Virgin? Yes but don't tell anyone...

Virgin broadband is totally and utterly stupid. For no reason what-so-ever my moden stopped working last night, and on phoning them up today I find out that its something to do with the downstream not logging on to the network, something to do with it being underpowered.

Anyway what this means is that my internet is down until monday, possibly longer knowing what these people are like with getting new parts and what not.

And I have to say, it is not very handy for me to lose my internet at the moment, what with me needing to get details to and from uni via email, and all that jazz, and I have still to hear from student finance about my claim, even though they have sent back my birth certificate. I got an email through the other day telling me that the deadline is closing for my second application supporter to send in evidence, when my mum and dad sent their support in at the same time as eachother, at the same time as me!

It'll all get sorted, I am finding it hard to be sympathetic towards the student finance company at the moment though.

I've been spending again...

And its not my usual penny pinching, cheap ass £10 trainers from shoe zone, no, I've got something Ive been wanting for years...

Footed Pjamas! those are the exact ones I've ordered and I think they will come in very handy for not only saving on my heating, but also because I intend on losing weight, and might start to feel the cold a little more than I do now.

...alright alright, I also got them because they look so darn cute! I'll post a picture when I get them.

Back to the future, 2!

I've been getting miscellaneous letters from UCAS and Salford congratulating me on getting a confirmed place on the course and having a confirmed place in accommodation. I'm not entirely certain, but I think that means that there is now very little that can stop me from going to uni, which means that it is actually, really happening.

This is quite a big thing for me, I mean Im excited, so excited am I that the Im glad the seat I sit on now has a waterproof leather cover, incase I wee with excitement, I've never done it before but hey, its kinda like a heart attack, even the first time can be a big issue.

Anyway anyway anyway, yes I am ready for uni, and I am very glad that I won't be going there alone, I have some friends who are making the monumental step to higher education along with me, which I am very greatful for believe me. Still waiting on my finances to be confirmed, hmm, I'd forgotten about them, maybe theres something that can throw a spanner in the works after all! oh deary...

I am very thankful for the oppertunity to go to university, and often find myself looking back at what my life might have been like had I been born a hundred years ago, being down in the pit with no hope of a future beyond the life I have known in wigan. Infact even looking back twenty or thirty years would have seen my life with different oppertunities, for you see people from lower, working class families like mine didnt go into education, we got a trade and we stuck to it, or we simply didnt last. I'm going to try my best at my studies, for all the people who have missed out on the oppertunity to excel simply because of the wrong place and the wrong time.

PS; incase you are confused, the title is a reference to this post, made when all this Uni business began.

World of Warcraft: Cataclysm!

Wow, just wow. Have you seen this guys? (those of you that care)

This is the third expansion for the ever-growing MMO that is the World of Warcraft (I'm a casual player.) I can't believe they are giving Worgen (werewolves) to the alliance and sticking Goblins to the horde, how annoying!

Well, of course theres no way in hell I#m not going to play as a Worgen, simply because:

a) They are werewolves b) They have Druid c) Gilneas their home, is uber gothic, and d) They're freaking werewolves!

The downside? it means I am now going to have to brace myself, swallow my pride and dignity, and play with the alliance as my faction. Oh the shame!

I'm a stone's wall away!

I'm on a residential for LGBT volunteer's starting this thursday, oh joy of joy's! Its free, it takes me through London to get there, and thy has been missing London so (League of Extraordinary Gentlemen anyone?)

I don't think I am allowed to swan off to Camden though, which is a shame, but hey, they are paying for everything, so I should be greatful to even go on the London Tube, god thats good fun!