Chuffed: [adjective]- to be pleased or happy.

I'm well (a.k.a. very) chuffed about the way the University of Leeds does exams.  I'm assuming it's the way a lot of universities outside of Carleton deal with things because other exchange students that I know don't seem surprised about it at all but that's neither here nor there.  What they do is assign you a seat for your exam and it's posted along with the time, date and location of the exam.  The reason I like this so much is because, my last name being Wallman, my seat is always in the very back row.  And for those of you who know how truly and utterly insane I am, you know that I don't like when people hover behind me especially when I'm stressed or tired (always?) so I usually try to sit in the very back rows of exams anyways.  It just takes one less (psychotic) stress away during the exams, which I'm really grateful for.  My last exam is tomorrow and I couldn't be more excited, especially since I have the peace of mind knowing I'll be sitting int he back row.  

To distract you from my crazy, here are pictures of a pretty park near my place of residence. 

Chunder: [verb]- to puke.

I've studied since I woke up this morning and I don't think you want to hear about how Queen Elizabeth I used a cannon of symbols based on Minerva to perpetuate her power.  So instead, enjoy this video.  The title of this post is so you can understand the hilarity of this video.  I myself have been doing zero chundering.

Orange Wednesdays: [noun]- the best thing that has ever happened to my food-and-movie-loving self.

Every Wednesday the phone company that I'm with here in England, Orange, has this amazing deal on Wednesdays.  What you do is you text the word film to the number 241 and then they text you back with a code.  This code gets you two for one movies AND dinner at this sweet restaurant called Pizza Express.  So tonight I'm going to be watching Love and Other Drugs and eating lots of pizza with my friends!

To make Wednesdays even better it is SO WARM HERE.  It's January and its plus ten.  I basically skipped home from the library today it was so lovely outside. 

This is a picture from when I was taking the train from London to Leeds on my way back from Canada, when I managed to keep my eyes open for two minutes.

Kirkgate: [noun]- a street in Leeds that runs between the City Market and the Corn Exchange.

It's a nice little part of town with a wide variety of stores and restaurants. I walked over there today for two reasons.  The first being it wasn't revising.  The second being that I needed something to write about on here besides revising.

The Corn Exchange is this painfully beautiful building that has little clothing stores and a restaurant and other cute things.  The City Market is an indoor market with grocery stores, butchers, flower shops, candy stores, breakfast places, cafes, clothing huts, you name it. 

Revise: [verb]- to study

I think I prefer saying revision instead of studying because revising suggests that you have already done loads of work and now all you have to do is just casually revise it.  Studying, however, means that you still have a tonne of work ahead of you.  I feel as though revision is much more optimistic although once I actually start revising I may change my mind.

Revising is what I'm going to be up to for the next couple of weeks starting today so my resolve to post more frequently may become upsetting and in all honesty quite boring for you reading my posts but I WILL PREVAIL.

My flatmates are all back and our little family has reunited which was a nice start to my week.  Only four out of five of us were back yesterday but we went out for Sunday roast.  Our Sunday roast actually consisted of no roast or any of the things that come with Sunday roast because we either ordered fish and chips or burgers.  Keepin' it authentic.

Aubergines are actually eggplant. Curse you, youtube boy!

Today I got gifts from Santy Clause.  He gave me two things: one being the gift of shopping and the other being SHOEEEEEESSSSS.  Thanks for the best treasure hunt ever Santa.

Don't we look like a happy family?  Keep your orphan Annie comments to yourself Andrew. I will, however, accept comments from everyone on how well I'm keeping up my resolution of more frequent posts.

Aubergine: [noun]- zucchini

Somewhere in its transition across the ocean, aubergines gained a 'z' and then a few other letters got changed around and then zucchinis happened.  Logical transition.

I just had a lovely three week vacation back in Canada where I got to say 'eh' without judgment and eat lots of Kraft Peanut Butter.  I had a wonderful Christmas with my family which was also intensely Canadian with a lot of tobogganing, snow-shoeing and Rummoli.  Wow, I didn't realize how Canadian my Christmas was until I wrote that sentence.

My journey back to Leeds was entirely uneventful.  I fell asleep on the plane, the tube and the train so if something exciting did happen I probably missed it.    

I'm back in Leeds, I just finished my last essay of the fall semester today and I have food in my fridge.  Life is good.  Plus my friend sent me this video which is both educational and funny. 

Hence the title of this post. 

This semester prepare yourself for way more Dodgy updates.  It's somewhat of a new years resolution for myself.  So, see yah reeeal soon (in blog land, that is)!