So I've made some progress with guitar; I've learnt some of the chromatic scales (or something) and that's pretty easy, though the teacher has started teaching me some blues, which is great since I love bluesy music. I'm having trouble getting my head around chords though. Unless I'm looking directly at the wiresI intend to strike, I always end up hitting the wrong ones. That'll come with time and effort though I suppose.

This is the fourth week of my summer holidays and I'm starting to get worried that I haven't started any of my work for school, most notably my university application form. I hardly know where I want to go yet, though Cardiff sticks out in my mind; I'll probably go there and do a doctorate in Mathematics. Then again, I'm quite interested in linguistics, so I might go for a Joint honours with some modern language (Italian sounds good. Or Russian. Or Mandarin. God I have no clue. D: ) and Mathematics, Psychology or Law. Or perhaps Journalism. Then again, I need to get decent A Level results first. My AS Level results are coming in next Thursday, by theway, so I guess I'll make another update then aswell.

I'm also really pissed off with my local cinema. The damn place is one of the only interesting things in this terribly boring town, yet it does not show any movie there which I would like to see. Moon... Antichrist... Granted given the age rating I'd probably not be able to see that one anyway, but that is beside the point!

Anywho, I've been spending quite a bit of my time in the evenings reading Footfall by the science fiction duo, Niven and Pournelle. The story is typically about aliens, and it is built up brilliantly from the beginning; detailing how the Soviet Union and the US governments prepare foran encounter with an alien spaceship that is believed to be heading for Earth. The novel was written during the Cold War, so during the early stages of the story there is a lot of Commie - Capitalist paranoia with both countries suspecting that the impending arrival of the ship is actually a trick by the other country so that said country could launch an attack on the other while the other is distracted by the 'aliens'.

Of course, when the ship arrives, things turn nasty and we have an aliens vs humanity battle occuring, and the book basically covers the reactions of the characters to the invasion, and how they try to survive. The book covers the invasion from the point of view of the aliens aswell (or the fithp, as they call themselves; who are described as baby elephants with an extra trunk. Baby elephant invaders. Yes, that is correct), so it is interesting to see the motives and plans of the aliens, aswell as the Russian and US governments' plans totry to thwart the aliens in their bid to take over Terra.

The book is actually far more complex than it seems in my terrible attempt at summing it up, so if you are a fan of sci-fi, and reading (>_>), then be sure to give this a try.

Finally, I've just finished season 2 of House M.D. and I'm very happy that it ended on a high note, as the season seemed to be pretty dull for a while. I'm trying to catch up, as I've started watching season 5 on tv; I loved it and bought the first four seasons in a box set. Hugh Laurie is excellent, and is the main reason why I've been able to follow the show; something I haven't managed since Futurama many years ago.

And that is it. That was perhaps the most poorly constructed thing I have ever typed. >_>

Ciao.