Absurdism · personified

Just to entertain myself on this very day.

I am now 21! I have nearly gone through another year of university! I am seriously considering the future!

In the world of me:

- Thinking more about further education and careers choices. For the moment, I'm looking at TAiK for an MA in Film or Theatre, on account of not costing 5000 quid like Kingston does.

- Reading Austen again, but it will soon be followed by the pile of other stuff I got today, including something in Swedish! Yey!

Speaking of Swedish, director Roy Andersson is awesome. Check out You, The Living, another homespun favourite of mine. He also shares my birthday.

It's been some cool days in Prague so far. The Quadrennial was cool, lots of inspiration, but tbh the UK universities exhibit was trying too hard to be artistic and above everyone else. Russia and Belarus left everyone in the dust with the sheer quality og their work - I was BLOWN AWAY by their stuff. Seriously. Norway did a cool one as well.

Anyway, I've made a few friends, seen a few places and had a few drinks. Haha. Mostly cocktails, and they were awesome as well. Don't bother dancing in this place though, you will either have random Norwegian men descend on you, or be battling for floorspace with reject Czech pole dancers. I have yet to find a person who thinks gold trousers are a bad look. But I digress. It's pretty lonely here, everyone else left today and I still have all of tomorrow and Monday morning to waste, daytime I can occupy myself (Cathedral tomorrow methinks) but at night it's not really safe to wander the streets on my own. I guess I'll be sat inside reading my book.

Oh, and be concerned for my safety, there is a Geordie stag party, of 32 men, staying in the hostel and they have a tendency to run around naked. I have seen too many genitals for comfort. :O Luckily none in my room.

Dance and be merry, you'll see me again in a couple of days!
Absinthe will be brought home (what little I can afford).

This place is pretty cool, it's hard to fit everything I've seen into one post. It's too cloudy to see the Himalayas today, but we'll be driving closer to them tomorrow. Me and mother have befriended half the village, everyone are lovely and always shout hello or namaste to us when we walk past. We have enlightened ourselves in a lot of temples as well. :D

There's monkeys by our hotel. With little monkey babies.

We'll be going back to Delhi before we return home, so I'm preparing myself for the chaos of the city again. That place is nuts. 13 million people who refuse to obey traffic laws and all have something to sell.

Talk to you all soon, my phone service switches daily from AirTel to Hutch and it's only on AirTel that I can text (but still not ring).

There's still so much to do for this project, I'm starting to think I should lower the standards for my work. Lots of other people churn out any crap that will pass for a costume design and I honestly wonder who taught them proportion, because it just isn't happening. I'm feeling a bit minimalist in my designs at the moment, I try to do outlandish things but frankly I prefer just to use jewellery or plain fabrics to its full potential. Less IS more. (So why does it take me so long?!)

I've also decided, in a very bohemian student manner, that it's pointless to have any structure to my day when I don't have a schedule to conform to. The deadline is 5.00pm Friday, until then I'm living on food scraps from the cupboard and wearing my pyjamas 24/7. I love having my time to myself and screwing with my system, though I won't go into the consequences of that, which I was feeling earlier.

Should I get a Nottingham Trent hoodie? Or would that mean I'm enjoying this student thing a bit too much?

Mother has confirmed - we are  going to Delhi the 23rd of March, returning on the 6th of April. For those who know me well and do the math, I am therefore away on my birthday, not that I ever celebrate it with you guys anyway. There may be piss-ups in Nottingham around this time, though.

Prague will hopefully happen as well, I might have to fly on my own from Newcastle, BUT I don't want to miss the Scenofest. Major connections to make and things to research.

I shall be taking over the world shortly, but first, cereal!

Knives! Bottles! Curry houses! Pandemonium!

Got very drunk after drinking games, I was forced to down a series of vodka shots and it went downhill from there. At around midnight we decided to go for a meal on Alfreton Road, which was very good (prawn korma with pilau rice and naan bread, in case you were wondering), until some drunken ntl employees - wow, I love this company more every day - said something rude about Sam's girlfriend Emma. Words were exchanged, knife threats were made, they took a taxi around the fucking corner and waited for us. We sprinted, and for the first time ever, the lock jammed. Worked at the last second, when we had four big guys trying to beat the main door down. The girls took shelter in our flat while the guys held the fort, so to say. Liam was up for a fight but unfortunately I don't have much faith in a guy who can't stand straight. No Liam, the bottle stays here and so do you!

Three policemen took care of us and guarded the door. <3

They also strip searched the fat one, heehee.

Before leaving, they informed us that we live in the arsehole of Nottingham and the police are down here every night dealing with stabbings, shootings, muggings, et al.
Any feelings of safeness has gone out the window and I hate the feeling of not being able to trust anyone, as I consider myself a fairly trusting person. :( I want to be loving, but everyone hates a student.

Y'all can visit anytime you like!