Politics: My first attempt at a commentary!

Today was a massive fail on the revision front. It's too late at night to try and claw it back now however; I think I'll just write a blog, and go to sleep, with the intention of getting up and revising HARD tomorrow. It didn't help that today I was forced to re-revise things from my first year. I dislike biochemistry, and I dislike forgetting things (even if I did learn them over a year ago...)

So. Tonight was the first ever televised UK Election debate. Gordon Brown (Labour), David Cameron (Conservative) and Nick Clegg (Lib Dem) discussed questions from an audience about issues key to the upcoming election.

I thought Gordon Brown handled himself better than I expected. He seemed confident in his abilities to continue ruling this country. Misplaced confidence if you ask me; I think the British public have had enough of Labour, and despite a fairly decent performance in tonight's debate, he is still bottom of opinion polls.

I don't think David Cameron came across very well however. These debates are key to persuading the nation that he is the man for the job, and as favourite, that should be easy-ish for him. He seemed a bit too fake to me however.

Finally, Nick Clegg. Hello weird crush for April. He seemed the most sincere. I agree that UK politics needs something new, and that maybe it is a new political party taking the helm. Let's see if he retains my interest until the General Election. He seemed to be the winner of tonight's debate anyway.

Speaking of which, I need to make sure I can actually vote! Having researched Nottingham and Basingstoke, it seems that Basingstoke is more of a marginal constituency than Nottingham, therefore my vote could be more useful here. Nottingham is a very safe Labour area. (In case anyone reading this wants to check out their area, look at http://www.voterpower.org.uk/)

That's something that really irritates me about voting in this country. I think that it should just work on a nationwide scale! Or you're not really representing everyone's views. A majority in an area is not fair representation; we need proportional representation. There must be some form of petition I can sign about this...

I'm sleepy, and I'm not sure that what I'm writing makes any sense. So I think I'll sign off here... More interesting blogs to come, honest!

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Why my Easter is going to be boring

I've decided it's time for another attempt at this blog malarky. Mainly because I have an urge to rant about politics, but also because I am revising and feel I need another form of procrastination. At least this one allows me to practice forming sentences (a skill I feel I am losing with all this note making!)

So. It's April 2010. I'm in Basingstoke, on what is probably my last ever Easter holiday, as this time next year I will be on clinicals (fingers crossed!).
My life is currently dominated by revision. I have been doing OK so far, and mostly meeting targets, although I've been struggling a little, and it's a fairly easy subject I'm currently tackling (Clinical Laboratory Sciences) so it could all go Pete Tong yet.

My friendship group in Basingstoke has dwindled to say the least. When I lived here full time, I had a boyfriend, about whom I was very serious. I was pretty much set on marrying him. This meant that my friendship group mostly became a set of 4 couples:

• Me and James. Finished over a year ago. We're still mates. He's currently in Portugal on holiday.
• Kim and Joe: Kim is my Best Friend in the World. Joe is one of James' mates. They met through us, and were together for a long time, but broke up a few months ago. Kim is now in Turkey, working as a beauty therapist (and I miss her loads already!) Joe is returning to Uni on Monday.
• Lissy and Sam: Still together. If they ever break up I will lose my faith in love. They are also returning to Uni on Monday, and have lots of work to do, so I haven't seen them hardly at all yet. Bad times.
• Dave and Adele: Still together (we'll ignore the blip). Dave now lives and works in London. Del's family moved away to somewhere near Gatwick (the place name refuses to stick in my head) so I very rarely see them. This makes me sad.

In addition to these couples, my other best friends were Steph (who is currently lambing for her RVC course), Maller (who is back from Scotland til Wednesday) and some others like Jordy (who I sadly haven't seen in ages).

The point I am trying to illustrate is that in a week, my only best friend left in Basingstoke will be James. I'm wondering how and why this happened.

Still, I'm planning on a trip to Pompey to see Joe, Sam and Lissy. And hopefully it will benefit my revision.

Speaking of which, I need to learn about the molecular control of the cell cycle (joy of joys). My politics rant will have to wait.

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