People.

(Disclaimer: I'm writing this having been awake for more than 38 hours, so this post may be a little fuzzy!) 

So having made 35 hours' worth of flights in the past 3 weeks across 3 different states of the U.S., it made me realise just how many people you see and interact with but then never see again.

I mean, on a flight from San Francisco to London Heathrow you'd be stuck in that plane for 10 hours and 10 minutes with nearly 300 complete strangers. For those 10 and a bit hours, you eat the same food, breathe the same air, watch the same films and sleep in the same small seats (which really aren't that comfortable). 

It's weird when you think about it like that, right?

Or how about travelling on the Tube, you get on it at rush hour and there are so many people (most of them in suits and rolex watches) who get on and get off and walk down the platform. When you're all crammed in the carriage it's easy to start wondering what people's stories are- where they come from, where they're going, what they're doing, who they know, what they're like, whether they make that same journey every single day..

And the chances are, you've just encountered bajillions of people who you are never going to see again. And the next day you'll walk past/bump into/ride the same bus as another set of bajillions of people who you'll never encounter again.

It's kind of like a bunch of keys- you know what they are, but you don't know their exact purpose, how they're different to the other keys.

All of these people we see but never know are most likely, in some shape or form, connected to us. They might know someone we know, or they could be a distant relative, or they could have the same job as us. 

But what does it matter? Because we'll never know. They're still strangers, just passing by.

Get out there, people.

Summer.

So, hello readers- if you're still there.

Summer is here! Finally. It always feels like we spend the whole academic year longing for summer to arrive, and now, here we are.

My last uni exam was on 20th May, and I'm on summer hols until the end of September, which is a ridiculously long time.. what am I meant to do now? It kind of always feels like an anti-climax; you go from being crushed under mountains of work and revision and the stress of exams and then WHAM suddenly you're released back into the world with absolutely no work to do.

I think it's strange how summer is regarded as the best time of year, but for me it's just a limbo, a gap..

I mean sure, there's the weather (ha) and it is really nice going away on holiday and exploring new places and meeting new people and being WARM for a change, but the majority of it is just not very exciting. Apart from the boredom, what I really don't like about summer is not seeing friends every day, like you do at school/college/uni. Everyone seems to go their separate ways until September.. it's peculiar! 

So with all this time and not much to fill it with, I decided to make a to-do list (though admittedly, this was mainly because I just like writing lists..) but anyway here are ma optionz:

1. find something to make out of the 1,500+ foil milk bottle tops I collected
2. do some reading in preparation for my 2nd year of uni *whimper*
3. make gothic-y candle holders out of pretty, old wine bottles
4. make fridge magnets out of beer bottle tops (there seems to be a bottle theme here..)
5. SELL THEM ON EBAY
6. learn new songs on my cajon
7. discover new music
8. do other stuff

Haha reading this post back, it seems quite gloomy and not summer-y at all.. sorry about that! Maybe I'll do a happier post about Summer next week.. WHO KNOWS EH

over and out.

Snow.

Seeing as it's snowing outside right now and everyone has been going bonkers on facebook/twitter over the snow, I thought it would be rather apt to write this blogpost about snow!

What I like about snow is that it makes everyone happy yaaaaaay :-) Sounds lame, but everyone gets excited when it snows. It always seems to be that no matter how much or how little it's snowing, everyone always gets their hopes up that there won't be any school/work/college/uni/other dull commitment the next day!

Obviously, the most pointless thing is snow that doesn't settle. You get wet and cold and there's nothing exciting at the end of it! Truly heartbreaking.

Rain after heavy snow makes me sad too, just think of all the time and effort the precious snow put in to settle and build up, and then the selfish rain comes and mushes it all up! Sad times.

However, when it snows good, it snows goooood.

Everything looks pretty when it's covered in snow, even pylons and terraced houses. The almost-luminous white blanket makes everything look new and clean and friendly. Snow is really weird when you think about it; it sticks to everything and turns it a different colour. It's just a lot of STUFF all over the place.

One of the many perks of snow is that one can wear wellies without looking weird. Wellies are the best and funnest type of shoe. Mine are black and sparkly so they're mega groovy, ohhh yeeeeeah. I would wear my wellies all the time if if were socially acceptable, but it's not. So I don't.

Out of the typical snow activites (snowball fights, making snow angels and tobogganing) I'd say it's between snowball fights and toboganning. Toboganning is really fun down my road at home, as it's really steep so you hurtle down and get a thrill out of the fact you could die if a car comes round the corner and squashes you at the bottom. But then there's always the trudge back up the hill, which aint fun baby. Hence it would appear that snowball fights win! I am actually a very sneaky person, so I like channelling my sneakiness through  creeping up on people and chucking snow at them/shoving it down their coat- muahahaha.. Also as a war studies student I feel it is my duty to take the art of snow warfare seriously.

So now as the snow outside is becoming more like sleet, imma go back to watching Miranda on BBC iPlayer.

SEE YA.