I don't have much of a social life. Not at the moment, at least. Sure, while I'm at uni I go out the recommended amount to keep myself sane, and in the summer I play cricket quite a lot. Sometimes I even go running and biking, I get out of the house as much as I can. But at the moment none of this is happening. I'm at home until August, it's raining outside and all of my friends are in far away lands only accessible by trains and effort. So it's pretty much the same thing each day for me. Wake up late, bit of breakfast then an afternoon spent wishing there was something better to be doing. However all of that is about to change. If I did have a life it would quickly be vacuumed up into a big bag and put temporarily to one side. There are two reasons for this: The first being Big Brother, which I'll get to later. The second being The World Cup. After a year of watching Lincoln City pretend to play football and messing the act up badly, I finally get a chance to watch some decent players without having to fork out the rip off rates requested by Sky. All day, every day for the next few weeks I will be spending my time forming a nice little dent in the sofa and attempting to fatten up by eating a tonne of junk food along the way. I say attempting, because for the past 3 years I've been trying to do that and have only managed a stone and a half. Some people would kill for a metabolism like that. Well, you're welcome to it. Any how...world cup, right? I've seen a lot of England flags about, which is weird when you think about it. If you went to a game, then sure, show everyone who you support. But to be honest, in England, chances are the majority of the nation will be on the same wavelength. It's a bit like we're preaching to the converted. Although having said that, my window will soon be adorned with such decorations as well. I found my England flag after it had fallen out of a car window. By fallen, I mean thrown. We'd just lost to (insert any other country here.)
Moving on from sports we're not very good at, let's focus on one we are. Judging other people. Hey presto, Big Brother. It's a way to make everyone watching feel better about themselves. It works really well. I've only seen the one episode so far (and the live stream, of course) and already I'm grateful I'm not any of the people on it. If I had a list of all the bad things about humanity then I'd easily be able to tick everyone off just by looking at this bunch of social rejects. Mono brows, excessive campness, women who look like clowns, none of this makes me like these people. If the woman who looks like a clown can do any decent balloon tricks, then sure, go for it. If not then I'm going to feel a little bit under sold. Either way, it's safe to say my summer is pretty booked up.
Football all day, freak shows in the night. Perfect diet for an out of term student.
