least five cockney expressions. I already know 'Would you Adam and Eve it!' and that cigarettes are called 'Salmon' (No, I don't know why.) so just three more to go.
                                                                                                                                                                                  
I will be updating on these I expect, and I'd love to hear your thoughts (I will post my Holmes essay too).

Happy Holidays, you beslubbering clapper-clawed dewberries!


* I was not nick-named 'Spud Girl' because I looked like a potato. I do not look like a potato. It's a long story and I'll write a post on it.

KONY 2012

Wow. I feel cheated. 

I was about to spend 30 dollars of my life savings (100 pounds) on an action kit. 

Maybe I’m massively naîve about charities, but the word’s radical ‘charity’ seems pretty suggestive. Maybe there’s nothing wrong with Kony 2012, and I’d love to believe that: but I think there must be something more about this - in layman’s terms - it’s a bit fishy.

At the same time I don’t want to dismiss this project - there’s a deadline to this thing and if I can help, then I want to be involved.

I’d say wait and see except -

Lets just wait and see.

Of Doctor Who, Bridget Jones, and High Fatalities.

Doctor Who is just great, isn't it? It's incredible! You just sit there, watching the expressions on their faces. It's so awesome it hurts. It decreases worldsuck by at least eighty-two and a half percent! Is incredible! Is repetition! Am writing like Bridget Jones! I hereby propose a paper be written analyzing the probability and prevention of Death By Awesome. This fail safe will be necessary when Nerdfighteria conquers the rest of the Earth and Doctor Who becomes a compulsory part of the curriculum. Fatalities will be rare. Thank you.
Sophie Tegan Morgan, Future Director Of Nerdfighterian Awesome

Nothing actually interesting happens where I live. I go on Nerdfighters.com (highlight!), go to school, get stared down by popular bitches, not fancy anyone, and desperately NEED NERDFIGHTER T SHIRTS!
You'd think there'd be a lot of stuff around my life - moved to France, trying to learn French, living in a village in the middle of nowhere; (That was my attempt at sarcasm. It's a nice village though. I have architechture! Beat that beswimmingpooled luxury homes with the sea or even just a local shop so you don't have to cycle a mile whenever you feel like a drink!) but as I say, there isn't really anything. Or at least, that's what the people here think. They don't know I have a double life - geeky bespectacled girl by day, Nerdfighter by night. Sometimes I think I'm really sad - maybe that's true if you think about it. I have no human friends. There is never a Nerdfighter gathering near where I live. But hey! Who actually cares about that? And it certainly means I have time to work on my plan for world domination...
Don't worry, nerds. Thou Shalt Be Spared.

Family Guy: A Force For Good?

This post was as bad as a slightly unkind turkey.  

The writer has removed it.

Austen's World

In ITV's charming comedy 'Lost In Austen' Amanda Price tell us that she is 'In love with the manners, the courtesy;' of Jane Austen's world and it's certainly understandable why. When you compare the rules and manners of love of that period with that of ours one finds ours suitably lacking in tact and, courtesy - and Pride and Prejudice is essentially a love story. I'm inclined to write a Bridget Jonesesque list of dating rules; 'No fuckwittage allowed.' 

Lost In Austen is a refreshing look at the world in her time - especially set to the contrast of Amanda's. It shows an almost all consuming passion for a world that doesn't even exist, and Elliot Cowan's performance as Darcy is brilliant in it's own right. If ever the BBC remake their timeless series, I'm rooting for him as the lead.

Darcy and Elizabeth's love story comes from conflict, and Lost in Austen is like an amplified version.

Not to mention uproariously funny.

The Ball at Netherfield