It’s regretful that I
have to start another blog by acknowledging the fact that I haven’t written one
in months but, yet again, it must be done. The reasons for this stretch far and
wide, some may say, too far and too wide! So I won’t attempt to bore you with
these reasons, which stretch, to the very horizons of each and every one of
your sensory perceptions.
Yes it has been quite a while
since I have written a single word. I feel that now, enough time has passed for
me to be able to string out five hundered or so words informing my avid readers
of what exactly I have been up to for the past 4-5 months and it will be
sufficient and perhaps entertaining enough.
Well my last blog was posted at
the end of March, slightly before or perhaps slightly after my last exam, I
don’t really remember. What I do remember is that I passed all my exams and am
able to cling to the label of ‘student’ and to all the luxuries that go hand in
hand with that label, such as getting marginal percentage discounts from
selected retail outlets and a special railcard that says student on it, which
gets you a third of any journey just like all the other types of railcard you
can purchase.
Since then I have been comfortably
busying myself by doing nothing. Every now and then I’ll try desperately to
find a job but it seems that every CV I have handed out is another wasted piece
of paper playing its part in destroying the rainforests, something I abhor. So
I have decided to stop printing off CVs that don’t even get looked at, another
step towards saving the planet.
Another studenty thing that I
have experienced is the feverish excitement I’m sure all students endure when
they have to move all there shit from one place to another. I’m not sure how it
happened but over the course of the year I managed to accumulate quite a lot of
random stuff I barely used such as an accordion, a violin and a nerf gun to
name a few. Perhaps the greatest acquirement was obtained on the day we moved
out of the flat.
As our sneaky Korean
housemates emigrated before the end of the tenancy, myself and two other
English tenants I live with, had to clean the entire flat. Not only did they
leave the tidying to us but also they pretty much left all the things they kept
in the communal area of the flat. Fearing we would lose our deposit if the flat
was full of stuff we decided to claim it all. The most precious treasure we acquired
was there fancy Korean rice cooker. Unfortunately all the buttons are in Korean
so unable to use it, it serves only as a cultural ornament and talking point,
perched proudly on a table in the centre of the living room in the new house.
At the moment our abode for the
following year of university is bare and unappealing, (apart from the living
room of course!) The alarms go off every time someone moves and I am scared of
the responsibility of having to arrange bills and their payments. So currently
the house functions only as a sort of squat, a cold building in which you can
shelter from the elements and sleep, providing you are very very still.
I am planning on furnishing it
with bohemian wall hangings and various other gnarly stuff to make it more homely;
perhaps I’ll upload a picture or two when it is complete.
That about wraps it up, a few
other occurrences have occupied my time but I’ll save them to give me something
to write about another day.