This is probably just me talking here, but I’ll address it as if it’s a mutual feeling felt by everyone in the same situation. All year – from September until June – you’re constantly working towards an end of year exam (or… eleven). If Mr Quinn is anyone to go by, homework set on a Friday, worked on until the next Friday, when more is set. It’s a never-ending work cycle. You just have to search my blog to find just how much effort I put into it (or to blog about it, but whatever).
So come the 17th of June, it all sort of ended. Finished. Finito. No more Geography, Maths or Computing to worry about. Ever again. Of course I’ve got uni work, but that’s basically working on stuff I’d do for fun anyway. It’ll bring in elements from my A-Level studies, sure, but I’m not going to need to know about the over-gentrification of the Cairngorms National Park ever again.
So from having the rare hour or two of free time during a weekday, I’ve got the whole day. I’m not the sort of person who wants to waste it sleeping in, but for some reason that seems to happen. Mainly because I have nothing to get up for anymore. Well, get up early for, at least. I’ve found myself being plonked at home watching This Morning, going for a random drive somewhere, or at the laptop blogging about nothing to do…
So I’m looking for things to fill this new found void. I’ve got plenty of things I could be doing, but they’re all pretty nerdy. It doesn’t bode well with the whole ‘7 Things…‘ aim. So I’ve been mulling over some random ideas for some fun times in the summer we can do for the last few times we’ll all be together.
Of course one of those things is Canada, but that’s not until early August. Another thing is the final Duke of Edinburgh expedition, but god knows when that’s happening. I’m talking things we can all participate in. If the weather stays like it is, I say one day we go on a road trip to the nearest bit of coastline. We’ll need to corral someone else who’s willing to drive as, ambitious as I may be, I don’t think we can fit 10+ people in my KA. Nuh-uh. It just won’t work.
I’ve also kind of applied for tickets to watch Guesstimation and Hole in the Wall but I’m kind of thinking if I was successful, they would have told me by now. Shame. I mean, who wouldn’t want to see Dale Winton get all excited about a wall with an unusual shaped hole in it?
The Living End and Enter Shikari are playing at the HMV Picture House in Edinburgh a couple of days after we get back from Canada. Going to that would just be epic, but may be a bit of effort. Plus I’d need to find people to go with. Hmm.
So maybe I’ll be stuck with doing the nerdy things. Okay, so making a ball game for Kongregate (Plurk people should know all about that), a redesign for this here blog, a couple of nerdy sort of presents to do and stuff to get the ball rolling for uni should keep me entertained if those things don’t happen. Shame. That’s boring. 
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