So, I have nothing to blog about.

Literally nothing has happened that would be even remotely interesting in the last few days. There are a few small things, but not enough to really make a blog about. What the hell, I’ll type about them anyway.

I cut my finger on a knife. It hurt a lot, and it bled quite a bit, Hannah (she lives in my block) had to rescue me with a plaster. It didn’t really have an effect on my day.

I made enough rice to feed me for 6 days. Yes, 6. I think I need to work on portion sizing a touch. It is delicious though, which is good, because I’m going to be eating it for a while.

Last night I went to the pub with a few people. Nothing particularly interesting happened, I forgot my ID so I couldn’t even drink anything other than fruit juice. Made it cheaper at least, but it’s not exactly fascinating.

I went into town to buy food. This really was a boring thing to have to do. I found a street fruit market that was selling things cheaper than Sainsbury’s, so now I have food again. This is a good thing; I like food...especially cheap food.

The rest of the books for Creative writing cost me £32.50, and that’s only because I split the cost half and half with another girl in my class. Otherwise it would have been £65.00 and that’s a lot of money to come out of my account. So there’s that, it happened. It’s just not that interesting.

Now I’m sat here, thinking about going to the pub, then remembering that I have no money. I might get some reading done tonight, because to be honest there isn’t a lot to do. I don’t even have to cook for myself for a while. I might make Goulash tomorrow and freeze it, because that way I’ll have to cook even less often. I have some meat that really needs using up. No lectures tomorrow so I may as well spend the whole day cooking. Saves time in the evenings.

So yea, sorry this wasn’t the most exciting blog. But nothing has happened so I really don’t have anything to blog about. I’ll have to do something fascinating soon so that there’s something to write about.

Lectures and a night out

So, lectures have officially begun now, and I have a ton to do. So much so that it’s been keeping me from blogging as often as I would like to. I was expecting there to be a lot of work, I really was, but there’s a fair amount more than I was expecting for the first week. I don’t honestly mind the amount of work we have to do; I enjoy the subjects so it’s not an issue. I just need to re-learn some time management skills! For creative writing, by Monday 10^th I need to have written the first 5 pages of a prospective novel (double spaced that’s about 500 words which doesn’t sound a lot but when it’s on a totally random idea you pulled out of your arse in 10 minutes in class it’s tricky) and alongside that I have to read and note my responses to A Clockwork Orange by the 17^th. I have had the misfortune to have struggled through A Clockwork Orange before, and I am not looking forward to having to read it again. It’s one of those books that I can honestly say I cannot stand. I will happily read things even when they’re not in my favourite genre, but I draw the line at a limp plotline and made up words. Nobody should be permitted to make up so many words without even including a glossary. I mean really, it’s stupid. I hated this book at GCSE and having gotten to chapter three this time around, I know that I’m not going to like it any more than I did then. It’s not even that well written! So yea, Creative Writing is looking to be a lot of work.

Religious studies hasn’t been that heavy yet, though I’m pretty sure it will be. We’ve had a lecture on Sikhism which was brilliantly interesting, but there’s been no work set outside of lessons other than reviewing the lesson schedule and making sure we pick up at least some of the recommended books on the reading list. We don’t need all of them and we can use the ones in the library as much as we want during essays anyway because it doesn’t matter if we own them or not. So long as we include them in the Bibliography we’re laughing. It’s good because religious studies books are pretty darn expensive; if I had to buy all ten of them I would be properly broke. Well, more broke than I am now. That said, at the moment money isn’t so much of an issue as it could be, though I’m fully expecting it to get a lot worse as the year goes on.

As much as there is a lot to do, I took last night off and went to a club in Bath with the people I share a kitchen with. There will be pictures at some point, I will put them in a later blog (if I remember) they’ve just not been uploaded to Facebook yet. It was a really fun night and I’m so glad I decided to go; I wasn’t going to join everyone originally. Once we had finished in the club be and my Roommate decided that we wanted chips, like you do. We walked to a burger van ensuring everyone else that we would get the next bus and be home really soon. You can already tell that THAT plan failed. The first, and only, burger van we found had a massive queue. We were slightly tipsy so we were prepared to wait. We were so close to getting our food when a homeless guy decided to attack the van, smashing a window and making the man owning the van close up. So we started walking up town to see what else we could find. About half an hour and some conversations with random people later we found a Kebab shop and the chips we wanted. At this point I should mention that I was wearing 4 inch heels and I had been standing / dancing for a good few hours. From the top of town we then walked back to the bus stop. About 3:30am we stumbled back to campus, I had taken my shoes off and I think that was the better option. This morning I discovered that not only were my feet black, but that I had a blister on every toe. Needless to say it hurts. I have no idea what would have happened to my poor feet if I’d kept my shoes on any longer.

It was a good night out though, and I’m glad I went. Bit knackered today though. Ah well, such is Uni life.

Ugh

Warning, this will be a little bit ranty. Well, maybe a lot ranty.

Everything in uni itself is going really well, worry not dear followers, it’s everything it should be. I just hate that it’s all so expensive. I bought 5 of the books on my required reading list and it cost me more than a weeks worth of food...on a bad week. So I’m fairly glad I had some money put aside before coming here for books and things or I’d be living off literally nothing at the minute. I could maybe see the expense if I had bought them all new, but half were from the Oxfam book shop! I don’t have all the books I need yet either, so if anyone has Speak Memory by Navokov, Larry’s Party by Carol Shields or Elephant by Raymond Carver and they want to lend them to me, I would be grateful! I can more than likely get the rest from the Library. Hopefully.

 I just don’t see how the university expects us to be able to buy these things right away. It’s not like we have a lot of money to spend on books. Perhaps there should be a book section on the student loan or something, I don’t know. They should definitely put something aside for academic materials. I guess the government don’t understand how short money is when you’re 18 and jobless. I’ve been looking for jobs don’t get me wrong, but most of the ones out there are either while I have lectures or need me to have a car. I don’t have a car and I certainly can’t miss lectures to go to work. So I guess for now I have to keep looking while hoping for the best. Something will pop up eventually; it has to, even if I end up as a librarian in the university library. It will be better than nothing at all.

At least lectures are good. Creative writing seems to have attracted a brilliant group of people. I don’t think I’ll get on with all of them, but the majority are very lovely. It’s fairly interesting content too; the book list has some interesting things on it...as well as some pretty awful things. We’re starting out with A Clockwork Orange. I really didn’t like it at GCSE so here’s hoping it will have grown on me by next week. We don’t stay on one book for long though so it shouldn’t be too bad. There are a fair few to get through after all. I’m trying to persuade everyone in the class to take part on NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) not sure how many will but you never know. The entire month of November I’ll be blogging about NaNo (if I can stay away through the long nights) so I won’t talk about that now. Religious Studies is also proving to be interesting. We started with Sikhism today, there are a lot of Indian words dotted about that I’m struggling with a bit, but it should sink in eventually. It’s just terminology at the end of the day. I like that we’ve not started with a western religion, it feels like I’ve done them to death in my years at school, though at the same time it’s strange to be starting out with something that I literally know nothing about. Ah well. At least it shouldn’t be boring.

Time to curl up on the bed with a book again; I have so much to read in the next two weeks I don’t think I’m going to be doing much else! Hmm, that wasn’t as ranty as I thought. Hurrah!