Didn't think so...
As well as telling you about the past I may as well bring you up to speed with the present. I just finished my second year at John Moores University Liverpool after about a month of sitting at my computer typing up scripts, stories and essays and then editing them in a process so slow and painful it usually gives me some sort of ilness. I marginally escaped a cold, but ended up with a serious case of square eyes, which i unsuccesfully tried to alleviate by watching pointless telly and reading!
Once I came to the last assignment due and made it into town despite the complete breakdown of the trains in Liverpool (only one station out of four is open!!) i decided to catch up with some friends from school who due to timetable clashes I hadn't been able to see much of. I won't bother to embarrass them by posting pictures...for now at least!
I caught up with Edd, my best friend since the early years of primary school, first in WHSmith because, genius that I am, I had forgotten to buy a folder for my work- we quickly selected the cheapest and moved on. As we past up Bold Street my highly trained senses told me something was wrong and only my lightning reflexes got me clear of an eager looking person with a badge and a clipboard before I vanished untraceably into the crowd. I called out to Edd, but he wasn't so lucky and in a situation like this it's each man for himself. I had to clear an army of them before i was able to duck into a shop, using all my techniques, the wall, the imaginary phonecall, the spontaneous jog to get clear. Admittedly it would probably be better to just give money to charity but I've got this down to a fine art
At any rate, we reconvened and made it up through the outskirts of Chinatown to my building to drop off that last piece of coursework. Then we headed back down via an alternative route to Wetherspoons where we took advantage of their Burger and Beer lunch promotion and met up with Alaw, who I'd only spoken to once briefly since school. It was a good time to catch up and talk about old times...and present times too as we each eventually came to fully realising that a year of Uni had gone by. After enjoying a pleasant lunch we and Alaw parted ways with a hug and a promise os "see you soon"... we'll see what happens.
After that Edd and I went for the ultimate student day out...to the Natural History Museum. After mounting about a hundred steps we found out via a tiny sign that the entrance had moved. We arrived at the new entrance, which now boasted a modern decor and some of the museum's pride and joys magnificently displayed including a monstrously big spider crab which is a highlight of any visit, and enormous totem pole and a Pterodactyl skeleton suspended from the ceiling.
Inside we found much of the delights from childhood visits- the planetarium, the mummies, the dinosaurs, as well as a host of new discoveries including an aquarium which was great because you don't often see that many living specimens in museums and a really cool bugs section which also boasted living creatures and a section that showed you what creepy crawleys look like up close. After a good few hours we left in high spirits and I left to catch my bus because the train service is... oh never mind!
Well that's it- another academic year gone by, I'm sure the nostalgia will hit in soon, but for now I'm just glad that I don't have to anything.
See you soon people.
My word of the post- retroactive, never use it- love it to bits!!
Here's a few more pics of the museum
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