Well my week off school is now over, spent earning some dough in my lovely job, drinking cocktails in the town centre and finishing off with an ace party at my best friend’s pad.

Now I’m back at college realising exams are three months away. That’s something like ninety days. And twenty-odd lessons of each subject left. Time really does fly. I’m trying to balance it all with a little research into universities. I’m dead set on going on LSE (London School of Economics and Political Science) to study International Relations. I’m so drawn to it as ut’s one of the most international universities in the world (on average only 25% of the students are UK students) and being well-travelled and mixed-race, I know I’d love to be there.

But oh yeah the 2007 statistics for the course were 1,400 applications which were narrowed down 46 students. My jaw literally dropped straight to the floor. I don’t know how many offers they made, but those are God awful chances. So I probably should be hard studying instead of doing this blog post, but what fun would that be?

I downloaded the recent release of Schoolhouse which is a course assignment/homework manager for Mac. It has a nice clean interface, easy-to-use and it’s sure to help me keep on top of my piles of homework for my AS Levels. Downside is it’s pretty buggy, but definitely an improvement from 2.1 when it didn’t actually work on Leopard OSX! My feature request would be to have some kind of periodical caffeine/nicotine injection to keep the slacking student motivated.

I don’t understand my fashion purchases at all, we’re in the thick of winter and it’s been ruddy freezing for the past few weeks and I’ve been going on a t-shirt spending spree. I bought these when I visited Donuts in Bristol. The one of the left is a shirt by A.IN.T (Art in Transit) which I saw featured in a fashion editorial about a year ago (it was some underground/indie magazine whose name I can’t recall) and I’ve been coveting it on their website since. It’s a guys small, so it’s hardly flattering but I love the design so much I just had to have it! (And looks great with my Don’t Cha Pussycat Dolls Hoodie!)

And the one on the right is a Married To The Mob top, I REALLY want the ‘Money Over Bitches’ shirt but I can’t seem to find it anyway in the UK. I’m thinking of ordering a ‘Moblicious’ hoody (the logo on the back is too cute!) but I fear bright pink is too bold for me! [EDIT]: It’s been purchased, and it was dead sexy.

I also got four Manic Street Preachers tops, (three from ‘05 tour and one with the ‘Generation Terrorists’ rose logo which I’m guessing is from ‘92, but I have no idea!). I should probably start buying some warm coats/jackets. Or maybe I should stop buying? That would be a blessing!

I haven’t had a Politics lesson for nearly three weeks now (due to snow days and a Washington trip for the A2 students) and it’s been somewhat refreshing. I love the subject but learning about the British constitution really isn’t my cup of tea. I’d rather get down with political philosophy or current affairs. And we get to go for outings to Italian restaurants instead, as pictured above.

Lenka - Trouble Is a Friend

Thank you Ben for giving me the heads up on this nifty bus slogan generator, based on the infamous athiest bus campaign. Bit sad they’ve now retired though, I’m thinking of wearing one of the shirts to my compulsary ‘patronising theology’ class to see what kind of hell breaks out.

On a more caffeinated note, I’ve discovered social coffee mornings before class make me a lot better at radian measure and it’s applications (formulas of arcs, segments and sectors and whatnot). I’d love to know what the US maths syllabus is like compared to a UK A-Level (studied during junior and senior years of HS).