Life's a bit of a bitch sometimes, I spend weeks and weeks cramming like crazy for my blair exam, totally under control, totally happy with it. night before exam suddenly get a massive attack of the nerves, can't sleep a wink, an hour or two absolute tops and to be honest I'm not even convinced i properly slept at all, more like that weird half sleep state you get in sometimes. So go into exam the first question is fine and then I totally dive, like completely cannot think at all. So annoyed, i wouldn't mind if i hadn't done so much work and i hadn't deserved to do well but it's just total irony that I'm so worried about fucking up the exam that my worrying about  fucking it up is what fucks it up.

Anyway, tno point dwelling. I'm so tired, I've tried sleeping, but it 's too loud, bright and warm and too much is whirring around my head. At least it's my birthday this weekend so I'll soon forget and in the scheme of things 1 exam isn't going to do that much damage. 

Anyway, lots to do people are coming round in like 3.5 hours and I need to sort myself out.

Just permit me to say this: It's not fair, I work too hard to fuck up exams...right that's alll

xxx

 I keep leaving it too long between updates so that there's no possible way for to write about everything interesting that has happened recently - nevermind last update - of which there is a lot. So this will probably be some kind of crappy whistlestop tour for me to look back on and prompt memories rather than entertainment. 

God where to start... I've been at home for the past few weeks, and it really has flown by, probably becuase it's THAT time of year when revision needs doing and dissertation needs finishing and so time goes by with inexplicable speed. Dissertation is under control to the extent that I'm worrying why I'm not stressing out like many people's facebook statuses would suggest I should be doing. I really hope I'm not being complacent, i keep trying to panic myself into working on it at all hours of the day but the fact is...dare I say it, I really don't want to because this will really jinx me...I don't need to do that much to it. There are things that need doing to it, but I've made a list and it's easily doable, I've done 3/9 of the things that need doing to it, the 4th will be done tonight, will hopefully get through 1.5 of them maybe 2 tomorrow and then the last three all basically boil down to final checking of footnotes and grammar etc. Anyway this is REALLY boring. 

So here are some things of note, can't be bothered to cover everything

starting at the beginning of the month..

Oxfam training for stewarding festivals: I am very scared about this now, if you're caught sleeping on the night shift they kick you straight out and I cannot stay awake when tired, it's just not possible. I'm thinking overdosing on pro-plus but I have memories of staying at Rios all night when I was younger getting up to go to work and taking a load of pro-plus and it having no effect, so we'll see how that goes...
Other than that it sounds like a good laugh met some nice people, hopefully there will be more of the same when I get to the festivals. Also as well as 3 free meals I get 5 heavily subsidised ones which is very good, I'll just take some soup or rice or some other 'lovely' camping food to fill the gaps. Nothing can be as bad as living off tortillas and jam like on D of E. 

New Flatmate: A new person has joined Westbury Lodgings and her name is Laura, other than that I know near to zilch about he,r having been away for most of the month. she seems nice enough though, it's just weird having a new person moving in 6 months after everyone else, obv. we'd formed a nice unit and now someone else has come it's a little strange however it is of course so much worse for her so we all will need to try and be as accomodating and nice as possible. On the Friday before I left I spent about half an hour helping her find somewhere to put her food and stuff because obv. we'd all claimed our own cupboards and areas of the fridge so there was nowhere left.
Her arrival meant Toynbee treated us to a nice curry on brick lane and we went to a karaoke bar afterwards, which was absolutely hilarious. Everybody was singing along to everything and then I put MMM..Bop on by Hanson and suddenly everybody shut up, so embarrassing. 

I'm going to have to break off, I want sugar in either the form of easter egg or ice cream.

xxx 

 On a side note, I know I'm always very behind the curve music-wise just downloaded narrow stairs by death cab for cutie, great album and am about to listen to love songs by ella fitzgerald, summertime has got to be one of the greatest songs ever.  The Submarines album is sehr gut also. xxx

 Had a lovely weekend, the yorkshire delegation of mum, malcolm, uncle jamie, aunt carol, cousin elspeth and her friend Hatty came down and stayed over at sarahs. Spent the day with them yesterday firstly, I met them over at Broadway market in Hackney, which was a lovely little market with a really good mix of stalls and quirky/trendy atmosphere - lots of gorgeous food stands and clothes. When i met them they'd been sitting in this french cafe for over 45 mins, v.slow service but it worked out for the best as it gave us all a chance to chat and catch up. We then got on a windey bus which was meant to take us to Hoxton but we somehow missed that and ended up at Old Street, and how funny I don't know if anybody ever sung the rhyme ' pop goes the weasel' but that verse: "Up and the City Road, In and out The Eagle, That's the way the money goes, pop goes the weasel', well we walked past 'The Eagle' which is this really amazing looking pub with the words to the rhyme on the wall, can't get it out of my head now.  I really want to go in now.



