August, A Good Month

23/08/2009

tags: A-levels, ASDA, Exams, GTA 4, Photography, PlayStation, Spider, Sweden, University, Warwick, Wine

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Those of you who check back occasionally will have noticed that I’ve been away for a while. Unfortunately, I haven’t done anything particularly exciting since I returned from Singapore, but I’ve been having a great time nonetheless.

The highlight of my month has been getting my A-level exam results. I was delighted to find that I’d got two A grades in Economics and English and a B grade in Biology, leaving me with ‘AABB‘ (the extra B being from Geography last year). Although two As and two Bs is fairly mediocre by the standards of Winchester College, I’m just elated that I’ll be going to the University of Warwick in October to study Biomedical Science.

Now I can watch House and feel like I’ll be doing a similar job one day, although with less drama, no walking stick and not as much sarcasm.

I wasn’t feeling in the mood to go to Winchester and celebrate with a pub-crawl, but on Friday my friends Alex and Patrick (left to right below) came round for a few drinks. Note Patrick’s style with the full-to-the-brim wine glass.

28mm, f/5.0, ISO 800, 1/10 sec

We also witnessed the strangest thing I’ve ever seen in GTA 4 (view the image’s photo page for a description):

28mm, f/5.0, ISO 800, 1/60 sec

Recently when I was watching Blow (starring Johnny Depp) with another friend, Sam, the spider pictured below ran out from under the sofa and interrupted the showing. It paid a sorry price indeed. It managed to take 5 sprays of Raid insecticide before finally giving up.

28mm, f/5.0, ISO 800, 1/100 sec

I’m going to Jersey tonight to spend a few days there (photos are a given). Next month I’m finally going on the epic trip to Sweden with my friend and co-photographer Ollie Malpass. I’m incredibly excited about the photography we’ll be doing there. Guaranteed to be more interesting than peaches and spiders.