From what I liked, from what I gathered, I couldn't be at rest

This song though. I love Radiohead forever.
 
I had my first major med school exam yesterday [*internal screaming*] and after that my best friend group went out together for the first time in a criminally long time. We went to Heaven, a gay club on Embankment, but since it was apparently "straight night" I ended up getting hit on and grabbed at more than I would in any other club.
 
(don't even get me started on how much I despise all of that; side note in the form of a quote from one of my girlfriends, "This random annoying guy caught my hand and started saying, 'Hey babe' and all that bullshit but I pulled free and lectured him in a feminist vein for about ten minutes on how my body is not his property and so on and so forth, and it felt fucking great!")
 
The level of drunk I was last night was absolutely perfect. After that exam ordeal, I was in such a happy happy happy place, especially when it was just the three of us girls on a podium in an empty room in the club, with the DJ happily taking our requests even after it started filling up (those people arriving only because we were there, naturally) and AHH it was just such a good night.
 
I've been tagged by the eternally lovely @blossom-of-snow but since I'm not exactly the most active Polyvore user and I feel like I know hardly any of you on here anymore, I'm not going to be tagging a further eleven people (sorry!)
 
I did really want to do this though, so I made a shitty excuse for a set so I could answer these questions.
 

1. How important is school to you?
This will be an answer in two parts: school school (past) and school as in university (present and future). School was incredibly important to me, obviously because of the education aspect and me being keen to learn and know and understand a variety of things, and definitely because of the friends I made there, who I honestly believe (hell, I *know*) I will be friends with for life. School was where I grew up; I matured alongside being incredibly silly, I was so unbelievably happy and 99% of the time any tears were the result of laughter, I fell in and out and in again and out again of limerance but I always knew my friends were the primary and constant source of love I needed. School was a rollercoaster of brilliant madness, and I miss a lot of the amazing teachers I had and I will always get nostalgic for my school memories because they're so sacred in their 'you-had-to-be-there' quality. 10/10, would recommend.
University is important in the same way, but also in a completely different way. Technically I'm an adult now and I'm a teensy bit more fixed in who I am, so I don't think I'm going to change radically over these six years. What's crucial about medical school is that this is where I've always wanted to be and if I can make it through, I get to be a doctor, which is what I've always wanted to be. I've made incredible friends, but WAAAAH I NEED TO CONCENTRATE ON MY WORK HELP IT'S SO HARD. So yeah, school of all kinds = top priority.
 
2. Are you close to your family? How do you feel about having a family of your own?
I'd say I'm really close to my family and each member in different ways, like each facet of my personality fits specifically with each specific relative but I can completely be myself with every one of them. I would love to have a family of my own, childrean are a w e s o m e
 
3. Is there a book, movie, or musician/band that changed your life?
Books - the Harry Potter series, The Catcher in the Rye, The Bell Jar, Kokoro and Invisible Monsters. (they're all specific to certain times in my life and subsequent epiphanies)
I can't think of a specific movie, but the TV show Scrubs definitely impacted my life and my decision to become a doctor.
Musicians? I'd have to say Sufjan Stevens, The Killers and Bombay Bicycle Club because of the music their music led me to (and of course seeing BBC live was the best gig I've ever been to), and Panic! at the Disco, Fall Out Boy and Blink-182 for sentimental reasons.
 
4. Your favorite season in the year and why?
I adore Winter and Spring in equal measures. Winter means big jumpers, cinnamon hot chocolate, mulled wine, Christmas, Bon Iver and Sufjan Xmas albums, occasional bout of snow, the fireplace being used and being with my family. Spring is what I associate feeling utterly euphoric out on the grass in the sun with my friends; a lot of important moments and turning points in my life have happened at springtime.
 
5. Have you ever been in love?
I have thought I was in love at the time. Whether I've been in love is a mystery altogether.
 
6. Tea or coffee?
Both, but really tea.
 
7. Something that can cheer you up without fail?
Reading Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, my best friends, music music music, and red velvet cake.
 
