I seem to have been neglecting my little blog lately, so thought I'd do a small post to give you an insight into my university life! Don't expect anything too exciting.

1. Sleeping

Waking up at 2pm most days in a tea-stained, Pringle crumb encrusted bed is truly liberating. Especially when you realise you've missed your 3 hour Tuesday lecture, again. (I'm disgusting)

2.  Tesco

2 days ago my Clubcard arrived. After 3 months of missing out on precious points then finally doing something about it, I found out that the Tesco a 3 minute walk away could potentially go bust before Christmas this year. Where will I buy my crumpets and exotic juice?!

3. Spag Bol

My mum's cooking has become somewhat famous in our flat lately. Spagbol sent frozen in a tuppaware box, then defrosted in the microwave seems to have quickly risen to favourite.

4. Drinking

A couple of weeks ago we bought a bottle of absinthe, drank it in the sitting room then went to bed. If that doesn't say 'freshers', I don't know what does. I'm a big fan of 99p Bakewell Bombs at 5th Avenue.

5. Netflix and 4od etc

At least 40 hours of Friday Night Dinner, Misfits and Bob's Burgers episodes later, here I am writing this blog post. Is there a job regarding this kinda thing?

p.s. it's my bday a week on Saturday 

As you may already know, I recently started university. As well as university, I apparently also started having to think of creative ways to get drunk on a budget. 

Because of this, I've decided to pursue a journey of cocktail-based self discovery. Thus, livlapin's Student Cocktail Series was born - kicking it all off with 'The Vodka Vime' (disappoint you, it will not).

You will need:

• 2 litres of Vimto
• the cheapest 70cl vodka you can find (I went for Tesco value)
• the cheapest rosé wine you can find (google 'Silver Bay Rosé' - I like to call it Silver Bae)

Method:

1. in a pint glass, pour 2/3 shots of vodka - maybe 4 if you're a brave one
2. add what you think is a sufficient amount of wine
3. fill the rest of the glass with Vimto
4. mix with a straw and driiiiink
5. ideally drink around 5 in order to be  nicely pissed before heading out
6. you're welcome

Mine and Ruby's trip to Berlin began with a very early morning and our plane falling through the sky. Luckily, things improved from this point. Firstly, I'd like to ask who thought it would be a good idea to let me and Ruby loose in a foreign country - alone, with a substantial amount of money? No doubt we thought this trip would end in debt and despair, and it did, but a good time was had by all. Something we noticed, however, was that some peoples' friendly attitudes toward us seemed to rapidly change upon discovering our nationality. Minor parts of Berlin didn't welcome tourists, which is unjustifiable yet sadly expected. A common theme throughout these photos seems to be food, drink and plants - unsure what that says about me. 

A burger restaurant with an overwhelming number of trees. They let people bring their pets out for tea?????

A lot of people in this restaurant were posing next to the trees.

The food took 8 years to arrive but the cocktails were very good.

A piece of the wall outside our hotel. 

The view from a rooftop club called Weekend.

The size of the head on a German beer is considerable. 

A protest against recent troubles in Gaza. People writing 'FREE GAZA' on the ground in chalk. The writing remained all over the city for several days. 

Ham & cheese crossaints in Balzac Coffee.

As the only particularly relevant social media platform we can vomit our (probably uninteresting and repetitive) daily lives onto, I find it quite sad and frustrating that Twitter harshly, in black Sharpie, draws the line at 140 characters. Although we are limited in the length of what we can say, it perhaps is quality that counts. After all, how could we possibly sleep at night if we didn't know how excited people are for their holiday to Maga in 97 days?! 

Disregarding this, I've collected together a few things I wished to tell the internet that sadly didn't fit the bill. Hopefully, the dreams of these rejected tweets can live on through this blog post.

• Now that exams are over and I don't have to spend my days feeling guilty about what I should be doing, I must find something else to fill the time between each episode of Sex and The City on Comedy Central. Here I must decide whether the next few weeks take a spontaneous and productive route or remain comfortably on the sofa, wishing I was friends with Carrie.  (-224)

• Waiting for nightclubs to upload their photos to their Facebook page fills me with the same feeling as waiting for exam results. Will I be filled with shame, regret and disgust or will I be pleasantly surprised, given the lack of hard work I put in? (-109)

• A world without ASOS next day delivery would be a dark dark place. In Bram Stoker's Dracula, Dr. Van Helsing receives a parcel from overseas - in one night. That book was published in 1897; technology is moving backward. (-181)

• I'm eagerly anticipating the day somebody addresses the dilemma of seeing someone you partially know out in public. The inner-turmoil of whether to greet or not is too much for one person. (-103)

From time to time I tend to develop infatuations with inanimate objects, songs, TV shows and things of that nature. However, the indecisive part of me pushes these temporary fixations aside over time and I seek out yet more from our Western culture to indulge in. Considering this, and the fact I truly am narcissistic, I thought you'd be interested in finding out what I'm currently enjoying!

• green tea
• cheerios
• skin care 
• adidas trainers
• striped clothing
• baby pink nail varnish 
• salads
• sunbeds
• Sex and The City
• this song

Thanks for reading my self-absorbed writing, I'm not attentive or brave enough to write about things that matter. Let's hope I can change.