Correspondence

Hello everyone!

I ordered The Perks of Being a Wallflower the other day and the book arrived today. I haven't read it before or seen the film so I hope its as great as everyone says! I'll be honest - the main reason I wanted to buy it was to see what all the fuss is about of course but also because I love the front cover! I also wanted to include my little journal in the picture because the cover is covered with cats and I thought it was cute. 

Instead of taking pictures though I should probably being tidying up this mess...

I'm back at school now and I've been tying up a few loose ends in English. My dissertation is completely finished and as of today has been sent to the SQA to be marked. Its worth 40% of my final grade so here's hoping I've done a good job!

I'm sending a copy of my dissertation to my great aunt Marion who lives in Arran ( http://www.visitarran.net/ ) since she has always encouraged me with English and all my other subjects.

 

If you're bored, which you probably are if you're reading this, then have a look at my tumblr - http://sooooophiemcnaughton.tumblr.com/ or my instagram - http://instagram.com/sophieee__xo 

 

Sophie x

 

The Sunday Blues

Hi everyone!

So my schools been off for two weeks for the Easter holidays and we go back tomorrow. I'm excited to go back to see everyone and I'm getting quite bored of being off anyway but I'm also dreading it because I have a mountain of homework to tackle and an early start tomorrow. So I've been getting those all too familiar Sunday Blues and being constantly reminded of the crushing knowledge that tomorrow is Monday. I hate Mondays.

So in preparation for going back to school, I've been taking pictures for my photography project, which is visual elements within food...

I've photographed Harbio Starmix sweets...

and pancakes with golden syrup, hmmm! 
























I have a few more shoots which I'll hopefully get done and dusted today.


And of course I've been procrastinating as much as humanly possible on Tumblr...

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As well as watching the Addams Family...

 

 

I have my photography work and a lot of biology homework to get through today so I'll be locked away in my room until its all finished. I always leave everything until the last minute, I don't think I'll ever learn. Probably not the best attitude since I'll (hopefully) be studying at university soon. Oops.

Back to school tomorrow but only for around 13 days I think, then secondary school is over for good. Its getting a bit scary now...

Sophie x

Paramore!

Hey guys!

I'm so happy because Paramore's new album is finally out and I finally have a copy! I went to see Paramore when they played in Glasgow at the SECC in 2009 and I've been (quite impatiently) waiting for a new album since then. They're early stuff brings back a lot of memories from 5/6 years ago and its hitting home now that the school chapter of my life will be over soon. Paramore were my favourite band when I started secondary school and songs like Fences and That's What You Get bring back so memories from the summer after my first year at secondary. So I'm reverting back to my 12/13 year old self and fangirling a little bit that I have 17 new songs to listen to.



This is a picture from the video for Still Into You, which is probably one of my favourite of their music videos. I love the boat floating amongst balloons and Hayley's styling! I also love Hayley's tights in this picture, does anyone know where I can get a similar pair?

I'll admit this post has been just me fangirling but I highly recommend the new album, in fact all their albums! Give them a listen if you haven't already. :)

Sophie x

 

To Do List!

Hey guys!

Well that's one thing off the to do list, my dissertation for adv. higher English is officially finished! Yaaay!

My dissertation was on how successfully Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and Robert Louis Stevenson's The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde convey Gothic characteristics to portray the complexities of human nature, a bit of a mouth full.
It was good studying the texts and writing the dissertation but I am so happy and relieved to have it all done! In English now I can just concentrate on getting my essays up to the highest grades I can get in time for the exam and work on my creative writing folio.

The rest of the things on my to do list in time for going back to school next week after the Easter holidays are:

• Finish my shoots for photography
• Fix my research plan for photography
• Tape down and annotate the pictures I already have in my folio book for photography
• Reply to my choices on UCAS... which I'll be leaving until the very last minute since I still can't decide what response I'm giving to each university yet - oops, a bit unorganised I know.

Now I'm just sitting waiting for my dinner and watching sponge bob with my cat. You're never too old for sponge bob, well in my opinion anyway.

Sophie x

UCAS Headache!

Hey guys!

I haven't posted since November last year but I've changed the blog a bit and I'm going to try and post a lot more regularly and use this as an outlet for writing (rambling) when I start uni in September.

Its only just hit home that a lot of things are going to be changing soon as I only have two weeks of secondary school left before I finish my exams and leave for good. In a way, I'm so excited to be leaving and I can't wait to meet new people and to be studying full time what I love rather than having four different subjects crammed into one day. I'm also so excited to be going to Glasgow every day (I'm saying that now but I'll be crying when I have to get up at six in the morning). I'm excited for fresher's week and I'm even for the little things like getting a student card and being able to wear what I want instead of a uniform every day.

But on the other hand, I'm also panicking. I'm panicking because I feel to an extent that I'm a little to young to be making decisions that could potentially affect the rest of my life. I'm scared of leaving school, a place that's been a familiar and comfortable place full of friendly faces for so long, and never going back. I'm worried that I'll lose touch with my friends and that we'll all be living miles away from each other and eventually drift apart. I'm scared that I won't be capable of the workload and the standard required at university and as I have one unconditional and three conditional offers, I'm also scared that I won't even get in to my first choice uni in the first place. I'm also desperately avoiding ucas like the plague since I'm still unsure what reply to select for each of my offers.

I'm starting to get nervous because almost every aspect of my life is going to be dramatically changing soon - but its good scared (if there's such a thing). I'm looking forward to being thrown in to the chaos and confusion of being a new undergraduate who knows no-one in a huge, fairly strange city and starting a new chapter.

I realise this has been more of a rant than an interesting blog worth reading but I promise I'll improve! I'll keep you guys updated on whether things fall apart or fall into place.
Love Sophie x