Short post is short D:

If I could design a universe, I think I would probably make it identical to ours. Not that I don’t have tonnes of ideas (Totally kept me awake for 4 hours last night thinking about purple rainforests and rabbits that could fly o.o).
“My” universe would be… accepting.

Not of disease, death, other bad things etc., but of other people.
There would be no homophobia, racism, sexism, ageism; no one would judge others for their decisions (even though sexuality isn’t a decision but yeah).

Also, in my universe, Greed doesn’t exist. No one is trying to do “good” things just because they get paid; they’re doing them because they care.
We’ve stopped harming the Earth and started using money that was spent on inconsequential things on trying to restore the rainforests and stop animals dying out.

In my perfect world, everyone is happy, no one is fighting, there is no cruelty of any sort, world suck doesn’t exist and everything is beautiful.
:/

If I could make the world better

So, I don't think I'd want to create a new universe, because I think if I changed where I lived too much it would make a totally different person, and though there are things I'm really not happy with about myself, I wouldn't want to be anyone else. So I'm just going to make some improvements to this universe. I wouldn't have all of these in one universe, I don't really think they overlap well.

Firstly, at age 11 I would of gotten my letter to Hogwarts. This would mean that magic is real. I mean how amazing would that be. Plus, Hogwarts is seriously lacking in Scottish pupils, I don't think there was any in the books, no wait, Oliver Wood was Scottish. But still there needs to be more. I think it would be amazing if magical world was real, I'd really love all of it, the brooms, the robes, like everything.

Secondly, I would like super powers to be real, kind of like in Heroes or Misfits. I'm not saying this because I have one in mind that I would like, I'd be happy with any power, unless it was something really lame like that ability to make perfect toast (actually I really like toast).

But really, if I could change anything about our world to make it better, I'd have a way to create energy that meant we weren't destroying our planet. A way to properly restore the damage done to our rainforests and a way to better prevent the impact of natural disasters. A better way to help rid developing countries of diseases such as malaria and cholera. A away to save animals on the verge of extinction. I would say world peace but I think even if were possible, it's still really unlikely to happen, can you imagine a world we no one stood up for what they thought was right, it's not a place I would want to live in. So, if I could, I'd make our world better.

And now I'm going to go off topic because I have something extra that I want to say, and this is probably the best place for me to say it. In John's latest video he said something and I was like, "that is an awesome quote," 'cause that's the kind of person I am, anyway the quote was:

Caring about stuff binds us to the other people who care about that stuff and that creates the communities that make life worth living.

And it got me thinking about how lucky I am to be part of this community , how much it means to me. It has brought me so many wonderful things, books to read, music to listen to, new TV shows to watch, the pride in saying I'm a nerd, but most importantly the friends to do these things with. I have made some new and awesome friends through nerdfightria, both online (you guys) and IRL. Having nerdfighter friends IRL is still new to me and talking about youtube videos with actual people is still weird, as is totally geeking out about Harry Potter and going into Hamely's to look at the wands and other Harry Potter merch but it's fun. And not only am I part of a community that's about being true to who you are, it does good in the world, we decrease world suck, that makes me more proud to be a nerdfighter. So, yeah, I felt that this was something I wanted to share even though it was off topic, I hope it wasn't too long.

Basically, dragons would make everything better

Dragons.  My universe would have dragons.  Not big mean dragons who come in and ravage villages and steal princesses away.  No no, these are nice dragons that get along well with humans (and other species) and make for good friends.  They're telepathic, of course, so you can communicate with them.  They're also a good means of transportation.  Just hop on your dragon and off you go!  They can travel in space, too, and there are super high-tech space suits, so you can just pop one on and get on your dragon and off you go, to whatever planet you want!  Sometimes it takes a while to get there, but that's okay.  No one's in that much of a hurry anyway.

There are also really good robots that do all the awful jobs that no one wants, so that everyone is free to do whatever they're really passionate about.  Also, money has been abolished, so there's no need to worry about that.  Everything is on a 'take what you need' basis, and it works out alright because there uninhabited planets are used as agricultural centres, so there's always enough food.  Besides which, everyone has had an excellent education and has followed the wonderful example of the kind and peaceful dragons, which means that no one takes more than they need, not to mention that there are no more wars or crime or hate.

