heres my last 2 kt tunstall vids, i just figured i would post them all here so you can see, in the top one she is playin the drums and in the one underneath she is doin a flamin lips cover
p.s the other one i posted got 190 views and fiddle fest got 60, plus me long boardin got 50, im gonna be famous !

we sit on front porches and swing life away

ok so this is my flat/apartment...whatever you kids are callin it these days ! i took it with my new camera so the original video is really good quality but when i uploaded it to the net it got pixelated...so enjoy x

spread your wings before they fall apart

hello, sorry iv not updated, i have no excuse ! everything here is still great and it just got even better because my new digital camera arrived this morning and it is beautiful ! so i have taken a vid of my flat which il post on here, but since im writing this now it will be above here so u have probably already watched it :) spent $80 at the post office yesterday just posting things...no the best. after that i went to henrys and chilled out, oh no thats a lie i went to henrys first. and before that i bought ani difranco tickets so that rocks. Then i met katarina for some food, had a fajhita burrito at chipoltle it was really good :D i have so much work to do this weekend, including a 10page group project !! ooo and we have a fruit fly infestation...il post a pic of that too, rhonda made a trap and its worked REALLY well so she is a genius. dont have anything planned for tomorrow except for a library sesh. then at night we are having a few drinks in the flat, bonding and the like :)....but il be careful with my camera !

dogtown and the z girl

I managed to upload some videos, im a genius ! this first one is me longboarding (whilst sitting) in South park last sunday

under this national rain cloud

KT Tunstall video, still got some pics to post but the video gives you the full effect :)

bamoram woah black betty

cheerleaders at the first football game

all hail to old KU

this is not katarinas real voice !just a random video from the start of the football

black horse and a cherry tree

another KT video

fiddle fest !

a long awaited performance from the fiddle fest !

suddenly i see

KT Tunstall signed my flag and i got a signed picture ! she wrote "big love, woo hoo" on the flag and signed it and i got a signed pic. so chuffed, was an ace concert LOVE IT :D also the support act - Kevin Devine was amazing and probably better than her, he was really ace. Hes coming back here november so im def going to see him again (and debi you can come too) plus five for fighting and sia are playing here....i cant even deal ! gonna buy ani difranco tickets tomorrow i think :) anway its pretty late but i just had to tell someone cos when i got back no one was in :o i have a gazillion pics cos rhonda lend me her camera but i cant get them up right now, il post them asap though cos they are ace :D

throw me a rope

this is the smallest map in the world, its of my uni campus and i wrote on it but it just wont go any bigger ! got a lot of work to do right now and a class soon so this is just a short post to say im trying. bought a digital camera online, il email you the details mum and dad. gotta go, bub bye x

what if i ripped your heart apart at the seams maybe then you would know how i feel

sorry about the depressing title but i went to the sugarcult gig last night and the spill canvas, hallifax and moneen were supporting. the spill canvas were amazing. i love them so much, and i found out that they recorded there 2nd album here in lawrence ! how cool is that. the music scene here is just unbelieveable, in the coming month the future heads, imogen heap, ani difranco, kasabian and other bands i cant remember are all coming here ! who said kansas was a sleepy old dusty town. even if i had a bad year id be totally chuffed with the music i have seen. so yeh the lyric is from the spill canvas- all hail the heartbreaker, and it says in a ridiculously emo way how it feels to be living in america when everyone you love is back in scotland. But dont worry im coping just fine :) dont go worrying about me.

the weather just now is so perfect, like the first few days of summer at home when its sunny and hot but the air is fresh and not all clammy and humid like it normally is here. got a class at 1:30 and its 12:30 right now so i figure i should leave soon.

its really annoying cos all my music is just on my ipod and not on my laptop so i cant burn cds for people or get all the benefits of the new itunes. maybe for christmas il ask for an external hard drive with all my music on it :D that would be nice !

just gonna post this now so i can phone my mum and dad but il be right back !

i know that its a wonderful world from the sky down to the sea...

hey ratfans. sorry for leaving it so long between updates but il make up for it by making this one really long...cos i know you all love it ! the reason i haven't managed to update till now is cos iv had 3 tests and a 3 page paper due this week...whats that all about. they sure do work you hard here. But i got an A for last weeks product development homework and for my film production test on wednesday so im pretty chuffed with this system. its kind of better cos it takes all the pressure of my main exam. like for product development the actual final exam is only worth 5% of my grade ! so as it is 12:40 in the afternoon here my weekend has officially started and has been started for around about 25 minutes. got some work to do...by some i mean aorund 1million pages to read for all my subjects. but right now im just doing some well earned chilling...and that includes being a bit slack with my grammar and spelling, more so that usual. cos i have a lot to say and im just gonna spill it out

ok so i still have some pictures of my birthday to put up here, i only have ones of my cake and stuff in the flat cos i forgot to take my camera when i left, but il post them up after this unless something more exciting happens and i go off and do that.

