It occured to me in the early hours of the morning that I have no real details about myself on here, just random bits of info that i expect you to piece together! So I decided it was time for an update.

-I am a 20 year old student from Jersey, currently in my first year at University College Durham (commonly known as Castle) studying Linguistics.

-At college I share a room with a girl called Bry who studies classics, she even has a copy of Harry Potter in Latin!

-I have an older brother who always looks out for me and even set me up with this blog! He’s still at home, as are my parents and my 2 cats Teddy and Lucy, who I miss terribly.

-I am currently single and have a disastrous track record with blokes. I have 2 major realtionships behind me, neither of which ended at all well.

-The major bloke in my life at the mo is a guy I refer to as Mr Director. I met him at the beggining of my uni career and have been slightly potty about him ever since. He has the potential to make me laugh, make me cry or just piss me off. But unfortuantely I would do anything for him so he’s still a major focal point of my life.

-My two closest friends at college are both on my course and are both slightly insane, I think that’s why we get on so well. Becks & Jim don’t feature too often but I will make an effort to give them more blog time!

-I have a college “family”. My Mum (Katie), my dad (Dave) and my sister (Nina). Mum and Dad are two second years who look after me in my first year, stop me feeling homesick etc. In order for me to be a “parent” next year I had to get married. So now I have a husband called Alex too. We go to salsa together.

-My husband also has a coffee addiction which means I seem to spend most of my time either in a coffee shop with him or in a pub with one of my other mates.

-I seem to spend most of my life being an agony aunt for other people. This blog is a way of me using the web as MY agony aunt.

-I am a fully trained barmaid and currently work behind the college bar where my bar-name is trouble. When I’m not at college I can usually be found behind the bar of The Star & Tipsy Toad in St Peter’s - Jersey.

-I wear my heart on my sleeve, fall in love way to easily and get hurt way too often. But like the typical girly I am I never learn and always seem to go back for more.

-I have a tattoo on my lower back, my navel and my tongue pierced as well as my ears. It’s a kind of therapy, when things get really bad I go get something pierced!

-I’m stumbling my way through life with the rest of the world, hoping that one day I’ll do something right. Until then I keep making the same mistakes I always do, but sometimes I have fun making them.

AxXx

I got these wonderful pointers off a friend of mine via e-mail… oh how true they are!

REVISON (to be sung to the tune of “I will survive”)
At first I was afraid, I was petrified!
Kept thinking I could never pass without revision guides,
But then I spent so many nights, getting all the questions wrong,
And I grew strong, and I learned how to scrape along,

I won’t look back, to any place,
When I can swallow 15 shots and get completely off my face,
I would have spent all day at work,
I would have had no spare time free,
If I’d thought for just one second my exams would bother me,

So all my notes are on the floor,
Don’t even matter… that there’s no Comedy night no more…
Weren’t you the one who tried to get me to revise?
You think I’d crumble?
You think I’d work towards the skies?

Oh no, not I! I won’t revise!
>Unless I die from alcohol, I know I’ll stay alive,
Though my money’s at an end, I’ve my overdraft to spend,
I won’t revise, I won’t revise!!

It took all the strength I had, not to act the part,
But in the end my real revision didn’t even start.
I used to sit at home at night, feeling guilty to myself,
I used to try, but now hold my head up high,

And you see me! Somebody new!
I’m not that mixed up weird person who wants a good 2:2
So if you feel like dropping in, chances are that I’ll be free,
Coz I’ve done fuck all revision, and I’m failing my degree,

Oh no, not I! I won’t revise,
I think that I may scrape a third, but I could be telling lies!
Let the lecturers all scorn,
My bed’s far too nice and warm,
I won’t revise, I won’t revise

YOU KNOW YOU’VE BEEN IN UNIVERSITY TOO LONG WHEN…
-You actually like doing laundry at home where the washing machines work.
-Two miles is not too far to walk for a party.
-You’d rather clean than study especially if an essay is due.
-Oh shit how did it get so late!” comes out of your mouth at least once a night.
-Parents’ cooking become something you desire, not avoid.
-You schedule your classes around sleep habits and soap operas especially neighbours and Diagnosis Murder.
-You know the pizza boy by name and don’t even need to read the menu.
-You go to sleep when it’s light and get up when it’s dark.
-You live for getting mail.
-Looking out the window is a form of entertainment.
-Prank phone calls become funny again.
-You start thinking and sounding like your friends and your accent becomes a hybrid of West Country, Surrey and -general Northern.
-Highlighters are the coolest things on earth.
-Rearranging your room is your favourite pastime.
-Rubbish cheap £1 shops are so cool.
-The weekend lasts from Thursday to Monday.

BEFORE I CAME TO UNIVERSITY, I WISH I HAD KNOWN…
-That it didn’t matter how my first lecture was, I’d still sleep through it.
-That I could change so much and barely realise it.
-That you can love a lot of people in a lot of different ways.
-No matter how ‘cool’ you were in school, no one here cares.
-That if you wear polyester everyone will ask why you are so dressed up
-That every clock on campus shows a different time.
-That if you got good a-levels, so what? It doesn’t matter here.
-That I would go to a party the night before an exam or essay due-date.
-That Chem Labs/Architecture studios take up more time than all my other classes put together.
-That you can know everything and fail a test.
-That you can know nothing and ace a test.
-That I could get used to almost anything found out about my friends.
-That most of my education would be obtained outside of lectures.
-That friendship is more than getting drunk together but that’s still funny……!
-That Sunday is a figment of the world’s imagination.
-That Psychology is really Biology, that Biology is really Chemistry, that Chemistry is really Physics and that -Physics is really Maths.
-That my parents would become so much smarter in the last few years.
-That it’s possible to be alone even when you are surrounded by friends.

