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Bestival, De Niro and AQA. Triple threat.

Okay so i just got back from bestival and it was amaaazzzing and just awesome and fat boy slim was incredible as were annie mac, dj fresh and kelis and the village people, terrible grammar I know but i'm still buzzing!!! Was just wonderful and I would LOVE to go back next year!


http://media.digitalphotogallery.com/rfzgmrfxrcph/images/50576ca8-dbd0-11e0-b795-fefd616b8533/502_website_image_sdwn_standard.jpg?20110910181445


SEXY. Was awesome.


In other news, I had a read of an article on 9/11 (okay so this is a bit repetitive but this was interesting) with a contribution fro Robert de Niro who is a native New Yorker. He spoke about rebuilding what was lost, which I thought was a far better way of articulating what needed to be done after the attack as it gives connotations of healing and presents the concept of an actual grieving process (because he used the word 'loss'.) Instead of the reactionary more aggressive notion of 'sticking it' to the terrorists and throwing the new developments in their face as a gesture of triumph and victory. This was in the Observer Magazine btw.


In other other news. I had a remark of my A levels and now have the grades I needed for my insurance choice (Kings College London) which I am thrilled about. However, grades and pride aside - (I still managed to get into the Uni of my choice but on a different course) I can't get over how devastated I was the week of results and how stressful it was to feel i'd failed so badly and wasted my time working so hard. I'm absolutely gutted that through no fault of my own my A level results day was ruined because two papers were marked incorrectly and it resulted in feeling depressed for weeks combined with the terrifying prospect of having an empty lonely gap year, consequently I spent two weeks manically trying to get jobs in ski resorts. AQA thoroughly screwed me over with one of my A levels and if I'm being honest it scares me how powerless you are, because your college/place of education puts their trust in these exam boards, not you, then they are left to oversee everyone's exams and therefore in a sense well being and they are just as likely to mess up as any other organisation. I really dislike having to put events down to bad luck, and having to make up excuses for myself because at the end of the day 99% of what happens to you is down to you and there's no use shying away from the fact that you are in control and hence to blame or to praise for the course of your life. However, in this case, I feel thoroughly unlucky, and am having to put these events down to another non entity which is fate. Sounds ridiculous I know but if there's nothing I could have done about this situation then what other reason could there be for it's happening other then the idea that urm, everything happens for a reason? Perhaps I should turn to religion, at least there's a whole bible full of reasons for why things happen.

I think when conspiracy theories 

concern events that have involved larges losses of life they become insensitive and tortuous for families of the deceased. I'm not proposing that we stop questioning the state and start taking everything our governments and politicians say as completely legitimate, but nearly 3000 people died in 9/11, and that's a lot of people who should be left to rest. 

Ground Zero to World Trade. Or should I say Tirade.

I know i've blogged about this before but I'm rarely able to consolidate all my thoughts into 5 minutes of blogging, mainly because I have a rather 'sporadic' train of thought *cough* easily distracted. Now i'm not paranoid, I'm just pointing something out - they're building a subway station underneath ground zero.


 'As above, so below'


Okay, so the new 'transportation hub' will make the site more accessible to those who want to remember 9/11 however, the 'multi-story central transit hall designed in the style of Grand Central Terminal, incorporating a lower concourse, an upper (balcony) concourse, a public waiting area, and first-class retail amenities' doesn't cause the words 'remembrance' and 'reflection' spring to mind, more so exuberance and commercialism. Considering they're building on what is essentially a graveyard, I'm still not convinced this is appropriate. 


http://www.wtc.com/about/transportation-hub 

They're back and they're pretty awesome!

To my readers from across the pond!

Can I just say how excited I am about the prospect of being able to study in North America next year! :D

The only way is Essex.

It seems that the above title is indeed true. This is regarding the eviction of 400 people from an illegal traveller site in Essex, which is under the jurisdiction of Basildon Council. 


'A United Nations committee has called on the government to suspend the eviction but the council said it would be going ahead' 

Witches

If someone could explain the white witch phenomenon to me i'd be very grateful, I'm interested to see if their magic actually works. I'd also like to know what happened to the dark witches, or if there are any local warlocks. When I was about 7 I went for a walk on the forest and found some rather intriguing looking fire circles so I may start camping out in the woods with my dad's night vision goggles (he bought them for badger watching) to try and see what my local coven is up to. They advertise for more members in the village bakery, but i'm not totally convinced I'm that magical at this point in my life, and do you have to go already convinced of your magical ability? What happens if you go to a coven and you don't know any spells, or know how to make them up? I think ill start tying string to objects and pretending to levitate them. Also a lot of the people in the coven have white witch bumper stickers on their cars which kind of ruins the surprise, however the fact that they give away their identity as a witch says to me that they're not up to anything too sinister because it would be too easy to track them down. How I love rural England.