ok mum and dad look away ! jsut kidding you can read on but only cos im in america and i got 2 As so u cant be mad !on satuarday i went to my 2nd ever tailgate...it started well but for some reason i desided to drink a whole bottle of rum through the course of the day. this is not wise. the rum is 35% proof and comes in a 75cl bottle. so after talking to a police man for around an hour, with said (illegal in this country) rum in my hand i found my self in replay. do not worry i was not alone, and phillipa and katarina were practically sober and also talking to the police man, phillipa even managed to get his business card ! i have some pics of him too including one of his gun and badge which il post up in due course. so i got into replay by saying my date of birth on my drivers lisense was my national insurance number and my date of issue was when i turned 21. easy peasy lemon squeezy. now heres the tradgedy....i dropped my camera in a pint of beer....its getting better everyday but its still a little drunk. the initial pics i took were blurred but it is getting better with time, although i think i may have to hand it in somewhere so they can have a look, just not sure where, dad ?!

so thats the big news over with, didnt do much on sunday, went back to that place where u get the huge pizza slices with katarina. this whole week iv pretty much stayed in every night to prepare for tests and write my paper. i even got up on tuesday morning at 5:30am to revise for my test at 8am....thats unheard off i know. i think these americans are having an effect on me !

finally got all my post. the stupid stupid annoying people that work here had had 1 of my parcels since the 23rd of august !!! and they only told me on the 11th of september...i mean it dont take much, just shove a wee bit paper in my mailbox. so out of order. meant i only just got my birthday present from debi now ! but now i have some cool sock - which are far too hot for this climate ! a beautiful hand crafted wallet and a cool necklace :) loving it. its debis birthday today, think she is out celebrating as i type this, in her amazing new t shirt i posted over from the cool vintage shop here :)

just listening to some james morrison right now, hes so good.(dad you would like him, get it downloaded :)) this entry may well take up the whole page like. oo in other news - the linolium on our kitchen floor is all ripped up cos wen miss kansas was here she made the tiny little tear worse and ripped it right up. so they said for ages they were gonna fix it and then yesterday we got a letter and it seys, yeh we'll fix it but it will take us 2 weeks, in which time ul have to move out to tower A...this is seriously the smallest piece of lino ever. we are outraged. so hopefully if we go down and tell them not to bother we wont have to move out.

all in all im feeling pretty good this week, i totally hit a lul last week, they sed that would happen at all the meetings though - like after about a month u would kind of start to miss home. didnt really help that that co incided with my birthday. but since then iv been on a little bit of a high despite having a lot of work to do.

i think il leave it there for now, but il get some pics up soon x

i want to go to the seaside

hello, i was at a 2 keg party last night and it was pretty ace. i got a cup for only $1 cos i was scottish (everyone else had to pay $5!) so i had a few beers after some of my mandarin vodka i got for my birthday :) anyway heres some pics. think i might go tailgating again today but it looks like its going to rain so im not sure.

having some drinks in party cups before we left, made a special effort to include emilys bag which was full of french !

this is the magical place where inverness meets wimbledon !

this is rhonda trying to get a pic of philippa at the sign without the stop sign reflecting all the light !

this can only be explained as me posing! but its a real army mans hat !

and posing with friends !

FOOTBALL !

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booya !

hey, heres some pics from the football, not sure why some of them have descided to be small but if you click on the last 2 then all the other ones are there bigger :) This is me emily and rhonda, check out rhondas kusi...that the thing on her can, they love them here, she made them herself
This si at the tailgate, thats philippas rommate emily, there were loads of people all along the street, drinking and bbqing
this was a whole other day but i thought it was pretty so here it is, its the tower on campus
this lil pup was called jackson he was so cute !!
this is me and rhondas sister jennifer, check my kusi (i dont know how its spelt but thats how it sounds)!
laffing bout something, maybe the fact katarina spent $20 a that t shirt cos she was drunk ahaa
thats right they do have brown paper bags here ! thats me having some rum :)


the crowd - there were over 44,000 people there, just for a collage football game !!

final score, thats right we won !

some other folk from scotland in the pub we went to after

im just a teenage dirtbag baby

i walked the most ever today. i went downtown toget some extra presents for debis birthday and then headed to the post office which was on 17th street. when i got there it wasnt a proper post office just a dillins supermarket that only posts within the US! so i had to walk all the way to 8th street. Thats like so far, you have no idea ! when i got back i took my bag off but you could still see sweat marks where it had been, it was the worst ! so i posted my straighteners back, and some things for the baby and debis present. tonight i think i am going to the cinema, not sure whats on but im up for doing all the fun stuff ever sinc ei finished like all my homework for the first time since i got here ! i got 5 out of 5 in my inline quiz which i am SO pleased about cos it was really hard but i studied. phillipa is comin up here in a wee while, she bought a digi camera today and we are gonna go for tea and im gonna do laundry.

tomorrow is the football game which is gonna be SO good, its also my last ever day of being a teenager in the world ever ever. which is pretty exciting/sad
later guys - Debbie