Each planet maintains whatever political system it had before, and the leaders of every country (or whatever they have on other planets) come together into a UN-type council to represent the planet to the rest of the universe, and then there are interplanetary and intergalactic committees and everything to make sure it all runs smoothly.  And if they're ever uncertain what to do, they just ask advice from the dragons who are, of course, the wisest creatures ever, and always know exactly what should be done.

So basically my universe is a lot like ours, but with dragons and better technology and people have finally all learned to be nice to each other.

If I could design a universe

Gah, late post, things did not go well yesterday.
(I reorganized this post to make the sentences flow better, I just couldn't stand the look of the structure.)
So, this week I think we're doing the theme of what we would change in the world or if we had our own universe, what type of universe would it be?

I'm going to go with designing a universe, that would be a pretty fun thing to create.

If I could design a universe…

The place would be intergalactic. There will still be Earth, but there’s a plethora of planets with other life forms and civilizations. It’s a pretty diverse and crazy place. Transport can quickly traverse galaxies and there’s a nice little star-train station on Saturn’s rings. Schools have fixed that problem that is ridiculous homework assignments. And the Victorian era is back in style, futuristic style cities and clothes as well, but this universe like the Victorian style too.

There are planets where the surfaces are covered completely in what would be rare and precious stones and metals on Earth. Some are just giant machines where the people have turned their planet into one single engine to travel the stars without leaving home.There's also a planet reserved here for Nerfighteria Island.

The science in this place is so far advanced, but there’s also magic in this universe. People can use wands like Harry Potter, make potions, create fire from thin air, and all sorts of things. It doesn’t go crazy though, here, it’s closely linked to the world of science and it’s difficult to get magic in its pure form. It can break and be separate from some laws of physics but not all of them.

So that’s the basic setting of the place I would choose to live in. I’d go traveling on a star ship as an engineer’s apprentice or something. Engineering is a useful skill because you are useful to other people if you know it, and it might lead to some traveling opportunities, which I enjoy. So that’s what I’d do if I were in that universe. Not sure if I’d get into the magic, but it’d make things a ton more interesting.

It's bigger on the inside!

So I'll be perfectly honest here - I don't really care where or when I would go with the Doctor.

Well, okay, there's one thing I want: I don't want to go into the future. In the words of River Song: "Spoiiilers!"

But other than that, it seems the Doctor find adventure and mystery wherever he goes. And running, all sorts of running (maybe I should hit the gym a little bit before this adventure, eesh). Plus, I'm sure he's aware of all sorts of places that I could never even imagine, so I'd like for him to choose the place and time we went.

As with Kaity, I'd also be interested to explore the TARDIS - we really only see the control room, and I'd like to see what else there is. Also, I wonder if I could convince the Doctor to teach me how to drive it, since that would be the coolest thing ever.

After the ridiculous adventures I'm sure we'd have, righting history and saving the universe and all that jazz, I'd like to go to the library the Doctor visited with Donna (it wasn't destroyed, was it? I'm a little fuzzy on the ending of that episode, but for the sake of this post I'll assume it was intact and safe), meander through the books and listen to the bits and pieces of trivia I'm sure he'd spit out about various authors, works, etc. I guess I'm okay giving in for a few spoilers there :)

the TARDIS post

I thought long and hard about this week’s theme. It’s quite a hard one this week I think; knowing what you’d do if you had free rein of the Doctor’s TARDIS. 

I think the first thing I would do would be to explore the actual TARDIS. I wanna see just how big the library is and have a total nerdgasm over the Doctor’s book collection ><
Also, I wanna see where the swimming pool ended up this time.
 

I don’t think I’d really like to go much into the future. I’d probably get totally jealous of all the cool technology that they have inevitably invented like, the year after I die.

I would really love to go to London in the 1800’s, it’s one of my favourite eras. I’d love to see London chock full of horses and carriages and all the amazing clothes they used to wear. It would also give me a chance to see the London that Dickens saw, and the London that Sherlock Holmes would have seen (you know, if he wasn’t fictional).
 

