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I fly to Zante tomorrow morning. I'm all packed, and absolutely buzzing! Its 41 Degrees out there!!
This is the last chance I'll get really to post anything, so I bid everyone "Adieu" until July 13th. Don't expect anything from me until then, and please don't delete me for lack of activity

I've not followed them all tournament but last nights match against Sweden sounds incredible. They went 3-0 up at halftime and then Sweden clawed it back scoring twice and then an equaliser in the last 10 minutes. It got through extra time and we watched the penalties in the pub and they were class.
Milner "did a Beckham" and slipped to sky his over the bar.
Joe Hart saved Sweden's penalty, then stepped up himself and scored! What a hero!
Both teams scored the next 3 and then Hart saved and England are now through to the final on Monday!! Hart got booked for putting off the opposition though so he'll miss the final which is a shame but City are still being well represented by Nedum Onuoha (class) and Micah Richards.
The final is against Germany on Monday night.. which is our 2nd night in Zante babyy!! We're all gonna go out in our England tops and get behind the young lions in true Lager-lout football fan fashion haha. I'm so ashamed I'm only watching because its the final! They have done well though.

1 More sleep and then Zante!!
Last night went to a friends house and we all sat round a fire.. was a good laugh staying up until like 4. Things got pretty crazy. Today its packing time.. then off to another friend's for a birthday barbecue. Hopefully the weather will get a little better.

I received this email the day before yesterday previewing his London shows and trying to get me to buy some tickets that had just been released so obviously yesterdays events were a bit of a shock!

Its so sad, I'm really in shock, 50 is no age to die at all. We have without doubt lost one of the great entertainers and figures of our time. I'm glad the press are making a big deal of it, it was so sad when they aparantly weren't arsed when James Brown passed. I'm sure its because MJ was younger and his O2 shows are in a couple of weeks. I'd say he was a much bigger influence on music than Elvis overall and his death has been much more of a shock because he's meant to be coming back! My dad compared it to John Lennon because he died young after not doing much for a couple of years.
As for the small minority of people attacking him calling him a paedophile etc, in my eyes thats as low as you can get. Insulting the dead while their bodies are still warm. Very heartless. In my eyes, as he was found innocent, he is an innocent man so I will pay my respects. I had a sexual assault on a 12 year old girl accused at me over last summer and while I was also eventually found innocent, if i died its the exact same as someone calling me a paedophile straight after which is totally uncalled for and unfounded. Anyone dwelling on this small period of this man's life just after he died and not remembering him for his music is pretty sadistic in my eyes.
I feel bad for the people at Glastonbury, this year's festival will forever be associated with them for the death of Michael Jackson, I was just watching a DVD with a girl mate when we got a text pretty much as soon as news broke. My first reaction was it was a publicity stunt for his upcoming tour so today has been pretty surreal. Every other song on the radio has been Michael Jackson.
MJ has been dominating facebook statuses today, one of the more imaginitive ones being:

Patrick Cashmore has just bought two tickets to see MJ at the O2 arena for £20 each! can't wait!!!!!!

I'm going to download everything he's ever done and put it on my I-pod for summer. There is no doubt he has been one of the greatest talents and influences he has been in modern times so I'm determined to get educated on him while I still can!!

Last night I went in to Manchester to see Kings Of Leon and they absolutely KILLED IT. We arrived too late to see Glasvegas supporting but just in time for the start of their set and every song was brilliant. They started with Crawl and every song was just impeccable, progressively getting better and better even when we thought it wasn't possible. Closer, Fans, Be Somebody, Use Somebody, Bucket, Red Morning Light and Molly's Chambers were all excellent. Sex On Fire was the only song where absolutely everyone was singing along, I thought I was a big fan but I didn't know half of the earlier stuff they played.. They were the most polite band I've seen and all in all fantastic but I know that in Spain next month they will be even better because of the atmosphere there will be, I don't really like the MEN Arena as its a bit too big for my liking but Benicassim should be just right. I'm excited!
My favourites were On Call, Use Somebody and the very last song, Black Thumbnail. I was a bit gutted they didn't play Revelry or my personal favourite, McFearless but we definitely still got out money's worth! We were too far away to get any decent pictures, but I got a good few videos (see below). Ignore the shakey quality and just appreciate the noise
The girls there last night were unbelievable.. I was really surprised considering Take That and The Saturdays were both in Manchester last night aswell!