Quick change of plan and we ended up at St Pancras as other than me and mum no-one else had ever seen it. Still amazes me everytime, it's so spectacular, must admit it's most beautiful when you're stepping off the train from paris and you're greeted by that huge clock and sculpture of the couple embracing. Much better than Gare du Nord, which is actually pretty ugly. We ended up having champagne at the long champagne bar courtesy of my aunt and her pay rise, very nice, we took a load of daft pictures of us all posing. Very nice sitting there watching the world go by and getting a little bit sozzled on champagne in the middle of the day. 

Last night we all went out for an Italian, and mmmmm I haven't had a meal that good in ages...chicken alfredo and it was so nice, completely cleared my plate. Was such a good atmosphere, there's some thing so warm and nice about going out with your family, like you feel completely at ease or something. Really good banter - tim and Jill came along and as usual Tim was full of his usual outlandish tales - everybody was getting completely pissed off the wine on the table I felt a bit sorry for elsie and hatty who are 15 and spent the night on lemonade and had to put up with us rowdy lot. Me and Malcolm got a good chance to chat - he's growing on me, he's a sound guy but as is my prerogative as my mum's child by another man i'm still keeping my sceptical hat on. But yeah I'm starting to grow quite fond of the guy, I managed to persuade him and mum to go on a 'family day out' with me when I visit at Easter - we're going to go on the worth valley railway and a pub lunch at the dog and gun in oxenhope. In exchange i have to make us carrot cake and fish pie one night. 

I saved dessert for when we got in, my aunt and uncle had brought a cake with them - they run this dessert company called 'Just Desserts' - http://www.just-desserts.co.uk/index.php - ,and they make the nicest cakes and pastries etc, I worked there one summer as a pot wash when i was about 16 and used to lick all the bowls before I washed them. On the subject of cakes my birthday cake for went down well - a big pink lurid thing with flowers all over it and jam and buttercream. 

I miss the feeling of safety and warmth of being with my family a lot and weekends like this make me remember that. I've said this many times but if I could live at home and still have the same career prospects I wouldn't hesitate but it would be completely foolish to graduate and move somewhere where there just aren't the same opporunities. But if I'm honest I don't think I'll ever feel 100% at home in London and I will end up moving Northward once I've established myself with a decent career. But in the meantime I can live in one of the most exciting cities in the world and enjoy the company of lovely people so it;s not a bad life really is it? 

tonight I found myself grateful for yet another meal I retrieved from the depths of the freezer, the chilli tasted better now than it did when i first cooked it - anyway back to the joyous dissertation and job application. 

 How it works:
1. Open your library (iTunes, Winamp, Media Player, iPod, etc)
2. Put it on shuffle
3. Press play
4. For every question, type the song that's playing
5. When you go to a new question, press the next button
6. Don't lie and try to pretend you're cool... just type it in!

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Opening Credits:
Sleep Alone - Moby

Waking Up:
Stare at the sun - Mutemath

First Day At School:
The Limit to Your Love - Feist

Falling In Love:
Stolen - Dashboard Confessional (the actual perfect falling in love song - what are the odds!?!?)

Losing Virginity:
Munich - Corrine Bailey Rae cover of the Editors - it actually works, it wouldn't if it was the original though, too angry

Fight Song:
Shadowplay -The Killers

Break up:
Knowing me and me and knowing you - Abba - ah haaaaah - how convenient a song about breaking up

Prom:
Fall to pieces - Matt Nathanson

Life:
The Nobodies - Marilyn Mansun

Mental Breakdown:
Lost - Coldplay

Driving:
Place Your Hands on my soul - Reef - this is perfect because me and my friends used to drive around with this on really loud shoving our hands out of all the car windows, lol

Flashback:
Then I'll be smiling - Matt Nathanson

Getting Back Together:
I am in Love with you - Imogen Heap - this is the far better live version where she says  'I want to FUCK  you' with real meaning, i used to love it. 