I would also insist on seeing New York in the 1930’s. I think that it was a city of… conflict(?), what with the massive riches of some and the poverty of others. I think it would teach me a lot about Humanity and humility. Plus, I really, really want to go see the Empire State building being built (Like Martha and the Doctor did – except without all the Daleks). Also I might try and persuade him to take me to a Broadway show.

I think the last place that I would really like to go on Earth would be my own town in the past. I’d want to see it in the 1800s and also maybe the 1200s. Because the history of my town fascinates me and I’d really like to see it first hand.
 

Finally, I’d want him to just fly me anywhere in the entire Universe. I want to see how beautiful it is, but I don’t want him to purposely fly me to the most beautiful place he knows.
 

This is all, of course, if he actually let me on his TARDIS; which totally wouldn’t happen because I’d manage to break it.

edit: Sorry Sophie D:
Totally just realised I accidently stole your title, oopsy.

Take me away in the TARDIS.

So, if that magical blue box appeared in my back garden and The Doctor popped out and asked me to go with him I would say yes, I wouldn't even stop to think.

There are several places and times I'd like to visit, I think The Doctor would probably get annoyed with me making demands all the time.

First I'd like to go back in time to be able to see some of my favourite bands play, like The Clash, that would be my first stop. Then I would want to see Johnny Cash. This would combine my love of Johnny Cash, '50s America and '50s fashion, meaning I'd get to dress up and hopefully get to keep the dress.

Also in Earth's history I'd like to visit the Roman Empire, particularly Roman Britain. I think it would be really interesting to see, I really loved learning about it when I was in primary school and it has always fascinated me and to actually see it right in front of me would be so amazing. And it would be another opportunity for me to dress up.

I'd like to visit Mars. In the future once humans have colonized it. I know in reality Mars is pretty much inhabitable but I hope that one day we will live there and I want to see it. I really hope there's a University of Mars like there was in Futurama because I'd like to go there. Most of all I want to see what our race does with the planet and why we go there. Because of something disastrous on Earth, over population (looking at China) or just because we can?

I'd also like to the end of the Earth, like Nine did with Rose, only I'd like to see it from the TARDIS, looking out of the doors possibly eating some ice cream or popcorn. I know how sad it would be to see the end of my home planet but to know I could always turn back time and see it again would make it better, that and it won't happen for billions of years too.

Of course I expect there to be lots adventures during all of this and an awful lot of running.

A Trip on the TARDIS

To answer the initial question of yes/no: Yes.  A million times yes.  I couldn't imagine saying no.

As for where and when I would want to go, that answer comes in three parts.

Part one: My real absolute most honest answer is that I would want to go somewhere and somewhen so amazing, so fantastic, so unbelievably incredible that it's outside the realm of anything I could ever even imagine on my own.  I would want to have such a magnificent adventure that it would really actually be beyond my wildest dreams.  Although this is my true answer, there's not much more to say about it, and what I've written so far is not very interesting to read and doesn't make for much of a blog post.  This is why there are two more parts.

Part two:  Place/time from the show that I would most want to go.  Given that I've only seen the new series, and not even all of that, yet, my options are somewhat limited.  I think my choice would have to be New Earth, though.  Erm, the nice top part with the apple grass, not the undercity part with the Macra.  It just seemed so idyllic and beautiful and wonderful.  I would like to explore more of the planet.  I'm assuming there were probably New versions of everywhere, not just New New (New New New New New New New New New New New New New New) York, so I'd like to see the New versions of the places I know and how they've been changed and reimagined and whether or not anything of their 21st century versions are still recognizable in them.

Part three:  Time in earth's history I'd like to visit.  So many options!  I'm very tempted by things like dinosaurs and Ancient Greece, but I think I'm going to have to say Renaissance Italy.  There's just so much happening at that time, and there were so many great geniuses going around saying wonderful things and creating beautiful things and it would all be so exciting.  I think it would lovely.

I'm Going to Steal the TARDIS

Okay, this week we're going to be talking about what we would do if given the chance to travel with the Doctor. Yes, no, where, when, any montsers, how about running? Stuff like that.

