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aloneinbath · 8 years ago

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Jokes that the last thing I wrote on this was ‘I’m definitely going for Cambridge’ and I went the other way. I guess that’s the theme for this piece, my crippling indecision ----

So since the last time I did one of these i have:

--been inter-railing

--been to Florence and Venice

--entered my last ever term of school

--decided what university i’m going to

--moved house, twice

--read, a lot

--thought about myself

so the earliest thing i remember is leaving bath, which was bittersweet. I listened to pillow person ‘go ahead’ while i drove out to the M4 for the last ever time, and i didn’t cry but i did stare out the window for a long time. it doesn’t seem like anyone is missing me much, but thats because i wasn’t really a part of their lives. regret is a strong feeling and i wish that i could have kept in contact with more of those people. I'm trying to reinvigorate some of those friendships but it’s not easy when everyone lives in a different city to you.

that’s the bitter part - the sweet part is that we now spilt our time between edinburgh and london, which means that I'm on my own in the flat a lot. that’s really nice. i can see people when i want to, and i can always have people round. the house in edinburgh is mad, it’s very large and could fit about 12 people in it last time people came up.

and people did come up. i did a line of cocaine off my brother’s bathroom floor and it was jokes

but it also means i don't board any more which is nice. i feel bad for richard and isaac, but they’ll be fine.

when i got back from edinburgh i had to wait until the 11th to get my feedback from OXFORD. i didn't realise i was nervous about it at all until the day before. i dropped my phone in the bathroom and it smashed, and then i realised that the next morning i would find out if i was going to the university i wanted to go to.

i got in!

on the morning of the 11th of January, 2017, a dream of mine since i was 3 years old came true. in october i will be heading back to oxford as an undergraduate in english, and i couldn’t be happier. i was quite worried because i had tonsillitis and mentioned memes in my interviews, but the fools let me in. in fact i should be revising right now.

i had a really nice day with s564. we went to the pub and finlay looked like he was in blackface because he was covered with powder. we got really drunk and then i don't remember. the next thing i remember is waking up covered in rabbit hair in a bed in sam’s room and going to the cafe, after which point we went to theo’s house on the longest walk ever, and brewed beer and helped don push a small yellow car around hampstead heath. that night i couldn’t sleep.

i have been reading a lot. my reading list is 100 books long. 60 to go ! best things i have read this time:

--divine comedy

--brothers karamazov

--gawain

--tristram shandy

i’ve been to a lot of parties. phil’s, claudia’s, etc.

phil’s was good, i drank old fashioneds all night and screamed all the way home

claudia’s was okay, then bad, then good, then i left

i don't really think i like parties much any more. it feels kind of pointless now. but there are like 6 in a row after exams, so that should be good.

it will probably be the last time i see some people who i spent two years with at school.

i move around a lot, and I've never spent more than 3 years at a school really. I've always been the new boy. I'm looking forward to going to uni where we will all start at the same time. it will be nice.

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aloneinbath · 9 years ago

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exeat - exeat IV

Summer!!!!! SUMMER!!!!

I spent the last part of my first year at Westminster blemming and writing essays. I decided I’m definitely going for Cambridge - hopefully I can do it but it wouldn’t be the end of the world if I didn’t get it. But yeah, hopefully Clare!!

Went to bounce with the sadboys. We jumped on so many trampolines and kicked about a bunch of little kids. MEGA BOUNCE FAM it was cool to do something and not be drunk, but then we went to the pub, of course.

Had a BBQ at Theo’s house where we made some disastrous decisions. I made some disastrous decisions ‘hey do you wanna get a drink or something maybe, you know, with me’

spent a lot of time on tindr - some of the best quotes were:

‘what so do you have some kind of posh upper class accent like a nob’

‘nah goebbels was wavey’

‘is that a borderline hipster i see?’

we left the EU. that was peak.

Went to IKEA and had a £1.50 beer at 10AM, then traipsed around looking for lights - went on a tram to get there lmao

Bullied a bunch of year 10′s for Sam’s biology project - I don’t see how that was biology but i am not a learned man

went to Adam’s party where Eddie and I spent a lot of time yelling about the DANES and just generally having a jokes one - even after Uma threw up on my lighter.