But

This my favourite poem, it's by Rudyard Kipling. Let us forget for a moment that he was a staunch imperialist and a champion of the British Empire.

IF.....

IF you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too; If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, Or being lied about, don't deal in lies, Or being hated, don't give way to hating, And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise: If you can dream - and not make dreams your master; If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim; If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster And treat those two impostors just the same; If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools, Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken, And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools: If you can make one heap of all your winnings And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss, And lose, and start again at your beginnings And never breathe a word about your loss; If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew To serve your turn long after they are gone, And so hold on when there is nothing in you Except the Will which says to them: 'Hold on!' If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, ' Or walk with Kings - nor lose the common touch, if neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you, If all men count with you, but none too much; If you can fill the unforgiving minute With sixty seconds' worth of distance run, Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it, And - which is more - you'll be a Man, my son!

APOLOGY

I just found out that the death toll for hurricane Irene is 24, yikes - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-14711508

Geordie Shore

Girl gets called ugly and responds with 'maybe I should start wearing more make up.' Amazing programme.

Richard III

Apparently the new production of it at the Old Vic in London is awesome, my parents went and I really fancy Kevin Spacey and now i'm sad I didn't go. Especially because my dad said he ended up only having half a seat because they sold the ticket to a rather large lady. Think before you sell, how much is that money really worth to you?

Charlie Simpson.

Face is gorgeous

Music is gorgeous

Busted was gorgeous

Lyrics are poetically written, embellished with themes that have marred Charlie's loathsome life for the past few years.

Check him outttt

Me, myself and Irene.

Me : 'That hurricane sure looks bad, better watch the American coverage on CNN'

Myself: 'So if it's category one, does that make it the least or most severe... Hmm...maths'

Irene: Enters from Southern direction, slightly aggressive at start, when reaches New York decrease pace and subtly exit from set

Tropical Storm: 'It's been me all along mwahahaha'

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jZ7qyOA07YfmtdrbQe3ZCUAjI4sw?docId=b0653b8519474b7b8a5193b1252af0c5

Jeyonz

Above is the name that I predict that Beyonce and Jay Z will name their unborn child, I think they will choose it because it is unisex and combines the best features of both their names.

However, if something crazy happens and they do not name their child Jeyonz, they will surely call it 'Sasha Fierce.' Failing this the child will be named Kanye, after the God who bears the same name. Should all these safety nets find themselves moth eaten and full of large holes, I predict that they will turn to scientology, and name their child Tuise - which is a combination of both the names 'Tom' and 'Cruise'. If they decide to be proper scientologists, which I hope God (kanye) forbids, their child will be named 'Rubbard' which is a combination of the names 'Ron' and 'Hubbard.' Other possible combinations of the names above are listed below;

• Crom - I particularly like this one, it's kind of like 'Tron' which they made a film about , but sounds softer because it's one letter away from being 'Crum'
• Fasha - I'm not sure I like this one, I think it is overly aggressive for a child's name, but then too ridiculous to be an adult's name (all other suggested names in my opinion are feasible for the name of a superstar child) also it's like 'Tasha' and there's nothing more annoying then people getting one letter of your name wrong and CHANGING IT COMPLETELY
• Hon - A word which will suffer with the same problem that the words honesty and honour do, people forget to pronounce the 'a-ch' and the 'a-ch' is now supposedly 'silent' pfft idiots
• Hon cont. Admittedly 'Honey' when pronounced, not eaten, is inclusive of the 'a-ch' but then teachers may try to lengthen the name and call the poor child 'Honey' which will be equally annoying and a potentially sticky situation will result. Ha, Ha.
• Wanye - just sounds stupid, who's going to call their kid Wanye I mean COME ON who would even think to do that
• Kest - not cool on it's own, however I think 'Kestrel' would be a pretty cool name, however some lesser Jay-z and Beyonce fans may not pick up on the derivative and it will like their child is called 'Apple' or something like that, then Kanye will get mad.
• Kelly - Why name your child after your cousin who as talented as she may be is still not Beyonce.

