It’s been a funny one...I
remember at the beginning of the year thinking that this would be the big year
of change for me (based largely on crude horoscopes) but it hasn't really. Yes
I graduated from uni and whilst I was glad to finish academia after 17 years solid,
it’s been largely anticlimactic since. Part of me wonders whether I should’ve done
a different degree altogether.
With graduation in July, I
naively thought that by October I would have landed a Grad job in London or
Brighton and be hitting the office wearing heels that cost more than £15, my
skin would be spot free (thanks to all the
fancy facials I would be able to afford) and heaven forbid, I might even have
owned a couple of blouses.
Obviously that didn't happen as
you can tell from my previous posts about my attempts to secure a job/career.
2012 in short has been a graduate purgatory year, in which I'm stuck floating
between the metaphorical heaven, complete independence and adulthood, and the
metaphorical hell, childhood. God, I'm just like a neuron undergoing cellular migration
during brain formation except I don’t have the radial glial cells to guide me
nor the Reelin to lead me on the right path to my future.
This year has not gone to plan at all.
So instead I'm pinning all my hopes on 2013 to be The Year.
Obviously 2012 wasn't all disappointing,
here are my personal highlights of my most anticlimactic year to date:
The Olympics & Paralympics- Where do I
start? I’d been waiting 4 years for this bad boy to hit London town and when it
did, it did so in style. It was the best time of the year for me hands down! It
was fantastic to watch (every day 9am-9pm) our Olympic team haul in a record
breaking 65 medals and come third in the leader board overall! I don’t know if
we’ll ever see that again. Truly spectacular. I also paid good money to watch
the splendid Tom Daley do his thing in the Aquatics Centre which was a
pleasure. Then came Jonnie Peacock, Sarah Storey, Oscar Pistorius, Ellie
Simmonds, Hannah Cockcroft and David Weir who all claimed gold and were my most
impressive Paralympians.
So well done team GB and the
organisers! Gold medals all round!
Diamond Jubilee- Yes I was one
of those people soaking wet, freezing to death, wet socked and shivering who
stood on the embankment and watched as a billion boats sailed past just so I
could get a glimpse of the Queen looking slightly miffed that it was raining.
Still good fun though.
Coldplay at the Emirates
Stadium- Debated whether to include this as a highlight because whilst the band
was amazing and had been on my list of ‘bands to see live’ forever, the 99% of
drunken 30-somethings around me with no sense of personal space, and the
downpour of rain kind of ruined it for me. Why they did not close the stadium
roof I will never know. Getting out was a nightmare too, I nearly got squashed
and couldn't see where I was going through the battering rain (did I mention I
forgot a coat and umbrella?). The queue for the tiny station stretched nearly a mile long. However, whilst waiting, I did see the biggest horse I've ever
seen in my life so that just managed to tip the night over into the ‘highlight’
category for me. It was a police horse, all black and dashing, shiny hair, salivating
everywhere…he must have been about 18 hands tall, you would need a step ladder
to mount him. Magnificent.
BBC Work Experience- The best
thing that has happened to my CV, ever. I still can’t believe I got it. I can’t
even imagine how many people applied for it so I am eternally grateful to Ms. Warwicker for choosing me, and her kindness during my time there. She is the
most patient, hard-working, kind individual you will find behind those BBC
doors, I guarantee it!
Amelia’s 21st in Thorpe Park- It
was as if we had the park to ourselves. We will never be so lucky again to go
on rollercoasters 18 times in 4 hours. We went on the new ride The Swarm which
I was actually cacking myself over but it turned out to be the smoothest, most
delightful ride. Another highlight was the Rumba Rapids in which everybody got
soaked apart from me. I am after all Poseidon, God of the sea. The only bad
thing was my fatal mistake of ordering a KFC Krushems. What is that foul thing??
Why does it exist? Disgusting! Should be banned.
Menorca- Long overdue
relaxing sunbathing holiday with my partner in crime Chesca. In the words of
Boris Johnson, very nice.
Well that was 2012 for me. Overall impression = room for improvement, must try harder next year. C-
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