Another month gone. Where does it disappear to? Seems like only yesterday I was paddling around in Lake Ontario. *sigh* Shame. Well, that’s how time works, I suppose.
This is the last 7 Things update you’ll see pictures from my room in Northampton, too. Come the 19th, I’ll be dossing studying in Bournemouth and living in a lovely (Well, I hope) room in Corfe House, Poole. You might see that room here come September’s review, or possibly October’s. We’ll see how September pans out first.
But anyway. Onwards!
My posture
Heh. Just as I wrote that, I leant in to lean on my desk, which is lower down than it should be. In other words, I just noted how bad my posture *still* is, even though I did somewhat correct it at the start of the year.
Noting my shadows the past few days, I’ve noticed it’s really just my head is more massive than everyone else’s, so it protrudes further out and looks like I have bad posture. You know, Mr. Burns style. I don’t need to worry about it that much…
Lack of henchness
Now I’m not even joking here. I have now reverted back to lack of henchness status. Meaning I haven’t done any gym work at all this month, even when I had free gym access at the hotel in Canada. I mean, I was on holiday. You seriously can’t expect me to endure pain on holiday. I know some people like that sort of thing, but not me.
So what have I been doing instead? Mainly trying to walk places more. Leave the car at home. Kind of ruined by people needing lifts everywhere, but hey ho. I put other people in front of myself; that’s just me. I’d rather be that sort of person, to be honest.
Although, having said that. There’s a gym within walking distance from my student accommodation in Poole, so I might try that out. If I don’t get a chance to experience life otherwise, I won’t know what I’m missing. Now there’s thinking!
Poor excuse for style
Wow, now there’s a resounding success… not.
So I said I would find new clothes in Canada. If you’ll count that "Large Child" Wall-E T-shirt I got free from some girl at Casa Loma, then yes, I did. But that shirt has a tightness Simon would be proud of. I – on the other hand – prefer things a little more loose fitting. Going by the price tags of the stuff in Toronto, the only thing that would be loose fitting is my wallet. So I decided to forgo the whole clothes shopping thing until I got back.
When I did get back, I found a nice little shirt and tie combo in Tesco for £10. Can’t be bad. It’s a nice smart-casual shirt (the one you see me wearing in the pictures for this month), but the tie can make it nice and dapper looking. It’s only, oh, a year late to make it decent sixth form attire. Damn you, Tesco!
My nerdy lifestyle
Right, well I was all ready to say I had a relatively nerd-free month, what with getting away from my room in Canada and meeting new people and such like, but then Grafton Primary’s Relativity came on iTunes and just blew that whole idea out the water. Electro music talking about Einstein? Yeeeah, break out the pocket protectors…
A-Level results came in this month (but you knew that already). B C C C. Heading off to university. Is that nerdy? Fresher’s fortnight isn’t nerdy, certainly. But I miss the party which "isn’t to be missed". Annoyed, much?
But really, apart from maintaining my blog and doing a bit of work on the ball game (Which I’ll finish eventually, I promise) it’s been all quiet on the nerd front. I’ve been cool and set up Twitter so I can update it by SMS, but Twitter’s like where cool and nerd alike come together to share their life. So that’s fine. Technically.
Also, hopefully, when it’s done, look out for the ball game making a special appearance on eggcave.com if Ian gives it the a-ok. I hope so. That’s one level of nerd I think I want happening. 
My hairstyle
Surprise! No change. Exciting, eh?
My hair’s had a chance to grow this month, without being cut of by some evil barber person. It kind of liked the warmer climate in Canada, too. But now it’s back here, it’s throwing it’s age-old hissy fits again. It refuses to stay how I like it, but I think I’ve gotten the quantity right now, so all’s good.
Don’t fix what isn’t broken is what my motto is, so y’know, I’ll keep this up until I have half my hair shaved off during Fresher’s. Hey, I don’t know my flatmates, they might be like that…
Social ineptness
This was August. This was the last month I was going to see the majority of people I see on a semi-regular basis. Of course I wasn’t going to shy away in this month. Apart from resisting Carl and Simon’s attempts to ‘find me a girl’ on results night (by calling them all whores, but that’s another story), I didn’t exactly shy away from any situation.
I met some nice new people in Canada and I was kind of the adult out of the three, so I had to organise most of the stuff. Usually, complicated stuff (well, read as "complicated" with air quotes) such as airport stuff I’d leave to someone else to deal with it all. Not today!
We’ve got Helen’s birthday party at Hullabaloo tomorrow, which is another chance to show of any sort of confidence I’ve built up so far this year. So what if I’m dressed up as a superhero?
Not a risk-taker
Okay, so I went to Canada without any parental guidance, and got back alive. That kind of proves that I can actually fend for myself. Honest, I can…
Well I bloody well hope so, because I’m moving away in… oh… 20 days as of today?Ouch. Reality strike. But meh, that’s pretty risky. Moving into a flat with five other people I don’t know. Hey, they could all be axe-murderers. Let’s… hope not, but they could be.
This month I went to London on a whim and did something I’ve never done before – go to a TV recording. That was pretty damn risky. I mean, London at night? Stab vests aren’t enough protection in that place.
Oh, and I’m on the plinth next month. At 4am. That’s pretty risky. Especially because it’s in London again. People all over the world watching me. Argh. Pretty scary, eh? Well, let’s just hope Clive Anderson is watching me. Then my life will be complete. 
My final month in Northampton summed up in a blog post. Hooray for an anti-climax. But hey, this is just the beginning of the end. There’s plenty more fun things to come in September! Woop woop!
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