Only 3% of the world's oceans are mapped. Baffled. There be dinosaurs in those parts.

Positive thinking, positive life.

Reasons to be shallow, thus cheerful.

1) You will more often than not, not realise the severity of a situation

2)You may not even realise when bad things happen

3)There is almost always something that will amuse you, or cheer you up, not that you will need cheering up

4)It will be the big things in life that count, like buildings and trees, and there are a lot of them

Libya Trivia

It's in the news a lot at the moment, but what do we really know about Libya? Well...

1)It can be rearranged to spell Yabli, Bayli, or Bilya.

2)Phonetically one might spell it ; Lib - e - a.

3)It has only two vowels in.

4)It is slightly larger than Alaska, with a slightly different climate. Enter Sarah Palin.

5) Which reminds me, this person's youtube is awesome; http://www.youtube.com/user/JennaMarbles.

If you're someone who deserves to feel better, I think that schadenfreude is acceptable. To a point, actually I don't know, maybe only if you're thinking about the fate of animals? But then again we are supposed to be stewards, but what are we supposed to do when a buffalo is being eaten by a lion, apart from film it of course? At school a teacher once did an assembly which included this video, and he said that whenever he felt really rubbish, he watched this video, and was glad he wasn't the buffalo.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4Q9_DmElbI&feature=fvwrel

Us, you, me and I

I've just remembered what writing in second person sounds like, after I realised I was doing it. Not only am I a step behind everyone else, but i'm behind myself as well now. In some 7th dimension out of body kind of way. Also - when I say 'you,' I don't mean YOU, I think I mean 'us,' as in humans. Unless you're reading it, and you feel it applies directly to you, in which case by all means assume that this was written specifically for you, and be flattered. It's more written for me really, sorry you have to read this. As for the rest of you, or us....

I think there's a lot to be said with going with your gut instinct. Afterwards it's just so frustrating when you realise that you didn't, especially considering you probably didn't listen to the people around you and then ignored yourself as well. I'm also baffled who you could possibly be adhering to, considering you've ignored everyone in you life including yourself. Maybe there is a God after all? Frustration commence. Everything happens for a reason blah blah blah - although if what you were hoping for doesn't materialise I don't suppose it means you should stop hoping for something all together different, or maybe even better than what you wanted in the first place. Just because bad things happen doesn't mean your expectations should be lowered, at least whatever's happened that hasn't gone to plan is out the way now. Lightning rarely strikes twice. Although I do know two people who got double chicken pox.

A life of grime

is a documentary on youtube and something all together different.

A life of crime.

Now I am on a gap year I need to think of projects to keep me occupied, such as;

1) How to pick a lock - demonstrated in the trailer for possibly the most ridiculous and non sensical looking film ever; 'Fright Night'

2) How to hot wire a car *cough* I mean jump start

3) How to deal a pack of cards

4) How to work slot machines

5) How to play poker

6) How to play ( I say play, I think I mean work) accumulators

7) How to put search engine optimisation to good use.

Admittedly, on the surface it may seem that I am using my gap year to become a petty thief and/or gambling addict. You would be wrong, I am just trying to be cool and make money. Essentially what criminals do I suppose...

Until they get caught course, that's not cool, neither is stealing things or breaking and entering. Braking and entering isn't great either. Luckily I braked just in time to stop my car going into my lounge. I merely scratched the bay window.

In relation to the article below - oh wow.

Stupid News Stories: Bull semen forces closure of interstate ramp

Stupid News Stories: Bull semen forces closure of interstate ramp: Nashville, Tennessee - Canisters of bull semen caused quite a scare on the on-ramp to Interstate 65 South. The canisters fell off a Greyhou...

I think this is cool and practical for protection.

Ford Polo

I drove through a ford in my polo and I think that it broke the power steering and made the brakes slower. Either that or my reactions today are just even more sluggish than normal.

Things I have underestimated this week.

1) How there is not air conditioning in clubs

2) How horrible tequila is

2) How much I have to do

4) How hard writing a personal statement is

5) How badly out of date fake tan will make your legs peel

6) How badly using out of date fake tan that has turned your fake tan glove green will end

7) The importance of coursework

8) How bad my driving is

I would like to work in a ski resort now

If you're thinking of starting a farm.

1) Donkey rescue sanctuaries require you to have proper fencing, a field shelter, and some stables. They also require you to have stock wooden fencing, and dividing fences.

