Thanks for all your insights into my embarrasing story! I don’t have a shower curtain its just a transparent door with the occassional frosty bit which does fuck all to protect ones modesty. Especially when its designed for people a damn sight taller than me!

I’m back in Canterbury now. I came back monday for my maths exam on tuesday. It was much better than I expected. I thought they’d change the content completely because they’ve done similar things for the past three years but they didn’t! I deliberatly avoided the statistics and probability questions, I could never do probability!

Phew so one exam finished started drinking at 4 in the afternoon! My next exam is Java which is tomorrow. I should have spent yesterday revising but instead I went shopping for my fancy dress outfit. I’m going as a yellow pikmin! Although I’m probably going to end up more of a bee!

I then planned to revise in the evening but we had a house meeting to discuss whats happening with our house next year and who gets which room. We each picked a room out of a hat. I had the “front” room. Theres two of those in the house, luckily it was the biggest! woo! I can bring loads of crap with me next year!

After the meeting I just thought soddit and we went out got blind drunk and had a pretty good night! Pictures here. Unfortunatly I’m rather hungover this morning and alcohol in my already fragile stomach wasn’t wise probably! :S

I’m going to go and learn Java now - if anyone has any tips on how to learn a programming language in a day - do share!

Sod the hiatus - I’m procrastinating!
I usually get up at about 11 o’clock, wander round the house aimlessly for a while, have my daily stomach pains, probably should see someone about them oneday and have a shower. I did exactly that this morning only I was a little surprised to see the windowcleaners as I stood naked in the shower. A few minutes later and the cleaner is still cleaning the window. I hear a shout at the bathroom door “ARE THE CLEANERS IN THERE?!” “yes mother they are” - I said as I was trying to hide in the corner of the shower where I hoped they couldn’t see me! If it weren’t for that stupid corner shelf I could have hidden myself more!

And people wonder why I dont like answering the door, and especially why I hide everytime the window cleaners come round and I’m in the house alone. They’ve seen me naked, twice and I really dont want to have to look them in the face!

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A few random things today as I should be revising!
Firstly look at my lovely rounded edges! I finally twigged how to do exciting things and my next few layouts will be more interesting because of it! Speaking of which as soon as I’ve finished my exams expect lots more wordpress themes to be ported over and then some original ones to be made! I’m thinking of releasing my current layout as a theme too - if anyones interested of course!

Go check out Rhys’s making money through blogging if your interested too. part 1, part 2 and part 3!.

I can’t believe zooomr’s been down for nearly 3 days. Fair enough their doing an upgrade but I want to upload photos!! grrr.

I’m going to be doing my exams over the next week so don’t expect to hear much from your resident muse :) (thats going to turn into a big fat lie soon lol!) instead you can get some inspiration from here

As your aware its exam time at the moment and what your probably more aware of is the lack of revision being done by me. Its not that I don’t want to revise. I can think of nothing less exciting than sitting down on a chair that leaves me grimmacing with pain to do several hours of maths revision having not looked at a maths book since year 11, two years ago. Theres also the sense of glee and pleasure I get from having to learn an entire programming language again because my memories so terrible I think its last Tuesday.
Don’t even get me started on the other exam topic!

You can probably guess where this has been leading to!? Yes, Procrastination and my god am I good at it!
It started off at the beginning of last week with a trip to collectormania, mentioned in my previous post. Then I decided to count my penny collection I’ve been collecting for two years. My previous collection went towards sending a cow.
I have

This post was written aaages ago - a few days after I was shortlisted to be precise - I’m not one to cause controversy but I hope you get the points I’m trying to raise.

I’m naturally very suspicious person, I tend to go along with things until I have more of an idea of whats going on. So when I received an email from Rhys the other week with the title omgomogmogmogmgomgomgomgomgomg and the link to the Metro youth shortlist I was rather excited. Mainly because I didn’t expect my site to be up there in a million years and because it had been such a long time since the nominations I reread the rules and my suspicious mind got thinking….

The rules said:

Youth (for bloggers under the age of 18)
We want to find the best young bloggers in the country. If the person writing the blog is under the age of 18, whatever the topic, nominate them here. It could be a personal diary of their life, or about anything else under the sun.

LOL I’m 19. I’ve never lied about it, its right there in the first sentence of my about page. Rhys even put my age down as 19 when he submitted the entry.

Today I receive and email from metro, stating that because I was under 18 they required my parents permission for me to partake in certain activities! I may be short, like pink, kittens and bunny rabbits but I’m 19, honest! I’m studying at university, I can buy porn and am quite partial to the odd bottle of lambrini. They even put in the description of my site “Personal writing from a design student.” you’d think that’d give it away.

At this point my suspicious mind started coming up with wild theories as to why on earth I was shortlisted! The most fathomable one was that quite simply, they hadn’t received ‘quite’ the amount of entries they’d hoped for in that category and simply listed me as filler. Then informed the judge not to choose me. Its a conspiracy I tell you!

So that was my theory, and then I got thinking again. (This is getting to be quite dangerous!) what’s to say the others were under 18?! Its cruel I know, but this also shows how little privacy there is online.

Lets start with Repost Media, His blog post about being shortlisted:

So it appears Repost has been shortlisted for the Metro’s Brit Blog Awards ‘07. This is kind of funny for a couple of reasons: 1. This blog has been going for about a month. 2. It’s in the Youth category, and I sure as hell don’t feel youthful. 3. I can’t think of a third. Don’t think I’m not grateful though, it’s pretty cool.

Doesn’t quite feel youthful? A quick google of his email address (scary isn’t it) and I’ve found his myspace, 23, from scotland.

ok, so maybe they needed some more filler?!

Moving on. Thesecretlifeofamanicdepressive Introduction post:

I moved to London when I was 17, in 2003.

oh dear, 21. This took seconds to find out I might add.

30gigabytes.com Surely one of the entrants is 18 or under?! yes, Just in there.

A link from the sidebar shows that flyingsaucer is indeed under 18

So two out of five shortlisted actually qualify for the competition….Is this just an honest mistake (although it took me all of five minutes to find out all the entrants ages), or a viral post attempt by metro to get bloggers talking….about what and for what purpose I have no idea! Anyone have any theories?!

On another note a comment from Lil Do they honestly think that writing an essay would be a gratifying prize for teenagers? I couldn’t have put it better myself!

After this was written and the winners were announced The runner up, Pole to Polar was [Specially commended - was nominated in Youth category, but author was just over the age limit] I’m sorry - Just over?! She’s 21 the limit was 18!

No I’m not bitter. I’m really rather glad I didn’t win to be honest. Why the hell would I want to write an essay as opposed to the other winners who all get brand spanking new laptops!? Surely this’d be a good prize for the ‘teenagers’ (I use that term loosely) who have far more need of a laptop than most!

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