Todays title has to be dedicated to whoever the legend is that keeps playing indie music REALLY LOUD out of their window in Pavs. So far I've heard Bowling for Soup, Journey, and possibly Beatles, but I was talking at the time so didn't listen very well. Also it seems appropriate because I have been so preoccupied I've forgotten to write my lovely self-obsessed blog to you all, so sorry to my darling grandparents who I know read this religiously. I do love them dearly.
Okay, where to start, where to start? It's so hard becoming active in an area of life where you've previously been really lazy, it's like starting going to the gym again after months and months of not... Although of course less strenuous on the muscles and more on the back. I can't even remember what I wrote about last. So I'll tell you about everything from the past... since I got back to university... 2 weeks ago? I think so.
I was really busy the first week back! I had a photography project, a history essay, a Luke essay and Luke's first dissitation all to hand in within a week and a few weeks which was quite hellish on my "I like sleep" attitude, but I got it all done anyway and can I say I can see myself getting more than a measly 3rd on this unit of work, although it hasn't been marked yet. My history essay could have been improved had I known about the website our lecturer was supposed to show us months ago and invariably forgot, but no matter, what's a few years and a spelling of a name or two in history? (Sarcastic nervous giggle inserted here) Yeah yeah I know that is a ridiculous mistake to make but as I'm only taking history for the frst year and the first year doesn't actually count for anything more than getting into second year I'm not that fussed. The new lot of work we are doing involves the most basic of all tools on photoshop, which is driving me mad having been quite an expert for a few years now. At least I can expect a fairly good mark from it though, unless of course the lecturer has a certain way she wants us to do the work, then I could have a problem. She tried teaching us the "quick mask mode" in lecture, a tool I am more than capable of using having been taught this every year since being 13 years old, but she managed to confuse me to the point of not understanding it any more with her method... So I'm really not looking forward to this and have a feeling youtube tutorials will be my point of call.
Anyway, because we were between project for quite a while, me and Luke have been spending every moment available to us together, and it's been MARVELOUS! Such a joy to find time to fall in love all over again to the guy you want to spend the rest of your life with. We haven't even been doing anything interesting to be honest. We watched Scream which I actually really liked, we also watched "Avatar 3D" today which was stunning. We also have been house hunting for a student house next year... And very much doubt we'll be IN a student house, looking at the state of the 2 we looked at. One was £65 a week, our perfect price range, but was so small,poky and damp we said we wouldn't live there for £10 a week. The other was the most beautiful thing ever seen in the world and I would love to live in as my actual home one day, but was £80 a week, so really really expensive. Because there is 4 of us going to be living together we could quite easily afford a place costing £800 a month (£50 a week each) and also pay for all bills quite happily, and if we got a 3 bedroom place for £800 a month, it would be huge. So although the deposit is likely to be expensive (£1000 all together I THINK. The deposit is always a bit more than a full months worth of rent, but I think that means we will have already paid for a month and a bit... Don't quote me, when the other girl we will be living with gets better we'll be doing a lot of research), we'll have a really nice house to live in for however many years it takes for us to afford our own houses, which will be perfect.
I got quite a few things coming up soon. Valentines day is quite soon and although I don't have much idea of a present to get Luke, we have a few events that we will be going to such as "Spiers and Boden" concert (very famous folk singers), a ceilidh and a few other things all happening. We're pretty much using the entire month to celebrate as on 11th March, we will be celebrating our 4th year of being together. Good times are all on their way!
But the good times have had to be planned really carefully as I won't be around from the 17th Feburary - 26th Feburary, you know why? I'M GOING TO SAN FRANSISCO!!!
We got the details through the other day. We're staying on "pier 39" of fishermans warf, which has views of the river, the city, and the Golden Gate bridge! We'll be going to China Town for food a few times, also to be visiting "Castro", also known as "Gay Central", as well as Pixar studios, Dreamworks studios, Nappa Valley (sorry if that's spelt wrong), Alcatraz (again, dont quote me on the spelling), and we'll even be visiting Berkley University. For those who don't know, Berkley University is an Ivy League university, so on the same status page as Harvard and all the other big unis, that has a campus the size of the CITY of Lincoln itself. We'll apparently get to meet the students who hopefully will be able to tell us where to go for a drink (because Americans have a minimum drinking age of 21, and they're really strict on it ¬_¬). the only kick in the teeth will be setting off at 2:30am from Lincoln, so we've been told not to bother trying to get to sleep but we deffinitely have to eat something before we set off as apparently the plane food will be dire.
I think that's everything interesting in my life right now. I'll post again when anything good happens. So Ciao for now!
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