I've been to The Trafforc Center today holiday shopping and there were so many people wearing the T-shirts and loads of the shops were playing their albums!

Last night we all went to a friends house for his 18th. It started off kind of slow but got better and better and in the end was a really good night. A lot of his family were there and there was a really good atmosphere. The jukebox was good but seemed to have a mind of its own. Learnt a couple of new drinking games involving a supersoaker and a clothes peg which was a good laugh. We thought maybe it would be a bit of a lad-fest because it was another girl's birthday night out on the same night but there was a really good crowd. There were some pretty strange family dynamics on display though, with cousins and brothers and sisters dancing pretty provocatively with eachother haha. Good fun though

I've just given my dad his fathers day stuff. A Simon & Garfunkel CD collection and a book of the story of Factory Records which were both good choices as he's pretty obsessive with them. I also love Factory Record's story, 24 hour party people and reading about the Manchester scene back then with Hacienda etc. so I'll get to read it after him too. He seemed pretty pleased.
I'm doing more gardening and as many jobs round the house as I can this week to get a bit of extra cash together. We go to Zante on Sunday and I've spent £100 this weekend so far so need to sort that out. I'm driving out to another 18th tonight and am giving a few people lifts so hopefully will get a little from that. I think I'll try to collect my Fantasy Football winnings aswell. Money is hard. I need to get a proper job.

It looks like City are going to sign Roque Santa Cruz. I'm not sure how I feel about this. Hughes managed to get the best out of him last season at Blackburn but this season he's been pants. While he is the type of tall targetman we need I'm not sure he's the best player for us right now, and I'm not that sure he's actually as good as people think. He was pretty unremarkable at Bayern Munich before he came to England and this season, and I feel bad for Caciedo because he is getting pushed down the pecking order and I really like him.
Its looking like Tevez will either play for us or Chelsea next season aswell. This is fantastic news, I'm pretty convinced he's coming to us because he's just set his young daughter up at a Private school here in Manchester for September in the last month which not many people know, and has bought a house. I ignored this at the time because I thought perhaps he was going to join Liverpool and his mate Mascherano but now I'm pretty confident he's coming to us. Top player. All my united mates want him to come to us over Chelsea as we're "not a threat yet."
We'll have to see about that!

Politics went well. We were straight out after the exam to the pub across from school. I went back to a mates and then we were back out again. Loads of people were out and we ended up in 42s in Manchester. It was an alright night by most standards, a bit of a blowout because everyone was finishing.. I spent far too much and was definitely feeling the effects today.. I am not a fan of hangovers at all.
The worst part of the night was me losing my phone. I don't know what happened, I think I must have somehow left it on the table in Varsity when we were leaving. Chances are someone will have picked it up but I'm about to call them now to see if maybe a kind samaritan has handed it in. (No such luck)I'm not too hopeful though, it was so inconveniant being phoneless today. I've had it a long while though so have got good use out of that phone, and a mate has a few spare phones at his house so he might be able to sort me out which is good. Hopefully won't come to that though.
We got home for £3 each which was wicked. We got into a minibus and it was only half full so the driver decided to turn back and pick up some more people promising he'd make it cheaper for us. Some girls we knew jumped in and we took them home.. it strayed from our route quite a bit but still worked out cheaper so we were happy. They paid theirs and then the guy wanted us to pay the same, but that would have totaled £52 which was far too overpriced. We basically refused and said that was a daft amount because he'd said £30, then £40 and now £52?! We probably could have got a limo/helicopter/hot air balloon for cheaper!! (Obviously not but hey). We were going to get out and then he said he'd call the police, we weren't being arsey at all and the driver was deluded so we said yeah go on, explain to them how much you're charging us and collectively all agreed maybe you should get the police down. He then backtracked and we ended up paying £3 each which was a really good price, he gave us his number and said if we ever need a lift back from town let him know! Was a bit of a strange turn of events but all ended pretty well.

