Lauren Dempster

A sad day for all, I am sure.

I am wearing my Busted t-shirt today as a reminder to everyone that thinks the world of music is now probably a better place.

Just think that now instead of having just Busted we will very soon have Charlie’s new band FightStar. Then of course James will probably continue writing with McFly and then there is Mattie (god knows what he will do)… maybe he’ll have a solo career. So instead of one band, you now have three!!! You know if they do a Destiny’s Child they may well continue on again in a year or two and then there will be 4 Busted type bands…!!!!!

So the music world really is a better place, and I can’t wait.

Feel free to slag me for this, I am aware that I probably deserve it.

Laurenx

I hate rain and I hate wind too. I hate them both, a lot. At the moment they are keeping me captive in Dumfries (plus technically in the house cause it would make my hair go all frizzy).

I tried to leave Dumfries this morning but after a short drive up the A701 ended in huge tailbacks (I’m assuming it was due to a fallen tree), the decision was made to turn back.

On a slight aside note there was a car which on trying to do a 3-point turn had ended up in a ditch and couldn’t get back out. God it was funny. I would like to point out that the driver was not a woman, but a man, before people make the “obvious” assumption.

So here I am back in the house with nothing to do apart from chat to Matt on MSN (who I think is trying to work, and I am just a distraction), annoy my little sister (who is trying to re-read Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix and so I’m not exactly a welcome distraction) and play Chip’s Challenge which I downloaded today for the very purpose I had nothing else to do. Got on to level 27, so far.

Anyway back to Uni soon after a complete break from all things Comp Sci, god I needed that….

Laurenxx

Defintion: (Sometimes shortened to M.G.P.D.) This is a disorder which causes the suffer to become completely obsessed with the sound of their own name. They will use it at every available opportunity, even if irrelevant.

Symptoms: Narrates all of their activities in a dramatic voice. e.g. “Another day, another climactic confrontation with the forces of evil; what Matt Gemmell was born for, baby.”

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This all leads from a conversation I had with Matt the other day. He IS in love with his own name.

However I wouldn’t change anything about him, even if he does suffer from MGPD.
Laurenxxx

Heya folks,

So it’s coming up to the end of the term and my workload is finally starting to slack off a bit, only got one assignment for Friday and the fantabulous C Course with Ron Poet for the rest of the week. I got extremely stressed last week with my PSD team, talk about cutting things close to the deadline…

By popular demand I feel I must blog about last Tuesday (by popular I mean my sister emailed me two days ago saying she was offended I hadn’t posted about the Busted concert) it was fantastic, so much better than I thought it would have been. They played all the classics and I was totally hyper from the moment I got there (which is weird considering the meal we had before I went), even to the point where Lis and I were up and dancing during the adverts shown on the screens! A good night, all live, all good.

Thanks again, to the best little sister in the world, for that. Would also like to thank everyone who turned up for my birthday was an especially good night.

Nothing of note has really happened, lack of disasters in my love life (I suppose if that counts as something rather than the lack of), which almost everyone I know will think rather strange but for the last (almost) two months has become something of normality for me.

I don’t think any of this makes much sense but my head is completely blocked up with the cold, and although I had 8 hours sleep I feel so drained and I have only been up for 2 hours this morning.

Anyway have fun folks, sorry for the ramble,
Laurenxx

By reading this entry (unless of course you are some sort of murderer) you are invited to my birthday night out.

VENUE: Jim’s Bar, QM
TIME: Around 8ish, but I am sure many folk will just go straight after uni, I would too but I have to get changed….
Please come along bring anyone you wish, it should be a lot of fun….

Laurenxx

My little sister Lisa came up to Glasgow last night to see Blink 182, she brought with her my birthday present…

So I opened my first birthday present very early this morning, and no it wasn’t my birthday, it was great!! All people who read this blog will know that I am a HUGE fan of Busted and McFly and what do you think my fantastic little sister had got me for my 20th????

Two tickets for Busted on the 7th of December at the SECC!! I can not wait, not one little bit, getting ready for the event by putting my Busted playlist on repeat on the ipod.

Anyway thanks again Lisa (”You’re so fit…” too, huni), and to her financial backers…mum and dad
Laurenxxx

P.S. sorry for yet another post on Busted and McFly, but hey you are only young once, any people who make any jokes about this will likely get shot in the face.