Went to Oxford for the open day - and the nostalgia was bare. Went to the pub with Asha and my dad and Asha really sheepishly asked him for a pint. Oxford’s bare grim though man

WENT TO GERMANY

I was in Munich for three weeks on the other leg of my German exchange, living with Yannik and his family, and it was bless - I ate so much bread, pork, and butter. Beer is so good there and it’s so cheap! Also I’m pretty sure my german is actually fluent now, which is good.

Swam loads in really nice lakes and saw banging mountains and that. Also there was loads of sick stuff going on, went to a colour festival, and listened to SO MUCH TRAP, it’s all they listen to. Yannik is a chain smoker, I smoked so much.

Taught the germans to say ‘OH YEAHH’ and they loved it.

Best parts:

- Munich Pride

-Theo’s huge swollen hand

-Yannik in general

-chillen und grillen

-Zak desperately trying to shove coins in the cigarette machine

-Alex’s schelchtes unfall

-’du vogel’

Thats pretty much it, in a week or so im going interrailing

best books of this one:

-Burnt Out Case

-The Secret Agent

-The Heart of a Dog

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aloneinbath · 9 years ago

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exeat -- exeat III

I forgot I did these so here’s one

i haven’t done that much at all for the past month or so, really. um

after much deliberation, i.h. and i stopped being a thing. that’s sugarcoating it. i broke up with her.

i went to paris. it was banging. we went to the lapin agile where the woman who sang sexy french songs winked at me and called me beau garçon anglais. i practised my French with a man who worked there.

“je suis lycéen, à londres.’

“c’est vrai?”

“ouai. je ne parle pas français si bien que je veux.”

“non, vous êtes mignon pour même essayer!”

Merci, homme, merci

Also saw loads of nice art and i was drunk the WHOLE time

did a musical. desperate measures. it was pretty good. no-one did any work at all, and we kind of just struggled through but it was fun to sing and dance and that on stage, i spilled non alcoholic champagne all over myself and my fake moustache kept coming off.

Went to Yorkshire with s.w. f.c. t.g. p.f. it was sick, we drank at like 9 in the morning and we discovered that I can’t count. also i had a huge spliff and lost control of what was and wasn’t real. lol

it’s been a pretty uneventful half term. VI form is pretty much over which is weird. mum and dad have planted the idea of american uni in my mind just tonight, so we’ll see if maybe that happens. really i’ve just been working a lot and screwing up with girls on tinder.

the best books i’ve read since the last one in no order:

nostromo

heart of darkness

libra

so you’ve been publicly shamed

bye

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aloneinbath · 9 years ago

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Exeat - Exeat II

The more things change, the more they stay the same.

The last one of these I did I talked about how much had changed, and it is weird to think that. But what’s stranger to me are the ways in which I’m the same as I ever was -- I still religiously love Battlestar Galactica and I will get a bit too nerdy on pretty much any TV show, but that’s just internet nErd cRAp which doesn’t really interest me. Anyway, this half term has been really short, so here we are again:

I. Yannik came, and Yannik went — the exchange wasn’t anywhere near as bad as I thought it would be, it was actually really fun! I was really lucky with my partner b/c the Yan man and I got on pretty well -- he loved to come out with us all, he came to (and was perplexed by the presence of a swastika at) Finlay’s comedy night - which was hilarious 10/10 - and loved Bath — all Germans do. I think his English got a lot better too. Bodes well for me going over there. Mum and Dad helped out too -- they cooked a really nice dinner for Bathonians and alos Sam and Richard, as well as Yannik of course. Yannikdote highlight: “yeah, my dog is called also Louis, I don’t know why though, it’s not like he wears a .... big green sweater or anything...”

II. Friend-wise, it’s been a bit of a tumult at Westminster recently -- our friends seem to be at each other’s throats a lot. I have safe mates in the Sadboys and Anki, Sophie sometimes, Grace -- not to mention Bathonians. Enjoyed spending more time with the feeeellllaaaas -- loved meeting Finlay’s mates, boy, feels like i’ve known him for ages. Swell doods, one and all (Huw was a highlight). It’s nice to see my friends all be friends with each other, Auriol messaging me to see if Ariana and Finlay are still together because she had a dream they broke up etc.

III. Been reading a lot. Or trying to read more. It’s definitely English for me. In Mart’s words: ‘Louis, my son, there’s nothing better than a fucking smackeroo when it comes to books” WISDOM. I’d like Oxford. But hey-ho, we’ll see.