So what if the chance were presented? Certainly, yes! Yes, I would jump at that chance. Where? We are going to Mars, not to mess with Ice Warriors or dangerous water zombies, no, I just want to go there to say I've been there, we can go some place else after wards. What follows will include a really, really vague account of what will happen.

We will fight forty-two monsters in forty-two adventures on forty-one planets, because you know there's going to be at least one accidental repeat planet, most likely Earth. I'm not counting Earth in my quest to make everything be answerable with forty-two.

Did the planet that the Vinvocci are from ever get named? Because I would like to go there. However, Definitely going to the future, anywhen and anywhere more than 200 years into the future. I really want to see how far technology advances and all the places we end up. We will then find something suspicious going on that the Doctor believes to be unfitting to the scene, I will probably not notice what with me being an airhead gazing at everything and not knowing what ought or ought not to fit into the scene. There's also a shady fellow who stands awkwardly in the corner and seems connected to the suspicious thing. The shady man will notice that the Doctor noticed him and scamper off.

This suspicious thing is affecting the public in a negative fashion and the Doctor points out that it must be stopped. So we go to investigate it. This investigation leads us to what may be the source of the suspicious thing and then there's some crazy stuff, dramatic stuff, action-y stuff, the Shady Guy is actually another guy's pawn, and the Doctor wins!

A total of four people will die, because people always die, one in the very beginning, two in the middle of all the events and Shady Guy will have some sort of epiphany that makes him help the Doctor but kills Shady Guy in the process. This is only four out of five or six significant people related to the events.

Does that sound like a vague enough Doctor Who episode? Throw in some humans and humanoid-amphibian aliens all over the planet, a crablike villain and make the suspicious thing some chemical in the water supply. Then the event is more specific.

I would go nowhere near Alfalva Metraxis, having contacts makes me blink a lot.

So that's what I would do if I got to travel with the Doctor. Probably not very interesting, and I'd probably just spend most of the time wanting to explore Mars. I love Mars. If I just get to go to Mars, that would be enough for me.

It's hard to deliver on a name like that

Yes, the town I live in is called Paradise. Also yes, there are constant jokes from natives about how it doesn't quite live up to the name (but then again, it would be pretty difficult to fully live up to a name like that).

This area was originally nicknamed Poverty Ridge, and derives its current name from the Pair O' Dice Saloon which is no longer around, though you can occasionally see people with Pair O' Dice sweatshirts (that never really caught on though.)

Paradise is highly dichotomous. Generally the population consists of either people who have come here to retire, or teenagers who can't wait to leave. I'm sure there must be some middle aged folks around here to parent those teenagers, but you won't often see them around.

There's a large amount of chain stores and fast food places, but on occasion you can find a nifty little side shop or family owned restaurant. For instance I happen to live right across from a fantastic Chinese place... as well as a Jack in the Box.

One thing you can't fault Paradise for is all of the greenery, not only because it's in the middle of a forest, but because there are plenty of beautiful parks. Where a railroad used to run up into the mountains there's now a bike path that, if you put up with the hills, offers a lovely peaceful walk (except around 3:00 pm where it runs by the high school - I highly recommend avoiding that area, for small mobs of bored mountain kids are nothing to be trifled with).

Paradise has not lived up to its name, and possibly never will - with limited space for development due to geographic placement; a strong distaste for any sort of change from the status quo; and a distrust, though waning slightly, for any of those "hippie" values of social justice or non-chain restaurants/stores - but it is, after all, home.

The history of my town is fascinating.

It was first mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086 as Daltune, the capital of the area. It became a prosperous town in the 1100s, thanks to the Cistercian monks of the nearby Furness Abbey.
It gained a Royal Charter in 1239, which allowed it to hold a weekly market and annual fair, but after the dissolution of the monasteries in 1537 the town’s fortunes declined dramatically and it wasn’t until the 1800s when iron ore was discovered in the area.

St Mary’s Church was built in the 1880s, there is a plaque in the churchyard marking the mass grave of all the Bubonic Plague victims (1631-1632).  The famous painter, George Romney is also buried here; as he was born and grew up in this town.

