Some Awards, Random Facts and Plenty of Procrastination!

Caroline Makes, one of the hosts of the fabulous Alphabakes Challenge has very kindly gifted me with these two awards.  I very much enjoyed reading her random facts.  My favourite was when she revealed that one day when she used to be a journalist and was about to meet the CEO of Burberry, she realised she was wearing a fake Burberry scarf and so had to quickly hide it in her bag just before she met him!

Rules for both the awards are :
1. Thank the person who nominated you for this Award and link them back.
2. Say some 5 random facts about you.
3. Spread the  joy by nominating other bloggers.
4. Convey the blogger about the nomination. 

1. This week I am writing the last ever essay I hope I have to write in my entire life! (aside from a monstrous essay I will still have to write called a dissertation, but we're forgetting about that for a little while thanks!)

2. The other day when I was bored in my lecture I decided to test myself on making a list of all 50 U.S states (because I'm America obsessed...but you know that fact about me already!) I speedily got to 49 and then for the next 20 minutes I scrolled through every state related song I could think of (there's alot you know aside from the obvious ones like Sweet Home Alabama and California by Phantom Planet.  One of my favourites is Kings of Leon - The Runner 'She's got a birthmark the shape of Maine' and I also love Why Georgia by John Mayer and an old teen favourite of Ohio Is For Lovers by Hawthorne Heights) eventually I remembered this song and Indiana took my list up to 50! Boom! I was super happy, I certainly can't tell you what I learnt from that lecture on precision teaching but I can tell you all 50 states and I can even map them geographically in their correct places too! so I considered that quite an achievement! 

3. Whilst we're on the subject of geography and travel, I've been meaning to write a big long post for months about our super exciting news but thanks to all the essays and work from random point no.1 I just haven't gotten around to it sooooo....WE'RE MOVING TO VANCOUVER in September for a year! Oh yes, I already know where my local Wal Mart will be and my local Taco Bell - it is beyond exciting, you can read more about that and my love of google street view here.

4. My husband told me we need to get fit and so he's going to close my blog down...no jokes! I reminded him that he's the one most evenings who says 'what treats have we got' and prompts me to whip up something calorific - he could say no if he wanted to! but he doesn't.  So we're just going to continue eating like fatty's...and come September we'll snowboard all our calories away....wahoooooo.

5. My essay writing currently looks something like this:

5 minutes - work on essay
5 minutes - facebook check
15 minutes - google reader check
20 minutes - stumble upon some new found blogs through links of links
5 minutes - twitter check
5 minutes - pinterest check
5 minutes - work on essay

and then the cycle continues...does anyone else see a problem in this schedule?
I would be seriously interested in conducting a study to see how productive and studious university students were 25 years ago (pre the invention of the internet) compared to now.
I think it would make for some pretty fascinating results! but probably results that would have me looking the other way too! Did you know the only time I have been in the University library this whole year I have been doing my masters was not to study but was in fact due to not being able to make it through a whole long day of lectures without checking up on my google reader!

So there you have it...5 random facts!

I am tagging 5 more of my favourite bloggers to pass on the randomness...and hopefully fill my google reader with a few more distractions ;)

Daisy from Nevertoosweet
Mel from Let's Get Scrappy
Susie from Fold in the Flour
Sarah from The Salad Days
Jo from What do you make of my cake?