Contemplation

I've not blogged for a good ten days, maybe that's a good thing though, as I have amounted a large pool of news, stories, information and theories in that time. That's a lie, my brain seems to work differently to others, in that if something is completely irrelevant and ultimately pointless, I seem to let it fall out of the memory banks in favour of stuff that really matters. I sure hope it's not just me who seems to forget the little things all the time.

I did come across an interesting argument in the paper the other day, and that was 'Abortion'. I don't know where I stand on this issue. I don't think a child, if it was going to be born, should have to suffer a terrible life with a parent who cannot afford to keep them if there's an alternate option. Then again, it is the life of a living thing, but it's just easier to think about it being a lump rather than something more as this brings up all sorts of arguments that are effectively grounded in facts. Murder is possibly one of the worst acts to commit, simply because you shouldn't have control of whether someone's life is to end, and a justful punishment for this is usually getting your life taken away be this literally or figuratively. Can we apply the same arguments to abortion? No, we cannot, because it isn't as simple to compare one thing to the other. All I have to say is that I'm glad I'm not in such a position where it's my decision.

Moving onto lighter topics, has anybody heard about the current use for the Government's biggest embarassment of 2000? The Millenium Dome is being turned into a multi functioning arena by those grand people at O2. It is named The o2 and will be open as of July 2007. I won't turn into a blogging advertisement space, so suffice to say, if you wish to learn more, click on the link I have provided.

Not much left to say, except that today has been a tough day, but last night was excellent. Just goes to prove that alcohol doesn't have to be a momentous force in a great night out. If I only had some more money to spend though, it's less than 4 weeks until Christmas...

Drizzle

Diaries. That's an interesting thought right there. Books written by people, where the story is their life, all their secrets, feelings and current events hidden between two covers. Kids have them, adults as well. Famous ones include Samuel Pepys and Anne Frank, and nowadays every celebrity has one in autobiography form, where all the scandals and lies come from. I have had one myself, but I could only keep it for a couple of weeks before I gave up. And even then, it tended to be the most simple information inside, such as where I was and what I did that day, none of this 'soandso is suchandsuch' stuff. Which brings me to another point; how could anybody possibly put their truest feelings onto paper, when such things are more than likely to cause a problem if discovered? I've never understood that. In fact, in my one and only diary had one slightly regretful comment in it, and even now I feel a bit annoyed because I put it down. Surely nobody has a completely undiscoverable diary, but then again most of us when we younger used to think we were capable of keeping secrets, so why not think hiding a diary from prying eyes was easy?

Also, how come TV and Films always seem to be a whole era behind the public when it comes to mobile phones?

It's raining outside...

Thinking

I've had a very lazy-ish couple of days. When things are mounting up in one area, at least for me they're cooling off and getting cleared in the others. Currently, my biggest pile up of stuff goes under the academic stuff, like homework and revision. The other stuff, namely radio station timetabling, Film section creating, script writing for R:TV and fitting in a social life in between have been going well :) A bit of a rush for this issue's deadline of The Rabbit, but nothing that didn't get sorted through getting down and doing it. Yes, things seem to have a balancing act.

I rung my mum up on the Friday, moments before meeting up with my housemates for the crucial Friday drinking session. I just felt so happy after talking to her, thing is I am indeed a very closed off person when I think about personal stuff. There's nobody out there who knows a lot about me, but I can't help it, it's just part of my personality. I tell some people some stuff, but nothing that isn't already known by others. There is one person I can tell everything to, but I speak to them once every couple of months, apart from when i'm home for the summer, but still it's not as much as i'd like. I think this is part of the reason why I get the odd day, say once every two months or so, when things just pile up and it brings me down. One of those was last Thursday, which was when a lot of things seemed to climax on the one day, which I couldn't really cope with so I just chilled out that evening and everything was fine the next day. I told this to my mum, and she was good at listening. Anyway, friday night turned out to be brilliant, I bumped into a lot of people I knew and had a great laugh with my housemates. Drunk quite a bit considering and got quite drunk, but still didn't wake up with a hangover!

Apart from that, nothing much to tell. I went to London on wednesday for the media conference mentioned in the last post, and it was incredibly helpful. It went and cleared up a lot of the misconceptions about journalism, and enthused us for the future, which was its aim I guess. however, there were also a few tips I picked up that will help me when writing for The Rabbit. Also, I went up there with PJ, Nathan and Michael, and Michael is already a friend of Cat's, as she is in charge of timetabling his show on the weekend. I happened to catch a glimpse of it today and it was enjoyable, they seemed quite professional. Also I went on cat's show today after a much needed gym session, and thought it went pretty well, though it did make me feel glad that we're finally getting our own show started this week or next.

I have another blog which I am keeping secret for now, as I'm gauging whether its worth is actually of value to you. It's something I learned from the conference that blogging is the future, and as a headstart into a journalism career I am starting up my own, sort of a Torchwood to this blog's Doctor Who. No wait, a Frasier to this blog's Cheers. Yes, that works much better :) If you're REALLY interested, gimme a message and I'll send it to you, but be warned, its 'experimental' Interpret that into whatever you wish!

Mobile

Here's a good enough reason for an up to date blog post; I have a new blog. In fact, maybe that isn't such a good reason to update. What might happen to the world if I keep this up? At first it's just a blog within a blog, but pretty soon it's a blog within a blog within a blog, then a blog within blog hell only to end when hell hath frozen over. Maybe not that, but certainly, if you have trouble reading one blog then you're not going to have time to read two! Well, you'll be thanking me as I tell you this new one is simple and easy to follow as its mainly pictures. I got a brand new mobile phone, and I was messing around with the features of it when I discovered a 'Blog This' setting, so I clicked it and I apparently can blog photos from my phone. This is simply great news. Check it out now! Bookmark my blog, thank you!

Secondly, I have just finished the LAN, a computer thing in case you didn't know, and I am shattered. Last night I stayed up til 8 o clock inb the morning, and that wasn't even me being at home as I had to walk back shortly afterwards, playing a tense Poker tournament with real cash involved. I had to borrow a quid to get in, as it was a £3 buy in [my very first real gamble] and luckily I came out of it breaking even, placing third out of seven people. Stupidly I went all in on a hand trying to bluff my way through a tactic that had worked previously, only for him to have the single card that beat me :) But overall it's been a good weekend, but I'm looking forward to just getting back to the house and relaxing. I may even skip my lectures tomorrow as a result in fact, in order to catch myself up completely. I have been putting off doing the lab homework due in tomorrow, so I'm going to have to finish that tonight.

I've also had a dispute with somebody that I reckon I handled in a respectable manner, still dishing out the sly remark but remaining professional. If only the other person could say the same thing. I won't say who it is, even though most of you won't know them anyway, but suffice to say they have a mustache which probably narrows down the person a lot more than you'd think ;) I feel bad this weekend for neglecting my good friends, they have made plans that I have been unable to attend, so I will be sure to make up for that soon!

Wednesday I have this really wicked CV boosting event, it's The Guardian [the newspaper, not the recent film] Media Conference for students, and it's where a load of professional and respected journalists come down and talk to us about how to improve our writing skills for journalism. Something similar, using Essex Uni grads who have gone into careers in radio, happened a couple of weeks back and it was excellent, apart from the fact I hadn't slept the night before so I was unable to pay 100% attention. It was free and I got the gig along with a few others so we're all meeting up at 7:30AM to meet and go to this place together. It's gonna be really good, and my maths friend happens to be going to the train station that time too so she is coming with us! Hoping she'll have fun in twickenham :p