Sixty One: Day trips.

"The smallest bookstore still contains more ideas of worth than have been presented in the entire history of television."

Andrew Ross

These are the books I have to read and haven't:
-The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
-The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
-Breathe by Anne-Sophie Brasme
-If nobody speaks of remarkable things by Jon Mcgregor (despite having this since my birthday...)
-How to be lost by Amanda Eyre Ward
-Rules for saying goodbye by Katherine Taylor
-Bloodtide by Melvin Burgess
-The Memory Box by Margaret Foster
-The Piano by Jane Campion and Kate Pullinger.

These have mainly been accumulated from the various trips I've been on- to Weymouth last Sunday where I found a brilliant second hand bookshop that I could have quite happily spent all day in- and to Dorchester on Wednesday where there were lots of charity shops.

Weymouth was nice. I don't know if you can see in this picture there are sand sculptures of the characters of Alice in Wonderland:

Here is a picture of the beach:

We then went to the Water Gardens, which were pretty:

Apologies for the picture spamming. Although these were cute and fluffy:

Clearly it's only me that thinks so.

I didn't take that many pictures in Dorchester because all we did was go shopping so instead you can have this picture of my Nana in a hat:

I don't know what it is but every time we go shopping I feel an urge to put things on my Nana's head and take pictures. Easily pleased.

University updates: got accommodation at Chichester. It's in Hammond, which means shared facilities and is catered. I have nothing else to say about this at the this moment in time- I was properly annoyed yesterday. It's less than three weeks to results. I am impatient. GIVE THEM TO ME NOW.

Off to film and edit videos and attempt to do something productive with my day.

B xxx

Sixty: Alright?

"Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia. You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you'll escape it one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present."

Looking for Alaska- John Green

Why hello there. I realised in my last entry that I said I would be back in August, and I know that it's not, but never mind.

Right. Updates. On Saturday it will have been a month since my last exam, though it doesn't feel like it. The amount of reading and writing I've done has gone up- I entered a writing competition (it would have been two but that's a long, fairly embarrassing story in which I got the wrong deadline) and there's a poetry competition at the end of the month. I've actually started using my Goodreads account so you can look at all the books I've been reading. Though it says I'm currently reading four books and the only one I've actually started reading of those four is The Perks of Being a Wallflower. I shall start the other three soon. Speaking of books, I've got my university book list for Chichester. Freaked out when I first saw it but now I've got all the books it's not too bad. It helps that as a Joint Honours student my modules have already been decided for me- Literary History and Creative Writing. Some of the other modules sound more interesting than Literary History but I'm sure I'll be able to do those at some other point. Greenwich haven't sent me anything yet, and all their website is 'Students typically spend around £350 on books a year.' :O Have they not heard of Amazon?

I've just realised that it's less than a month to exam results. I am impatient to know them.  don't think I'll be nervous, I just want to know so I know which uni I'm going to. I don't think I'm going to Chichester, but I've got used to the idea of Greenwich and look for the positives in going- huge uni library, possible work placements at publishing houses/newspapers/radio stations in London, fabulous market and shops, plus relatives just down the road. I think I'm also looking forward to the independence uni brings, as well as meeting new people.
In other news, my summer is going okay. Going quite slowly and it's too hot, but I don't miss college, except the people. Been to town a couple of times; ate a lot at Pizza Express the last time. Want to go to the cinema to see Toy Story 3 but have no money to do so- because I'm going to Summer in the City. I sorted out travel and accommodation yesterday. Only today did I realise that I'm supposed to be in Brighton on the Friday. I could just go SitC on the Saturday instead, but I think it's important to be there on the first day. Quite a few people said that it was their first gathering and that they were going by themselves so that made me feel less anxious. Anyway, we'll see. Off to town with Nana tomorrow, pub quiz in the evening though I don't feel like it. Friday I should probably tidy and clean up the house, Saturday is Oxfam, Sunday is Weymouth.

Right, I'm going to go now 'cause How to Look Good Naked is on and I have some Ben & Jerry's to eat.

B xxx :)

Fifty Nine: It's July.

"'If you knew it would hurt me then you must have known you were doing something wrong- you don't even make sense!'"

Belle/Hannah - Secret Diary of a Call Girl

I'm really only writing this blog to let you know for every day in July I will be posting blogs here as part of Lydia's JEDI July (Journal Every Day In, in case you were wondering. Nothing to do with Star Wars.) project, and then I shall be back over here.

But before I go, I wanted to do some updates and stuff, starting with Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. You can watch the trailer here, in HD and widescreen and that fancy stuff,if you wait for it to load. First of all, I'm excited as I knew I inevitably would be (despite the fact that no one else seems to share my exictement...) but also a little nostalgic because it's all coming to an end. Though the second part isn't until July next year. 

In other news, I'm now done with exams. I'm pretty sure I've failed English Language, I don't really care about Critical Thinking and I don't know about English Literature, so if I get my results and I end up going to Greenwich, I wouldn't be entirely surprised. And I'm feeling a little bit better about going there since we went for the Christening, but it's still not Chichester.

I forgot to mention in my last entry that I'd also read a book called Forbidden by Tabitha Suzuma. It's about a brother and sister who fall in love.I was a little sceptical at first, as I really couldn't imagine being in love with my brother, but it's a good book.

Anyway, I think that's everything, so I'll see you next month...

B xxx :)