8. What do you think about sex before marriage?
A long time ago when I was a lot younger, I used to think I wouldn't engage in premarital bumping of uglies, but realistically, I don't see why not at all. Personally, I'd want to be in a relationship with someone you're totally comfortable with, but as long as no-one's getting hurt (or an STI), let's all bang.
 
9. Are you a spiritual person?
As a Hindu, yeah I'd say I was pretty spiritual. Despite my unrelenting science brain, I do believe in a God force akin to gravity.
 
10. If you could go anywhere in the world right this moment, where would you go and why?
Paris. I want to look at art and pretty architecture and hang around Montmartre pretending to be Amelie Poulin and hopefully brush up on my French and eat soufflés and macarons and various pastries drink espressos with my sunglasses on like the mysterious woman I am. Damn it, I want to be chic.
 
11. Excuse me, ma'am, have you accepted Sufjan Stevens as your lord and savior?
In the words of Professor Severus Snape,
"OB.............................VIOUSLY."

Collage didn't turn out how I wanted it to aaaargh.
Well, here's half a summary of my second term at uni, half a load of assorted items I found pretty.
 
I'm back home and back to feeling listless; I don't know, it's one of those moods I can never fully articulate but it most certainly has everything to do with a lack of my friends to talk to and feeling a particular kind of lonely. This was necessary.
 
This album is gorgeous. I am so thrilled with the music that's come out so far this year and the music I've discovered and the music I've revisited after years and years.
 
"She makes the sound the sea makes to calm me down."
 
Everything's different now.

Don't be distracted
Don't be distracted
Do you want to love me more?
Do you want to love me more?
For love is the breath
If water and wave is cursed by the same thing that nurtured its shame
Is it worth all the work?

Me, currently, a list:
- obsessed with this song
- ill and should be working more
- mostly unimpressed by/ uninspired in making this set, despite how much I related the items back to relevant parts of my current life and this summer
- completely infatuated with someone more than a bit beautiful

Getting back into it with a quick crappy set.
 
Hello strangers.
 
"Homesick" by Kings of Convenience is the soundtrack/ where the title lyric's from.
 
I'll speak to you less brusquely in another, better set.
 
It's quite nice to be back though :)

I missed the therapy of set-making.
T'isn't very good/skillful but I sort of like the way it looks.
I want this song to linger before the weather demands a winter playlist of Sufjan (his Xmas album is perfection!), Bon Iver, Benjamin Leftwich Francis,The Killers, Laura Marling and many others.
 
I'm quite nervous about my interview at Cardiff tomorrow and need this outlet. See you later, maybe, but I doubt it because I will be busy busy busy with A-Level revision and *fingers crossed* interview preparation. Also, the top picture is mine, of Catriona and Laura. K thnx bye.

Love this song, and, honestly, every one of their songs. A Different Kind of Fix has so quickly become one of my all-time favourite albums.
Bombay Bicycle Club are one of the most talented bunch of musicians today and so underrated; to come out with 3 stunning albums in three years as well as to show musical progression and ingenuity is so refreshing and wonderful. I couldn't want more from a band.
AND AND AND they're amazing live, WHICH I will experience in October (yay yay yay yay)
 
What's the last record you bought and what did you think of it?

Trying something a bit different love love love this man a lot kthnxbye

Mmmmmmm. I've neglected my Marling for a while, shamefully so. She's stunning.
 
Tagged by blossom of snow ages ago :)

Love this song.
Don't really like this set; I think I need a bit of time to get into making good sets again.
 
I really have nothing much to say here.
Or anywhere for that matter.
 
It seems I have once again lapsed into my state of passive angst / self-indifference. (if the latter even is a term)
 
All I want is to escape into a good book or movie, away from myself and what I want myself to be.
 
I spent an amazing week at Manchester shadowing Orthopaedic surgeons. What they do is so awesome, but that department is such a boys club. Loved the banter there though, and the only female consultant surgeon there really impressed me.
 
Who knows, maybe this is the route I choose to go down. God knows my grandad (himself an Orthopaedic surgeon) would like one of his grandchildren to do so ;)
 
No pressure, but still, it's a cool field.