Thursdays

Hey people,

This morning I was so bored of being cooped up in the house that I decided to go for a run. A good idea some might say, since it relieves tension and stress (not that I am stressed, just bored). However, every time I go running something awful happens - usually I feel like I'm going to faint, but today I just was sick. As I came into the porch - I'm so classy like that. So anyway, I decided that running is definitely not for me and that I'll stick to swimming, or badminton. I'm never sick when I do either of those things and they're way more fun. At least I feel graceful swimming and you don't get all hot and sweaty. Badminton is also better because you can have fun with friends (or father, if you're like me) while exercising! What is your favourite sport?

Anyway, rant over. I don't have much more going on in my life except for the endless learning of texts for exams in about a month. I have settled into a revision pattern, even if when I started I got slightly hyper and the only successful thing I did was peeling an orange. I did paint my nails a pretty colour to amuse myself though - ohhh the levels of boredom one descends to. Anyway, I am actually revising pretty well at the moment and am writing this in a ten minute break (which may turn into twenty). I am also steadily getting through the X Files, which is amazing! Season 2 is off to a great start and apparently it gets better and better so yays. I hope you're all having a better day than me!

Nail Fun!

From my run this morning (before I was sick...).

Tuneful Tuesdays

Anyone who knows me, knows that this would be inevitable since it's one of my favourite songs:

So good! Also, just for the funsies, here's a picture of me in my new sunnies, yeah I'm cool...:

Hope you all have a lovely day!

Monday Evening

Hi guys!

I haven't really been up to much these past few days - just revision (moved on to Alexander the Great, the joy...). I also came back up to university. Me and my parents went for lunch in a pub and then for a walk in some wood looking for bluebells, before I got dropped off at my uni house. I have already made a revision nest. I am surrounded by easter egg chocolate, mandarins, coffee and notes. My browser has about ten tabs open with all the stuff I should've read during the year but never got round to! Term hasn't even started and I'm sooo looking forward to the end of finals, when me and the boyfriend can go punting, drink and party!

As I mentioned last time, I'm going to India in the summer and I bought a sari last week to wear to it. It's from some random shop in Southall. I'm really excited about going because I've hardly been out of Europe and never to Asia! I'm going to be just north of Delhi and it's going to be 45 degrees, so I'm not sure what I'm going to wear - cue fashion crisis. I need to get some cotton shirts/tees and some long maxi skirts/dresses, although I'm thinking about making my own skirt when I get home from term. I really need to actually start using my sewing machine and a maxi skirt is a good thing to ease into it all again.

 I made my first clothes purchase in months today to cheer me up, since yesterday I was feeling a bit depressed about being back here and having to revise for like two months solid. The mint trousers and the sunglasses are from H&M.Tonight I've kept myself busy by revising and watching Made in Chelsea (guilty pleasure) so not feeling too bad and it's bed time soon anyways cos I've really got to learn how to do early mornings (by which I mean getting up before ten hah). I also bought a badminton racket because me and a housemate will hopefully be playing sometime this term and I forgot to bring one from home.

Sunglasses and trousers from H&M

Pub for lunch!



What are you up to this week?

Tuneful Tuesdays

Hey guys, here's another taste of the music I am listening to. I'll give you something that's slightly more accessible/easier on the ears because I know that The Minotaur is a bit hard listening, though I still love it. This time I'll give you something from Mumford and Sons, who I saw live last summer at Glastonbury!! They were so so good and they are releasing a new album soonish, but in the meantime here's one of their songs from the first album:

I hope you enjoy it! I'm off to go shopping with my mum to get a saree for an Indian wedding I'm going to in the summer! More on that next time.

Easter Sunday

Happy Easter everyone!

I hope everyone is enjoying all the chocolate you received! (I personally have a headache, even though I'm trying to restrain myself!). I've been a bit out of the loop in the blogging world this week because I wanted to spend as much time with my boyfriend as possible before he went away on holiday (lucky sod!) to Marrakech. That and revision has been taking so much of time that I haven't really had a chance to do anything else. But I have finally finished going through most of my texts for the exams now, just got to revise Alexander the Great, which is less fun that it seems and some other texts in English. Whoop whoop!

Today we, in true tradition, got our easter eggs, painted our own white eggs and then had an Easter egg hunt around the house! Fun times. We also watched Pygmalion which was very good and then Mary Poppins. I have finally got an iPhone again after about three months, so you can follow me on instagram now :). My username is chescah so please add me!

Here are some of my instagram photos, cos my iPhone is an old make, slightly broken and sothe lock button doesn't work, so I can't take a proper screenshot, boo.

Easter fun, I did Jesus on the cross, with Mary Magdalene, if you can't tell what the right one is. I'm not religious - I just thought it would be thematic:

 

Random shots from Instagram:

What are you doing this Easter Sunday?

Tuneful Tuesdays!

Hey there,

It's time for the second installment of sharing my musical interests with you guys. Just a quick post cos I need a bath and then I'm meeting my mum at the National Portrait Gallery so we can hopefully get in to see the Lucien Freud exhibition! It's all sold out online and I don't know how much chance we have of getting in (waaah).

 Anyway, this week's music is rather long, so you don't really have to listen to it, but if you have time to spare/are revising etc then I would look up Birtwistle's The Minotaur. I wrote my dissertation on this opera so it's a very personal entry for me. The music is quite hard to get to grips with but it's so worth it because it's completely amazing! I could tell you lots and lots about the piece but basically have a go and don't be scared of not understanding it, just let it wash over you!

Lazy Sunday Afternoon

Hey there!

I'm supposed to be revising the Antigone by Sophocles (/translating the bits I didn't do in term) but instead I'm procrastinating on facebook, pinterest and other things. I do think that students learn more about creative ways to procrastinate than they do about their actual degree/A-levels or GCSEs. There is always something better to be doing!

This weekend was all about procrastination, my friend came over on friday night and we watched the X-files, which everyone should watch cos it's awesome. Although this led to a discussion as to why they put Gillian Anderson (Scully) in those terrible pant suit things. It's so bad cos Dana Scully is too cool to be wearing shit clothes. We also watched a '60s horror called Peeping Tom, which I would recommend. How is your weekend going?

Anyway, here is a spring outfit and a hairstyle I was experimenting with, plus one more from Scotland I stole off the boyfriend (denim shirt was a present and the skirt was from a charity shop. The hat I randomly picked up off the floor after a fancy dress night out. Judge me all you want but it was clean, obviously unwanted and I was drunk - I think it might have originally been from Primark, which makes it even more classy:

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