2) Moles are territorial. It's just one mole making all the moles hills in your garden, curiously they are also technically cannibals, and can eat their own young and or spouses (presumably,) because if their offspring grew up and then contested the same area of lawn it would be no different from an unrelated mole doing so.

3) llamas and Alpacas keep away foxes.

4) In order for a dog to be a good 'ratter' it must have been bitten by a rat itself.

I feel like the weather, not under it , just like it.

Genuinely disappointed that mcdonalds chicken legends are made with real chicken and not the kind in the nuggets. This is what my life currently boils down to!

It's raining

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xu-b3u5jDiU

I really like this song. Mmm brooding.

I had a dream last night there was this 149 year old man living on this scottish island, he looked about 40 tops though, kind of like Aragorn.

Today I

I climbed out of bed before 10, didn't cry or wallow, turned up to my piano teacher's house at the wrong time. I think that as my friends move away that will become a more frequent occurrence,

I will just turn up at people who are still here's houses and say that they agreed to see me.

She was very welcoming though, we had a cup of tea in her kitchen.

I'm trying like made to find jobs in ski resorts.

This is my life.

Verdict.

Predictably for me, the circus was more an elaborate tea party filled with boden clad young families driving black 4x4s. Luckily there were no clowns. All in all, as the first and last circus I will ever attend, it was quite nice, and not too disturbing. My mum driving on the wrong side of the road however, was.

Freak shows

http://www.giffordscircus.com/ this is where I am being taken to later, I don't know how people find circus's anything less than disturbing. They are gothic and obscure and I will play no part in their masquerade.

Day 1 of not going to university.

1) So far I have not had left over Chinese for breakfast, no doubt a step in the right direction.

2) I plan on getting dressed today, well, I at least "plan" on getting dressed today.

3) I'm supposed to be going out for lunch with my extended family today, which puts me in a difficult situation because i'm bound to be difficult. If they say "well done" I will reply with something along the lines of 'nothing was done well,' and if they they say nothing I will be able to feel their commiserations piercing my soul as travel from their eyes to mine. If they say hard luck I will have to explain that I am gutted about my grades, not that fact I didn't get into medicine, which will then require the further explanation of 'well if i'm being honest I don't know why I applied for it in the first place,' and then my parents will sit there and zone out whilst all the money they wasted on UKCAT, chemistry, biology and interview tuition dances around their heads in the form of pound signs.

NRH2RCVTSR96

Being true to my word

I accidentally clicked that basketball was a topic covered in my blog on technorati. SO. Basketball huh? Well, here is the best image of a covered basketball I could find on google images. It is more of a basketball covered cake. mmm. Lemar odom.

Fish

I got some.

Anti biotics

So basically after complaining about them i'm having to take a 6 week course of them again, erythromycin if you were interested. Their common side effect is nausea. This combined with my mum's 'pick me up idea' of getting me a David Lloyd membership I've estimated I'll either be banned from the gym for vomiting within a month, or will have accidentally halved my bmi in that time. Dang it.

Clearing and tearing ( as into cry, not like ripping.)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-14600749

13,000. Unlucky for some. Indeed, that is true. Although, I think I may be delusional, I don't get the grades for medicine, I don't get the grades for my back up, I don't get the grades to be at the top of a clearing waiting list. However, when offered a place from a university, as dowdy as it may be, I decline. I clearly have some kind of complex about being more deserving and able than I am.

I am not surprised I didn't get in anywhere with my awful attitude. I am surprised however, that I did not go with my gut instinct last year, bad me. Note to self - competing is only fun when you're not doing it with yourself. Because if you lose to you, then you're just a loser, as you have not taken the time to consider who you may have beaten. Unless you consider losing with yourself winning because you were only competing with yourself so somehow one of you (being yourself) had to win. Wait, who said that?

At least if you compete with other people there will always be those who have not done as well as you. The joys of schadenfreude. Oh how sadistic I have become.

I'm now going to apply for history, as it was the only subject that on paper I was ever any good at, I knew his before I applied for Medicine, however the idea of an instant career was appealing.

My mother said earlier today that I was a 'Victim of not playing to my strengths,' despite the encouragement that was no doubt meant to consume me from those immortal words, I, now no longer the optimistic realist but a sadistic pessimist took it as the confirmation that not only had I failed to get into university, I had manage to victimise myself, in a situation, that involves no one else, but myself.

tum blar

My friend's have pretty awesome tumblrs ;

http://catcatcatt.tumblr.com/

http://annarapson.tumblr.com/

Well, Well, Well.

