The Life of a BA Student

Lyrical Ballads: With Pastoral and Other Poems. In Two Volumes. By William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge

2007-12-02T20:37:00.000-08:00

Lyrical Ballads: With Pastoral and Other Poems. In Two Volumes. By William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge: "

2007-04-05T18:26:00.000-07:00

Drunk clarity.

I'm writing this from the perspective of being drunk, so please excuse any grammatical or spelling error. Unlike any other blog I've written whilst drunk, i've managed to grab on to enough sense to be able to carry out tyical tasks such as grammar and spelling yet my coherence may be low. Please ignore that.

So what to think about tonight? Tonight was a good night. I met many friends and had a chat with some random person at the burger van about philosophy...which was random. I also missed my girlfriend very much. When thinking about this, I wondered to myself "What is it about someone that makes us miss them?"

At this point I'd like to point out that my relationship with my girlfriend is very good. She is a wonderful, beautiful, swedish girl who I always cannot wait to see. She makes me really happy and I always look forward to seeing her. Cynics may say I write this because there's a chance she may read it, but honestly I don't mind. Kajsa, if you are reading this, you are awesome!

So then, back to the question in hand...what makes a person "miss" another person? What I personally feel when I miss my girlfriend is a sense of longing for touch...I wish to hold her and kiss her. I want to talk to her, chill with her, everything that can be expected of two mutual friends in the first place in addition to the beneficial physical contact. Kajsa is without a doubt the best girlfriend I have ever had, and I don't believe I've ever felt this way about a girl before. So what I miss about Kajsa may well be the very essence of Kajsa herself; her beauty, her personality, everything. Thus, what a person may be said to miss of another may be physical contact. By judging on what I have writen this would certainly appear to be the case.

However, I have other friends also from Birmingham which I miss (namely Richard Lee for example). What I miss about Richard is similar; his atittude and his personality. Rich is a very fun guy to hang around with and I really feel as if I'm lucky to be a friend of his.

Thus, the essence of missing another person must be that the contact bond you have with them is presumably strong enough to mean that when you cannot see them you still desire to.

Kajsa, you are still amazing :) Rich, you are a fantastic guy (though you won't read this!)

2007-04-03T11:06:00.000-07:00

What i'm up to:

That's what i'm writing about, because I keep forgetting what I do every day.

Sunday: April 01
Went for walk in the park with family, went to Ste's party.

Monday: April 02
Met up with Kajsa, went round Birmingham with her then saw her off at the train station.Worked at Mom's office, went to Blakfish gig.

Tuesday: April 03
Worked at Mom's office.

2007-03-06T18:40:00.000-08:00

beep boop i'm a truck

2007-02-27T16:57:00.000-08:00

I'm drunk again!
but this time i am so lucky
because i can talk to my friend keisuke...i miss him
he is telling me some things to say in japanese

i'm sad now :(

2007-02-02T06:47:00.000-08:00

John woke up having slept through all his lectures. A book arrived to the flat today which has been discarded on the playstation and may or may not be ever read. Some random person was knocking on the door but knowing the scouse flatmate it was probably one of her many unknown associates. John went back to his room and went on the internet for a bit. John opened his curtains a few hours later to find a bird has shat on his window.

More as it develops

2007-01-12T19:16:00.000-08:00

drunk part two

i think

a manifesto written in a singularity of prose
i'm writing this so i don't remember it in the morning
what did i tell roommates, they asked me about girlfirned
i saidf shes lovelt
uts a truth

yup yup

lol!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2007-01-12T19:00:00.000-08:00

Drunk.

This post is entitled the ways inc which you know you are drunk. what i am gonn do is leave all spelling and grammarical errors intact for the purposes of posterity. and now i am gonna record my feelings whilst drunk this is done for the purposes of science

AMOUNT OF DRUNKENESS;
well. i have been more drunken in the past for example new years ever,. so i would have to rate thos as a 8.2 ot of 13/

PERCENT CHANCE OF HAPPINESS;
well iam listening ot katsushiko maeda or howerverr up spell his name...the "band" is called worlds end girlfriend. so they are good, for example the song which i am listening to now named "SCORPIO CIRCUS" so yeah enjoy that one

also on the playlist is rei harakami i only spelled tht one fue to readin ui

ok so AMOUNT OF ALCOHOL
THE AMOUNT IS....AN AMOUNT THATS AKK U NEED TO NOW RIGHTY MATE!

ok so lets talk about philospophical title
fgor this i need listen to takgai masakatsu

MY REVIEW

track one; uter1
yeah it;s good. at the time of reviewing ive heard 00.23 seconds of the track..though i have heard ti before,,. whats the next bes track?

track; four pIANO
what does tuis track invole you ask urself....well i pinao for one thng you go i need piano and they sa9y EYS i have ut i pkat the mysical instruamtnet song and we fance
and people get happy
adn john plays the game of life wirh the winner alwyas beenig ihm and never les dennis...he was my retarded uncle of an opponent.

TRACK9 Birdland
thissong inspred me to pla piano
one sec whilst i chat on da mSNX for kidszlol
ok BACK itried talk dumbill
,abe i wqatch extras
i get the frunk nigs lol.com

track 10 aqua
this song makes me think
ones sec whilst i change treack
ok
this mkaes me think
it
makes
me think
it makes me think this
it makes me thin is what it does
thats what uit does nt at

Rich - A pretty lame escape if you ask me says:
(something racist)

thats hwta he says
i think its beautfiyl
whats up good chik wick

so whats the conclusions

NINE CATS ARE BETTER THAN 7l...NINE IS A ROUND NUMBER FOR 3's...yeah for sure

2006-11-16T05:23:00.000-08:00

NOTES ON ESSAY:

Marlowe did not write one of the versions. Which was it more likely to be? Neither, Marlowe was a lazy bastard. He probably employed a monkey with a face.

Less spectacle in the play certainly detracts from its seriousness.

The spectacle does not add a great deal to the play. If anything it makes it less serious. Would the audience consider the final dismemberment of Faustus a joke? Possible. Well, there’s nothing funny about dismemberment.

Spectacle scenes: The one with the horse. Quintessential differences between the two texts are stuff like, I dunno, whatever.

This play is a TRAGEDY. I think the B-text forgets that sometimes.

MARLOWE WAS A BASTARD. NEVER FORGET.

My essay is due in for monday. :(

- John

2006-11-13T07:49:00.000-08:00

Hello to anyone reading this blog.

My name is John, and I am currently a student at Aberystwyth university in Wales. I'm a first year, studying English Literature. There's no particular theme to this blog, I just felt that as an English student with a lot of time on my hands I should be at least writing something. So this blog will be about various things that happen to me, thoughts that I have, whatever really.

So, some background about me.

I'm originally from a small town just outside of Birmingham, England. My interests are music and photography. I have a myspace, a deviantart, and a last.fm. I've written a few articles for my friends website; here, here, and here. I went around Europe with my friend Ste this summer, and a blog about that can be found here. I attempted to learn Japanese, a blog about that is here, but I haven't learnt that many of the words on it. I did photography for a few bands; stuff i've done can be found here and here

Sorry for the relatively humourless first post. I'll try and make sure following posts are funnier.

- John