February 2012
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Oscars.
While I totally respect Jean Dujardin and The Artist and everything he has ever done, Gary Oldman was incredible in Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy and so deserved it. Fuck the academy.
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Welcome to my world.
Currently in the process of applying for bursaries, that, in a way, I hope I never receive. It would make things a hundred times easier, instead of:
‘ah you’ve offered to pay for some of my university fees, shame I’m having doubts about the whole thing. Awfully sorry about that.’
Seriously get me out of this, I can’t bring myself to speak to any of my teachers. I...
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Echoes Of Silence - The Weeknd
I suppose I did set this thing up to blog mainly about music, instead I find myself moaning and grumping around. So here it goes…
Currently playing almost all the time on my iPod is Echoes Of Silence - The Weeknd, the third piece of a trilogy of mixtapes released last year and in my opinion it is the best one. It opens with a magnificent rendition of Dirty Diana, which sets the tone of a...
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the end of something.
Times change, dreams end.
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text&tales
My Mum has finally twigged that I’m not in a great state of mind when it comes to discussing university, and I think my enjoyment of last week has compounded the issue.
Durham attracts me, but then so do the Alps.
The serious question is; would I be better to get this ski season out of my system now or wait until I’m done with university, because right now that seems like a long...
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“She would’ve been a good woman if it had been somebody there to shoot her...”
– Flannery O’Connor; A Good Man Is Hard to Find
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shit. young the giant are on glee.
what an absolute joke.
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One night in Meribel and the repercussions.
Spent the last week skiing in the 3 Vallees, and I must say it has been the most amazing week of my life. Being the age that I have finally become, my friends and I were accepted into a kind of staff crew and I began to realise how much fun the staff actually have…
If I knew I could definitely get a job as a ski host/ chalet staff I wouldn’t hesitate to withdraw my application for...
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“She had the cold, disdainful expression of a dame who is dated so far ahead that...”
– Raymond Chandler - Bay City Blues
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“I smelled of gin. Not just casually, as if I had taken a few drinks, but as if...”
– Bay City Blues - Raymond Chandler
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“Lap dancing is the ultimate nightmare of man. Porn that can see you.”
– Steve; Coupling
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The macbook that returned from the dead, and other...
My macbook has been saved by my expert screen fitting skills, actually it was an absolute task and I seriously recommend to any idiot who attempts it to think again. However I am now incredibly happy to have it back.
I GOT AN OFFER FROM DURHAM. However I still have doubts about what the hell I’m doing with my life, one the one hand it could be some kind of Oxford fixation that I need to...
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£200 for a new MacBook screen.
Welcome to my world.
During a power-cut last week I managed to pull my MacBook off the table and my screen has spidered, in this situation I would normally preach struggling on, but I seriously cannot see a thing. Just to compound the matter, as I have a white MacBook I have to replace the whole top half which will cost £200, which I definitely cannot afford.
On a happier note, Durham still...
January 2012
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emails.
Need to send Durham and Nottingham an email to inform them that i am only taking three A Levels now. I’m thinking they might possibly use that as an excuse to take me out of the equation and reject me there and then, maybe I’m hoping that they will. The gap year seems all the more attractive, I think that could be what it takes for me to sort my head out…
I suppose I just need...
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tonight's the night.
I have a good feeling about this one, which hopefully due to the alcohol flowing through my veins will get a lot better. On the other hand it could be shit, I mean USA themed, what the fuck.
but let’s be optimistic.
Fortunately I can pull off the geek look.
Of course I can, I am a geek. See below;
On the other hand, as an amateur psychologist, I found it absolutely fascinating to see J...
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“Like Olympic medals and tennis trophies, all they signified was that the owner...”
– Yossarian; Catch 22.
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“knee Putin in the goolies”
– David Milliband; Putin, Russia & the West
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I haven't had an offer since October 18th.
I feel I haven’t moaned about my university applications for a few days now, and while nothing has changed, it has really given me the chance to think about things. And while I feel that I would enjoy studying law, I really don’t feel I’ve made any decision about my future… I’m kind of stuck in this limbo. I’ve never really enjoyed any subjects, I’ve never...
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evenin'
I quit French A Level today.
So so unsure of whether it was a good plan, but my whole education seems to be on a knife edge right now, i really would love at least 1 A* at A Level, it would be incredible.
I really do want it so badly.
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“He knew everything about literature except how to enjoy it.”
– shit. English Lit exam today.
everythingiwanted asked: whos suzanna?
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re-jek-shun.
I suppose I haven’t really talked about my rejection from oxford much, I did fuck up my interviews and my lnat, so I presume it was kind of expected from my point of view.
As much as i would love to have gotten in, life’s like that.
However on the day of the appendicitis I received through my referee my rejection feedback letter from St. Peter’s College. I have never been as...
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Miles Away - Depeche Mode
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gapyah. MKII
welcome to the world of the plastic beach welcome to my world of confusion
I really have no idea what to do anymore, it’s so complex and I want to be doing the course I want to do at the university I want to do it. Also upon hearing what my fellow oxford rejectees were planning, I kinda hoped I could go through the process with them again.
It’s an absolute bitch.
Just to be rejected...
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She-who-must-be-obeyed, MKV
I haven’t created a post in the ‘she-who-must-be-obeyed’ series in what feels like a lifetime, well A’s long gone, in fact A never really arrived.
However L has made a return, we chatted for the first time in a lifetime on New Years Day, she’s so so so so so so amazing, literally I think she’s perfect, as I insist on telling her all the time. She adores my...
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“We’ve been losing our exits one by one…”
– The National - Think You Can Wait
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nchum
Welcome to the New College of the Humanities, London.
I wonder how many students will hear that on the first day of term in October 2012.
If I knew I might apply.
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ithinkaboutyou-everyday asked: Still time for offers! Don't worry! ;D
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fuck off.
I was walking around school today when my head of sixth form stopped me and asked how I was feeling, I thought, well that’s nice of you. Then as I was walking away i could hear him whispering…
‘you NEED another offer’
‘you NEED another offer’
I wish everyone would stop saying this, actually i mean fuck off and let me cry in a hole on my own.
Am I really such...
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“Yossarian was sorry to hear they had a mutual friend. It seemed there was a...”
– Joseph Heller you have a habit of summing up my daily life.
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“Unfortunately there I run out of words. Perhaps you will forgive me if I turn...”
– Four Weddings and a Funeral; the funeral.