Wedding:
Luxurious - Gwen Stefani - I do envisage a Jordan and peter andre style wedding for myself, eurgh 

Birth of Child:
Goldie lookin chain - your missus is a nutter - genius

Final Battle:
Risingson - Massive Attack

Death Scene:
Stuntman - Kasabian 

Credits:
Heartbreaker - metronomy

Sequel Teaser:
Dreaming of You - The Coral 

 I really do love my brother, "he is a one", as i like to say in a stupid broad yorkshire accent. I was watching the news earlier and they were going on about how over 80 people have died in South Eastern Australia because of wild fires that are going completely out of control and have even burned people trying to escape in their cars to death. And i was all like oh Adam's ok, Sydney's in the Northwest of Australia, and then i doubted myself and looked it up on google maps and Sydney's exactly in the south east (I'm not embarrassed about not knowing Australian geography, I have no reason to). So in a mumlike way i was all 'oh my god!' and texted him straightaway, pretty much asking are you alive, and he replied with yeah im fine are you ok though, I heard you've had a bit of snow... god even the ex-pats are laughing at us. 

I'm chilled to my very bones, I just cycled home from camden and the snow was blowing right in my eyes, which was kinda dangerous cos i couldnt really see! God bless the leftover shepherds pie I stuck in the freezer a month ago, saves me cooking anything. I'm so tired, tiring weekend, it went so quick as well, but highly enjoyable.

I went home on friday for my mum's boyrfriend's 50th birthday party which was last night. But before that I spent tFriday evening having a nice gossip and a few glasses of wine round at my friend Natt's house, she had made these gorgeous brownies from an old bero recipe with betty crocker icing on top. Was good catching up, especially since I won't be up again until easter which is months away. Daniel caught the train up yesterday and arrived at around lunchtime, we had a lovely afternoon shopping in leeds. He got himself a new shirt from topman which really suits him and he l ooks really good in it, and it was only £5 - bargain! And some new going out/evening jeans.

I bought myself a new pashmina for only £3, not bad, a James Martin cookbook with 300 recipes for £10, i really like him on saturday kitchen and there are some really lovely recipes in there, a new necklace from yum yum beads, i was going to buy the stuff to make one myself but i realised i probably wouldnt have time before the party and on Nancy's recommendation a big bag o' lush stuff for £10,  a very successful trip. Daniel also took us to wagamama for lunch and i resisted the urge to order katsu curry and ordered snapper in a spicy coconut and lime sauce, it was really really good. 

The party was a good laugh, lots of really bad dancing, and what with it being a family do I didn't have to pay for any drinks all night. Daniel also bought me a packet of seabrook crisps which are these absolutely delicious crinkle cut crisps which they don't seel anywhere except yorkshire I think and my god it had been years since I had a packet - so good and so nostalgic. 

anyway I'm starving and I need to eat so no more writing for me.

xxx

 my stomach hurts from laughing too much a good sign i think, i hate coming home drunk and finding nothing to do/no one to talk to it's such a let down xxx

Thanks for this Lucas, I tried to watch pulp fiction with my flatmates but as is often the case on a sunday evening i have the attention span of a gnat, so i've retired to bed.

- Was 2008 a good year for you? 
Erm, Yes and no, it was a pretty average year for me, I did well at uni, nothing calamitous happened, I did some great things and I also had some bad times to deal with..

-What was your favourite moment of the year? 
Maybe when we were at the top of the eiffel tower or just being in paris around christmas time with all the lights everywhere, it looked so pretty and there was just such a great atmosphere there.


-What was your least favourite moment of the year? 
Waiting for my dad to wake up after his operation to remove his pancreas, I called intensive care 3 times I think and on the third time he'd woken up, I was so stressed out. 


-Where were you when 2008 began? 
On Baildon roundabout with some of my yorkshire folk, getting my heels stuck in the mud as always.

-Where will you be when 2008 ends? 
I was at Tower Bridge with my flatmates anna and rich, and a few of rich's friends. we were of the mistaken belief there would be some fireworks there but they were all at westminster, nevermind we went back to brick lane and had  curry and stayed in the curry house til about 2.30 oh and got bollocked by Caroline for bwing too loud in the stariwell - New years eve ffs!!!!!

- Did you keep your new years resolution of 2008? 
Erm I don't know what it was 


- Do you have a new years resolution for 2008? 
Maybe to be nicer to people, life's too short 


- Did you fall in love in 2008? 
With all the stuff with my dad going on I realised how lucky I was to have so many great people in my life and I realised how precious it was, I guess it was like falling love, I felt a lot of warmth and love for a lot of people

- If yes, do they know? 
I hope so, I hope people know I appreciate them


-Did you break up with anyone in 2008? 
No.


