I went to Coventry this weekend. Ok, you got me, I’m not that naive, I went to Warwick.
With regards to Warwick Uni, there’s no two ways about it, its bigger and better than Bath, though it doesn’t take much to beat the aesthetics that my university has to offer.. Warwick has a lot of green space, a few lakes and several ducks. They even have a cinema on campus, and its not some lecture theatre with the geeky audio visual guys playing reruns of Doctor Who every Thursday night for the Sci-Fi society. Proper cinema, where we watched Finding Neverland which I admit I had my suspicions about but it was a wonderful film. The buildings and modern and spacious, and the doors are AUTOMATIC. Such are the wonders of technology and university funding that is not embezzled or spent on upgrading the staff coffee machines.

(On the subject, I read that the vice-chancellor of Bath lives in a £2.5m Georgian mansion (courtesy of the university’s funding), has a £26,000 pension, receives a uni loan to drive around a Jaguar and for all this turmoil she has to be paid £190,000 p.a. You’d think with this kind of money she could afford to throw a few quid towards modernising the eye-wateringly bad apearance of the campus..)

Also popped to Birmingham for a stroll around the Bullring, honestly indoor shopping centres totally put me off buying things, its like its sole existence is to part you from your money..town centres are much more attractive, at least you get a bit of fresh air in between delving into the racks! Personally I don’t find Brum so pretty, (though my friend would beg to differ considering all the ‘good looking black guys’ there) but the city makes for a good excuse to add the words “man” and “innit” to the end of every sentence 🙂

Today is Easter Monday which means tomorrow is another working day, *sigh*. I figured I won’t have another full working week until April 18th though, so I shall be grateful. Budapest comes in 10 days and I admit, I’ve fully caught the travel bug and I’m itching to go. I admit Eastern Europes’ never been high on my list of prime destinations, but I know it’ll be stunning and I should go before the hawaiian shirt-wearing, badly sunburnt, belly heavy Americans start to catch on. (I’m sure they’re not all like that Yee..!) Bring on the working week, the sooner it starts the sooner it finishes!

Easter resolutions:

1. Exercise. No seriously.
2. I don’t like chocolate that much, so I really shouldn’t eat it all that much.
3. Write feature articles for my uni newspaper, if they let me.
4. Save money prudently, so I can blow it all on holidays.