#8 Things I Miss About Uni

This a list of things that I miss most about uni life. Feel free to add any more if you can think of them:

1. High school started before 8am, but now anything before noon is considered “early”.
2. You have more beer than food in your fridge.
3. Weekends start on Thursday.
4. 6am is when you go to sleep, not when you wake up.
5. Instead of falling asleep in class, you stay in bed.
6. You know how late McDonald’s, Dominos, Pizza Hut, Kfc open.
7. You think it’s the weekend on a Wednesday and you don’t know what month it is.
8. Your underwear/sock supply dictates your laundry schedule.
9. You check Facebook more than once a day.
10. You talk about beer pong like it’s a sport.
11. Finding random people in your house is perfectly normal, and you even sympathize with them… sometimes when you wake up you have no idea where you are.
12. Your primary outlook on everyday life is Jeremy Kyle and Cash in the attic.
13. You open a beer at 10 am and your flatmate asks you if there’s more.
14. The standard of meals per day falls to two, sometimes just one.
15. Your bin is overflowing and your bank account isn’t.
16. You wear the same jeans for 13 days without washing them.
17. Your breakfast consists of a coke or cereal bar on the way to class… anything with caffeine will do.
18. You live in a house with three sofas, none of which match.
19. You try to study but seem to procrastinate by eating, going to study breaks, talking to people, etc…
20. You talk to your roommate on instant messenger when you’re both home.
21. You ask people what YOU did last night.
22. Certain things are now deemed “Facebook worthy.” When friends take pictures of you, you wonder how long it will take them to post them.
23. You see people you know you’ve met but can never remember their names or how you know them.
24. Your idea of a square meal is a Weatherspoons Sunday roast with a pint.
25. You’ve travelled on a train with bags of dirty clothes.
26. You go home to do your laundry because you’re too poor to pay the £1.20… or too lazy to go to a change machine.
27. You pay £50 for a book you don’t read once, return it four months later, and get £10.
28. You throw out bowls and plates because you don’t feel like washing them.
29. Your beer pong table is nicer than all your other tables.
30. It takes preparation… and 3 people… to take out your rubbish.
31. Going to the library is a social event.
32. You start joining clubs because of the free food.
33. Visits home depend on how much money you have for the train fair.
34. You skip one class to write an essay for another.
35. You have no idea where your tuition money is going
36. Getting post becomes an ego booster/breaker.
37. You never realised so many people are smarter than you.
38. You never realised so many people are dumber than you.
39. You craft ways to make any game into a drinking/stripping game.
40. You meet the type of people you thought only existed in movies.
41. Printers break down only when you desperately need them.
42. Anything can be cooked in a microwave.
43. Going to Tesco at midnight is completely normal.
44. You call restaurants that deliver more than you call your own family.
45. You’ve paid bills over £5… in coins.
46. You can’t imagine life without your laptop/mobile/ i-pod.
47. Hoodies and trackies become the norm – jeans are considered “dressy” at certain occasions… like school.
48. A cancelled class is almost as exciting as Christmas.
49. Taking a nap in the library is perfectly acceptable.
50. Your lecturers speak English… as a second language.
51. Your lecturers swear in class and no one cares.
52. You take condiment packets and napkins from fast food restaurants – hey, they’re free.
53. You bring back socks from the laundry room that may or may not be yours.
54. The lifts take forever but you’ll wait 10 minutes just so you don’t have to climb stairs.
55. You press the automatic door opener instead of simply grabbing the handle when you approach a door.
56. Christmas lights seem to be acceptable all year round.
57. Class size doubles on exam days, or before class tests
58. You are no longer thankful that fire alarms are here to protect you.
59. You begin to include ketchup on your list of acceptable vegetables.
60. You stay on campus for hours in between classes when it’s too cold to walk home.
61. There’s always a “question guy” in at least one of your classes, and you really wish someone would just tell him/her to shut the f*ck up.
62. You no longer find it uncool to take naps. In fact, you quite enjoy them.
63. You find your list of acceptable napping places expanding daily to increasingly uncomfortable locations.
64. You fill out credit card applications for the free food.
65. You’ve eaten cereal out of a cup… with a fork.
66. Dressing up for Halloween becomes cool again.
67. You know at least one person who has dropped his/her mobile into a toilet.
68. You become increasingly annoyed with the “old” people in class – well done to them for going back to college but they generally ask really, really annoying questions.
69. You admire people’s alcohol bottle shrines.
70. You set your clock 5-10 minutes ahead so you can potentially make it to class on time.
71. You text faster than you type.
72. You only find out a class is cancelled after you get there and sit for about ten minutes.
73. You run out of black ink and, instead of buying a new ink cartridge, decide blue is a nice substitute… adds a little flair.

#7 Favourite Chuck Norris Facts

I thought I would compile a list of my favourite Chuck Norris facts (mainly due to boredom), feel free to add more if you like!

• Chuck Norris doesn't sleep, he waits!
• Chuck Norris destroyed the periodic table, because he only recognizes the element of surprise
• Chuck Norris can kill two stones with one bird
• Chuck Norris counted to infinity - twice.
• There is no theory of evolution. Just a list of creatures Chuck Norris has allowed to live.
• Chuck Norris doesn't read books. He stares them down until he gets the information he wants.
• When Chuck Norris does a pushup, he isn’t lifting himself up, he’s pushing the Earth down.
• Chuck Norris can lead a horse to water AND make it drink.
• Chuck Norris CAN believe it's not butter.
• Along with his black belt, Chuck Norris often chooses to wear brown shoes. No one has DARED call him on it. Ever.
• Chuck Norris doesn't wear a watch, HE decides what time it is!
  
• If at first you don't succeed, you're not Chuck Norris.
• Google won't search for Chuck Norris because it knows you don't find Chuck Norris, he finds you.
• Chuck Norris can judge a book by its cover.

#6 Book Review: The Face of Death

The Face of Death: Cody McFadyen

ISBN 978-0-340-84010-8

This book is the second in the series from McFadyen, featuring the leading character Smoky Barrett.

After reading what I believe to be the first book, Shadow Man (although I could be wrong!!), I could not wait to read the next thrilling installment from McFadyen, and I can confidently say I was not let down. This book is a real page-turner, and for a guy who doesn't like to read too much this really kept me going.

The story centres on a young girl who is discovered by the police in her foster parents house, ready to end her life with a pistol and demanding that she will unless she talks to Smoky. The girl claims her life is being ruined by a mystery 'stranger' and all events leading up to this day have been recorded in her diary.

McFadyen keeps the reader in suspense from then on by switching between Smoky reading the diary and the present events following the opening of the investigation. The continuous back and forth between past and present keeps the reader poised and craving to for Smoky to read more so that she can uncover the truth before it's too late.

Also, unlike the first book, I didn't manage to be able to guess who the murderer is until the very end, which I particularly liked. If you haven't read the first one then the book spends the first few chapters introducing the characters once more, and a brief background.

As usual, McFadyen is incredibly descriptive when it comes to both the murder scenes and the prolongued sex scenes, which when reading this while eating your lunch at work, can prove to be a little intense!!!

All in all, a great sequel to the first book. If you like murder mysteries then you will love this, it keeps you gripped from begginning to end. I now can't wait to read the next book and see if McFadyen can keep it up!

If you have read it, let me know your thoughts too