Dalton castle is a Pele tower built in the 1300s by the Abbot of Furness Abbey to protect the town against Scot’s raiders.
There are a number of tunnels leading from the castle’s dungeon to various places around the town, including the oldest pub in the area, the abbey itself and also to the church, there was another tunnel found a few years ago; they haven’t managed to follow it all the way though.

Furness Abbey was founded in 1123 by Stephen, King of England (grandson of William the Conqueror) in the “Valley of the Deadly Nightshade” (I am totally not making that up)
It was the 2^nd most powerful and influential Cistercian Abbey in England, until it was destroyed in 1537 by Henry VIII’s English Reformation.
The Abbey might not be around much longer :/ It’s slowly sinking into the ground because the masons who built it used Oak timbers for the foundations, and after over 600 years, they’re gradually starting to give way.

  Boring post today guys, as always ><
The only interesting thing about my town is the history though, so yeah.

My town is old, like really old.

So, as I mentioned I'm from Scotland, I've lived here all my life. The village I grew up in is actually the oldest continually lived in settlement in Europe (I think), it has been lived in since around the stone age, and most of the people who live there haven't evolved much since, I'm just kidding. The village I grew up in is just outside a town on the west coast by the sea, and as nice as that sounds, it is a dump. Perhaps that's my Scottish pessimism but it is really awful. It's small town were most people are unemployed and are in a really bad place, most people leave school at 16 (which is legal here in Scotland I'm not sure if it's same in England), although more people are staying on but only because there's no jobs. I know that other people love where there from but I don't, I mean there are parts of it I like, such as family and friends and few select places, but there's not much.

Having said that though Robert Burns, the famous poet, lived in my town for a while and we're quite proud of that, the house which he stayed in is now a museum, a really very small one at that. We also have a festival every year in August called Marymass, the origins of this festival aren't really know but it's between two stories. The first is that Mary Queen of Scots was travelling and she made a stop here and stayed in the castle of our town and thus we held a festival for her, or in my opinion the more likely origin is that it was to celebrate the Virgin Mary, obviously at the time the festival was created in the middle ages Christianity was big, so it wouldn't be that much of a stretch to come to that conclusion, particularly if you pull apart the word, Mary mass, I don't really remember much else about that origin but the last time I was told it I was ten so, yeah. Basically though, the festival consist of a parade with the Marymass Queen and her Marys in a horse pulled carriage and floats, the shows (carnival rides), donkey races and the greasy pole (a pole covered in grease with a ham at the top and teams try to climb the pole to win the ham). So I guess my town isn't that bad now that I think about it.

I was going to write maybe a little about Glasgow but I already mentioned that in my last blog so I think I might leave it at that. Also, please excuse my over use of brackets.

Not paradise, but it'll do

As I mentioned before, I grew up in rural Nova Scotia, but I moved to Halifax almost four years ago.  The house I grew up in was surrounded by hay fields, and there was a forest just beyond one of them, which had a perfect little skating pond in the outskirts of it.  Inside the forest were more hayfields, which were perfect sledding hills, and there were the foundations of old old old houses that I used to explore.  Our lawn was full of perfect climbing trees, and we had an old barn that still smelled like hay and animals.  My next door neighbours owned horses, and I could smell the ocean from home.  It was paradise.

So I'm not much of a city person.  It's noisy.  There are no trees, no birds, no animals.  The ocean is a good twenty-five minute walk away.  Everything smells like cars and the buildings clutter up both my wide open spaces and my beautiful blue sky.  Although I do like being within walking distance of everything, and the city does provide more opportunities for people-watching.

That said, I guess as far as cities go, Halifax is probably a pretty good one.  At least we have an ocean, and there are little pockets here and there that are sort of like real places - parks and graveyards and such that at least have trees and flowers and things.  We have the second-largest natural harbour in the world, and if you get up to take pictures of it at sunrise it looks like this:

Which is totally worth it.  Halifax also has a pretty fantastic music scene, although I don't take advantage of that nearly as much as I should.  We also have a bunch of fantastic festivals, like the Halifax Jazz Festival, and International Buskers Festival (the largest one in the world), the Royal Nova Scotia International Tattoo (the world's largest annual indoor show), and a lot of others.  I'm always inordinately proud when my small city has the best and biggest in the world of anything, as you can probably tell.  There's also a really fantastic farmer's market, and the best used bookstore in the world (the one I mentioned in my last post).  So even if it isn't paradise, there are plenty of upsides that get me through until I can move back to my nice rural areas. :)

There's a Ghost Woman on the Beach

Hello! So this week our theme is going to be the places we're from. I found out I had a lot more to say than I thought I did and had to cut lots of stuff out of this.

