Over a month since I last blogged. Oops.
There has been LOTS that I wanted to blog about, but I just haven't had the time.
(Though I don't have the time now either... I just fancy writing)
Next week I have alot of exams, the week before Christmas... but that isn't what I'm going to talk about.
1) I've decided, though nobody knows it yet, that after New Years Day I am going to give up Amy for a while. I just CBA with the bullshit that follows her and I want a break.
This doesn't mean I'm giving up costuming... ohhhhh no. I have some fab ideas for next years cons, including Fem!11th Doctor. Oh yeah, it's gonna be amazing. I'm not talking about a girl dressed up as the male 11th doctor with a short wig on.
Oh no.
I'm talking Fem!11th. As in a female version of the 11th Doctor. So for me that includes: black super skinnies, 5 inch heals to make me just taller than Matt Smith's correct 6'1, a tweed blazer, shirt and a bow in my hair. Plus the sonic of course. And some big hair pulled into a messy pony tail.
So excited about that!
Also planned are: Ariel and Belle from their respective Disney movies, The Black Widow from Iron Man 2, Wonder Woman (lol, that one isn't actually gonna happen, I don't have the confidence to be /that/ naked in public!) Lara Croft, and finishing off and wearing Poison Ivy.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not giving up Amy in the entirety, I'm just going to take a hiatus from her for a few months. :) I think it is time to broaden my costuming horizons.
2) I NEED to rant about the rising tuition fees.
Two comments I made on Facebook today at a friend who is stubbornly and blindly supporting the fee rise:
"I'm all for the protests... it is one of the few ways that we can show the government that, even though in the past students weren't considered a particularly influential group, we can stand and we willprotest.
We are their future, and if they want that future to be rosy then they need to see that it might be a good idea to listen to us, and not go back on their promises.
All I'm saying is: if I was a few years younger and was facing the rising tuition fees I wouldn't consider going to University in England, I'd go to America or Australia where for the same price, or slightly more, I can get a much better education. This is what I've been discussing with my friends... so if the government want to lose the highly talented students, which would later become our workforce, overseas (or by not going to university at all because they are unable afford it) then fine, they can raise the fees. They're just shooting themselves in the foot. :)"
We are their future, and if they want that future to be rosy then they need to see that it might be a good idea to listen to us, and not go back on their promises.
All I'm saying is: if I was a few years younger and was facing the rising tuition fees I wouldn't consider going to University in England, I'd go to America or Australia where for the same price, or slightly more, I can get a much better education. This is what I've been discussing with my friends... so if the government want to lose the highly talented students, which would later become our workforce, overseas (or by not going to university at all because they are unable afford it) then fine, they can raise the fees. They're just shooting themselves in the foot. :)"
"All the protests at my uni and others have been peaceful, there are only a select few ANARCHISTS (NOT students, and maybe the odd stupid student) that ruin the reputation of the peacefully protesting students, and they tend to be in the capital.
But David Cameron is just gonna come along and take 9 grand out of their pockets each year. (well, 9 grand a year in loans creating even more of a mountain of debt than we face. And 9 grand if they want a top eduction, 6ish grand if they don't, hence my you might as well get a top eduction abroad comment)
Tis a shame that this new ConDem government can't see that they are only doing themselves and our future a misjustice by raising the fees, after all, they are particularly hypocritical in the fact that their education was free and now they think that the future generation should pay. Meh, it's shame that the government in this country is messed up, can't wait to leave it. If only they would actually listen to us rather than disregarding us as a group, maybe the students would be less angry."
Think that pretty much sums up my views on the current fee rise...
TTFN
