2011 - a News Review

As always, i like to be queen bee or whatever the masculine form of that title is, i have taken someone else's idea and I am going to attempt to make it my own. Yes indeed, you have already seen a news review, so i feel i should plug said innovators wonderful blog here: Harry's Blog.

Let this blog serve as a reintroduction into the blogging scene, before we attempt far more indepth posts which got me something like 750 hits this summer.

1) The year began with a reminder why we don't do drugs. Indeed, on a drunken New Years Eve (or New years day by this point) in attempting to rescue a lost member of the Trampoline Club we ran into a gentleman who can only be described as "trippin' balls" and was very much aghast at our attempts to reclaim our friend who had wandered into a party uninvited to steal some booze. And here, i thought we were the adults. Anyway, having defused the situation, we moved on to leave this child to writhe in pain at the inevitable stomach pumping that what his 2011.

2) I returned to Uni a changed man. A larger man. Rather like the banking crisis, it started as something manageable, like Northern Rock's collapse. Then, the shit hit the proverbial fan and RBS went right down the proverbial shitter, and we knew we had a huge problem. Yes ladies and gents it was at this point i looked into the mirror and accepted i was now classed as over-weight. Thankfully, i have been able to manage this and haven't continued to balloon. If only the incumbent Tories could manage their crisis.

3) After a pedestrian year in terms of effort, i got a pedestrian mark, which i was happy with. A 2.2 is not what i'm going for, but it is a stepping stone from the disappointment that was sixth form. In fact, i look back and i'm not proud of what I have done beyond academia. At the time i was a man looking to live university life independently from barriers and constraints. Now, i wish i had treated as a stepping stone to something huge, which ideally my life will be. We are back on course i can confirm.

4) This summer i went to my first gig! How is this?! Well, i've never been one to seek music beyond the sound that comes from my head phones, but the opportunity came along to watch Jamiroquai at the marvelous o2 Arena, and my response was why not? Ordinarily i'm inclined to spend my money on sporting fixtures, Football, Rugby and Cricket mostly, which i enjoy. The concert was fantastic though, really good fun and one of those moment i'll look back on for years to come. Such a shame it was my friend was spoken to by Jay Kay rather than myself!

5) I asked a question to a friend, which i wont publish. I will publish his answer. "Nothing with Robots or Animals". Say no more.

6) I returned to Uni a changed man again, this time after lengthy summer recess, where i had a chance to assess my options and make a decision about my life. This time round, i was somehow more chiseled, more experienced. I've been through this, i know this. In light of this i approached the year differently, less gung-ho, less Fresher-Fodder and more measured and calculated. I chose the societies i joined with the here and now, and the future in mind. Go Karting for pleasure. Politics for the Future and Dancing...well tell you the truth i was trying to pull, how chauvinistic, but i can announce it is something more to me now, as i sit on the Executive Committee.

7) The year ended on a sad note, as my mother and aunt had split from their respective partners. It made for an interesting Christmas, as they both toasted themselves into a new year with new men. I worry about mum, she is after a perfect man, which as we all know doesn't exist. I just want her to stop fretting and be happy, and be settled. Coincidentally, she has found a man who is football mad and supports Leeds United, sound familiar? (....my father, her first husband is a football mad Leeds fan).

We live and learn. This time next year, hopefully i'll be a millionaire. In all seriousness, this latest semester i have had a different outlike on life. It's not that i'm happier, it's something more than that. I have an energy at the moment, a fire that is getting me going. It's not something i do, nor someone i know that lit it, but it's there. With this in mind, take 2012, and grab it by the horns.

Lets make it a good one. (Also, i couldn't think of a nice picture for this blog, so i've chose a picture of a robot).