I am from the planet Earth, it is the third planet from the star Sol with a distance of around 149,000,000 km between the two bodies, it has a mass of 5.9 x 10²⁴kg an- nevermind.

I was born in Jordan and we lived there for a little bit. After that we moved to Seoul, Korea and I lived there for about four years. Finally, after Korea I lived in Saudi Arabia for a year until I moved to America. I don't always know how I should talk about where I'm from. I can't be from the places I grew up but I'm supposed to be from the place I only moved to.

I'm on the Cape Cod area of Massachusetts, named after the cod fish, of which there are surprisingly very few. We've got beaches and lighthouses and an oyster festival. When there are strong winds and storms, you can hear the crashing waves on the sand form miles away. The winters are cold, wet and warm all at the same time. The area is full of marshes, dunes and trees, all protected by the National Seashore. Google images of Cape Cod, there are some very nice ones.

We have some ghost stories around here, too. I was told one a long time ago by some women. And it's what I think of when I think of the Cape.

According to the ladies who told me the story one Halloween, there was a man named 'Black' Sam Bellamy, he was in love with a young local girl named Maria Hallett. One day, Sam left to find a way to support her and himself so that they could live a life together, apparently by going to hunt for treasure. Unfortunately, he was unsuccessful in this and turned pirate while out on the seas. His crew called themselves "Robin Hood's Men" and he was rather generous for a pirate, they captured and robbed many ships under Sam gaining great amounts of wealth. Eventually he captured an English Slave ship named the Whydah. It was then that he decided it was time to return with his fortunes to young Maria Hallett.

Unknown to Sam, Maria had been kicked out of town for having his child while being unwed and had taken to living on the shore and watching the seas for his ship to appear on the horizon. As Sam approached the Cape a Nor'easter hit and sunk the Whydah right off the coast, drowning Sam and his crew in April, 1717. Maria never saw Sam return, today her ghost is still walking the shores waiting for her lover to come home to her. I love that story.

That's where I'm living right now, I could tell you stories about the places I lived before I moved to the US, but Cape Cod is where I'm living until I move again so at the moment it's the most relevant.

Finally, I wrote this hastily so my paragraph and sentence structure must be painful to read.
Apologies. Please forgive me.

The things I love

(Ack! I'm so sorry guys, my internet has been wonky since Thursday. On Friday I was able to actually get to blogger and start this post, and then the internet cut back out again.)

I love sitting inside wrapped in a blanket and drinking tea while it's raining outside.

I love making something beautiful out of what someone else might have considered trash (these were made out of magazine pages)I love that time of year when the flower blossoms are just starting to come out, and there's just a hint of hope that the world won't be frozen forever.
Two words: rainbow toe-socks. While they clash with everything, the point isn't for them to be seen; the point is that I know I'm wearing something bright and energetic and it is my own little secret.

As a knitter and a baker, I love the look of well done knitting and the smell of yeast.

As I get closer to my college graduation, I've really started to love being silly. I've been so focused on growing up and trying to appear older than I am that I forgot that it's good to laugh and enjoy myself.

I love a good to-do list. I don't always love doing the items on it, but there's something fulfilling about feeling like everything I need to do is mapped out and organized - though life is rarely so clean cut and easily defined. Maybe that's why I like it.

I love the very beginning of a trip, when it is full of possibilities and I'm looking forward to it. And I look forward to my return home, when I've had a chance to recharge but suddenly find myself appreciating my surroundings much more after a little time away.

On that note, I'm about to go to the city for spring break! Woohoo! This does mean I won't be able to be active in our discussion of what we want our theme for next week to be, and part of why this entry is so short. The other reason is that my internet has been wonky for the last 24 hours, and is still a bit patchy.

