It 'aaarrggh' (is) official, I am taking a gap year, so I can work near enough full time for a while, and therefore have enough money to feed myself at university the next year. Having phoned up the admissions office of the uni I have a place at, I was told it was fine to defer my place for another year, and so, it has been done.

Now it gets me to thinking, what am I gonna do? I will need to find a job that I will actually enjoy, that does not involve such repetative boredom which will drive me to rocking in a corner with a gun to my head. I would also like a local job, i.e. no more than one bus journey.

I am quite lucky in that quite a few of my friends are staying back another year either to work like me or complete another A Level course, so i'm not going to be lonely, and my lovely girlfriend happens to have just started her A2 courses, so there won't be a tear jerking goodbye in september. I'm considering enrolling in another course, like a short AS course with an interesting subject matter, like Film Studies, nothing too difficult.

It's going to be an interesting year...