My first week as an adult!

I have been 18 now for just over a week. And for the first 6 days I didn't do anything to say I'm an 18 year old "man". However, On the 6th day I finally acted like a legalised alcoholic. For the first time I made my way to Wigan town! Before leaving I had a few sneaky pre drinks with my brah and then as soon as I arrived, free shots and £3.00 for triple vodka and Red Bull... Needless to say it didn't take me very long to be... Inebriated! In fact it was the constant flow of that £3.00 beverage that kept me going, the energy from all that Red Bull kept me going from 11pm to 8:30am before falling asleep mid conversation... I've never managed to drink so much, and pull an all nighter, needless to say a McDonalds  was the necessary cure! Im glad that even after all the drama I still ended up having a fabulous time "loosing my town virginity" and also having my first picture taken inside a club! The question cannot be posed as to there being a song dedicated to this night, because I can tell you.... There has!



I haven't only drank this week, oh no, I have booked my driving test and have prepared for that! I have used my fabulously modern driving instructors car, and the comparatively spartan car belonging to my mother! I love driving but surely I'm not the only one who thinks that driving a car without power steering is pure effort! I've been driving for over a year and yet the mother still insists on telling me how to brake and change gear and when to give way and when to do this and that but please mum let me get on with it! But I must admit, the feeling when I put the spare car keys to our beloved Corsa on my Ferarri key ring was hard to beat. So in truth my first week as an adult has been pretty memorable.

The Easter Holiday workload

I have an issue. My issue is that these two weeks are supposed to be a bit of R&R for a student before the final exams start in May. Thankfully I only have 3 exams, but what about those who have 7 exams to take for their A-Levels or even this back at G.C.S.E level? My heart goes out to you brave warriors. Even though I only have three exams the workload I am expected to complete, let us not mention the "optional but we really know it's compulsory" work, is actually rather obscene! I have a theory: at the start of a half term or a holiday you need the first few days doing nothing; free of all educational stress. Then at around day 4/5 (lets be honest at day 5) you can start very slowly easing yourself into conquering the mountainous workload. The general rule of thumb is that you start with the easiest piece of work before gradually getting up to the essays and projects, these are usually done the day before your return. Sadly for me, the day before I return to college is my birthday, and the day before that is my Dad's birthday, and it's rude to sit down in silence for an hour and a half on birthdays. So if I work on my theory that you need at least 5 days to yourself, not including bank holidays because its a day when the government take you out of college, then tomorrow is the day I should start work, well nobody does work on a Friday do they! And besides, part of the fun of a holiday is to re-emerge into the world of other people and begin to socialise again. How am I supposed to do that when I have two essays to write, two plays to read, two 30+ page booklets to fill in, a pile the size of The Eiffel Tower of media "revision" for the exam period starting in May, over a month away. I could come down with some sort of Scarlett Fever before then; and I don't want to be spending my last days using MIGRAIN to analyse the different platforms of The Amazing bloody Spider-Man. You may think that my work load isn't really much, and you'd probably be right when comparing it to others who have 7 examinations in this final push for success, but for me, a person who no longer excels in exams and prefers to gesticly improvise his way through life, this is a lot. I don't do well under this sort of pressure and the chances are I'll fail everything and never be able to go to university, ever, and be stuck working for The Book People for my whole life, never being what I want to be because I buckled under pressure. I suppose "The early bird catches the worm" could apply here to this revision process but lets be serious, I haven't got a clue what I'm doing. Yet I'm expected to get my MTG's when I'm still learning new things, and when added with the pressure of taking my practical driving test; I can already see these next few months aren't going to be for me.

The first blog.

The first post has to have an impact. I sit here, in the dark and supposedly asleep writing a blog, something I've only ever really thought about when studying them in English, desperately hoping that it will be interesting. I must admit I'm struggling. This is my first post and I have writers block, it is laughable! Perhaps I should specify in analysing albums or delivering directorial views, but in fairness I'd be awful at writing souley about that; hence "Anything and Everything". It's funny I only ever get this stuck for something to write when I'm writing a song or writing an essay on how to perform the role of Konstantin in particular key moments. But I hope this can just be an outlet for me to express my views and opinions, for instance yesterday Nicki Minaj's video for High School ft Lil Wayne dropped:

http://www.vevo.com/watch/nicki-minaj/high-school-explicit/USCMV1300061

and as a barb it is safe to say I spazzed! To see Nic stripped back from all the crazy wigs and crazy outfits to something glamorous and grande shows her progression as a person, she recently turned 30 but you couldn't tell I mean she looks 25! And the steamy scenes with Wayne were a slash ficcers dream. So perhaps dedicating my short first post to Nicki Minaj may be a bad move because let's be honest she's like marmite, you love her or you hate her, but I'm a barb and proud and I think this is a fitting way to show my dedication to #TeamMinaj and @NICKIMINAJ herself. So here's to you Onika, on my very first blog.