EXAM SEASON

It's warm and sunny outside and I've been watching copious amounts of the OC, and my boyfriend and his friends have revived the Game of Thrones board game, so that can only really amount to one thing... EXAM TIME! There literally hasn't been anything interesting in my life as of late. Handed in the essays I was working on over Easter and moved straight into revising. Exams are in a one week span.

Just a little update as I should really be doing something productive with my life. I haven't been updating properly in forever anyway, BUT i am going to start again in summer as there is nothing I really have to do.

See y'all then!

BLITZ!

I'm afraid I have neglected you terribly.

 My life this term has been a perfect wash of all things good and hence, very boring to write and read about. There have been highlights and interesting things, but in the effort and mindset of moving ONWARDS AND UPWARDS with my revived blog, I probably shan't bother going through the effort of remembering everything, finding photos etc, so y'all with have to accept that there is a chunk of a few months of my life that you will not be privy to, asides from the super brief update of things I can think of off the top of my head.

 Last time I blogged it was midway through christmas break, yet I am now blogging at the end of my Easter one. EXAMS! are coming up once again. Essays (3) need to be handed in but I'll try not ramble on about workload because that's never really fun to read. I have not gone home as I did last holiday, but spent the break intruding upon my boyfriend's family and home life and visiting the cute lil' town of Porthcawl, Wales where he was born and raised. We've spent a great deal of time doing everything and nothing as we do best; several London trips, the Lion King West End show, an overly expensive meal for 2 'poor' students, frolicking with baby lambs, one (ONE!!! IN A MONTH+) night out, and various adventures and ice creams walking down the pier on a nice day. I've managed to get a lil' bit of productive stuff done and I'm even more crazily in love (sop) so I'll count this holiday as a big tick. PLUUUS boyfriend's gone and booked his flights to Hong Kong for the end of Summer, where mama and papa Grant may accompany us on our additional detour to Phuket. Can we say exciting? YES!

So really, as of this term, my life has been:

• Lectures, seminars, film shenanigans. My coursemates are still bonkers as ever and I still love every minute of it.
• Spending silly but lovely amounts of time with the SO. Improving our cooking skills, watching films, playing games on a DS emulator. I'll try keep the cheesy stuff off the blog but I'm happy.
• Only having a FEW super!drunk nights this term. Bonus points to the one where I went blackout and magically behaviourally transformed into a toddler who intentionally spilled water all over the floor.
• Cute girl's nights with junk food, pizza, films and gossip. I love my girl's nights.

In all, nothing too exciting, but nothing that boring either really. 

 I guess another thing I could mention is that I've recently decided to get back into 'proper' photography.  As in, booking more 'proper' shoots, doing editorial-esque planned photoshoots with people interested in modeling. First step is really to refresh and rebuild a portfolio so I've planned a few shoots, so I may be talking about a few of them in the future.

Anyhow, ENOUGH of old stuff. Here are some photos from today's visit to a farm and the baby lambs (and boyfriend and me of course)

Mother teresa WHO??





That's what I'm gonna leave you with as it's past bedtime so I should probably shimmy back into bed. Will be back again soon (I won't quite make a promise but I'll give you an I'll-try-really-hard.)
MUCH LOVE!

Small Town Moon

Christ, it's really been a while. Facebook's gone and changed their picture formats and the lack of photos on here and how much time it's going to take to edit them all has been depressing me, thus, lack of posts. I should really be typing more and relying less on photos, but I am a photographer and my already not so interesting life is just less interesting without visuals.


Because I am backdated by like, 2 months, I'm just going to summarise.
(1) Got back to uni and was reunited with everyone including my lovely boyf. Because we're living in Leamington this year (and by we, I mean I kind of occupy a little space including a shelf and a corner of the floor and half the bed in Joe's room...) there's been less going out and more house parties. Been to a fair few, several dress up, at all sorts. (cbf to go into detail)
 











(2) Wow I literally remember nothing else (serves me right for not updating sooner.) Basically, been going into uni, course still great, mondays suck blah blah, house parties sometimes, mostly staying in because I'm turning into an old lady and OH WOW YEAH I'M STARTING TO GET HANGOVERS FUCK THIS. :(

(3) Buuut a recent exciting adventure was that me and Joe went down to London to go eat at MAZE because we absolutely fail at being uni students. First day was spent just wandering around oxford circus because shops don't actually close at stupidly-early o'clock there. Went to Hamleys and basically relived my childhood, although I was disappointed that it seemed so much smaller (In before y'all can think 'No shit Laura you've gotten bigger in 10 years,) but was still a nice wander. Went and had a steak (!) in cafe rouge and literally the best desserts ever. I do not think you understand how good this dessert was. Have some pictorial proof of the menu:

MAZE itself was ridiculously nice. Did a bit of shopping in the afternoon and navigated the tube - I still get crowd stress it seems - and ate so much and I got really upset that I got too full to eat all dessert. Drinks and service charge still was a big chunk of money.

