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 :)