See all of you next week!

Titles are definitely not one of my favourite things.

I think the first thing I should mention, in this post of all my favourites, is music.
My favourite music is not limited by genre. I like all types of music. But my absolute favourite songs are songs which alter your emotions. Songs with lyrics that are so haunting that you just want to share them with the world, songs with beats that have you tapping your feet unconsciously, songs that raise your spirits, or lower them. I can sit in awe, listening not to the instruments, but to the vocals. To the words that they are giving me, to the emotions that are buried in the song. Those, to me, are amazing songs, and I am in awe of the incredibly talented musicians that create them.

Another important aspect of my favouritism is books. I love books. Again, I don’t have a favourite genre (though I am partial to detective/mystery novels). My tastes in books are similar to my tastes in music. Books, to me, have the ability to convey deeper emotion, as they don’t abide to the same rules as lyrics. Books which can teach you something about yourself, or can convey the emotions of its characters so powerfully that you are immersed in this fictional word painted in your mind’s eye, are my favourite books. I love the smell of the pages and the shapes of the letters on the paper. I also have a strange habit of flicking the pages with my thumb, it’s weird and unconscious but I’ve always done it.
(Feel free to recommend me books to read!)

Other favourite of mine include:
- Chocolate. My favourite snack of all time and something of which I eat far too much.
- Relentless (an English energy drink). I drink far too much of this; I’m naturally hyper anyway.
- My dad’s homemade cannelloni. It’s a Bolognese sauce poured over pasta tubes stuffed with mushroom sauce. I am totally going to post the recipe on here because it is AMAZING.
- Travelling. This year I am visiting my friends in Toronto and seeing a brilliant band live. I’m also travelling up to Glasgow/East Kilbride for a few days to meet my friend who lives there.
- Cities. I’m moving to London next year for University (hopefully!). I’ve only visited London twice for a few days, but I think moving from my small town in the north, to the capital city will give me the inspiration to be a better person. I hope.

To end this entirely too long post; I am going to tell you the thing I love most.
My favourite thing in the entire world has got to be being a human being. We’re a miracle of evolution. It leaves me in awe that I was given this voice, this personality, this body. One day, I hope I can use my voice to make a difference and make the Earth a better place for all the people waiting to be born.

A few of my favourite things

I've made a little list to help me remember the things I like and pick the most blog worthy to make this worth reading. Like Sarah, there are a lot of things I dislike but I'm going to focus on the things I do like.

Glasgow, in my opinion it's the best city in the world. Before I moved here coming up was always something I looked forward to. I love just walking around, my neighbourhood, the city centre, the westend, by myself or friends, it's a beautiful city. It's great for shopping and has an amazing music scene. I think its also a city full of contradictions, the funniest I think being that it was voted both Europe's most dangerous city and friendliest city but regardless I still like it.

I really love music. I was brought up listening to all sorts of music and I mainly influenced by my dad's taste in music. I really love The Clash, The Smiths, Freelance Whales, The Beatles, We Are Scientists, The Decemberists and whole load of Scottish indie pop and a bit of the top 40. My favourite thing about music is when you buy a new album and you listen to it for the first, I always have to listen to with my headphones the first time. I love having the actual physical album too, I really love reading the lyric booklet and looking at the photos in it.

I love to travel, I've not done much of it but I plan on doing more soon. I really like travelling by train, I don't know why, I think I find it relaxing, I like looking out the window and watching the scenery whiz pass me.

I'm a big art nerd, so drawing is one of those things I really can't live without. My room is filled with sketchbooks from college and sketchbook journals, paper, pens, pencils, paint, just about everything art related you could think of.

And last but not least, I collect quotes. I know it's quite an odd thing to do but I do it. I did it for a while before I actually realised what I was doing. Part of my wall is steadily being covered by yellow post-its with quotes on them. I find most of them by just looking around the internet but quite a few are from books I've read. I think I like quotes because they say a lot about a person, the one being quoted and the one reading it. Right now one of my favourite quote is, "Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death" by Harold Wilson.