Cuts are nuts? So is kicking the shit out of a window.

Pretty iconic image, isn't it?
People assume that, as a student, I would be marching behind these people, waving my placard just as passionately as everyone else. And don't get me wrong, I completely agree with the cause. Like thousands of others, I'm feeling pretty conned by Nick Clegg and his pledge to keep student fees down. To be honest, that was the precise reason I voted for him, and the most profound among the myriad other reasons I didn't vote Conservative. And I don't for a second believe that this was something out of Clegg's control. He knew exactly what he was getting into when he agreed to a coalition with the Tory's. After all, he'd been so avidly campaigning against their manifestos for months.
But what I want to make very clear is that I don't want people to think that this balaclava-donning, window-smashing army are speaking on behalf of me. By all means, go, stand up and make your voices heard. But whatever happened to a peaceful protest? The government aren't going to want to put that behaviour through University. They'll take one look at the carnage caused and think more along the lines of high security than higher education. The magnitude of the destruction will completely outweigh the reason why people gathered in their thousands in the first place. The media coverage will solely focus on the violence and unrest, and a few months down the line people will have completely forgotten why we were so angry.

So yeah, well done. Any chance we had to fight rising tuition fees shattered when those boots hit that window.

I haven't blogged since the eurovision song contest.

But I am still alive, still well and still not getting the whole 'Twilight' thing.
I'll admit that most of June was frittered away watching re-runs of Come Dine With Me, but I've actually had a pretty busy few months.

1. I went on holiday to Ayia Napa where I learnt that sambuca is really not my friend.
2. I also learned that just because it happened on The Hangover, my dentist friend isn't willing to extract her own tooth in exchange for a pretty questionable chicken burger. Cop out.
3. I jumped off the top of a two storey boat into the sea. Even though I'm scared of heights. And the sea. All to catch a can of stella. Lad.
4. I learnt that my friend thought a kestrel was somebody who plays the guitar. I don't even know how she gets these ideas into her head, because I'm pretty sure nobody will ever have told her this.
5. I found out that McDonalds now do weddings. FINALLY. "Chicken burger, McFlurry and some holy matrimony, please."
6. I applied to be on the Million Pound Drop with my housemate. We've already mentally spent our winnings.
7. I got a job at a summer camp, which was really fun. But I've always thought that facepainting is pretty straightforward. Yeah? Oh, no. I almost reduced a child to tears because of my incredibly sub-par attempt at painting her face like a monster.
8. I made a pledge to myself that I would do more exercise, went for ONE run, got 10 minutes down the road before hobbling home with a massive stitch. Pretty much the next Usain Bolt.
9. I fulfilled one of my lifelong dreams and managed to do the worm. Well, I almost broke my face but the worm definitely happened.
10. I broke the world record for the biggest game of musical bumps at Bestival 2010. Well, not me personally. That would be a very small game.
11. Me and my housemates filled our lounge with 99 red balloons and danced in them like that scene on Scrubs. You know, for a treat.
12. I found out that the dubstep remix of the Pokemon theme tune is a real thing.
13. I relived my childhood at London Science Museum. Seriously, why don't I live there?
14. I found out that my brothers quite the local crim. Getting a taxi home with him from town, our taxi driver starts going on about a house party he had when he was younger where some random boys threw the entire contents of his freezer in the garden and stole his shoes. My brother goes very quiet, before miming to me "Oh my God, that was me." Very awkward taxi ride.
15. I discovered eating a kilo of gummy bears is no big deal.