Well. Well, well well, well. Well well, well well, Well. Well well well well well? Well, well well, well.

Well Well Well, Well.

We'll?

*shakes head*

'Well.'

Are you?

'Well'?

*pause*

Well...

Maybe we'll...

Well, maybe.

Down a?

Well?

We'll see.

Ground Zero.

America is currently doing a lot of recovering, what with the debt crisis, and debacle in Afghanistan, plus there is the redevelopment of Ground Zero. I despair, on the site they are building a new 'Freedom Tower' that will, in 2012, be the taller building in the United States. A generic quote it may be, but 'Those who do not learn from history, will be condemned to repeat it.'

'It is rehabilitation for those hurt by the terrorists and a way to heal the scar on a nation. Part of the healing process is new growth, which this tower represents. But it has been a painful process. The early designs were ridiculed.'

Says a website documenting the rebuild. How much better are security precautions 10 years after 9/11? Good enough to completely eradicate the probability of another attack? What would be even worse, is that if something similar happened again, not only would more lives be lost, and the tower destroyed, but the fountains with the victim's names inscribed into the walls would also be desecrated, it would be a grave yard once again. I understand the notion that some feel to leave the whole plot as a memorial would be too painful, but that doesn't negate the prospect of future terrorist attacks. Acceptance and reflection could be just as powerful as a physical form that shouts literally from the skyline of New York and America has bounced back. It often takes much more will power to leave something as it is, than to keep returning to it.

http://www.glasssteelandstone.com/BuildingDetail.php?pageNum_UserComments=6&totalRows_UserComments=1282&ID=439

Re-blog after Re-ading Hitchens.

So, i'm half way through 'God is not Great' and would just like to point out I wrote the passage below before reading Christopher's book. Basically, he slates, well, criticises at least Dawkin's attempt to rebrand Atheists as the 'enlightened'. Just saying, I said it first, well, before I'd read it.
Traditionalists

It strikes me as ironic that those who view anti abortionist and gay rights groups as ideals which are no long practically applicable in this day and age are alluding to left field, revisionist come enlightened thinking. Where as those traditionalists who actually are against abortion, gay rights etc, are more often that not following the lord's 'enlightened' path.

This does not apply to those who view the issues mentioned as wrong on a matter of moral not religious grounds, everyone is entitled to their beliefs.

A crisis maybe, mid life it may not be.

In today's Observer Magazine Miranda Sawyer wrote about a mid-life crisis/slump. She points out how at 24 she didn't know she would make it to 44, so it's pretty difficult to put the behaviour that characterises a mid-life crisis down to the fact that you are half way through your time on earth, because you could be 3/4 of your life through, or even 5/6 of the way, maybe 2/8, who's to say. It would be interesting to look at the lives of those who died before their perceived 'time' (or the age that is calculated as the national life expectancy,) and see if at half way through their lives, at whatever age that may have been, they displayed the behaviour that some people display at the point which is the traditional 'middle age', and see if the universe was trying to tell the rest of the world, and the person themselves something.

Fleming is making me Phlegmy.

I have recently had to go on antibiotics to sort out an issue with some wisdom teeth, that I do not need (I already consider myself wise, and don't want to pass over into the smart arse category which i'm told is what will happen if I acquire wisdom teeth.) However, I may have to accommodate this extra wisdom for the time being, and in the meantime be ailed with with discomfort that they incur. So, my dentist prescribed me some antibiotics, clearly a man with a sense of humour. The first dentist in the history of the world, to have one. Aren't I lucky.

I have a bone to pick with Alexander Fleming. A seriously disgruntled bone. 'He initially characterised some of its biological properties, but he did not pursue its further development.' Oh did he now? By the way - this is in regards to penicillin (I couldn't find many quotes about amoxicillin, which I am on, turns out it has not been widely discussed in popular culture and epic novels.) If 'Alexander', probably not even his real name, had pursued further development he would have inevitably come to the conclusion that antibiotics weaken the immune system. Which is why, I am sat in bed, with a raging cold, barking when I cough and feeling generally disgusting. Thanks.

I should point out that it is possible that I am ill due to returning home at 3o'clock in the morning, but there is no evidence to prove this. Antibiotics have been proven to weaken the immune system. ha. 'Alexander Phlegming.'

In recent days.