We were up at 7 this morning for paintballing after getting in at 4 (I don't know how we managed it!). The place was in Frodsham which was quite near me. Facilities were basic and the bullets were really expensive but it was still a top laugh. I'd never done it before and the rules took a bit of getting used to but I really enjoyed myself. We were in a group with a stag doo.. they were all gimps. They took it really seriously, the place itself was a huge cockfest with a strong smell of mud and testosterone in the air but I'd definitely do it again.

I am so relieved and have just been constantly laughing and joking for the last 2 days. Its been class.

I'm so nearly done.. Politics yesterday went alright. Could have been a lot worse considering I had to cram 6 months of work into one afternoon. Massive relief after that exam since it was my last big one.
The very last one is tomorrow, its a politics synoptic which really you can't revise for. I'll look through some notes for a bit but there really is little to do.

Tomorrow after the exam I'm going back to a mates house. We're going to get changed and head straight back out. There's a massive amount of people celebrating so its going to be a big occasion.. we'll end up in 42s but there will no doubt be a few not making it all the way haha.
I'm so excited..
Then on Saturday I am going paintballing with some lad mates. We need to be up at like 8AM for the minibus which is a bit of a joke.. again I'm not expecting everyone to make it to that. I've never been paintballing though so am pretty excited. We're missing the Lions game though, so someone is Sky Plussing it and we're going to watch it later on. We're going have to try and avoid finding out the score all day which will be a challenge. I'm going to go home and get a shower and changed etc. and go down for the 2nd half because I can't really stay interested in a rugby game for the whole thing like the rest of the boys.. I find football much easier to watch.

After the Lions are victorious (hopefully. I'm not too bothered myself but other people will be on a real downer if they lose and I don't want that) we're then going to a mates house for a houseparty for his 18th. Thats going to be good aswell, we haven't had a houseparty in ages.. and he's hired a jukebox so there's going to be some classic music. We're all going to be sooo tired though!

The next night is a girls 18th but I'm really not sure If I'll go to that. Its an all-white theme and I have no white stuff to wear really. And she's only doing that so she can wear black and stand out so all the attention is on her.. seems a bit daft really. Especially when I hardly even speak to her, I don't know her really so I was pretty surprised to be invited. 3 nights out will be pushing it though so I'm probably going to stay in.

A lot of controversy for the second time in a Philosophy exam.
After the mass fallout due to slyguys (people still aren't speaking because of it) there were more people annoyed today. Basically we covered this exam right at the end of the year. Our teacher went over one particular topic (Religious Experience) in great detail because he claimed he was 99.9% certain it would be the exam after a sly heads up from one of the examiners at a meeting of teachers..

"Obviously I can't tell you whats on the paper or I'd lose my job but if you look at the past exams you can work out what it will be and what it won't" (Or words to that effect)

We covered Religious Experience in great detail.. if that had come up in the exam we would have all aced it. During study leave though we all got packs of articles, model answers etc. for two other topics "just in case". This is good because he's taken the time to do it and no other teachers have done it but really we should have covered this stuff in class and a lot of people were annoyed at that.
These two topics were Critique and Religious Language. We didn't have time to learn all 3 of them in detail as they were all pretty detailed due to other exams and needing to revise for those and lack of time etc. Yesterday I covered Critique and Religious Language so I had 66% chance of knowing what was on the exam. A lot of people though ignored these two because our teacher had said he was 99.9% sure it would be Religious Experience and so they just focused on that.
We get in the exam room and you guessed it, it wasn't Religious Experience, but Critique. Personally I wasn't too phased by this and just got on with it, I was lucky I'd done it the previous day. But a lot of people were just sat there with still blank answer sheets by the end of the exam because they just didn't know where to start, or they at least made an attempt but were just writing rubbish and knew they'd failed.
A lot of these people were my mates but who's in the wrong here.. the people who focused on one area thus only giving themselves a 33% chance or the teacher for telling them one topic was 99.9% certain to be on the exam?? He was stood outside at the end and when people confronted him he just said "Unlucky. The Gamble didn't pay off" At the end of the day it doesn't effect him really but a lot of people might not get into Uni because of today so its pretty bad on his part we didn't finish the syllabus in class because we focused on this one area. Is he in the wrong though? I can't fully make my mind up. Maybe the blame needs to be shared

Personally for me it went OK, I just tried my best to recreate the model answer we'd been given and while I very much doubt it was "A" material I saw today as basically damage limitation so hopefully with a good mark in the other exam which I felt went well, I'll be OK with results. It could have been a lot lot worse if Religious Language came up because I literally hadn't looked at it.