IV. Got a rad internship at a literary agent in London. Gonna live with Sam and make content. Excited! Hopefully PUB every night amirite boys

V. Great time with Immy. She’s fantastic. High-key in love. Still a bit difficult trying to find time to see her.

VI. Going to Paris on Wednesday, with Sam, Ce, and the rest of the HOA lot. Gonna be rad.

Bye!

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aloneinbath · 9 years ago

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monsters build mean robots

robert frank untitled (children with sparklers in provincetown) 1958

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aloneinbath · 9 years ago

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leben exeat - exeat

hello to my meagre amount of followers,

My man F.C. posts these sort of life update things every now and then and i think they seem like a good idea. so i’m going to assimilate them into my personality. I’ve been at Westminster for a term and a half now, and, wow things have changed. This time last year, I literally cannot remember what I was doing. For context:

—All of my friends who I still really have contact with (save Oscar and Charlie) I met less than a year ago

So let’s run through some stuff that’s happened.

I. Moving school. This was a pretty big deal. I wanted to go to Westminster so badly for so long, and hey! I made it! I was good enough to get in. The bursar told my dad at a dinner that only one in twelve people made it, so to be honest I was rather proud of myself. I wanted it, and I worked for it. Academically speaking the school is great and I feel stretched and content. People took a bit of getting used to. Londoners are intimidating. As someone who’s never lived in a city larger than Oxford it was pretty strange to see how, even though there are 8 and a half million of these people, they all seem to know each other. They use different words, too. Words from hip hop that I didn’t really clock were actually used, let alone by posh white people: ‘peak’, ‘bait’, ‘sus’ - all stuff I learnt. I have a nice group of friends now. Mostly girls (the more things change...) but I do love all of my mates. Big shouts to S.W. C.M. R.W. R.M. G.M. F.C. T.G. P.F. among others. It’s hard trying to maintain friendships in Bath when you’re a boarder though. That’s getting to me quite hard. I feel bad for I.H. because I’m never around. Overall Westminster has made me happy. It’s a rigorous place and people are successful and they can be cutthroat, but hey, I like that. I like making myself heard.

Fun Westminster stuff:

—First Fitzrove with S.W. P.F. C.M. and S.C. -- disaster for me but fun nonetheless. First experience being out in London is throwing up outside Shoreditch High Street Station. Ha. Then going back to Peckham and meeting S.W.’s parents blind drunk, with sick on my shoes. They make em classy in Bath.

—Other pub trips. Eating Scotch Eggs with P.F. in the enterprise.

—Last exeat. Mum and Dad were in France, and I had people round all the time. Finally got together with I.H. and all that awful G.M. stuff that followed. But it’s all in the past. Simple Things! Such fun. Seeing SKEPTA of all people with F.C. S.W. and C.M. then the ‘banging driver’ all gr9 mems.

—Christmas with I.H. New Years down in Bath. all fun.

But my life started getting different before I even left Bath.

II. Hong Kong. Dad took me to Honkers for three or four days. And it was excellent. Remember taking him out to a restaurant where all they served was goose for his birthday, drinking beer and talking while being presented with plate after plate of BBQ goose. Sushi restaurant too, basically the same. Went to the Big Buddha - the statue of Siddharta - and it has a gift shop selling tat in the head. Sums up China.

III. Edinburgh Fringe. I’ve always been into drama really and going up to Fringe was banging. Although I had a small part, I met pretty much everyone I’m friends with in Bath now, inclunding I.H. Basically a great time. I remember getting lost by walking the wrong way for 25 minutes with G.M. and having to yell ‘chips’ at a paying audience.

IV. Kenya. Spent three weeks in Kenya, having never been to Africa before. Amazing place. saw elephants, giraffes (which i fed with my mouth), zebras, ibexes, hippos, anything -- emus were my favourite (they remind me of the tripods from War of the Worlds because of how they walk and how fucking evil they are.) Chimpanzees freaked me out so I wrote a little story about them. Got malaria on my birthday. All round, pretty damn good (even the disappointing pizza)

V. Writing. Writing’s been going well this year. Won a prize in Bath for a short story about bridges. Working on a collection of little pieces. Talking to a publisher. came third in a Westminster competition for a story about tubes. won a 12-word story comp with a 13-word story. got my play back, needs some work. Hyper-Webster thing still in the works with S.W. and F.C.

This all feels very different to what I was probably doing this time last year - revising for my GCSE’s and fantasising over Mrs Mason wishing I had nicer friends.

LTH-D

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