Whenever I am having a bad or a sad day and am at home, I try and sleep for a few hours to sleep it off. But i'm unsure whether it's better to waste your life sleeping, or to spend hours unable to do anything useful and just mope around. The good thing about sleeping, is that if your problems are resulting from tiredness then the chances are you'll feel better when you wake up, and things with be far less overwhelming. The downside of sleeping, is that you're at risk of prolonging your issue, because you're not around to deal with it.

Once again I say, the last thing left in the box, was hope.

Not a good day for the human race

The influence of both substances and extremism have resulted in both a mass murder and a loss of a great talent, more so the loss of great talent, along with the tragic news of Amy Winehouse's death comes the news of the shootings, and subsequent deaths of eighty five Norwegian youths. The trappings come lures of both substance abuse and fundamentalism (whatever they may be) have demonstrated their dangers today.

However, fundamentalism lures people everyday as do substances. Corruption is rife, it just happens that today is the day it has been reported. If you look at the human race as a whole, inclusive of famines, poverty, corruption, fundamentalism, addiction and violence - things which are present every day in so many people's lives, it is hard to call any day a good day for the human race. Admittedly it is impossible to report every graduation, birth, survival, triumph in the news as there are so many, however, when there are such awful occurrences happening in conjunction with the good it makes it hard to weigh up the events of one day, and declare it a good day for the world as a whole. In these troubled times, to avoid imminent defeatism, it would be best to weigh up your day as an individual, and not burden yourself with the doings of everyone else.

Considering all the time I spend looking in the mirror, I don't think can have been paying that much attention. For the past few years I have been convinced that I have an older looking face and not a baby face, however, it would seem I definitely have a baby face, huh.

Fans

I was watching a film earlier, and I never realised that skyscrapers have massive fans on the top of them. I just thought it would be really awful if you fell into one of them, and i'm glad they're at the top the those buildings, and not at street level because no one really wants to see them, or increase their chances of falling into one of them.

I always think it's so strange when you realise what you've been thinking about just before you fall asleep, last night I felt like my bed was moving then coming to a halt, but in all different directions. All over the place, a bit like me at the moment. There was also lots of bread in my head, someone mentioned the other day that that was all we were going to eat, and it appears I took it to heart. Or to bed.

'One thought can conquer all.' This is very true, one thought can reassure yours or someone else's thoughts. It's just unfortunate that sometimes you have to wait a while before the thought comes to you.

This is very nice

the last thing release from pandora’s box was hope

and that's all there was to save the world

Oh to be difficult

You can spend spend half your time wishing things would end and the other half wishing something would last forever. Talk about hard to please.

Eat your cake while you still have it because there will be periods of time when there's not much coming out the oven.

Or shop.

I realise that my first post didn't make much sense, so here it is, in picture form. Start at the first picture.

Birds

I think Canada Geese are nicer looking than doves, plus they're more interesting with their migrations. I also like how they return to where they come from, but travel to new places too. Apologies for my lack of artistic skills.

I really like how I don't specifically have to use 'Hello' 'Hi' 'Heya' etc when i start talking to my friends, but they still know that i'm still saying 'Hello' :)

Mirror Mirror

This morning I flicked through the Sunday Mirror magazine over breakfast (i'm pretty sure it had ended up there by mistake and that there had been a terrible mix up on the paper boy's part) and came across the 'Bikini Bodies in 19 Days' feature. The diet consisted of food that no one actually likes to eat, and it struck me that if I really wanted to lose weight, I would rather nibble on air than subject myself to their suggestions, or I could just exercise...

For example; they generously gave the diet disciples the option to eat as many egg whites as they liked! woo! YEAH!

Honestly. Egg whites are gross you may as well chew on bark.

Living on the Edge

Depressing that when asked about what guy's car it was parked outside my house in the middle of the week I have to explain that it belongs to my female chemistry tutor

Wholly undesirable situations

When you walk around a corner, and wonder what's around it, once you're around the corner, you're what's behind it (or infont?). The next person who wonders what is around the corner and then proceeds to, wander, around the corner is going to be met with you. Unless you have found yourself walking through a chicane or have encountered a hole. In which case you're still there, and they won't need to wonder before they wander because they will be able to hear you in your hole. That is of course assuming they don't hear your cries and decide the corner isn't worth wandering around.

There is also the chance that your follower, being deaf, will misjudge their path, fall, and be just as unfortunate as you, if not more - subject to whether you're the kind of person one would like to be stuck in a hole with. Not that anyone would choose to be stuck in a hole with someone they don't like.

