Revision

I am currently in the Hugh Owen library, which is a boring, concrete building, doing boring revision. It is boring. Just so you can see how boring the Hugh Owen is here it is.Okay, it isn't terrible, but it's not exactly beautiful. Nor is the weather that nice. Ever. I should go to the National Library, which is just down the hill, because it is nicer and Rachael (my girlfriend) will probably be there. Is it sad that I know her revision habits? Anyway: here is a site on ineffective revision techniques, and it advises interactive revision. I might make myself a PowerPoint. Hurrah for flashing images!

As you can see I have been attempting to make my blog more snazzy. What annoys me the most is the wasted space on either side. I can understand margins, but not margins that are bigger than the actual page contents.

Anyway, Virginia Woolf calls (I am so bored of her, but not afraid).

Broken Hearted

Distracting myself from revision I have put multiple widgets etc. onto my blog. Still not content, and longing for the cool that can only be attained via wordpress.com I uploaded my blog to there. Oh, it was sexy, it was cool. I fell in love. So, is this a notice to everyone to say that I've moved? No. I haven't. I was a little disappointed that none of my widgets transferred, but I thought, that's life, at least the posts were still intact. I mean I have Twilight guy staring at me from one of my previous posts, so it's all here. That's what I thought. None of the youtube videos have transferred. Not one. And seeing as they made up a good part of my posts I think hope is lost. Unless I find time in which to edit the posts and paste them. Which is unlikely. So I have copied an image of what could have been for prosperity (can it be prosperity if it never actually was?). Obviously I would have changed the image.

Can I ask why Blogger is insistent on adding line breaks when you add images. I bet wordpress wouldn't do that.

Anyway, I must go, I'm meeting someone who is back in the country for a few days in about ten minutes. Maybe I will get over my loss, but I doubt I will.

Moving and Casablanca

Thomas may be moving. I haven't decided yet, nor do I know why I introduced myself in the third person. When I say moving, I mean I may relocate my blog to wordpress.com. It is just more chic. Also, you can upload content from other blogs as if it had always been there. But I don't know. I would feel like a traitor and blogger is just so cute and friendly, although the templates are a bit pants. I think for the mean time I'll stay put.

Also, Rachael and I watched Casablanca today, which was cool. Better than Twilight at the very least. I'm getting into the old classics. The other day I watched Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes, which was also quite good. Although these old classics are always quite slow to start, I mean often you're not even introduced to the main character until twenty minutes in, I still like them. Yes, I know, you're thinking, 'hang on, your problem with Twilight was the slow start. One rule for one, one rule for another, eh?'. Well, yes. Casablanca and The Lady Vanishes were not trying to be something they weren't. They were made in a time where things weren't expected instantly, patience was still a virtue, and that was the way things were done. Twilight was trying to be too arty, and was made in a time when things are demanded quickly and where, worryingly, patience is becoming more obsolete. The lingering scenes in it were unnecessary, whereas there were no superfluous shots in these oldies. Well, the English-cricket-obsessed-gentlemen were very irritating, but I suppose hackneyed stereotypes were acceptable back then (possibly because they weren't as hackneyed).

I also found a fantastic site with the help of my friend Rachel, which helps you make meals from your left over foods, lovefoodhatewaste.com. Seeing as I am short of cash at the moment it will be really helpful, as well as the fact that waste is not good. I was going to link to the actual post where she recommends this website, but I couldn't find it. So I will link to her entire blog here (as well as the link in my sidebar). It is also a cool example of why wordpress has benefits over blogger.

And I shall leave you with good news, I'm now back on track with my posts.

Oops

Last week I failed to update my blog. That means that within the second week I have already failed my aim to write a weekly post. Well, sort of. I aim to write 52 posts in 2009, and that averages out as one a week. Yes, I know, I'm a cheat, but get over it. There are people dying in Gaza, cholera epidemics in Zimbabwe and Big Brother is audition once again. You have bigger things to worry about.

My body is currently trying to sabotage my mental health by not allowing me to sleep. This meant that I am feeling too sucky to do revision for my exam next week, and have had a lazy day. I will panic about it tomorrow, descend further into the abyss of mental illness and have a nervous breakdown. So that's January 2009 sorted then.

In an attempt to procrastinate I have renewed my interest in French and Twitter as well as becoming (momentarily) obsessed with Twilight. I do not know why. I thought the film was bearable and I haven't read the books. The lengths people go to in order to circumnavigate the undesirable. I haven't started tidying my room yet, but it will happen in order to avoid revision.

So a bit more about Twilight. I went to see it yesterday, and most of the girls I know (except the stable-minded Nerys) have fallen in love with Edward Cullen. The beginning half an hour was almost devoid of comprehensible dialogue, making it agonising and things only picked up (a bit) once Edward and Bella started to actually speak to one another. However, on the plus side, watching it made me appreciate LisaNova's parody of the trailer even funnier.

So, now I'm going to get back to my French.

Uninspired

I am currently searching for career, or just short-term job, opportunities, but everything I find is uninspiring. The websites that are aimed for graduates search for jobs are fundamentally flawed, and lack any imagination. Prospects, for one instance, has a form that you fill in expressing what you would like your ideal j0b to contain, and then they construe from this hypothetical exercise careers that may suit you. However, if the job does not contain much of your hypothetical desires they dismiss it. One of the things that I have been thinking of doing is teaching English abroad, but as only five of the things that I wanted in my idea job showed up they told me I shouldn't go for it. The flaw is this: although my perfect job may contain these elements (like using creative arts, etc.) I would quite happily put them aside for a realistic option. That's what hobbies are for, after all.

I need something that will be stimulating, non-office based, and slightly adventurous, but nothing seems to cater for this. Or if it does, I'm the one that will have to pay for it.

Sorry that my first blog of 2009 was on such a bum note, but I would be a hypocrite to write that everything was stress-free and breezy for the contentment of my 1 reader, Stephen.