Things I've Learnt

These are the things I've learnt from my wonderful, interesting mother:

1. Never marry a man who thinks he can do DIY - marry a man who can pay for someone else to do the DIY.
2. The saying 'chilly bits' ('nuff said)
3. The song 'Close the Door they're coming from the window'
4. That no matter what you do your younger sister will always be untidy
5. The hot chocolate at our nearest station is really nice
6. If someone ever asks me what's for dinner, I should say: '***t with sugar on'
7. Never, and I mean never hang nice clothes in your wardrobe using wire hangers. Never!

And so many more ...

This is dedicated to you mother dearest <3

My Train Journey

So, it's Monday. Back off to university then for another week of learning and all that.
Mum drove me to the station, she had shopping to do anyway and this way we could say goodbye just before I leave. I readied for tears, just in case.
Everything was going fine, the train arrived and Mum said 'Here's your train' (remember that bit) and I got on and waved goodbye. Off I go.
Hang on, how come the train is going to the right? And isn't it a different type of train than I usually get at this time? Oh, a phone call from Mum.

Me: Hello?
Mum: You're on the wrong train.

So I thank you Mum for saying 'Here's your train' and making me nearly end up in Luton rather than Horsham. Although that was a nice hot chocolate.
Not only that, but about half an hour from my university, what happens - the train is put to a standstill for half an hour in the middle of nowhere because somewhere ahead a car had crashed into a bridge, making it potentially unstable.

So this post is dedicated to my Mum, who made it all happen and Jess, who turns out was on the same train (in carriage 1 whilst I was in 3) and went through it all too.

At least Mum was laughing too much to cry, in the end.

Spring

First snowdrops, then crocuses, daffodils, cherry blossom trees (or Sakura trees for those in the know), daisies, tulips and now blue bells.
I love spring!

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Still Scary

Hello!
It's been a while, hasn't it?

So far, university life is pretty clean sailing. I sleep more, I eat less and I don't have to juggle several subjects' homework every night. Easy.
I obviously spoke too soon. A few days ago I had ... an exam (dramatic music).
Ok, it was just a quiz - but it was a surprise one! And it made me realise something very important:

No matter how old you get, exams will always be terrifying.

Yum

Just my pudding :-) yum yum.

I Dunno

Just some jokes, because I couldn't think of a good blog post ...

'A man walks into a bar, ouch.' -Carl
'What do you call a chicken who crosses the road, rolls in the mud and crosses over again? A dirty, double-crossing chicken.' -Dad
'Knock knock,
Who's there?
Boo
Boo who?
No need to cry it's only a joke.' -Me
'What do you call a fish with no eyes? Fsh.' -Catherine
'Two goldfish in a bowl, one says to the other, "how do you drive this thing"?' -Mum

That's it. Anyone got any better ones?

What's with the electricity?

As some of you may know, I had a rant about the plumbing in the building I live in on campus at my Uni. It's all fixed now (at the moment).
But now, nothing less than a power cut happens and makes every socket in the building obsolete. Of course I spent a good hour thinking my computer wasn't working and then sussing out EVERYTHING wasn't working and then just sitting there fuming about the injustice of it all.
So, I went to my seminar and hoped everything would be fine when I finished. Then I started thinking of the things I could do when I got back: play Sims? Ah, no. No power. Make some tea? Nope, no power. Microwave some lunch? No power! I'm lucky it's daylight or I'd have no way to read my book.
What the heck is there to do without electricity these days?
Picture: the front of my computer with its little light, which is ON!
Powerrrr! Hoorah!

What's with the plumbing here?

Seriously, my university is great when it comes to helping out students and stuff but how come it can't look after its buildings properly?
Take, for example the fact that last semester a lot of students on campus were suddenly bereft of hot water (or water at all) for a couple of weeks. And the pipes near my radiator started leaking - great that would be a wet school bag and damp, smelly washing to go with the soaked floor too. Thanks.
And now, being a new semester of course the university should have some more casualties. The pipes in my room started leaking again (luckily I caught it before it had a chance to ruin my new netbook) and scarily Springfield 5 (or was it 6? Whatever) had a proper flood and had to evacuate all of its students into temporary lodging. That's 24 students struggling to move all of their stuff in one visit (they were only allowed to go back once) and then dealing with their studies whilst unpacking.
Ok, they only have to live somewhere else for two weeks, but that's still a bother. Mr. Plumber (who I've become quite good friends with thanks to all the plumbing fiascos) told me today that in Springfield 5 (/6) the roof had actually collapsed with the hot water piping spewing its contents everywhere. Nice.

So all in all:
Plumbing = 1
Chichester = 0