Everyone's been talking about it-it's this huge, overhanging, ominous, portentous thing which will mark the end of midday lie ins, student loans and everything which embodies student life.
I was talking to a man,who worked for the BBC, in Dalston a few weeks ago and we got into a conversation about Hemmingway vs Kerouac and I told him my ambition to read the BBC news and become the next Fiona Bruce. He laughed at me, saying Mrs Bruce was possibly the "most boring" person to aspire to become. After a further conversation, he suggested that I go to America for two years and do a MA and whilst I was there, document American life. We realised that there are not too many women American writers and I decided to investigate his suggestion.
It transpires that it's not as easy as just moving to America and doing an MA there are tonne of visas and the like to fill out and the tuition fees over there are £25,000 plus. Anyway, I need to speak to my Further Studies teacher about it, he's most helpful.
Off to get the chips out the oven.
Summer
My mum is getting married in Lake Como in August and I'm pretty excited. It won't be the month trip we did last year but still, I can't wait!
Doc Martens turns 50.
A girl at the cinema in Angel last week had the most amazing pair of Docs on but can't find them anywhere online. Probably stick to lusting over theses bad boys.
Zoe Harness Boot and the Pixie by Jeffrey Campbell.
May
Many things will be happening in May-my exams which mark the end of my second year at University, my Mum's birthday, and a supposed general election.
Let's talk politics. Gordon Brown, in a speech in Nottingham on Friday claimed he had five key pledges: raising family living standards, buliding a hi-tech community, strengthen fairness in communities and protecting frontline services. He also vowed to stabilize the economy through economic growth, cuts to lower priority spending and fair taxes. On a BBC 5Live phone in on Saturday evening, there was a huge debate (almost as exciting at Paxman's questioning of Michael Howard) between two men, one a blogger and the other an MP (Labour and Conservative) and the MP was tearing the blogger to pieces saying that Gordon Brown's "carefully costed" attitude was bullshit. He said it was impossible to carefully cost an economy and said why was it not "carefully costed" when the national debt doubled.
To me, it seems like the Conservatives are playing a game of we've got nothing good to offer so we'll wait for Labour to say something and then completely dismantle it and make them seem bad whilst we're about it.
I heard Gordon Brown saying the other week in a speech that Labour was a "middle class" party, whereas the Conservatives are a "rich" party. I find it difficult to get my head round, even when studying politics in sixth form, the boundaries involved in defining working, middle and upper classes. Income and occupation have to be taken into consideration but it seems like there are more defining issues which are considered when working out the class system.
The smarmy posters for the Conservatives are being defaced up and down the country and the Lib Dems are the silent third party, not really promising much either. It seems like at least Labour are promising something!
Let's talk politics. Gordon Brown, in a speech in Nottingham on Friday claimed he had five key pledges: raising family living standards, buliding a hi-tech community, strengthen fairness in communities and protecting frontline services. He also vowed to stabilize the economy through economic growth, cuts to lower priority spending and fair taxes. On a BBC 5Live phone in on Saturday evening, there was a huge debate (almost as exciting at Paxman's questioning of Michael Howard) between two men, one a blogger and the other an MP (Labour and Conservative) and the MP was tearing the blogger to pieces saying that Gordon Brown's "carefully costed" attitude was bullshit. He said it was impossible to carefully cost an economy and said why was it not "carefully costed" when the national debt doubled.
To me, it seems like the Conservatives are playing a game of we've got nothing good to offer so we'll wait for Labour to say something and then completely dismantle it and make them seem bad whilst we're about it.
I heard Gordon Brown saying the other week in a speech that Labour was a "middle class" party, whereas the Conservatives are a "rich" party. I find it difficult to get my head round, even when studying politics in sixth form, the boundaries involved in defining working, middle and upper classes. Income and occupation have to be taken into consideration but it seems like there are more defining issues which are considered when working out the class system.
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