It’s (probably) not very effective…
So this whole blogging thing seems to have stopped for more than a while now, and yet everybody still seems to want to blog. I don’t get it. Maybe our lives are all too void of interesting things to warrant blogging more than once a year. With my gap year drawing to a close my life has recently been filled mostly with stressing over uni, housing and finance stuff and relaxing from said stress. Not that the rest of my gap year can’t be summed up with the word “relaxing”, but hey, I’ve explained why I needed it and it damn well worked. Over all, I’ve recently been in the best state of mine I’ve had for years and I’m raring to get going with university and living away from home. I’m shit scared, but massively excited too.
Some of you may remember my list of things I wanted to do during my gap year, and how it failed epically. Well, I’ve made a new one for uni. It contains two items, in order of importance:
- Don’t fail the course.
- Stay sane.
All else comes after. Physical health, social life and everything else I can’t think of right now will be taking a back seat when necessary. Considering how I screwed up my A levels and this course is kind of a lucky break, AND I’ll have a debt of a bit over £8000 per year (mostly in living costs), I’d rather go mad and pass than keep my sanity and fail. My brain can be fixed afterwards.
My moving in date has been set as the 6th of September. I’m not sure how long it’s going to take to get the internet sorted out from this point, especially as Virgin don’t seem to know the flat exists. Hopefully it’ll be a simple case of sending a bloke over with the tools, confirming that the flat does actually exist and installing it straight away, in which case we should have internet pretty quickly. Just depends on how many days they take to send the bloke over. I just hope they don’t have to send a first bloke over to check the place out, then send another bloke at a later date to install it. I’ll probably contact them on the 6th, or maybe sooner if… I don’t really know what has to happen. Regardless, I won’t be around for an unknown number of days from the 6th onwards, other than when I go to the pub to steal their internet. Unless if I can find an unprotected wireless network, which may be possible. I’ll only be about 50 meters from a McDonald’s, so who knows. We’ll see. I also feel like the first few days without internet may actually be a bit of a blessing. It’ll help me start a new routine that’s not based around my PC, but rather fitting my PC in around it.
My course starts on the 19th of September, which gives me the best part of two weeks to settle in. Not sure what exactly happens after this date, as this is the date I just have to turn up at the uni, show them my student finance stuff and whatever else, they tell the finance people that they’re happy with it all and my loan comes through. I’m not sure when my actual course starts. Could be the next day, could be two weeks later. Guess I’ll just wait and see.
Today is my dad’s 50th birthday, and I spent the early afternoon in the conservatory with my parents, my dad’s parents and my dad’s sister’s family. Holy shit, I spent time with my family. This is unheard of. O_O My Grandpa and uncle wrote a comedic song about his life and recorded it with my uncle’s professional equipment, and oh god it was so funny. I missed half of it because everyone was laughing too loud. I’ll steal the CD and get a copy of it soon, just ask me if you want to hear it, but it won’t be half as funny because you sort of need to know the events of my dad’s life.
And now, a very different and also quite good song.
Just to clarify, “quite good” was an intentional astronomical understatement.