Okay, so I’ve become a little obsessed with the most adorable duck in the world. Seriously. Check him out:

So, he’s called a Bufflehead duck. Some of you may have seen them around since they’re native to America. If you have, let me know, haha. They’re so cute.

Anyway, that’s enough fan-girling over a duck… I haven’t updated in a few weeks since college has been sucking the life out of me. It’s been crazy! So much work to do, and it doesn’t help that my form tutor has been on my case constantly and making unnecessary sarcastic comments. It’s been driving me up the wall. I’ve also not had enough time for anything else I want to do, such as continuing to learn the guitar or writing.

I will hopefully be writing again soon, though! I’m going to once again be participating in NaNoWriMo and would love to know if anyone else is. I’d definitely like to be ‘writing buddies’ and have someone to chat to about NaNoWriMo.

I think that’s all! Hopefully I’ll be able to blog sometime soon again.

A few random questions:
1. What’s your favourite animal?
2. What’s your least favourite animal?
3. Will you be participating in this year’s NaNoWriMo? If not, is it because you don’t think you’re a good writer, don’t have the time or another reason?

I’ve also been busy thinking about the future! It’s so strange. Most people in my year have this idea of what they want to do and are off to University or a job next year, but me? I’ve had no real idea for a long time. One thing I really want to be is an author, but I’m not sure if that will ever happen or not, so I really need something else there. I don’t have a desire to go away to University because of loads of things that have happened in the past and the fact that we can’t afford it and I don’t want to come out in debt, so for a long time I’ve been feeling pretty confused. But I’ve finally decided! Through the Open University I’m (hopefully) going to study both Chemistry and English, because they interest me, and hopefully get a part-time job at the same time. That way I can study at my own pace, do other things, still get a degree, and even if I don’t ever use it in a job, it’ll still be some extra knowledge and skills that I will have gained. I think distance-learning is an excellent thing that I’d already recommend to anyone who isn’t sure what they want to do in the future. Going away to University isn’t for everyone, and don’t ever feel pressured into it! One thing a lot of teachers at my Sixth Form seem to do is try and convince everyone that you’ll be nothing without Uni… it’s not true. You just need a goal.

Anyway! That’s about all that’s been going on in my life. Just studying and lots of thinking.

Some questions for you guys, inspired by what I was just typing about:

1. What will you be doing when you finish school? University or a job? Or are you completely unsure? (If you’ve already finished school, what are you doing? At Uni or working?)
2. What is your perfect career?
3. Are you a motivated person? Or does your motivation tend to abandon you?

So I go back to sixth form on Wednesday! It’s my final year, and then I’ll be unleashed on the world. Scary. I’m going to continue studying Chemistry, History and English Language and I’ve told myself that I have to really push myself this year and work hard! But I’m also going to try and not let this blog suffer, so hopefully I’ll still be blogging weekly. It might take me a little while to reply to any comments, but I will.

I expect a lot of you have gone back to school/college by now? How is it going? Are you enjoying it or wishing you could have some more time off already?

I’m not sure what else to blog about right now! So I’ll just leave you with a few questions. I do love hearing what other people have to say, reading comments and replying really brightens my day!

1. What’s a lyric from a song that really means something to you and why?
2. What song could you have on repeat for hours without it annoying you?

I went to see it when I was staying with some friends last week and I really enjoyed it. I’ve read the book and I really liked that, and I thought the film was true to the story. Yeah, it missed a few parts out but on the whole it was very good. The acting was really good and very moving in places. Has anyone else seen it or any other good movies recently?

My holidays are over soon! In less than two weeks, eep! Then back to finish my last year of 6th Form. Going to have to work super hard, I know it! Oh well, I’m pretty well prepared, haha. And while I’m on the topic of school and all that, I got my exam results! I got an A in English Language, an A in English Literature (and full marks on the exam… I was like ‘what the hell!’), a C in History and an E in Chemistry (I’m going to retake the exams next year probably… other people in my class had done the same or worse so I don’t know what went wrong! ). Overall I’m happy with my results.

Hope everyone has had a good week! Here are a few random questions:

1. Have you ever been to a concert? If so, who was it?
2. If you could meet anyone, past or present, who would you want to meet?
3. … and what would be the one question you’d want to ask that person?

You guys gave such lovely responses to my tag I posted on my last blog entry; your comments were just so nice! I’m glad people enjoyed learning something new about me.

I get the results of my AS level exams on Thursday… Hopefully I’ve done okay, but I think I may end up having to retake one or two exams in January! It’ll be a bit of extra pressure, but I don’t mind, as long as I come out with good grades when I finish school completely next year.

I won’t update until sometime late next week because I’m away from Friday – Wednesday visiting a friend! So I’ll leave you guys with a few questions:

1. Do you play an instrument? If you do, what? If not, would you like to?
2. Any more ideas for a competition you’d like to participate in? I’ve got a few, but I’m open to more!
3. Are you enjoying your summer? (Or, if you’re in the southern hemisphere, are you enjoying your winter? :P)
4. What do you think is the most important thing for a site to have? Regular updates, tons of content..?
5. Do you prefer to receive longer comments which take a while to reply to but have more thought/friendliness in them or short ones which you can reply to quickly?

Whew, that’s all!