I gave up Rugby a week ago today.
7 years. Over.
I'll miss it.
Monday 8 November 2010
Sunday 10 October 2010
Ouch.
Rugby.
I love it. And hate it.
It's the only sport I've ever kept at and really enjoyed.. and it hurts like hell. Logic doesn't seem to figure.
I played a full game today, in my favourite postion (Flanker, Google it if that word means nothing to you). We played a re-match of the team we played last week... and won 61 - 5. Brilliant.
BUT.
(Yeah, there's a but)
I'm so, SO tired. One of my team mates managed to flatten me by mistake by running into my back, and now my back kanes. It's at times like this I wonder what motivates me to play this sport. Human logic and my body say it hurts, and that it's a stupid idea to keep putting my body through it. But my mind says it fun, social, it keeps me fit and I love it. I'm not quitting. Go figure.
Peace Out - MTB
I love it. And hate it.
It's the only sport I've ever kept at and really enjoyed.. and it hurts like hell. Logic doesn't seem to figure.
I played a full game today, in my favourite postion (Flanker, Google it if that word means nothing to you). We played a re-match of the team we played last week... and won 61 - 5. Brilliant.
BUT.
(Yeah, there's a but)
I'm so, SO tired. One of my team mates managed to flatten me by mistake by running into my back, and now my back kanes. It's at times like this I wonder what motivates me to play this sport. Human logic and my body say it hurts, and that it's a stupid idea to keep putting my body through it. But my mind says it fun, social, it keeps me fit and I love it. I'm not quitting. Go figure.
Peace Out - MTB
Tuesday 5 October 2010
Collision.
S'been a while since my last post..
I've started college. Scary stuff. I like it... but it's gonna be hard work.
Tomorrow, I'm off to collect an 'Attainment Prize' from my old school at their 'Presentation Evening'. It's almost mocking that you get an award for getting decent grades. It'll be odd seeing everyone from my old 'Institution of Learning'.
I've made quite a few new friends at college.. but I do feel a bit... hollow sometimes. My life seems to revolve around getting up and going to college, working at college and wasting my free periods, getting home and and then doing homework before crashing in time to wake up the next day.
I'm studying English Lit, and one of the themes of our course is Distopian novels. A Distopia is basically to opposite of a Utopia - everything's gone to shit, and life sucks for nearly everyone. Regardless of the level, it seems it has been deemed necessary for English to be depressing... this angers me.
I miss childish acts of silliness being commited by me and others around me.
I miss life being easier than it is now.
I miss making good memories everyday.
Tomorrow my two 'worlds' of socialising and learning take a bit of a beating as they collide. Should be fun.
'Peace Out' - MTB
I've started college. Scary stuff. I like it... but it's gonna be hard work.
Tomorrow, I'm off to collect an 'Attainment Prize' from my old school at their 'Presentation Evening'. It's almost mocking that you get an award for getting decent grades. It'll be odd seeing everyone from my old 'Institution of Learning'.
I've made quite a few new friends at college.. but I do feel a bit... hollow sometimes. My life seems to revolve around getting up and going to college, working at college and wasting my free periods, getting home and and then doing homework before crashing in time to wake up the next day.
I'm studying English Lit, and one of the themes of our course is Distopian novels. A Distopia is basically to opposite of a Utopia - everything's gone to shit, and life sucks for nearly everyone. Regardless of the level, it seems it has been deemed necessary for English to be depressing... this angers me.
I miss childish acts of silliness being commited by me and others around me.
I miss life being easier than it is now.
I miss making good memories everyday.
Tomorrow my two 'worlds' of socialising and learning take a bit of a beating as they collide. Should be fun.
'Peace Out' - MTB
Wednesday 25 August 2010
Home Coming and Important Characters
I returned from my lazy do-nothing and eat-lots holiday in Portugal on Monday.. it was great =D
Excluding the 5 hour delay on my flight out, for which I received a £3 food voucher from easyJet for compensation. Not impressed. Anyhow, I still got through over 10 books on my eight day get away, and enjoyed every one =]
I got my GCSE results yesterday. When people have inquired as to how I did, I've been mostly just recalling how many of each grade I got, but if your reading this blog then your probably interested enough to read what I got in each subject... so here goes..
English Language - A*
English Literature - A*
Maths - A
History - A
Science Foundation - A
Additional Science - A
German - A
P.E GCSE - B
Drama - B
Yeah.. I'm pretty pleased with my results... others did better, and alot did worse, but I did as well as I could =] I'm particularly proud of my two English A*s, and firmly believe my teacher had alot to do with me attaining them, a slightly eccentric, rock music loving, ex-punk, dame-playing, poetry-loving musician who teaches English like no one else.