This afternoon I'm going hard like yesterday for tomorrow's Politics exam and then from there my last exam (!!!) is the Politics synoptic which you can't really revise for.

3 DAYS

General Studies didn't go too great. I was an absolute sleepy mess in the exam hall so realised afterwards I'd misread the very first question.. Nice one Dan.
After that I could have managed my time a bit better.. I wasn't focusing well either. I know what I was writing was balls. Aah Well. I was kind of hoping on that to drag me into Uni but looks like I'll have to get in through my actual subjects. Damn :/

Speaking to people I realised how little work I'd done for this Philosophy tomorrow. I really slacked off this weekend so when I got back from the exam this morning I sat myself down and busted out a 5hour hardcore revision sesh. Cramming like a madman. I definitely needed it, and I'm still not confident for tomorrow but I'm feeling a little better.

Politics on Wednesday, I need to do something for that tonight and then repeat this afternoon's work ethic tomorrow after my Philosophy exam.

Doubt I'll be able to.. Kill me now!!
Loads of my friends are finishing/finished now but I still have 4 DAYS!!
Not long now. I am going to be beyond pissed on Friday.

I'm getting really into Big Brother this time around. My obsession is getting to the point where while I'm revising I'm looking forward to Big Brother that evening. Thats kind of sad isn't it?! haha
As I've been getting more into it I'm getting increasingly animated while watching.. during the arguments I'm siding with people, I'm laughing at the jokes.. getting annoyed at Halfwit and Sree aswell.. I watch with such a focus I feel like I'm in the house! I don't have any favourites as yet.. on first impressions my favourite was Markus because he came across funny in his video, and when he was going in was just wearing a vest and walked straight past the paparazzi - he didn't give a fuck and I liked that! But he definitely isn't my favourite housemate now.. I don't dislike him, I just don't agree with how when he's trying to make a point he individually calls people out (Eg. 1 Dimensional Charachters last night, and what he likes about people tonight). Sree and Halfwit are doing my head in. Can't stand them and they make me cringe so much on TV, they're painful to watch.
Anyway, I've decided not to read any tabloids while the house is ongoing so I can form my own views on the housemates, which is making it much more interesting to watch. And I'm abstaining from any public eviction votes.. I've never voted on a TV show and don't intend to. Its a waste of money.
Before I was thinking of what I would take into Big Brother as my luxury item, which used to be done on the older shows, and if it was allowed, I'd definitely have chosen my I-Pod. Its the most relaxing and therapeutic thing I do apart from this blog but I have a sneaking suspicion It wouldn't be allowed.
I've decided to apply next year for Big Brother also. I couldn't this year because I have exams and had booked Zante & Benicassim really early but looking at the house now, I'd love to be in there. I know the application forms are really complicated and the whole process is quite gruelling but it would be a real experience even just applying, and if chosen it would be a nice cheap way to spend a summer which will be more than appreciated with me being a student next year! I've spoken to my mum and dad who aren't fans of the show and was asking if they'd watch if i was in there hypothetically and dropping hints like that. I think If I did get in though I wouldn't tell anyone, would disappear off everyone's radars for a couple of days and then they'd be watching the launch show and there I will be! That would shock a few people! So yeah.. maybe thats how I'll be spending Summer'10!
I'll apply to Shipwrecked aswell but I'm probably not beautiful enough for that!

Revision is killing me.. I'm on my last legs which is good because I'm nearly there now.. only 5 DAYS!!
I have General Studies tomorrow, I've just been reading the booklet now and that shouldn't be too bad. Philosophy on Tuesday I've been working for this weekend and am kind of feeling OK for it.. not great though. And then Politics on Wednesday which i've done nothing for yet so am pretty fucked. I suppose I still have a little bit of time left. I'll see if I can have a word with my teacher when I'm in school tomorrow.

I JUST WANT TO FINISH!!