Note that I am not applying this situation to people who may be running around corners in order to get away from something perilous; in a chase, a hole, especially a hole around a corner may provide the perfect hiding place. This assertion is not applicable to scenarios in which your pursuer spots that you are in a hole, then you are most probably stuck between a 'rock and a hard place.' Or between an earth wall and someone undesirable.

It would be convenient in that situation that the hole you happen to have fallen into already has someone in it, someone who coincidently is carrying some sort of weapon or or digging equipment. I take that back, digging equipment could be used as a weapon. This is probably the person that you chose not to help out when you first heard their screaming, you may have turned around and then had no choice but continue around the corner you were hoping to avoid. No longer stuck between the earth wall and one undesirable person, you are probably now muddy and about to be the victim of undesirable person number 1, while the hole dweller you ignored earlier stands back and watches you squirm.

As you can see, corners can be just as unfavourable as vicious circles. Or vicious cycles. They do seem like the same thing.

Speaking of vicious circles, there are no roundabouts in America. Need I say more?

Terror

The thought of some things genuinely make me feel like i'm a vampire about to be staked.

Green T

Green tea is supposed to be calming, i'm looking forward to being enlightened.

Loop Pedals

Revision. Revision break, think of results, consider life having failed, panic. Revision.

Repeat until 24th June.

Everything happens for a reason ???? PLEAASSEE

I have surpassed myself, I've managed to embarrass myself more than I ever have before, considering my list of previous embarrassments is practically infinite, I think I deserve some kind of consolation medal.

Jargon

I don't always resort to moral relativism to make myself feel better, I blame my bad deeds on dualism instead, then reassure myself with all my good deeds and subsequent karma.

There was an old lady who swallowed a fly

I didn't swallow a fly although once one flew up my nose, this is actually about how I ran over a bird today. There was new driver who ran over a bird, that was me today, it's okay though I'm taking a utilitarian approach to it. Rather the bird than the human.

Africa

I heard about this guy who got deported from Mozambique for running around with a spirit stick and dancing. I also heard about this guy who's allegedly written the majority of all good books ever written. What a legend...

They're not wrong, reflective surfaces are reflective for a reason.

Fuming

There's a photo of me looking at a fume cupboard, people blatantly just think i'm checking out my reflection, they're wrong...?

I found out today that someone I used to know has achieved what they always wanted to, against the odds, I can't think of anyone more deserving. Everything can pay off in the end.

Remember Me

So many things happen in life but we choose what we want to specifically remember, I wonder if I would be any different if I’d chosen to remember different things. To me it seems the only point of memory, other than to remember certain people, is to try and ensure you don’t make the same mistake twice. If i’d remembered different things I might have made different mistakes more often but not have made the same big mistakes just once. I don’t think either’s grass is much greener than the other’s.

Suave?

I thought my fountain pen was really suave until I stabbed myself in the arm with it. I'm not a very suave person in general, and sharp objects do nothing for my cause.

An I for an I

I'm not liking all these 'I's

Charity

The profits from the auction of the fascinator are going to charity. In my esteemed opinion.... I think that in this case whoever buys it should just have given £75000 to charity and have had the hat thrown in for free. After all, who needs a reason or an incentive to give money to charity?

Most people.

Phillip Treacy

Princess Beatrice's royal weddings fascinator has reached over £75,000 on ebay. !?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?

Dark Materials

Apparently the existence of dark energy has been confirmed.

Dark energy; 'The action of dark energy is as if you threw a ball up in the air, and it kept speeding upward into the sky faster and faster.'

So basically it's rubbish for racket sports, however, good news for Einstein who's theories are still ticking boxes. I think dark energy sounds really evil, I'm not sure I like name. But, I do keep repeating it, so either I have an ashamedly poor vocabulary, know nothing about physics (definitely true) or am actually quite fond of the it's title.

Annoying Questions

1) Why is that on your ipod?

2) Why are you watching that?

These questions are ridiculous, everyone does and those who don't SHOULD know that music, television, films and art are subjective. Therefore, by asking these condescending questions you are in fact just asking yourself a rhetorical question and making an unnecessary contribution to the decibel level of your surroundings. You know the answer. The answer is 'because i like them' or 'because it's to my taste' or maybe even 'because i WANT to'.

Afterthought; there's nothing worse than Artistic snobbery. Escapism is OKAY.

The only shore is made in...