That’s about it really!

AxXx

I’m a very happy bunny. Just handed in the last of my three assignments for this week and now all I have to do is revise for my 3 exams which start at the end of may. Me thinks I’m gonna be out on the town tonight, been shut away pretty much all week!

And for those of you who are still bored or stressed out at work/home/college etc i give you this.

It’s highly addictive
AxXx

Mr Director has a date for the June ball…

…and it’s not me
Didn’t know it was possible to feel this rejected.

But as they say, tomorrow is another day.

AxXx

Oh my God. The its department at college have finally done something right which means this blog is coming to you from the comfort of my own bed… Woohoo!! I’m most impressed
So to re-cap, I flew back to college last saturday. After the flight into Gatwick I had a gorgeous 3 and a 1/2 hour wait where i sat and had lunch, read a bit and generally twiddled my thumbs wondering what would happen if i stroked one of the dogs that was patrolling along with the big men with guns.

Then there was my uneventful flight into newcaslte where i was expecting to have shortbread biccies but instead they gave us sandwhiches… damn them. Arriving at Newcaslte we took the metro to newcastle station which was amusing seeing as our baggage took up more room than we did! Nobody complained at us but some women were throwing us dirty looks… we just caught them and threw them back.

Once we got into newcastle station there wasn’t a train to Durham for another 2 hours (bloody public transport!) so we all piled into a taxi… the beast. We saw it pull up outside and i think we must have caused quite a sight, 5 students runnning through newcastle central dragging luggage behind them and yelling “The Beast!! The Beast!! Get the Beast!!”

Having made it to Durham i unpacked my room in record time (took me 2 hours instead of 5!) and went down to the bar. The rest of the week has been a haze of work, work and more work. I really should have done more of it whilst I was at home! But come tomoorow I’ll be able to go out and drink away the stress of three summative assignments in one week. Once that is over i can figure out how to get a date for the June Ball.

The June Ball is University College’s major social event. Tickets this year have been priced at £180 for the pair (no singles allowed) and we’ve got to move fast to get our applications in. Of course I can only think of one person I want to go with but getting him to ask me is gonna be a task in itself.

Mr Director.

I saw him the day after I got back looking all cool and sexy in jeans and a t-shirt. One smile and I went weak at the knees, which wasn’t such a good thing as i was carrying a box of his stuff at the time! But he will be mine again, oh yes, he will be mine again
A tutorial beckons now so I go with a heart full of joy and a head full of… well something else.

Toodle pip!

AxXx

I saw a program on lemurs!!! It so totally rocked!!!!

Lemur goodnes… oh how we love the lil madagascan rascals
AxXx

As a tribute to Markiss and all those who regularly drink in the Mary’s on a saturday night I am hoping to introduce the concept of head fuck night into college. If it is successful it will hereafter be known as “Head fuck Formal”.

I’ll let you know how it goes!

AxXx

I couldn’t resist!

Which Princess Bride Character are You?
this quiz was made by mysti

nicked from Rob.. cheers bro!

AxXx

We stared, the lid creaked back and we saw with horror what lay within. Not one but two monstrosities faced us and it was with a nervous hand and an empty stomach that we reached forward and took the first slice. Thus commenced a pizza and movies evening with my bro
We had a really good laugh, despite not being able to finish all the damned pizza! Although partway through we did get into a heated debate with his flatmate on the merits of pineapple on pizza. Now i don’t know about you but I am of the firm opinion that pineapple on pizza is just WRONG, as is my bro. In fact, i don’t like pineapple at all but i don’t let that affect my judgement! However, the flatmate decided it was a good thing and we had a mini rant. This rant then led on to a quality of conversation that is worthy of a saturday night. It was a tad odd to say the least. It included things such as “what do you call a baby pineapple? Do penguins like pineapples? Can there be death be pinapple pizza?” It gave me weird dreams but in answer to one of thos questions I would like to give a shout out to Dave - the mini pineapple and his friend Philbert the Kumquat
Having mentioned penguins i feel i ought to mention another one. Quizzical Penguin will soon be arriving and i hope you give him a warm penguin welcome but that’s entirely up to you of course!

As many of you know I will be headed back to college on Saturday. I received an e-mail saying that we now have full cable access in our rooms but i’m not gonna hold my breath. Hopefully though it will be all sorted so i can blog from the comfort of my room in the keep. We’ll see what happens me thinks. But I have had the insoired idea of trying to introduce head f*ck night in Castle. Not too sure how the students will take to it but it will be an interesting experiment! I will try and keep you posted on it’s progress.

I need to go do things (again - the life of a student!).
5 points to the person who can tell me where the title of this post came from and who said it! Bro - you’re not allowed :p

AxXx

It’s monday today right? please tell me it’s monday, i’ve completely lost track of the days

My weekend wasn’t too bad. The majority of it was spent working behind the bar but i did get Friday night off which enabled me to go out on a date. I can’t remember the last time i went out on a proper date type thing and it was a rather daunting experience! However, a couple of drinks later and we were getting along famously. I ended the evening with him still beinf friendly so that’s a good sign. He hasn’t fallen in love with me and he doesn’t hate me either! I think i’m making progress
But it hit me as i woke up this morning just how much damned uni work i’ve still got to do. that’ll teach me to go off gallavanting on a friday night. 2 & 1/2 assignments - i have done some ya see! - and one is due in on monday, the other 2 on the 30th no social life for me then! never mind, i’ll get them done. I’ll just sacrifice my sleep pattern! Besides, as the other 2 aren’t due in til i’m actually back at college i can do them there… i always seem to work better there than i do at home.

Right, child language acquisition beckons. And i really ought to get out of my pyjama’s too…

AxXx