Too little, too late

This evening, as I was channel flicking trying to find a decent programme; one that wouldn't induce me to vomit from an overdose in my emotional capacity, I came across Big Daddy, a rather endearing little tale of a child being thrust into the arms of a complete stranger. Of course it had the usual happy ending with everything ending just supercalifragilisticexpialidocious, but it began in Adam Sandler's usual comedic style. Thankfully this is one movie I actually like, as it is not overly-gooey, and it doesn't take place in a perfect world. It made me think about how unstable society is. In some ways, we have all lost some root traditional values, I mean whatever happened to trust? Nowadays it feels like you are just competing against everyone: survival of the fittest and all. Sorry to go off on a tangent but hey, freedom of speech was given to us for a reason.

I have just finished reading Tender Morsels by Margo Lanagan, a sadly depressingly twisted story, and I voiced this opinion on my twitter profile. Weirdly enough I received a tweet from Margo Lanagan, saying that her 'job is done'. She then told me that her next novel promises not to be so sad, and for that I'm grateful. I don't quite know if I would be able to cope with the emotional overload if it were not.
Yesterday, I found myself trailing Ealing Broadway in search charity shops, hoping to scout out some second hand books on Orwell, Achebe, and a few spanish authors. Sadly, to my dissapointment I only managed to dig out one spanish book and a York Notes critique of Joseph Conrad's Heart Of Darkness. After all the promises my english teacher gave me of charity shops stacking highly esteemed books, I was bitterly dimished at not coming home with a pile of books in my hands. My mother was actually surprised at me only having brought two books- knowing me she probably thought I was going to buy the whole of Waterstones too, but they turned out to be somewhat poorly stocked in the works of the above authors.

The other day I received my timetable for my exams and somehow I actually believe that a certain exam board are trying to stretch me, by placing one exam at the beginning of May whilst the other (a 3 hour exam) will take place at the end of June, and they are both for the same subject. My school also happens to be celebrating their 50th anniversary jubilee celebrations at the end of June too- where I have been asked to participate in the proceedings. No matter- multi-tasking is one of the skills I put on my CV and the time will come when I will have to demonstrate that ability!

The time has come where I must prepare some work experience- so I might as well start trawling the net now!!

Hasta luego- or as my spanish tutor tells me- Ciao (I could have sworn that was Italian, but hey, SHE's the teacher!)