The Only Way is Essex

Made in Chelsea

Jersey Shore

The Hills

All very amusing and ridiculously watchable. What seems to distinguish them is the fact that they're about different social circles; there are some nice people, some not so nice, some more normal people, some more wacky. Just goes to show (get it?), that whoever you mix with and whichever conceived 'class' they come from there will be some people you like, and others who you don't take to quite as much...

In summary; every group of people, where ever you find them, will have just the same kind of composition. But you probably knew that already ;)

Inhibitions

Earlier today I went to my weekly zumba class and kept zoning out. Got me to to thinking, is 'zoning out' the same as losing your inhibitions and forgetting your surroundings? Because that's supposed to be empowering, when I zone out in zumba I stop concentrating on the woman directing the class and start turning the wrong way whilst limply moving my limbs. Maybe losing your inhibitions doesn't apply to things that involve you being lead. Or exercise classes.

Entropy

I should probably point out that I know very little about the following things; entropy, philosophy and the department of education.

Entropy? ( see post below).

'Champagne Socialism'

Every Cloud has a silver lining.

Sickle Cell Anaemia sufferers have a selective advantage in regions where Malaria is widespread, this being that they are resistant to it. It struck me that even when things that happen to you feel like the worst case scenario there's probably a reason why they happened in the first place. Admittedly this isn't much of a comfort at the time, but I like to think it would inspire me to keep going until I figure out the reason why something happened. The fact of the matter is, pessimism pays off instantly, you feel angry, fed up and come to the conclusion that the world is conspiring against you and things are never going to get better. Optimism on the other hand, is a lot more hard work but when something does happen that doesn't make you feel like you're the butt of a global joke taking vicarious pleasure in your misfortunes (deep breath), you haven't wasted time feeling sorry for yourself.

There's nothing wrong with feeling rubbish when something bad happens, it's probably more healthy to feel your feelings so to speak then just to bury them and move on. My point is, when something s*** happens it doesn't mean that things will always be s***, and when you look back on it won't seem nearly as s*** as it did at the time (this applies to more trivial things, even as an eternal optimist I don't think I could really look back on something like death in a positive light, that's just really s***).

I'm not saying that Sickle Cell Anaemia sufferers are in any way compensated by this resistance to malaria, but maybe we can take something from the silver lining that's allowed generations of people to survive. I watched American Beauty the other day, I think that's what's brought this on, after all even if you wish you were dead, you're probably lucky to be alive in the first place. There's a reason why you're descended from that one sperm that made it to the egg. Maybe there were trillions of potential souls that didn't get the chance to find a body! Everything happens for a reason, otherwise why would anything 'bother' happening at all? I'm not really religious, but I do struggle with the idea that there is no greater reason for the existence of the Human race. Maybe I just have a complex about being needed...

'Studies'

Is an increase in subjects for secondary schools really a good thing? Yes in practise but not when these subjects are used to bump the school's 5 A*-C pass rate. If you look carefully at the league tables you'll see that the small print says, next to the surprisingly high percentage 'not including English and maths. As dry as these subjects may seem to some at school that fact is it's hard to get through life without either, obviously you're taught them in primary school but not to the level where either become a skill you can apply in your working life. I'm not condemning practical subjects such as textiles, or design technology, these open doors to many careers, some vocational some not. It's subjects like media studies; yes, it captures the interest of young people because on the surface it's more relevant in the pupil's daily lives. But what do you actually learn from Media studies? Well there is opportunity to nurture your creativity but I think it could have the same effect but within the English GCSE itself. That way those with a penchant for all things media related still get a taste but within a more traditional framework and they can pursue it at college if they choose to.

If Media studies gets kids thinking and engages them, then within the English GCSE one would assume the following happens; kids are engaged, interested, they work harder, school gets better results and everyone is happy. In a perfect world...

I do recognise that the problem with traditional subjects is that for many pupils their enjoyment of the subject is dependent on the standard of teaching, and that for a lot of kids subjects that require more practical work lessen the deficits that poor teaching inflicts.

Maybe i'll just be British about this issue, and sit on the fence.

Traditionalists

It strikes me as ironic that those who view anti abortionist and gay rights groups as ideals which are no long practically applicable in this day and age are alluding to left field, revisionist come enlightened thinking. Where as those traditionalists who actually are against abortion, gay rights etc, are more often that not following the lord's 'enlightened' path.

This does not apply to those who view the issues mentioned as wrong on a matter of moral not religious grounds, everyone is entitled to their beliefs.