Another year older....

As the title suggests, I'm now the ripe old age of 20....I'm not quite sure how to feel about this. They say another year older, another year wiser...but how true is it? I don't feel any different to how I used to...or at least I don't think I do. I guess you'd have to ask those that know and love me about that really.

I'm sat at home for the summer now, looking forward to the long relaxing break from all that work and stress from Uni and exams and all that. I'm just glad to be home and relaxing in what passes for the summer weather. Admittedly the past couple days have had really nice weather. It's been good to be back, there really is no place like home. Those home comforts that you miss while away somewhere else...it also helps that I'm home for my birthday this year! It's Mum's birthday the day before mine and she says she's enjoyed herself which is the main thing. My sister and the kids came round today after getting back from their weekend away. I got some awesome DC socks and Spongebob pj trousers.

I've finally gotten to wear my Windy City Wildfire jersey that I ordered from Chicago because I wanted one and they look bad-ass so I bought one. It was kinda expensive but hey ho. This shirt is the comfiest thing known to man! It's silky smooth, fits really well and has my name and number on the back. The Wildfire's are also top of the Midwestern league with 6 wins to 1 loss and a +39 goal difference! My fantasy ultimate team has quite a few of their members on it and this week placed me 10th out of 2815 other teams! Hell yeah!

Christina came down Monday morning and stayed til Tuesday afternoon. She brought cake! Marble cake! My favourite kind of cake! She got me Jaffa Cakes, some Family Guy socks and some shaving balm for irritated skin after shaving. Just goes to show how well she knows me! Stupid itchy baby smooth skin....seriously what's up with that? After shaving to stop itchy beardiness why does the skin decide to be all itchy? Make up your damned mind skin!

Anyways, we spent a lovely day out in the sun with Rich and Amy. We went for a drink in the Boar and for a walk round Lake Meadows. It was awesome! Although we may have come back a little burnt...however after slapping some after sun on the burns soothed them....I woke up this morning to find my arms pretty much healed up and Christina still with some small burnt parts to which she asked "What kind of mutant hybrid alien are you!?"....kinda offended by that. Today we braved the rough streets of Basildon, the weather I thought was rather fitting personally, it was rainy and grey. It was surprisingly not so bad down there, the hordes were tamed by the weather it would seem, less rowdy than usual. They've made some drastic changes to Gloucester park....Not sure if I like the changes or not. Still, we avoided getting stabbed and managed to get some tasty Taco Bell so that's a win in my book. Christina didn't drive off screaming and crying because of the experience so that's good right?

Well that's pretty much it for now, my love for the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles has been rekindled due to me watching most of the first series from the 2003 reboot. Damn I love those heroes in a half-shell! I'm such a big kid it's insane....first the Jackie Chan Adventures, now TMNT? Next I'll go to Yu-Gi-Oh, but there's nothing wrong with that right?

Cowabunga dudes!

Catch ya later folks

Derp derp derp

Sorry for the lack of post last week folks, I tried to upload a post but Blogger decided it wanted to be a derp and not upload photos and well I wasn't going to upload the post without the photos. Although for some reason it's still being a derp, I'll have to play around with it later and try to sort it out.

So last week was the start of the exam period and well I think the first exam went down pretty well. I've always been reasonably good at biology so I didn't have too many problems, of course I might be over confident about it and come results day regret every word but we'll see I guess.

The second exam on the other hand sucked. It was horrible. I got to the end of the multiple choice section thinking "Hopefully the long answer questions will be my saving grace...." you should never, ever have to finish a multiple choice section and hope that the long answers will be better. They weren't by the way. They sucked too. It was just a terrible exam...I'm not sure if it's because I wasn't prepared enough or because the questions were really difficult, maybe it was a bit of both but hey ho, it's done now right?

The week before last week was pretty cool, went to see Sam and Ant's lacrosse match again, Sam asked me to play photographer again. It would have been great if it wasn't for the rain...I had to stop taking photos around halfway through the 3rd quarter as I was kinda worried about the camera getting water damaged (it didn't). It was a pretty good match to watch and I got a couple good photos, Sam seemed happy with them which is the main thing really. Christina came with me, I said she didn't have to but for some reason she seemed to want to stand out in the cold rain with me (crazy right?).

This week should hopefully be a bit better. Last week in Lincoln, except for one weekend when I come up here for a frisbee tournament. It's been way too long since I've played frisbee properly, what with exams taking up everyone's time and the sports hall being full of desks. They make it a bit difficult to play frisbee. Anyways, 2 exams left, first of which is tomorrow and I'm kinda prepared for it but not as confident as I could be. It'll be tough but I only need something like 12% to pass the module. Ideally I'll do a bit better than that but we'll have to wait and see.

Going out to dinner with a couple friends Wednesday to celebrate the end of our exams for the year. Also seeing The Hangover Part III with Christina on Thursday which should be pretty awesome. The first two movies were pretty good, the second one surprised me, I wasn't expecting it to be as good as it was. Sequels are never as good as the first and well, it wasn't quite as great but it was still pretty freaking great.

Anyways, that's pretty much it for now, my birthday in a week and Christina is coming down to visit for it which will be awesome, she's even bringing cake! It'll be good to be back home...

Catch ya later folks

Here we go again...

So it's that time again....Exam season is upon us. I could use a cliched Game of Thrones "Winter is coming" meme but I don't want to so sue me. Am I worried? Not as much as I probably should be but what else is new? It's a well known fact that I don't really get worried around exams, infuriatingly so for some people. It's this time of year that I always remember sitting outside an exam hall in sixth form, waiting to go into a Biology exam. Most others in my class had been furiously revising for a long time and even doing some last minute cramming in the common room before the exam....then there's me. I rock on up to the hall, find my seat number and wait outside with everyone else, find a nice wall to lean myself against and stand there casually flipping my drinks bottle in my hand. Tossing it up, letting it make one slow lazy rotation before it comes to rest in my hand once more only for me to repeat the process all over again, a lazy absent minded-ness to the action and yet completely focused on it. I have all the exam essentials in my pockets and it's a nice lovely summer's day so I'm wearing my trusty combat shorts and a bright t-shirt....nice and relaxed and completely chilled out before going into quite an important exam.

Then Alaina looks up at me and asks "What the hell, Spud?". Alaina works too hard as I've often told her and was one of the people who were less than at ease waiting for this exam...so seeing me stood there relaxed and looking as if I don't care about the exam must have annoyed her slightly since she was so on edge. Little did we know this exam was going to be a bitch because it was pretty much all on one topic, not the whole module...but still there wasn't anything worrying about it before the exam could achieve, or after it for that matter because at that point the exam had been and gone and our answers were effectively written in stone. Anyways I can see where she was coming from and I guess it is a little disconcerting standing there worried about your exams when you look over and see someone standing there almost uncaring about it.

I wasn't doing it to offend or annoy anyone, but maybe to try to reassure people. Maybe it doesn't always come across that way and maybe it comes across as cocky and arrogant but really I'm just hoping it'll help try to calm the nerves of some of those around me...it's gained mixed reactions, some similar to Alaina's and others have actually seemed calmed by it which is good since that was the plan.

Well exams don't start til next Tuesday and the nerves are beginning to fray in some...me on the other hand? I'm fine for now. I'm not as prepared as I'd like to be but I've still got a week to change that and hopefully that's enough time to help prepare myself for the upcoming exams. I'm still doing what I can to try and reassure those that aren't coping with the stress as well as some but I just hate being unable to do more....I did take Christina to see Iron Man 3 for a second time in order to try and help, hopefully it worked to take the edge off the stress a little bit.

Catch ya later folks