Week 3: Boring Doring Snoring Boring Blah Blah Blah *insert generic blazeh blog post title here*

So here I am wasting away my incredibly pointless time typing a belated blog post that will undoubtedly bend the very fabric of your pitiful minds… or not.

So this week has been a relatively productive one, I finally got a job interview and it’s tomorrow! This means that my success ratio for applications is on about 1:2,144,532,389, which I think, by modern standards, is very impressive! It’s at Manchester United, so I expect to be judged, but work is work and I really need this job.

I have also been doing a lot of packing, hopefully I will find space for my lava lamp in there but the signs are fairly ominous as it stands. There’s still so much to do and so much to get all within the space of about 3 days. Holy crap. I’m doomed. I move into my flat on the 17th. Yes, I am absolutely terrified.

First impressions are not something that I’m ground-breakingly good at, which is quite unfortunate considering how I really need to make at least an average one as soon as I move in. Hopefully the people in my flat are terrific people, I’m sure they will be. I also need to make a good first impression on my interviewer tomorrow. So all in all, no pressure!

I also need to make some important life decisions soon – what to do on freshers week. I don’t particularly want to spend the entire week listening to shit chart music, only a couple of days for that methinks! I don’t know, part of me wants to go out and socialise massively, the other part wants me to just chill out, get to know the people around me and don’t over do it. Less importantly, I need to decide on my course modules, but that’ll come later, it’s no biggie…

Song for this week will be plucked straight from the glorious glorious 90′s… for those of you who know me, no, it is not Blur. It’s Placebo – Nancy Boy…

SIANARA

Coombes

Week 2: Core Meltdown

So this last week has been a rather apathetic one. I think me and my friends have finally realised that they all just want to go to uni now! Considering the high levels of apathy, I need to think of something to talk about…

SIMCITY – I have been playing it a lot recently, to the point where the population of my city reached 18,000 people and everything was running rather smoothly. This was the case until my financial advisor said I had no money left anyway. The reason for this? My stupid ignorant citizens wanted me to build an £82,000 (A LOT IN SIM LAND) university which sapped my budget dry. I raised all taxes to 20% and cut everything and now my city is in complete turmoil and everyone is dying. I feel bad. I fell as if I could have done better, I could have saved them but I just couldn’t do it… sorry, it’s been an emotional time.

UNIVERSITY – Not many developments on this one but now have salt and pepper mills which is nice and comforting, don’t think I could live without them. However, it has dawned on me just how badly I need and how hard it is to get a job. Greggs rejected me today based on a ten question scenario based quiz, now I feel embarrased and sad. I have applied to work at the Reebok Stadium as well, but that is 17 miles away from where I live, so that might be difficult to attend. Argh. The advisors at uni are going to get a severe badgering.

RETRO – If anyone reading this can find a copy of Hogs of War for less than a fiver, please buy it for me. Please. I will literally do anything for it. OK, maybe not that, but yeh, I REALLY want this game. To fill the void I have been playing Ratchet and Clank which is just fucking weird (albeit brilliant) and Crash Team Racing, but there’s no one around me to play it with me, single player is boring. So yeh, that’s my plea done for the week.

MUSIC – It has come to terms with me just how much I love trip-hop recently. So basically, Massive Attack, Portishead and Tricky. Figured I’d share some of that with you this week!

FOOTBALL – I cannot believe that the one time England actually put in a half-decent performance, I don’t watch the game. Gary Cahill looks like a future England Captain to me, a real player. In other news, Crystal Palace didn’t play due to the international break, so I get to enjoy another week of the dizzying heights of 6th in the Championship. That’s so high considering how we’re favourites to go down. It’s so high that I’ve got altitude sickness. Hopefully this magnificence will continue with a victory over Leeds this coming weekend. Bloody scum.

So yeh, generally a dull, apathy-crammed post there, but when something exciting happens in my life and on the off chance that you actually give two shits then it’ll likely be posted here.

Sianara!

Coombes