So this is it I have 4 more whole days of my teens left, what am I doing? I should be out partying, drinking away my last days. I am in fact in the 3rd year lab after 10 on a Sunday night…

Some may say Hardcore, I just say sad. I love this course and most of the folk on it, but god does it take your life away from you…

I feel that by working hard and doing my best I am providing for my future, it’s just that what I seem to have forgotten for now, is that Uni is meant to be some of the best days of your life. Why should I spend all my time locked up in the Boyd Orr building, with my 24 hour access fob?

Then again, is it worth wasting the chance of a good degree for a couple of nights out in the Unions getting plastered??? I’m just not sure anymore… The extreme tiredness and the fact that I never seem to be getting anywhere with all the work I am supposed to be doing is starting to get to me.

I suppose the only choice is to have at least one big night out before the end of term, and what better night than Friday the 3rd of December- my 20th!!! (God I feel old). So since the death of the Shack I will be partying my hardest on Friday night in the QM/GU, possibly both (though not at the same time - obviously) and EVERYONE IS INVITED bring whoever you choose (as many folk as poss), get dressed up and party!!!!! (More details of times and Venues will be posted at a later date) Cause lets face it we all need a big night out, I know I certainly do.

Laurenxxx

The night which I had been looking forward to for some months now did not
disappoint - at all.

It was fantastic, from start to finish the concert showed unbelievably exactly how music should be played live. From the overly camp spandex jumpsuits Justin wore, to the fireworks, to the fake tiger suspended above the crowd with Justin astride playing “Love On The Rocks”, to everything else. It was a magnificent show.

Great music, the sort of stuff you just can’t help playing air guitar along to, although only the hardcore play air guitar with their umbrella (no prizes for guessing who). The crowd went wild for what Justin referred to as their “smash hits”: “I Believe In A Thing Called Love”, “Growing On Me” and “Get Your Hands Off Of My Woman”.

To explain the title of this post, one of the songs they played was “English Country Garden” to which Justin changed most of the lyrics (so basically just when he remembered) to “Scottish Country Garden” which went down especially well with the fans, and the Deep Fried Mars Bars? According to Justin the first arena they played was Nottingham, famous for Sherwood Forest and other things, he said Glasgow, was famous for… Deep frying confectionary. Ah well, he may wear tartan and change English to Scottish in a song, but the dude is still English…

A concert off the back of one Album and one extra Christmas song, could be seen to some as a longshot, but with the sort of show the Darkness put on, even if they never release another album, they’ll be touring for many years to come. I would suggest you go and see them, cause lets face it, no other recent band quite like them.

I’ve been to see three concerts now: McFly, the Stereophonics and now the Darkness, thankfully they have all been fantastic, in different ways I suppose. McFly were just great teen pop, four good looking guys three of which with guitars- what more could a girl ask for? The Stereophonics, classic songs and just a good night all round, the Darkness? Well as you may of guessed I thought they were fantastic. Sorry if this post sort of rambles….

So here’s one dudelet who believes in a thing called love in more ways than one… Thanks to Matt and to The Darkness for that….

Laurenx

Heyo,

I know every person in Glasgow is probably blogging about the complete and utter tragedy that befell our beloved Student Nightclub the SHACK, but I feel I must also do the same.

The Shack may have been an utter cheese-fest but I loved it anyway. I have had many fantastic nights on the dancefloor in the Shack grooving away to Justin Timberlake, Britney Spears and Beyonce, (their mix of “Like I Love You” and “Billie Jean” was fantastic).

The Shack was a damn good night out if you were in the right mood and I wish I just had one last night of dancing there, but alas “the best place in town” is no more.

The Glasgow nightlife will never be the same again…

Laurenx

Colin was playing Pool on the net today on a multiplayer game. The “girl” he was playing with at the time started “chatting” to him. ASL and all that stuff, before starting to say things such as

“I want to cane you” and “If you had MSN I would show you my tits”

A classy chick all round I would say.

She then progressed to say

“I knew you had MSN you dirty little pervert, I’m not showing you my tits.”

Needless to say we gave her someone else’s hotmail account name….

Lauren