Philosophical Dan back at it again…
Hello fellow Earth friends, I’ve been told that some people actually read this. So thank you, hope you get a kick out of my misery. Well, if you haven’t before, you will this week.
If you are looking for the usual satirical and sarcastic post, come back next week when hopefully I’ve had a funnier and more entertaining life. For now, like I said, enjoy my weirdness.
I have made a couple of discoveries about myself this week, one good and optimistic, the other a bit of habit that I need to try and avoid.
This entry plans not to be long because once again, I’m tired. Surprise surprise. Uni has lead me to becoming more zombie-like by the week. I really need bed. I can hear it calling me… That’s enough. Stop it Dan. NOW!
Right, in other news, there are some good things to report from the week past, and some exciting prospects that are going to be coming up.
Monday was a good day, standard arguments with my academic tutor followed by a lovely conversation with a third year who had been on the study abroad scheme to the University of Texas at Austin. I became a lot more insightful about the trip over and more confident in my decision. I’m still apprehensive but I know, deep down inside, it’ll be the best experience of my life. All of this rounded off by Pizza Express in Westfield Stratford with some of my closest university friends, practically my family.
Tuesday brings interesting news. My best friend and I booked the hotels for Rome and Florence of our Italian Tour. It took the best part of 3 hours to come to a unanimous decision but it was well worth it. Total price for the holiday for flight, hotel and trains (that we haven’t paid for yet) comes to a staggering £209, which is nearly £100 cheaper than the flights and hotel combination for Barcelona last July. I also tried to send off my passport application finally on Tuesday, that failed. Obviously, why wouldn’t it?
Wednesday brought some hope into my life, I finally sent off my passport application (although the lady still said it was wrong), I just wanted it gone. The case might be that I receive a Danial Naqvi’s passport from Bradford now, but oh well, what can you do? As it was Wednesday, I had work and the significance of it this week, I actually remembered this time! I like to call this improvement, you might call it going insane… either or would suit well I think.
Thursday was a great day, despite my insane levels of tiredness, the ending to this day made it for me. It was one of my very best friend’s birthday on Saturday and she was going back home to celebrate, fair enough, we couldn’t let her leave without celebrating with us first. So myself and three of my friends went out to Oxford Street, trawled through shoe shop after shoe shop to buy her some new kicks. Sparkling white, don’t think I’ve seen more white pearls since watching a Colgate advert. Pristine. Also got her some Prosecco sweets, new place in Covent Garden called Sugar Sin, well worth a look. I think she liked the surprise, I know we all loved setting it up for her.
Friday was a culmination of a 9am lecture and a lack of sleep. I hadn’t done the reading because I was focusing on a presentation that I’m actually doing tomorrow (I’ll leave that there, not getting into those complexities, gosh), so I strolled into the lab session without a care in the world and smashed out a 8/10, an experiment I don’t want to retry, that’s for sure. As soon as I got home, I slept, and slept and slept. Then unusually for myself, when I’m at home, went to bed at 2:30 am Saturday morning. Fair to say my sleeping pattern is skewed, at least it’s not as bad as some people I know. Thank god!
In other news, I finished 3 QM Print articles that hopefully should appear in the February issue. I got an extension on my national magazine articles to the end of the month and I discovered that my car is 90 miles away from reaching 66666, I’m so excited. I shouldn’t be but I am. Could be the day I get a new car if the significance of continous 6’s rings true. Please… no.
The discoveries I made, relate to a status I put on Facebook on Saturday night about finding success. Some people seem to think I can provide some good life advice, because I suppose if you were to ask me, I try to be as honest as possible even if I know it’s not what you want to hear. If you want to have success, you need to be one of the two people I described; know WHO YOU WANT TO BE or WHAT YOU WANT TO ACHIEVE, that’s the only way. For more of an explanation, have a look at that status on FB, I truly believe everyone can relate to it.
I believe I formulated it on my own (correct me if I’m wrong), after speaking to highly regarded work colleagues about life achievements and speaking to friends at university and at home, it is clear everyone has a designated path and it’s whether you take the first leap or if someone beats you to it.
The other thing that is a bad habit, is that when I am around friends telling stories or sharing experiences, I tend to have a crazy and muddled thought process, so I skip to other related topics that have relevance but they don’t return to the original story. I realised this when I was talking to my best mate on Saturday (we had a takeaway, just so chill and bliss), and he has these facial expressions when I shift from topic to topic because, rightly so, he is confused how I am starting a new conservation. I don’t know if these blog entries come across like that… please tell me if they do.
That’s enough rambling. I tired. I sleepy. I have headache, kinda.
I’m out
DN