Things get you down…

I sit. In my room, with a to-do list taller than the flat I live in. I can’t do them. Why? Concentration has flown out of my window. I guess I should be talking to someone. But sometimes. Just sometimes, it is easier to write than speak. WordPress seems like a good place to do so. I know it’ll get published but it also reserves some anonymity, right? Well, just in case I won’t go into details. I kinda realise now that this is a bit of a ramble – nonsensical rabble that gives some things away but is left ambiguous to you all. Hm, oh well. I’m just typing as I go along – no thinking involved. They say it helps. That you just write. Some say great literature is born this way. I doubt this post will be literature, but it’s making me feel that little bit better. That’s good. Always good.

Times like these, I enjoy browsing other people’s blogs. Gives a little insight on how others are living. A good range too. Especially like reading those randomers living in Japan as foreigners. Gives an insight on how I might be in a year’s time. Did I forget to tell you? I think I’ve told some a little too much, and others not enough. I’ve applied for JET. Look it up. It’s an opportunity to live in Japan for a year teaching English. As an assistant. Not bad. Well, great actually. If I get it, I’ll have a salary of about £25,000. Not many graduates can be proud of that. Small chance though. Thousands of applicants, a hundred perhaps get to go? At least I think that’s the odds.

I feel like an emo. Always fun to pick at them a little bit. MySpace lovers posting photos of themselves taken with a webcam and then crying about how they are alone. Hm. Well, I guess I’m not an emo, but bordering it with this post. But hey I guess it helps. Not as extreme mind you. I’m hardly threatening to jump off a bridge. Online. Connecting servers together… that was an internet joke. Lol. Oh, what a geek…

Been watching Lost recently. Bought the box set a little while ago, but haven’t got the chance to watch it yet. A bit of catch up with Seasons 1 and 2 so far – hopefully get to move on to the unwatched stuff. Currently, where I am at – Ana Lucia has just shot Shannon and Sayid is a little annoyed. Walt’s missing and the people on the raft has returned to camp. No sign of “The Others” yet except some feet on camera and a teddy bear. Oops, did I ruin it for you? Sorry. Still… exciting times. It’s what I resort to when I can’t tackle my to-do list. Which consists of a Literature Review and learning lines for a play. Yes, I’m in a play. Who’ve thought eh? Plenty of lines to learn, little time to do it. Maybe I should crack on with it. Tomorrow is what I always say. Tomorrow.

Well, on that note – perhaps tomorrow will be a sunnier day. But, living in London on the last day of December – is this possible?

Time Waster…

And so, I sit here typing away. Wasting my time… as per usual. Well, I guess it’s Christmas right? Well, Boxing Day but the whole vacation period is still here right? New Year’s yet to come! It’s time to unwind and relax……..

Yes, well on top of all of the relaxing, I have a fair amount to do. I need to learn my lines and get a literature review started, finished and printed for when I return to York. Doesn’t sound much… but time is fast running out, and so is my motivation. Bad times…

Boxing Day Manic

So, they call this aftermath of Christmas “Boxing Day”. Now, usually I can hack a busy environment filled with people flooding in and out of shops and falling over each other to get the cheapest bargains there are… Having said that, today was a different matter. As soon as I entered what has been branded as Europe’s largest in-city shopping centre: “Westfield”, I began to get slightly dizzy and nauseous. After a bit of walking around, I was run over by buggies, knocked into by people and my patience was beginning to wear… Following this, my back began to deteriorate and I had to get out of there.

What’s going on? Is my University life making me soft? I can’t seem to hack a busy environment anymore! Having said that, I’ve been pretty OK elsewhere… maybe it was just today. Boxing Day. Where we box up all our unwanted gifts and buy what we really want. Half price!

Pasaje del Terror

Yes, a frightening experience it was. At the cashier, we were told it would only last about half an hour, and therefore I was reluctant to pay £12.95 as a student price. However, I was glad it was so short, and it only lasted us 20 minutes as we ran through a lot of it. As we waited, a video outside showed people running out of the show and referring it alike to a movie. My thoughts ran as follows: “Surely it can’t be that bad!” But then, we were asked to walk down a set of stairs in pitch black, where a man jumps out on us and takes our ticket. We sit in a misty cinema, 3D glasses propped on our noses ready for a scary 3D film, which never happened. Instead we watched a lady fall through a door in the show and land herself back in time, where Jack The Ripper kills her, and then comes into the show in the present day through the same door. Boring.

But, as we walk through the pasaje del terror, we witness zombies jumping out at us, Death following us and most scary of all, a possessed girl jumping out at us from her bed, and following us. All in all a frightful time which is worth every penny. Almost!

No time left in the world – or Uni

So, as a typical student may do, I am still awake at a time gone 2am. Why? I have no time left in the world of University! My time is currently devoted to the campus lifestyle and am no longer aware of going-ons even just in town let alone the general news. Rehearsals for different shows are currently back to back. Any work left for my degree after that are done in any spare time I can get which can be rare – thus resulting in the possibility of reducing all I have to a smaller number at graduation. My plans of writing a novel and a play has gone out of the window. I no longer have time to sit down and watch a film or two. What’s happened to my cooking? I don’t think I even know how to use the hob! Time is drifting away and I am becoming ever so tired everyday in an attempt to catch up on sleep that I waste away during a busy day. A vicious cycle indeed…