Almost everyone has gone

Practically everyone is at uni now, some off tomorrow. Getting a tad bored. Just waiting for Skyrim and SWTOR, a bit sad I know. Been trying to do some physics notes... Slow going. Hip is getting sort of better, slowly.

Got some tickets to Bruges booked. £36 for an overnight ferry, RETURN! Going Christmas time as is nice an cold and likely to be snowing. Hate hot weather... One has a feeling that one of the chaps I am going with will piss his money away on the ship's casino before we get there! Alas they take both the Great British Pound and the heathen Euro, so it is easier for a certain inevitably drunken friend to lose money playing blackjack.

Work Experience

I've been trying to get some work experience at CERN, got an automated email directing me to the careers site. I'd have a placement for 8 weeks. Looked hopeful. Application deadline has been and gone ages ago... Wish I'd known a bit earlier. So going to shoot some emails to some Physics departments see if I get lucky. I did last year, got a week placement at Oxford Astrophysics dept!

Blog mk1

Hello chaps and chapettes. I'm Skippy, it is a nickname don't worry my parents aren't cruel. I am a cripple if you haven't yet gathered from the title of this blog. I have a genetic (turns to genital after a drink, doh) condition which effects my major joints leaving them malformed. This leads to pain and also hilarity, I look like a Godzilla penguin when I walk. The aim of this blog is to log whatever happens in my gap year.

Yeah I was meant to be getting hip replacements 15th of last month. According to plan this did not go. My bone betrayed me and decided to lack the density required for a hip replacement. So I got butchered up and put in intensive care due to a reaction to local anaesthetic, for absolutely bugger all. Damn. I am currently recovering from this in an impatient manner. I had to spend results day in hospital GREAT STUFF. Luckilly that went well. I got an A* in Maths and psychology and an A in physics and chemistry. Therefore I fulfilled my offer for Durham University, St Marys College to study Physics MPhys, yes I'm an Oxford reject.

My gap year was meant to be for recovery from the hip replacement, hmmm not much to do now is there? Yay £9000 fees and a year of probable boredom for nowt. So super smashing fantastic.