I did think, in passing yesterday as I watched groups of my peers pour over sheets of A4 paper with their results on that maybe there something just a little bit wrong in our world, for is it right that the most important thing to the majority of the aged 16 population is a few bits of paper with different letters on them? I'm probably wrong, but I think about it none the less.
If you do read all these ramblings, then thank you, it means alot to know people are interested in my thoughts, values and opinions, as those of alot of people my age are considered insignificant by many.
Peace Out - MTB
Excluding the 5 hour delay on my flight out, for which I received a £3 food voucher from easyJet for compensation. Not impressed. Anyhow, I still got through over 10 books on my eight day get away, and enjoyed every one =]
I got my GCSE results yesterday. When people have inquired as to how I did, I've been mostly just recalling how many of each grade I got, but if your reading this blog then your probably interested enough to read what I got in each subject... so here goes..
English Language - A*
English Literature - A*
Maths - A
History - A
Science Foundation - A
Additional Science - A
German - A
P.E GCSE - B
Drama - B
Yeah.. I'm pretty pleased with my results... others did better, and alot did worse, but I did as well as I could =] I'm particularly proud of my two English A*s, and firmly believe my teacher had alot to do with me attaining them, a slightly eccentric, rock music loving, ex-punk, dame-playing, poetry-loving musician who teaches English like no one else.
I did think, in passing yesterday as I watched groups of my peers pour over sheets of A4 paper with their results on that maybe there something just a little bit wrong in our world, for is it right that the most important thing to the majority of the aged 16 population is a few bits of paper with different letters on them? I'm probably wrong, but I think about it none the less.
If you do read all these ramblings, then thank you, it means alot to know people are interested in my thoughts, values and opinions, as those of alot of people my age are considered insignificant by many.
Peace Out - MTB
Friday 13 August 2010
Shooting Stars and Foreign Skies
I'm leaving for Portugal on Sunday.
I'm looking forward to it, a week of doing nothing but reading, swimming, listening to music, eating and sleeping.
Alot's happened in the last month... it's been brilliant, my birthday, my girlfriends birthday, various parties... It's been epic =]
I went to a friends birthday last night.. he built a fire pit and we had a long evening of talking whilst random looking up at the sky and seeing shooting stars.
My better half went to California yesterday, and truth be told.. I'm gonna miss her. But I'm glad... she's gonna have an amazing time and I can't wait to hear about it.
Two weeks and 5 days without someone you love is a long time.
I love her ^.^
Anyway, I'm babbling...
Peace Out - MTB
I'm looking forward to it, a week of doing nothing but reading, swimming, listening to music, eating and sleeping.
Alot's happened in the last month... it's been brilliant, my birthday, my girlfriends birthday, various parties... It's been epic =]
I went to a friends birthday last night.. he built a fire pit and we had a long evening of talking whilst random looking up at the sky and seeing shooting stars.
My better half went to California yesterday, and truth be told.. I'm gonna miss her. But I'm glad... she's gonna have an amazing time and I can't wait to hear about it.
Two weeks and 5 days without someone you love is a long time.
I love her ^.^
Anyway, I'm babbling...
Peace Out - MTB
Saturday 17 July 2010
Woahhhh.
This weekend is going to be one of the best of my life.
Last night, I went to ROCKETfest at The Crypt, and it was awesome. Various bands played, but the highlight for me was Acres of Life, whom I kinda know, and they kicked ass on stage, especially in comparision with some of the other performances.
I've been in a meaningful relationship for ten months, as of yesterday, and it's amazing. To be honest, I'm seriously failing to see the appeal of being a batchelor. I love being this intimate and confortable with someone, and everything I do in her company is better than if I did it without.
I'm off to a party tonight.. and again tomorrow. I guess this is me reward for my week of work I mentioned in my last post.
Peace Out - MTB
Last night, I went to ROCKETfest at The Crypt, and it was awesome. Various bands played, but the highlight for me was Acres of Life, whom I kinda know, and they kicked ass on stage, especially in comparision with some of the other performances.
I've been in a meaningful relationship for ten months, as of yesterday, and it's amazing. To be honest, I'm seriously failing to see the appeal of being a batchelor. I love being this intimate and confortable with someone, and everything I do in her company is better than if I did it without.
I'm off to a party tonight.. and again tomorrow. I guess this is me reward for my week of work I mentioned in my last post.
Peace Out - MTB
Thursday 8 July 2010
Scary stuff...
Tomorrow, for the first time in my life, I'm going to work.
Not tagging along with my Dad, or going to work experiance or anything.. Actually going to work.
Truthfully? I'm scared. I've never met the guy I'll be working for, I'd never even talked to him until today, and that was over the phone.
