Am I doing any work? Am I fuck.

I am filled with Christmas cheer you guys.

My week has been alright. As I mentioned last week I had far too many lectures going on. The 7 hour days without breaks really were as bad as I had expected. I didn’t even get to eat any lunch!

But yeah, medic’s ball was on Thursday night and that was pretty cool. I like wearing a suit. My friend Alex got really drunk and was just hilarious. Also David, I talked to your cousin for a bit, she seemed nice.

My parents came to visit yesterday and that was nice. We had lunch and hot chocolate and just walked around Bristol a bit.

Today I had Christmas lunch with all of my floor from halls last year which was really nice. I haven’t seen much of them this year so it was good to catch up and stuff.

Right so that was my week, now onto the challenges.

I’ll start with David’s, I can’t really find a picture with all of us together. my original plan had been to find hilarious ones of everyone but that proved a lot more effort than I thought, these are the best I could do.

Andrew – He does maths and comes from London, I am going skiing with him in a week. He is very tall.

Kate – She is learning to be a vet (boo) and also comes from London, just down the road from Beans on Toast’s pub. She is one of the few people I live with who likes good music.

Ellen – Ellen is doing combined maths and French, she runs all the time and does loads of good stuff for Amnesty International and generally makes me feel like I am wasting my life by not doing as many good things as she does.

Dan – He is from Manchester and does French and Spanish. We make fun of his accent quite a lot. He plays cricket and football and is far better than me at both. He is the inventor of the best dance ever, as shown by this picture.

Andy – he is also a vet and he lives in Worcestershire. He always beats me at FIFA.

Phil – He does Geography which I am lead to believe is just glorified colouring in. He comes from Cardiff and in this picture he is dressed as Mad Eye Moody which is pretty awesome.

Ro – She comes from Hereford and studies Biology. She watches Hollyoaks a lot but makes a cracking cup of tea which is good.

That is some top quality blog formatting if I do say so myself. So yeah, those are my housemates. Next year I will be living with Ro, Andy, Andrew and Kate for definite plus maybe Phil and maybe another girl called Rachel who was in our halls last year. Ellen and Dan are both doing years abroad for their languages. We are going to look at some houses tomorrow afternoon. One has a hot tub, waaaaat.

Next onto Josh’s challenge, I would have to say my favourite Christmas present ever would be my Cosy Coupé. I got it when I was about 5 I guess and got so many hours of entertainment out of it. Basically if you didn’t have this toy, your parents didn’t love you. 

So I did have a challenge of my own this week but with so many other ones flying around right now I will leave I until next week instead. I will be in Austria this time next week but I will try my best to find a computer at some point on the Sunday. If not I can always use my phone, so yeah, shouldn’t be a problem.

Enjoy your last week of term everyone!

Oh, I do love to be beside the seaside

But now I'm getting bored and I can't wait to come home and see all you loverly people.

First things first, this blog comes (as usual) with a couple of apologies.
1) I'm sorry I didn't blog for the past couple of weeks, for one of them I think I was terribly hungover and for the other I have no excuse
2) Today isn't my blog day but yesterday the internet was down for some inexplicable reason and the guy's just been and gone to fix it, so I'm sorry this is late.
Better late than never, right?

Anyway, ONWARDS!

This week was crazy busy, I've had three hand ins this week which have all had me racking my brains but also taking a little bit of pride and excitement in being vaguely academic and I'm just getting started on next week's essay which is a stonker and a lot of fun. The last few weeks I've been throwing myself into my course since a moment of drunken enlightenment on a bench when a little voice came to me saying 'You are doing a degree, get it together'. I guess (or at least hope) it happens to us all.

Lat night I went out to dinner with Lily for Christmas/Anniversary which was sweet. We dressed up and pretended to be all that then went and got a meal deal like the student low-lifes we are. Problem was, I ate so fucking much pizza I couldn't handle pudding and the waiter told us if we didn't order desserts then our meal deal would be void and we would have to pay more. Still it turned out okay cause right now there's a box of profiteroles sitting next to me just calling out. I think they're talking Hebrew, which is weird cause I thought they were French.

Its getting to the end of term now, everybody is out of money and burdened by work they didn't do sooner and there's this lovely sense of solidarity in the library when you hear 'Hey man, how's it going?'
'Ugggh, okay....'
'Yeah, I hear that brother.'
Still it doesn't bother me cause I'll be on the train home soon and ready to take on Christmas with all my will and cheer. I'm really looking forward to Christmas now since our house's Christmas dinner the other night and I especially can't wait to be singing at Wacky Wednesdays, kicking back with you guys and partying at Will's like it's two-thousand-and-twelve.

Speaking of our Christmas dinner, here's a picture of me and my housemates waiting for the turkey to cook:


















From left to right: Luke, Umar, Anais, me, Faye and Will. What a lovely bunch of people.

I guess that's David's challenge done, nice one by the way David

And while I'm doing photos here's a picture taken from just around the corner to make you guys all jelly and ice cream:




















Juliet, in response to your blog title, there's nothing wrong with getting a little bit upset over something that is worth getting upset over: famine, war, petty theft, governments screwing students and pensioners etc. etc.

So I now propose my challenge, as Will has pointed out it's long overdue. Now I think about it, it's less of a challenge and more of a question; my question is this:
What was your best Christmas present ever and why?

Were there any more challenges? If there were then I've totally forgotten them, you should consider me a failure.

I think that's about it, rock on mongooses and keep the blog going (props to Will for being so consistent all this time and for also being consistently awesome).