- Did you make any new friends in 2008? 
 My new flatmates, all 14 of them! (spread over 2 flats)

- What was your favourite month of 2008? 
Oh god that's tricky, can I just say summer, I had a great summer, a mixture of work experience, holiday time and relaxing

- How many different places did you travel to in 2008? 
Mainly between Leeds and London as always, Scotland twice to visit becca, Nottingham to see Dina, Whitby a few times to stay at my dads cottage, Somerset to work for three weeks, Devon overnight, Dublin, Barcelona, Paris. It's kinda frustrating that I haven't been out of Europe for years but hopefully once I'm free of the financial and geographical shackles of studentdom I can remedy that.


- Did you lose anybody close to you in 2008? 
No, only in the sense that my brother went to Australia and I miss him a hell of a lot, but that's not taking the question the right way.

- Did you miss anybody in the past year? 
As above, I miss Becca a lot, now her family's based in Scotland I don't even get to see her when I'm visiting yorkshire. I generally miss my northern friends at intervals. 

- What were your favourite movies that you saw in 2008? 
Dark Knight, Sex and the City

- What was your favourite song/album from 2008? Without a Doubt my two favourite albums at the moment are Only By the Night by Kings of Leon and Seldom Seen Kid by Elbow, both beautiful albums

- Did you have a favourite concert in 2008? 
Girls Aloud or Coldplay, they were both very very good in different ways 



- Did you drink a lot of alcohol in 2008? 
No actually, I've really gone off the feeling of being drunk.

- Did you do a lot of drugs in 2008? 
No. 

- How many people did you sleep with in 2008? 
One.


- What are your plans for 2009? 
Pass Uni with a 2.1 PLEASE!!!!!!!! Enjoy myself +not worry about whatever decisions I make, I'm only 20, I have plenty of time to fix anything I mess up.Hopefully travel to new places, make new friends and other than that I'm just excited that for the first time in my life I'll be free to do whatever I want with my time in either Leeds or London, who knows yet?????

-What did you do in 2008 that you'd never done before? 
Cycled around London 

- What would you like to have in 2009 that you lacked in 2008? 
a decent degree

-What was your biggest achievement of the year? Being genuinely happy with who i am.


-What was your biggest failure? 
Not being happy more often, Wasting time



-What was the best thing you bought? 
Tickets to Paris 

-Whose behaviour merited celebration?
My dad for being brave, Daniel for putting up with me, all my friends for making life interesting

-Whose behaviour made you appalled and depressed? 
A couple of people but not drastically and live and let live anyway

-What did you get really, really, really excited about? 
Christmas! US elections, going up to scotland to see becca!
-Compared to this time last year, are you: 
a) happier or sadder? happier.
b) thinner or fatter? fatter.
c) richer or poorer? about the same


-What do you wish you'd done more of? 
Nothing really, I'm a student i dont have the funds to do much really, plus I'm pretty good at taking advantage of london

-What do you wish you'd done less of? 
commuting, my aunt and uncle's house was in zone 4 and a real blag to get to. 


-How will you be spending Christmas? 
Spent it at my aunt and uncles with the whole gang minus one brother - however he did send us a video message and we sent one back.

- How many one-night stands? 
None.

-What was your favourite TV program? 
The Apprentice, sex and the city, hollyoaks, question time, 

-Do you hate anyone now that you didn't hate this time last year? 
No, it's such a waste of energy

-What was the best book you read? 
The Grapes of Wrath

-What was your greatest musical discovery? 
Crystal Castles

-What did you want and get? 
To move back into london proper and I did

- What did you want and not get? 
haha, I don't really know

- What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you? 
20, My friend was meant to be coming from leeds and she couldn't as she was ill :( so she was replaced by daniel and we went to a pottery cafe and I painted a sugar bowl and him a mr lazy plate, had lunch in clapham and went to see girls aloud

- What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying? 
A nice TV and a wii

- How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2008? 
colourful

- What kept you sane? 
Lots of time to myself just doing whatever

- Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most? 
The lead singer of the editors - but tbh honest I'm not really one to fancy celebrities that much

-What political issue stirred you the most? 
Obama - and the frustration at how much of a dead end british politics seems to be right now

-Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2008.
It doesn't matter if you don't drink as much and party as much as the stereotypical student or just more generally it doesnt matter how you live your life, if you're happy then balls to what everybody else thinks of you.

