An Extravagant Easter

Hello! I'm back! And only a month later! You should be proud! I feel like giving myself a pat on the back for this extreme motivation but... I'm too lazy!

I'm currently making use of this blog-writing time to allow my shockingly blue nail varnish to dry which was originally an activity implemented to put off updating my CV. Notice how doing something procrastinatory (not sure that's a word) i.e. painting my nails, lead to another procrastinatory activity: writing this blog. It's a vicious cycle! I need help, I really do.

However don't let this put you off from what I have to say, it's quite interesting, honest!
Let's get down to business. Be prepared to read what is most probably (although not scientifically proven to be) one of my longest posts... or maybe just give up now?

I'm on my Easter holidays! Ain't that a relief! I've been back home for a week and already university has become a far-fetched dream (although the very realistic prospect of revision is continually nagging at me and WEARING AWAY AT MY SOUL (Aaah! Sorry to get all dramatic).
So, I hear you ask, what have I done with myself apart from sleeeeeeeep and eat an extortionate amount of heavenly-good food? Well, I'm spending my time socialising (seriously not being an anti-social bitch is such hard work, it should be a full time occupation) with friends and family: the latter involving platefuls of home-cooked food and delightful dinners out, the former comprising of many gallons of alcohol or caffeine based beverages... or the two at once - ah! Jägerbombs I do love thee!

Unfortunately this sadly brief but lavish lifestyle has left me feeling just a little bit lethargic and dare I say it? FAT. My relatives appear to want me to roll back to university. So being a mad fitness freak (using this term lightly) I decided to go for a run... in zero degrees. It was not a good idea. After twenty minutes I thought my hands were going to fall off. Note to self: this is why gyms were invented.
We, the British, are too weak to face our favourite topic of conversation head on. It's true, isn't it? We love to moan about the weather (be it mildly hot or reasonably cold) but only from a safe distance, preferably behind a well insulated window pane whilst sipping a lukewarm cup of tea.

Returning to what now (worryingly) appears to be my favourite topic of conversation - procrastination - I would like to discuss Snapchat with you. You must have heard of it by now? Or possibly be addicted to it like me? If by some crazy chance you haven't the foggiest, let me explain. It's the new craze. All the cool kids are doing it. By that I mean taking horrendously awful photos of themselves, usually in bed eating cake and then send them to their friends who thus return the gesture. Now I hear you asking, "why would anybody do that? Aren't horrendous pictures why Photoshop was invented?"
Well, I guess it's because the photos will only last for a maximum of 10 seconds before they're permanently deleted. Or so they say... I think it's one massive conspiracy and in a couple of months time when this ridiculous trend dies down, the owners will rise up, proclaim their evil villain identity and thus live an outrageous lifestyle off all the blackmail money they would have likely made from their immense database of disgustingly, vile pictures.
Snapchat is popular because it's a light-hearted way of taking the piss out of one another whilst being yet another amusing method of communicating with your friends. I realised the other night that there are over seven different ways in which I could instantly contact one person, there's virtually no escaping social media.

So with all this Snapchatting, you might guess that I don't have any time to do anything else... right? Wrong! I also raided my dad's CD collection (Dare, I touch his vinyl).
I found a lot of dodgy one-hit-wonders, some questionable looking compilations and a NOW 33 CD. But if we ignore all that, I hate to admit it but my dad does have a pretty good music taste. I use this to my advantage. Giving myself a much needed education in David Bowie and adding some crucial albums to my collection including Nirvana's Nevermind and Fleetwood Mac's Tango In The Night (plus, dare I admit it? The Bee Gee's Greatest Hits) Anyway, a couple of vastly entertaining hours later and with over 200 new songs to listen to, I am feeling like a new woman! My library has so many classics in it you could dig it out of the ground and call it Latin.
However, apart from stinge-ing off my dad, I'm currently waiting on the postman to deliver Foals' new album and Muse's The 2nd Law, yes, I know I'm a little late but hey ho! And then it's just a count down until May when Vampire Weekend and Crystal Fighters' new albums come out! Very excited for these two!

Lastly, I keep meaning to finish off each post with a song and I haven't done so for a long time, wonder why that could be? Anyway the first thing that popped into my head when considering what to post was Mount Kimbie's new track Made To Stray which has been continually bounced around cyberspace for the past couple of weeks. So why not add to the hype and post it here so you can judge for yourself? (if you haven't heard of them then I recommend listening to their album Crooks & Lovers).



Much love for now x

Lost and Found.

HELLO!!!!!
(imagine me shouting this with arms outstretched from London's 19th century smoke-laden roof tops. Simultaneously scaring the roosting pigeons whilst a glorious sunset stretches out before me.)

Now I've put that ridiculous, musical-esque image in your head, let me apologise for deafening you... but my purpose for my most metaphorical screaming was being to wake both you and I up from our slumber after all these months of inactivity.)

So hello and welcome.

Bare with me whilst I dust the internet's cobwebs off this humble blog and try and engage my writers' voice - which is in serious need of some warming up; perhaps some scales, arpeggios and a gurgle of whiskey will suffice. I can only offer my sincerest atonement if I sound a little stilted but that's what months of creative inactivity and academic essay writing do to you.

In my last post I did give warning about the lack of updates in the forthcoming 'weeks', I didn't, however, anticipate that this would lead to a delay of 5 months. My goodness, almost half a year, Blogspot should make that a crime.

I would blame university life - in fact I will blame university life - for my lack of activity but I will also be painfully truthful and admit that it was partially down to laziness. To be honest, when the majority of time is spent on Word or with your head in a book, the last thing you then want to do is write a blog post.

I can, in fact, give you a list of my priorities after writing an essay all day. It goes:

a) Eat food. Lots of food (insert pasta/rice/other studenty carb of choice here).
b) Drink alcohol. Lots of alcohol (insert Tesco value vodka here - preferably without horse meat).
c) Dance (insert Gangnam Style/Harlem Shake/whatever dance craze is viral at said time here).
d) Exercise (a.k.a sweating off the hangover or removing cabin fever due to said essay writing).
e) Volunteer, go to a society/committee of some sort, watch a film.
f) Sleep.
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z) Write blog post.

After all that, it really is miraculous that I'm here now (plus I'm actually very busy at the moment, this is purely a form of 'productive' procrastination) and finally ready to update you on the thrilling tale that is my life.

So, my dear reader, I hope my writing is good enough that you can use your extremely intelligent mind to read between the lines and come to the conclusion that university life is going well. Aha! You would be correct in your deductions!

The degree itself is fascinating but even so, I won't bore you with the gory details. University life lives up to all those lovely stereotypes and luckily to my life's motto - work hard, play harder (although I have been pretty chill lately, yawn).

There's absolutely reams of things to tell and yet so little motivation to tell it. So on that note, I shall sign off here.

P.s. I've suddenly rediscovered why I wrote this blog in the first place - it's so much fun! So hopefully I'll start updating more often (although from my track record...). Much love for now though!

P.p.s. I promise I haven't neglected my interest in music - so I will try and write something more music orientated next time.