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Sorry for not posting much but I’ve been busy trying to enjoy life. I have also made an executive decision to move to tumblr. My tumblr is here. Please follow if you like my posts. Also thanks too my two subscribers. I will also promise to follow all blogs I’m subscribed too still so there may be a few comments from me occasionally.
Thanks and I’ll tumble you later.
Love will find a way somehow
Well as you may have already guessed I’m not single anymore. It all happened last Wednesday and well I fancied her and she decided to flirt with me and stuff happened (you can probably guess what) and well now we are in a relationship. But it’s hard for me as I know it might end, sooner rather than later so sometimes I worry despite being very infatuated by her. Also she’s two years younger than me and sometimes I do worry people judging me and I’m glad they don’t know I’ve never dated successfully anyone older. I don’t know what it is about that age difference but I like them and they like me.
Otherwise last Saturday I went into town with my girlfriend and one of my good friends to build my good friend’s bear at Build-A-Bear where you can build your very own teddy bear which I bought for her and it wasn’t too expensive thankfully. It was a strange experience as all the assistants were hyperactive as they are used to dealing with kids more than adults ( well me and my friend were 18, my girlfriend 16). But it was good , weird that we had to put our hands on our hearts and sing the bear promise and also sing a girl happy birthday but it was a good experience. And now my friend has a bear they can always remember me by that smells of ice cream (I’m not kidding, it really does, no idea how they do it though).
Otherwise we just looked around went into shops and the like including going into clothes shops, shoe shops and even one lingerie shop, they just forced me to. Not really, I didn’t mind, I’m used to going shopping with my mum anyway.
Things are good but busy sometimes generally speaking.
Blog you later people.
Dining with a former teacher
I had a rather interesting experience and meal out last Friday night. You know at school how’d you’d always think it’s awkward to go out for a meal with your teachers? Well, it kind of is.
Let me explain, my mum is going part time now and she works in my old school so she invited her department out for a meal. Of those who attended, one was my old biology teacher and well it was awkward calling her by her first name and being tipsy in front of her but despite all of this I enjoyed the company and the food.
Otherwise I went out for another meal yesterday evening to celebrate my granddad’s retirement which was all right food wise but they took so long to serve us. It was diabolical.
I’ve been pretty knackered this weekend otherwise so I mainly relaxed.
I’m going to blog you later.
A unique birthday party
I went to what I would call a unique birthday party last night. It was in a village hall and it encompassed lots and lots of barn dancing. Also we had some samba drumming, that was a bit loud for me to be honest. Then to add to the uniqueness or strangeness if you prefer we had fish and chips for food.
It wasn’t a bad party, not at all. I found it funny to watch people barn dancing and getting it wrong and some looked so difficult. I did have a go but as now most of my friends can testify I am useless at it. It was good to chat to my friends and also spend time with some people I’ve never seen out of college before.
All in all a good night, and my good friend whose party it was seemed to have enjoyed herself which is the main thing.
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Interesting things to study and my thoughts of Nottingham Trent University
Psychology is getting rather interesting in my opinion lately as we are studying violence and aggression, why it takes place etc. and eventually we’ll move onto abnormal psychology like depression for example and the psychology of human relationships which should be pretty interesting, maybe it’ll help me get a girlfriend but I doubt that.
In History we studied how James Bond, well the films, and pop music of the time reflect the attitudes of the public in the Cold War which I thought was rather interesting and maybe be something to do in the future, I think.
My timetable clashes are sorted now. Well almost, I still have one clash but I’ve worked out where to go with that so that’s cool. Thankfully, there shouldn’t be much juggling to do now.
Finally, yesterday I went to Nottingham Trent University for their open day and must say their campus was a nice size and that their facilities were good. Just one moan, the bathrooms in their old accommodation were tiny, I think it would be like showering in a cupboard.
Otherwise, course wise they were focusing on not just academic skills but practical skills such as opportunities to do work experience and field trips in history and the ability to hone your interpretation skills in Spanish for example.
Overall that’s a good second choice especially as they want less grades than the likes of Kent or the University of Hertfordshire.