 When will i learn to refer to the assignment sheet when writing something rather than reading it once and not looking at it again until I'm about to submit my work lol. It's alright really I just haven't used a case study, although I've given plenty of factual information, which is accurate. I've quoted three people from interviews I've done, and in terms of graphics/picture ideas I've thought up about 3/4 on the spot now, so it should be ok. I just have a really bad habit of not noticing really basic grammar issues with my work, so ideally I would have had someone else read it first before I sent it off, but there's not enough time now. I really wish I'd been taught grammar properly at school becuase I really don't feel confident with it and for someone who got an A at A level English with full marks in two of the exams to not understand grammar is really stupid. I don't sya that to show off, I just genuinely think the way English is taught is flawedd if I can do well at English without feeling confident with grammar, maybe I'm just being hard on myself, maybe a lot of people feel this way, of course I'll never know because I doubt anybody would admit it! 

xxx

You know those days where you feel about as worthless as a piece of shit.

oh god cycling home while drunk is not good, i cant believe i let myself. I guess it wasn't help by the fact I'm exhausted due to getting next to zero sleep last night. eurgh so bleugh right now, good night though xxx

I would just like to state for the record how wonderful green and blacks chocolate is,  6 squares of their butterscoth bar has improved my day no end.

that is all.

xxx

Argh!!!! I'm starting to crack up, today has been yet another manic day uni, pub, sainsburys, uni, radio studios, home to do work. Admittedly i could have given the pub a miss but my god i need a break sometimes. I feel like i have to schedule every aspect of my life in now, an hour of work here, an hour of gym, an hour to make dinner. I'm like that guy in about a boy. And if i don't stick to schedule it's like OMG crisis. Like I've royally fucked up this weekend, I thought next weekend was nathan's b-day party but it turns out it's this saturday and I've booked tickets to nottingham to go and see dina because i missed her b-day party about a month ago and really regret not going up for it. But now Nathan's going to get annoyed and it means that next weekend rather than having something to plan my weekend around I have one of those empty weekends that make me depressed. Moan Moan Moan...you get the picture. I guess i just hate not having a social life, I know I'm not exceptional in this but all I've really done this week other than uni and charity stuff is go see 'W' with daniel. Anyway, shut up marie and get on with your work.

Oh god i left the grill on and the fire alarm juts went off, first year of uni style and it was so loud and so embarrassing and everybody had to evacuate. now I've just committed myself to buying everybody a pint :S lol

xxx

I'm really quite excited about the presidential election, I've got a tub of ben and jerrys, a bottle of wine and I'm staying up ! (as long as my eyes will let me) Lol, I don't know why I care it's not like anything drastic will happen, but I so hope it's Obama, even if it's just for the symbolism. I guess I'm living vicariously, when we come to our elections it's goingto be SO DULL ooooh a choice between Gordon Brown, dour Scotsman who claims he knows how to look after the economy, haha maybe not and wants us all on a giant database and to record and monitor all our phone calls hmmm or David Cameron Tory Toff who if elected will just reaffirm all the worst aspects of the British political classes, a big British all boys public school club/ Oxford- Cambridge party which only a few outsiders penetrate. How will i possbily choose between two dead ends!?!

Anyway...ranting.... Had such a fun night last night, I gave in and allowed Nathan to persuade me to go to one of the Harry Potter club events, it was a pub crawl and it was actually very fun, I guess people who go to these sort of things are just more easy going, everybody was really friendly. It won't be a regular thing though, at times I felt a little embarrased by it, some of them are way too hardcore and trying to show off about their HP knowledge, without trying to sound californian or something "I was all, yah, like I care". I don't care enough about Harry Potter to meet up with people and discuss it at great length, but like I say it was an experience and it was definitely fun for one night. 

Spent the past two days reading about the Iraq war,  Alastair Campbell said something in his book, about Cabinet reshuffles "like exams and dentistry have no memory", meaning you forget how unpleasant they are until it's time to go through it again, I'd like to add essays to this list, I forget every time how long it takes and how tedious it is doing all the reading for an essay. I can't wait to get it done but then I've got to finish my radio work for Barbara and do some resarch about Alseimers, woop! Oh and then I need to read about the civil service, I'm so cool.

xxx

Had a relatively chilled halloween with the flatmates and a few others from Toynbee and admittedly it might have been nice for it to have turned into a wild party, but tonight i appreciated the simple pleasure of having a few drinks and sharing a meal with people I enjoy spending time with. My responsibility was decorations, and I like to think I did well, with pumpkin shaped streamers and a skull with a green flickering light. As for my costume, well as always seems to be the case  these days I barely had time to breathe this week so unfortunately by the time I had chance ot sort out my costume (about 5.30 his afternoon) they'd all been bought, so I opted for pretty similar to last year and wore black boots, black skirt, black corset top, black cape, black lipstick. As I couldn't find my fake blood i improvised and cut open one of my muji pens and dripped and smeared red ink on myself, I'll probably regret this when i discover it won't come off, I'm also kind of sad I don't have a red muji pen anymore...

