Sitting alone in the flat at the end of term, the time has just flown by. Almost a year of university, gone in what feels like half the time. And that’s sort of true. The academic year timetable passes quicker than the calendar one. Is that good or bad?
Sitting alone in the flat seems to be a habit of mine, and I’m still no sure whether I’m an agoraphobic sociopath or just plain lazy. Let’s hope it’s the latter, eh? Yeah, that’ll be it. Probably. Oo-err.
SURHUL have had another elections season, this time for the Executive Committee. Politics, at even the base student level, simply exposes the fallacies of a finite term in any office. Student volunteers in a part-time position for less than one solid year? There’s going to be little ‘change we can believe in‘ at Royal Holloway. Prove me wrong! (Please?)
Oh, our Principal has resigned. Did you hear that? No surprise, most of my student brethren are apathetic, or didn’t even know who the Principal was in the first place. Either Egham is a black hole of activism or I’m just plugged in to everything to avoid my degree – oh, that’ll be it. Nick Stylianou, the information sponge?
The end of term – this mean’s I’ve submitted all of my essays and now look forward to three exams in April/May. Wonderful. Seeing as my timed essays were slightly better than mediocre (i.e. suitable enough to pass the year), glorious complacency will no doubt set in. I’m looking forward to the last-minute stress overload. “Fuck it, 40%” seems to be the 2009 mantra.
So now I’m officially Editor of the SURHUL Publication for a year. Let’s see what this new chapter has in store for me, shall we? It’ll give me a bit more to do than sporadic theatre trips, wishing I was abroad while constantly refreshing lastminute.com flights and trundling around the Guildford/Godalming area in Fifi listening to Fall Out Boy. I’ll be ringing up print companies for quotes, firing up Adobe InDesign, replying to bizarre press releases and begging for interviews and free tickets.
You probably skipped over the bizarre press releases bit. Oh, Nick, he’s always exaggerating. No, really, among all the NUS statements, new music circulars, occasional DVD screeners, I received a press release about ‘condoms for dogs’. Mmhmm.
Condoms. For dogs.
Needless to say, I deleted it, but not immediately. It required further investigation. Sadly, it didn’t garner any adequate responses. Do you have to apply it to the dog when it becomes aroused? Do you have to play ‘wingman’ to your dog when he’s out on the pull, diving in when he’s just about to get his little doggy-groove on to suppress that unwanted puppy pregnancy? Or do you staple this contraption permanently on your canine friend, producing horrifically explosive and unimaginable retrograde results?
These aren’t questions that keep me up at night, thank God.
I can always rely on my hobbies to nicely tick over and aid my time-wasting: I’m still taking a photo a day, which surprises even myself sometimes. I’m occasionally getting up in the morning and even the weather’s brightening up. I’m definitely having some sort of identity crisis….
This is what I’m doing at any one time. But for now, I’ve got to pack my car up to go home. Three weeks of MarioKart Wii-playing a-hoy! I will beat you. Waluigi is a master of karting disaster. Don’t say I didn’t warn you.