Train'd home Monday morning to return back to student life. (Or not.) 


There is really not much else to write here; I guess I just wanted to do a clearing up of all the backdated stuff - because this kind of stuff actually does stress me out ... - so I can move on and post when (if) anything interesting happens. Maybe I'll do more text-based posts or something.


I'm barely motivated to do anything that's not lie in bed and watch films as of late really. And try to befriend cats on the street who just don't want to know...

Now on Twitter +++

If, for some reason, anyone cares to find out more about my life which I already blog extensively about here, you can read up on my little ~anecdotes~ and rare thoughts here.

Warning: I overtweet.

Kids And Candy

Something shocking appears to have happened.

This blog is not the first. When I started this blog, I was not a aspiring blogger tentatively dipping her feet into the sea of documenting my life. I have in the past, to continue the water metaphor now that I've started, thrown myself headfirst off a cliff into the sea, promptly swam to shore, and then kept going back and forth.

This time, it appears I have been successful.

Maybe I am speaking too soon. Maybe this will be my last entry for a month, two, a year, forever. But glancing down that cute sidebar on the left, right, whatever-it-depends-on-which-way-you-look-at-it-either-way, my updates are becoming more and more per month. (Yes, my new obsessions in writing long, pretentious articles do so count as updates.)

My previous record, was I think, perhaps three entries. Maybe four. Therefore, over thirty entries is an interesting milestone, because holy shit, even I didn't think I'd keep this up. I have tried ranting blogs, private blogs, funny blogs, feature blogs, picture blogs with cute drawings and none have stayed with me.

Whether anyone reads my ramblings, I do not know. I do not care to know. As mentioned here, I blog to blog and for my future entertainment because I find a ridiculous amount of joy in reading back on my old stuff and just laughing at myself.

And now, as I head off on my next new adventure on the other side of the world for The Next Big Step in my formal education, university, I should have plenty of interesting (to me,) content and thoughts in general to spill out over the keyboard. Because I am a relatively pathetic person, I am really hoping to keep this up, because I am already anticipating with glee the hobby that will become me in my second year of university reading back on my freshman year thoughts and predictions. God, I'm so easily amused.

I do, however, have to admit that I've grown slightly attached to my little bit of space on the internet. Yes, this is what it would look like if my mind digitalized itself and threw up everywhere. I am neither consistent or logical. But this is pretty much the truth. (Unless it's a fictional article and in that case I guess it's a lie.)

So, in celebration of thirty-two-entries, I am going to place here an introduction. Because I am a terrible person, it is not even an introduction specifically written for this exciting and monumental event. No, it is a recycled introduction from one of my older blogs which is (a) from last summer, and (b) not SO awful that I am too embarrassed to paste it there.

Therefore:

I have always sucked majorly at introductions.

For starters, I never know what to introduce. Should I tell people about my interests or my personality? My positive points or the parts that suck? Or maybe I could launch into one of my more eccentric theories, or a heavily exaggerated story about what happened yesterday, and let you reach the conclusion that I am insane on your own.

Or, even better, I could ditch the introduction and simply attach a warning sign. One of my better ideas, as it would stop my dreaded and frequent encounters with slow walkers, and would allow me to pick friends who don't talk in cinemas.

I have attempted many times to keep a blog. I think 5 entries was the record. Each entry also started with "Oops I haven't updated in a while," because I'm sure my large following of dedicated readers (read: none) were peeing themselves in a frenzy to know where I'd gone and WHY I'D STOPPED UPDATING MY BLOG (i.e. no one cared and I, being a loser, felt inadequate and gave up)

I have also started many, many projects. Some of the lucky, rare exceptions, managed to actually go somewhere, before sinking back into the limbo of "Ideas and things that could have happened if Laura weren't too lazy."

So: Hi, I'm Laura and I'm really lazy.


I decided to create this blog-picture-thing because:

• I have self-diagnosed myself as extremely witty™, and therefore need to share this with the cyberworld.
• I like to doodle. Especially stick figures. Especially stick figures mocking myself. Go figure. Now this sentence sounds stupid because the word 'figure' is in it three times, once not being used for syntactic parallelism.
• I have nothing better to do.

I will spare you details of my real life. It is mundane and uninteresting. You will, however, probably get glimpses of it (or perhaps more), as this blog is, um, a blog about my mundane and uninteresting life.

Now, as an amateur to introductions, I am of the opinion this has been a quality introduction post. However, due to my place as a newbie on the introduction hierarchy, it may be that this introduction post has greatly displeased the introduction post gods and I will be struck down once I click "publish post."

Nevertheless, it is a risk I will take.