Ok, this time I am definitely going to commit to this blog, and resuscitate it to its former glory.
Since I last contributed to this blog, I have done many things; formed a band, started stand-up and failed my A-levels. I haven’t had my exams results yet, but I don’t want to jynx them.
So far, what may turn out to be the longest summer ever* has consisted of eating, sleeping, drinking, and lazing about at home, except for one week where I repeated the pattern in Bulgaria.
Tonight comes the epitome of my lathargy as I spent the whole evening playing Call 0f Duty on my brother’s newly-returned-home Xbox 360. Now, we have not yet hooked it up with Xbox live, and so the game’s sole purpose in my household is the Single Player Campaign mode. The loneliest of campaigns. Without realising, I had indulged in 5 hours’ gameplay. It seemed like only 1 or 2. I’ve done what I never sought out to do; I’ve spent a whole evening struggling to kill virtual Russians and reading clever quotes about war and patriotism.
By the way, the quotes come up every time you die in the game. I wouldn’t say I’m bad at the game, but I managed to read all of the available quotes.
Twice.
So, tonight comes a revelation for the rest of my summer. The excessive gaming is out, to be replaced by sun, sea, sand, girls, and other things I like on my skin. I shall not squint at a TV in the dark, but at the sun as it reflects off my ice-cream, onto my beach ball, back to the tennis racket, before bouncing off all sorts of summery items and into my eyes…you get the idea.
So, here’s to the death of “square eyes”. I shall reduce my exposure to square screens…
Apart from my laptop, of course…I need to keep this blog up.
S. x
*Probably the longest summer, as in longest time between leaving education/work and returning to it. In this case, last exam to going to uni.
You should write a blog on how cool James Dunn is.
-Not From James Dunn.