A bit miffed as I wrote what I thought was a good blog for the digital website, but i didn't leave any time between writing it and proofing it, which is always a guarantee of it being full of typos, so I'm a bit miffed that I sent it over to Peter when it was full of really basic grammatical errors, it's just plain embarrassing.

Financial Journalism wasn't the best today, I kind of feel frustrated that he doesn't stick to the agenda more. i mean I know people learn differently and other people in the class clearly know much more than me but I just know that personally I learn the most when a lesson has a clear structure rather than it just being a question and answer session. I kind of feel he needs to be firmer in saying to people, no I'll deal with these points in the week where we look at say Pensions in detail rather than wasting time trying to answer everybody' squestions now, I'll give him the benefit of the doubt but if next week is as disjointed as this week then I'll probably say something to him.

Looking forward to next week, unfortunately unlike previous reading weeks I have nowhere exciting to jet off to, but it's just nice to know the pressure's off a bit for the week. Have to finalise my dissertation proposal for Monday so I'll be doing a lot of reading this weekend but in the evenings I shall be watching fireworks :D. Jill's having a firework party tomorrow and then there's a big, free display over in Victoria Park on sunday eve, which I've convinced a few people to go to, so it should be a good laugh.

Oh and I went to a legal fair at Cambridge uni yesterday, which despite how it sounds was great fun. It was my job to promote the residential volunteer programme at toynbee and I'm amazed at my own confidence these days, talking to people like that doesn't faze me at all anymore which is obvisouly very good. When we arrived we were treated to some really nice food, a full blown roast dinner and then a massvie slab of banoffe pie for afters, i was recovering for the rest of the day! I also went around pretending i want edto be a lawyer and scoring freebies off the various stands, if i were to be a lawyer I'd work for Skaddon lol. I got a nice little box of chocolates, some pretzels, loadsa pens, a stress ball, a notepad and a flask for keeping hot drinks in, which will actually come in useful next time I want to go camping/ spend a day outdoors.

All that's annoying me now is 4OD is taking ages to download dead set, for some reason it won't just let me stream it.

xxx

How amusing, I've been using a bag that I haven't used for years this weekend and I just found a spliff in it. lol anybody want some three year old weed?

xxx

I'm watching the Andrew Marr show and there's this completely repugnant woman on from the Daily Mail, Ann Leslie I think and eurgh. She personifies my major fear if I do become a career journalist,  that I one day I too will become some shrivelled old bag shouting down everybody around me as I mistakenly think I'm the only one qualified to have an opinion "rar rar rar American's are stupid" etc. And the poor mild mannered man sat next to her can't get a word in edgeways even though he keeps saying quite intelligent things.

Lol she really does just typify exactly how awful the Daily Mail is, I don't think I could ever be that awful.
xxx

Went out for the best curry with everybody from the flats and i really wanted to go for post-curry drinks but i now have that common after-effect which is a lovely stomach ache :( sucks to be me. It's dangerous living so close to brick lane, i'm going to become a curry by the end of the year. Oh well no harm in staying in, i think i'll watch blair's britain on iplayer and the worst part of it is I've been looking forward to watching it all day! AHHHHH i'm an academic all obsessive about my work, life could not be any worse! In general stuff's good, was working over at transact again today and I got a news story up the homepage of the site and sourced my own image and uploaded it and everything, which is a good skill to have. There was a comical moment when I hadn't replaced the image from the last story with my own and there was this news story about student debt accompanied by a big picture of an old age pensioner, lol it was funny but only in the office.

Stupid stomach ache

xxx

My mum just left me here in my new flat, lol everytime one of my parents come down they invariably at some point have to drive off into the distance and I'm always left with this urge to shout 'Take me with you' like it's the end of some disney film, but alas no I am still here. I'm not homesick i guess it's just natural to get this sad pang in my stomach when my mum leaves. on a brighter note wtf exercise is the guy over the street doing!!! It looks like he's doing butterfly swimming stroke mid-air repeatedly and now he's crouching excellent, he's my own ugly naked guy, without the naked, can't tell about the ugly.

xxx