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Thoughts of University of Kent and back to college tomorrow
Today I spent the day looking around the University of Kent’s Canterbury campus. I would say it was rather nice set in 300 acres of woodland and not too large thankfully. It had the usual cafés, bars cinemas, accommodation and all the rest. As I didn’t go on an official open day I couldn’t see what the accommodation was like unfortunately. The number of lecture halls didn’t seem many but there were hundreds of classrooms. But as to be expected they were all fitted out nicely.
All in all it was really nice and not too large and thankfully the student village is only a maximum of half a mile away. So it seems to me to be a possible second choice. The only thing is they want some high number of UCAS points which I’m gonna have to work hard to achieve.
Tomorrow I’m back to college so it’s an early night for me and tomorrow morning I have to go to college blind as to what lessons I have so it’s going to be interesting tomorrow.
Blog you later.
Shopping centres bore me to death and 80s music
On Sunday I went to the cinema with that friend of mine I can talk to hours with and watched The Smurfs. I had quite a few reservations about that film considering it seemed childish. It was but still pretty funny with some adult jokes. But I enjoyed it with my good friend. Shame she had to go home straight afterwards though as I had to wait for my mum to pick me up which meant I was in this shopping centre for ages in the end almost two hours.
In this time I bought myself a diary for college and walked the length of the shopping centre many times being rather bored as it was full of ladies wear shops and every phone shop from every network in the UK. Just way too boring for a man really. It has nothing to interest me but I know so many people that go shopping there.
Yesterday I went to Tesco and bought myself a lunchbox and a CD of 80s hits as mum said I might like them, which I do some of them, it’s better than the trashy music nowadays.
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Glasses, Miranda and Burghley Horse Trials
On Tuesday I managed to get back my glasses after having an eye test the week before that I seemed to have forgotten to mention at all. Well I have had glasses for four years now and used to wear them but gave up after they made little difference. But that’s the awkward teenage attitude for you. So I went to get my eyes tested again as I find it hard to read/see things far away and guess what the results were? I’m a little longsighted so now I have these glasses but I struggle to know when to wear them. I was thinking this: to wear them when I’m in class to see the board and every time I’m watching TV or go to the Cinema (not for 3D films – I’m not looking stupid) but what do you think? Is that even the correct use of glasses to correct long-sightedness. Seriously I have no idea.
Anyway, I’ve finally got into the show Miranda after watching an episode last night as it was so funny and am unfortunately gonna try and watch all the others on the internet ‘to catch up’ so to speak. The reason why it was funny is that the character Miranda gets herself into two many holes by saying practically every thought she has in her head and well almost every one we have to. What cracked me up was her debating aloud the sexual attractiveness of the psychiatrist in a scene. She said “I don’t mean you. You’re lovely, just not in a ‘Hrrrmmm, take me’ kind of a way. Sorry, I mean I’m sure lots of people would look at you and go ‘Hrrrrrrrmm, take me now’ but um… I’m more kind of… mmmmm… (waves hands like a balance)” Just too funny, you must watch to get the full effect and if you’re wondering I did just find that on BBC iPlayer, find the scene, listen to it and copy it out word for word. But I’m nice like that.
Other than that I spent yesterday at Burghley Horse Trials which is a haven for horse lovers. Of course you have the eventing but then you have feed shops, saddle and rug shops and country wear shops. But also lifestyle shops and that sort of thing. But I’m not a horse lover unlike my mum so I went for the food. There is like this section with about 40 or so stalls all selling lovely food with stuff to try so mum and I spent like two hours in there sampling stuff and came home with some cheese, oatcakes and a steak and kidney pie for dinner later that day. Also as it was pretty damn hot we ended up drinking 3 pints of delicious lemonade between us from the old fashioned lemonade stall. It was lovely though just lemon juice sugar and water in a really sweet combination however the price reflected that, it was £7.50 all told.
We did see some eventing as it was the dressage. However we couldn’t see much and much couldn’t explain the scoring of the dressage as she nor I understood it. However we did see HRH Princess Zara Phillips competing so I can say I’ve seen royalty now but to be honest , she looked like any other woman or horse rider for that matter, to me anyway.
That was it really, blog you later.
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