Love to your mothers.

Oh, PS. I deactivated my Facebook account a few days ago, it's not because I hate you guys or anything like that (far from it), it's just I've found myself going on it every ten minutes recently and it's really starting to piss me off so I thought I'd go cold-turkey for a while and focus on these end of term struggles. All well and good, I'll reactivate it again when the holidays come - nothing is permanent.


EDIT! I just read this again, it's formal as fuck, I think it was a rush. Kind of just bullet points of whatever came out my mind, I need to get more dynamic blogs going so I'll tell you this, even though I'm one and a half - maybe two bottles of wines down the road, whatever you guys propose I blog about next week I'll do it, gimmie something. Could be funny or dark or something that requires more than lunch time. Lets make this precious. That took way too long to type.

EDIT! I don't remember writing any of that shit. Does that mean it still counts? Still, it was surprisingly well spelt.

Love to all your mothers, even the ugly ones, you know whose they are!

If the news makes you sad don't watch it.

Is a song by the band Broken Records.

Who I saw yesterday.

Very very very lovely. :D

Went with Chris Ward and his friend.

Chris Ward, incidentally has been up for the last three days or so. So, three very nice but unproductive days.

We cooked our flats the biggest feast on Monday night. I think Chris took a picture, so I shall share when that turns up.

But yeah, still in the middle of revision. Still doing very little.

I got out of bed half an hour ago.

Here's a photo.

You've already met... actually only one of my flatmates. Although you've met a fair few of my friends.

We took this on one of the last days of first year: Juan, Zulfi, Georgie, Rebecca Tessa Lomax, Me, Suzannah, Sarah, Owen, Pete, Gavin, Richard and Ollie.

It's hard to find a group one of the flat, someone's always away. But exclude Suzannah and that's all of us.

Owen, Ollie, Richard and me.

We're just too cute.

Ollie's in Perth until the weekend and he's gonna cut us down a Christmas tree for the flat.

I like my flat.

Here's another one.
That one was taken in Freshers with, Brogan, Becca, Richard, Ollie, Owen, Pete and me.

And just because Harry's yet to be in any of these.

Harry, Owen, me, Ollie.

So I didn't blog.... again.....

I'm so sleepy guys but I said i'd blog and god damn it i'ma blog
Inconsistent capitalization is an important feature of sleepy blogs

My weeks have been good but really dull, I'm so behind on work and I keep not doing any which is really stupid, also I have an assessed problem sheet, a lab report and a 3000 word essay all due in by the end of term which is soon, then revision starts for my january exam :(
I did go to a secret comedy gig this weekend and I saw rich hall for £5 which was awesome.

I'VE OBSERVED SOMETHING YOU GUYS, everyone (myself included) seems to have got someone really 'easy' for their secret santa, I think some meddling's been going on.

I'm too sleepy to blog better and I don't think I have any challenges so I'ma issue one, I want to see pictures of your housemates, either take some pictures and upload them or find good ones on facebook but I want to know who they are.

Sorry I blog bad, good blog next week I swearrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

Lovelovelovelovelovelovelove

This title bears no relation to the contents of the blog

Guys, it’s been a disappointing week of blogging. We were doing so well for the last month or so. In fact, November was the best month of blogs since February 2010. Let’s make December awesome too?

I had a 3 day week last week. Well, I had stuff on everyday but I decided that Monday and Friday just weren’t worth the effort so yeah, that’s been nice.  This week coming up more than makes up for it though, Tuesday I have stuff from 9-4 with absolutely no break and Friday I have 9-5 with no break. Damn these lunch time lectures.

I started learning about the gastrointestinal system this week which, it is shit (pun most definitely intended). Who knew that there were so many cell types with complex mechanisms for secretion digestivey type stuff? Certainly not me.

So we got our secret Santa people this week, I think I have got quite an easy person, but as of yet I don’t know what to get them. I will turn my mind to it next week. Are you guys all doing it? Are you happy with the person you have?

I am also doing reddit secret Santa. These days reddit is an awesome thing, it helps to remember that there are nice people in the world still. Did any of you see the Love for Lucas thing the other day? It was so lovely. Anyway, I have decided to get my reddit secret Santa person a Troy and Abed in the Morning mug because they say they love Community, the mug came on Monday but it was smashed to fuck which sucked, they’re sending me a new one though and I am going to try and glue the broken one together and then keep it for myself, win fucking win.

On Saturday afternoon I hung out with Kerry for a bit. We went to Forbidden Planet and they sell really authentic looking wands for pretty much every character imaginable from Harry Potter. We also had hot chocolate which was lovely. The pantomime at the Hippodrome this year is Peter Pan, guess who Captain Hook is played by:

 I made a list of all the bands I had seen this year because I thought it might make and interesting blog topic. Turns out a big list of bands is actually pretty boring, who’d have thunk it? I did work out that I had seen Jim lockey ± the Solemn Sun a total of 6 times this year and Ben Marwood 4 times. I don’t know, but I think that means I’m doing it right. 

Oh, also tonight I watched the first Black Mirror thing on channel 4.Charlie Brooker produced it and it was actually quite funny, also very odd. If you have a spare hour this week it might be worth a watch.

Josh you said you had a Christmassy challenge in mind? Is it close enough to Christmas to do it yet? I also have quite a good Christmas challenge which I will set you all next week if I remember.

David, I saw this the other day and thought you might like it because it is kind of science and singing. You may already have seen it though:

Juliet, fuck Scotland.

NIGHT