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!