Last night saw my second trip to Scandals since coming home, and had a really good (and surprisingly cheap) night! Only lowlights were the spillage of Gaskin's beer all over my new dress as he attempted to 'top up' my cider with cheap lager. Ugh. That and some overly amorous chavs and a possibly well meaning Irish man who picked me up at the bar and in the process managed to put his hands in inappropriate places. Wearing of dresses has its drawbacks. Really appreciating how good things have been with friends and the general calm and serenity that seems to have settled over the south coast, for now at least!!
Unfortunately I still haven't managed to find a job, which is pretty dire and the bank balance is slowly getting further and further into the red. Ah well, as my mother says, at least when you don't have any money you don't have to worry about anyone stealing it! (She had an incident with a mysterious Tesco Online bill taken out of her account a while back, and has been rather wary ever since). I think this summer may well be survived with odd jobs at my parents' workplace, selling all my worldly belongings on ebay, and stealing and cashing in everyone's unwanted pennies.
However, on the bright side, I do still have my BBC placement to look forward to, although I need to be careful to be doing/saying the right things at all times. Three days is a rather limited time to make an impression, and that is exactly what I plan to do! What with all the recent talk of postgraduate studies and how I'm going to fund them, I've failed to start panicking (until today) about the one thing that I need to get over with first - the dreaded dissitation. I have a general theme that I want to go on. Africa. Development. Globalisation. But seeing as I'm not much of an economist, I'm worried it will be quite worthless at the end of it. So maybe some sort of rethink is necessary.
Right, I think that's OK for my first post, I'm sure these will get more interesting with time. Ben (big brother) is coming back from Ibiza today to DJ some posh wedding, will be nice to see him before he leaves again for another 2 and a half months! Personally I don't understand his love of the party isle, but I guess anything's better than our great English 'summer'. Can't wait to get away myself, but not being much of a sun/dance music worshipper I think something calm and cultural will suit me just fine, Eastern Europe somewhere I reckon. As a 20 year old who has only ever seen France, I am desperate to see more of the world, I feel a strange sense of urgency about the whole thing. So fingers crossed I can make some money somehow!
Rachael x
PS. Watched Little Miss Sunshine this afternoon. What a brilliant film that is. Love Toni Collette. And it has Sufjan in the soundtrack, and a bit of Sufjan is always good. Really brings home how ridiculous the American beauty pageant scene is, as outdated as fox hunting if you ask me, and almost as brutal for those poor girls.
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