I cannot believe the amount of alcohol that my flat consumes. All of those empty bottles and cans are in the kitchen. I just had to take a photo to document it. The Strongbow tower used to be really tall but someone knocked it down yesterday so its just kind of a Strongbow heap now. Personally I think they all need to go to an AA meeting - even the inspection woman rolled her eyes at it all.

I have had so much work to do but after a traumatic few days I have whittled it down to just two more essays. I'm going to attempt to finish the Falkands one when I'm done writing this. I did my TV interview which was hilarious. It was about STIs and we just kept laughing all the way through. I edited it though and it looks really good, I'll hand it in tomorrow. I might even upload it if I'm feeling brave.

I don't know whether I said but I've changed my mind and I'm doing online next year instead of TV news. It is just way too stressful and it makes more sense for me to do online seeing as I'm active on the Internet and I'm already pretty good at web-design and stuff.

I'm also part of a new project on Youtube which is pretty exciting, I'll speak more about it later when things are more final and stuff... it might motivate me more though.



Thats basically all I see on the train from my town to university ... how boring :/

I LOVE LOVE LOVE Mojito cocktails and every time I'm out I just have to have one. However, I'm not the biggest fan of paying up to £7 for one (not that it ever stops me). So I decided to experiment and make one for myself. I didn't realise just how good they would be though! I've made lots and lots now and they are just as good as the ones made in the bars so i thought I'd put my recipe here for you guys if you want to give it a go this Summer (and for me cause I'll forget it).

You need:

A highball glass
6 large mint leaves (or 12 small ones)
Half a lime cut into segments
White Bacardi
Soda water
Sugar
Crushed ice
Angostura bitters (if you have any)

What to do:

Put the mint leaves in the glass and then throw in the lime with 2 teaspoons of sugar.

Crush all of this together in the glass with a blunt object (like a rolling pin or something).

Fill the glass three quarters of the way with crushed ice (just crush it yourself thats what I do).

Pour 60ml of Bacardi in.

Then add 100ml of Soda water.

Give the whole thing a good mix and try and bring some of the mint and lime to the top so that the fresh ingredients run through the drink.

Top the glass up with ice.

Put a couple of splashes of Angostura bitters on top (though hardly anyone has angostura bitters in their house lol).

Stick in a straw and enjoy!


Its an amazing summer drink so give it a whirl! Oh and I know there are like a million variations for the mojito so don't moan at mine ha :) ..... and I also know that non-european countries don't use the metric system (ml etc) but I couldn't be bothered to convert :p

Mark Speight is dead! How sad is that? I'm so shocked. I used to watch him all the time when I was little on smART on CBBC. He was such a talented presenter and artist :( It just makes me wonder how such a fun children's presenter could end up killing himself. I know he was depressed after his girlfriend died of a drugs overdose a few months ago but still, the courts cleared him and everything. Apparently he blamed himself.

The full article is here:http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/7345486.stm

Also I'd just like to say that I study journalism and some of the BBC articles I have read are bang out of order. They give way too much detail on both Mark's and his girlfriend's deaths. Thats a big no no ... urgh.

Pub golf was really fun on Wednesday. It involved a lot of walking and lots of drinking awful things. Its definitely the way forward though, I recommend it! There were about 40 of us in total - the wonders of Facebook communication, what would we do without it ay? We ended up dancing the night away at the student club and the best part was that I was fine the next day, not even tired.

I've had some really annoying people commenting on my videos lately. I don't find them offensive, I just find them pitiful and annoying. I would love to know what type of people they are in real life cause even the most pathetic people that I know wouldn't find it vaguely amusing to post (weird) comments on people's videos. Its only about 4 specific people and they post really odd comments even though they have subscribed to me AND favourited my videos. Strange ha.

I spoke about how I needed to chose my options for next year and I decided to pick print journalism and TV. That was a few weeks ago and the deadline passed and everything but I couldn't help but think I'd made the wrong decision. I'm one of these people that if I have a problem, I won't say anything or get help, I'll just sit on it and face the consequences. Luckily though I forced myself to email my level tutor and after a brief conversation and a few emails they have managed to swap me over from TV to online journalism. I'm so happy now, there isn't anything I need to worry about. It made sense all along that I should do online - I know html, I'm good at web-design, I love photography and I spend a lot of time online. I don't know why I chose TV when I really don't like it that much, too much carrying around equipment and trying to arrange interviews. It was a spur of the moment thing I think.

To get some experience under my belt, I think I'll apply to do some radio work at Siren FM next year. It'll look good on my CV and I desperately need things to put on it! I need to go into journobitch mode and chase work. I've got a long enough summer so I'll see what happens.

In other news, I'm on the most subscribed lists - yay!! :)

I am so all over the place right now, I need to get my priorities in order.

Watch this space ha.