My life, as things go, is awesome right now. But everything seems to be making me do this one thing. It's the summer, and I've got things I wanna do, and things to buy, and... Yeah. I'm gonna do this.. but I just wish I wasn't being forced into it.
To one person in particular.. thank you. You know exactly who you are.
Peace Out - MTB
Not tagging along with my Dad, or going to work experiance or anything.. Actually going to work.
Truthfully? I'm scared. I've never met the guy I'll be working for, I'd never even talked to him until today, and that was over the phone.
My life, as things go, is awesome right now. But everything seems to be making me do this one thing. It's the summer, and I've got things I wanna do, and things to buy, and... Yeah. I'm gonna do this.. but I just wish I wasn't being forced into it.
To one person in particular.. thank you. You know exactly who you are.
Peace Out - MTB
Saturday 26 June 2010
Me? A Hero?
Right... where to start? Me, I guess.
I'm not amazing poetic, or clever, or sporting. I'm not a very extra-ordinary person. I like playing rugby, but am not that great at many other sports. I love music, and listen to a lot of it, but am not very musically talented myself. I'm academically bright, and was in top sets for all my subjects at secondary school, but I wasn't top of the class for anything.
I'm not the kind of person who has lots of friends whom I 'love' and couldn't live without. I've no problem with people who do have these kind of friendships, but it just doesn't suit me. I have a few, very close friends whom I've known for a long time, but I don't tend to talk to and spend time with the same group of people all the time. In short, I'm a bit of a misfit.
In primary school, I didn't have any best friends. I went to a very small school, of only around seventy pupils, and with a grand total of just seven people in my year in year 5 and 6, I wasn't spoilt for choice. Rather than play football as the other three boys in my year did in my free time, I'd sit, alone, and read. I've lost contact with all three girls from that school year, and only talk to one of the boys, one whom I've known since I was four and as such can relate to enough to have a friendship, but you'd never guess we've known one another that long.
I've just finished all my GCSE exams, and am very glad of it. One period of my life has come to an end, and another is beginning. The last five years of my education had been leading up to those exams, and now they're over, I feel a little lost and purposeless. I look back on my years at secondary school with fondness, I change a lot in that time and found a sense of self and identity which I've since been able to spot being searched for by those younger than myself.
Strangely, I've always been apt at making friends with people older than myself, and coincidentally many of my few close friends and my longterm girlfriend are counted in this group. I don't quite understand this trait in myself, but relish it, and am glad I can fit in with my elders.
I'm starting to ramble, so I'll end this post shortly, but I think it gives a good impression of me, and who I am.
Today, someone very close to me called me a hero. This may not seem like much, but it's never happened to me before, and it made me, in the words of my girlfriend, 'grin like a twat'.
Peace Out - MTB
I'm not amazing poetic, or clever, or sporting. I'm not a very extra-ordinary person. I like playing rugby, but am not that great at many other sports. I love music, and listen to a lot of it, but am not very musically talented myself. I'm academically bright, and was in top sets for all my subjects at secondary school, but I wasn't top of the class for anything.
I'm not the kind of person who has lots of friends whom I 'love' and couldn't live without. I've no problem with people who do have these kind of friendships, but it just doesn't suit me. I have a few, very close friends whom I've known for a long time, but I don't tend to talk to and spend time with the same group of people all the time. In short, I'm a bit of a misfit.
In primary school, I didn't have any best friends. I went to a very small school, of only around seventy pupils, and with a grand total of just seven people in my year in year 5 and 6, I wasn't spoilt for choice. Rather than play football as the other three boys in my year did in my free time, I'd sit, alone, and read. I've lost contact with all three girls from that school year, and only talk to one of the boys, one whom I've known since I was four and as such can relate to enough to have a friendship, but you'd never guess we've known one another that long.
I've just finished all my GCSE exams, and am very glad of it. One period of my life has come to an end, and another is beginning. The last five years of my education had been leading up to those exams, and now they're over, I feel a little lost and purposeless. I look back on my years at secondary school with fondness, I change a lot in that time and found a sense of self and identity which I've since been able to spot being searched for by those younger than myself.
Strangely, I've always been apt at making friends with people older than myself, and coincidentally many of my few close friends and my longterm girlfriend are counted in this group. I don't quite understand this trait in myself, but relish it, and am glad I can fit in with my elders.
I'm starting to ramble, so I'll end this post shortly, but I think it gives a good impression of me, and who I am.
Today, someone very close to me called me a hero. This may not seem like much, but it's never happened to me before, and it made me, in the words of my girlfriend, 'grin like a twat'.
Peace Out - MTB
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