I'm off to Uni!!

Well I guess this is it then, the next stage of my life about to commence, and this will no doubt be the most exciting - it's certainly the scariest!
I'll be leaving home and moving to Canterbury to study Multimedia Journalism at Canterbury Christchurch University. I can't wait to move, I just want to pack already! But I've got four weeks yet so it's just a waiting game now, ahhhhh!!!
Unlike some who go to Uni totally alone, I will be taking my three favourite people with me :) First, my wonderful boyfriend Oli who will be studying Computing at Canterbury and living just a 2 minute walk away rather than an hour-and-a-bit bus&train journey away haha. And then my bestest friends Cat and Em who will be studying History and Film respectively at Kent Uni, which is only a couple of miles up the road. So I feel pretty darn lucky as we'll all be sort of together yet still following our own paths to success.

However I feel extremely lucky to even have a place at uni, I didn't exactly do brilliantly in my exams especially  English. I think I must just fail epically at that because I got an E in my AS again and only a D in my A2. fortunately the B in my coursework brought the whole grade up to a D but it's still not the most desirable result. And then after finally getting onto UCAS and finding my place confirmed I was over the moon, and so surprised of course. I think they may have gone on my work experience to boost my chances.

Either way, I'm going to University and it's going to be the damn best three years of my life...fingers crossed xP

Bad Editors ARRGH

ARRGH I hate hate hate bad editors, they drive me up the wall. How hard is it to miss simple grammatical mistakes - and even some big ones!

Admittedly it can boil down to the authors themselves not proof-reading their work, even I make mistakes. But then I come back to it in ten minutes and can see them straight away.

For example, Stephenie Meyer in Twilight says that Carlisle is 'more handsomer' - Handsomer isn't even a word!!! Why did nobody question this as it simply does not make sense.

But the worst that I just came across (and the reason for this post) is in the new book in the Artemis Fowl series: The Last Guardian by Eoin Colfer. Now I love these books and even though I'm too old for them now, they still excite and enthral me and I was really disappointed when I read the sentence "Their progress down the feeder rail seemed maddeningly slow down the feeder rail". What's maddening is how simple a mistake this is and infuriating in how someone could miss this. Aren't books meant to be double proof-read to escape problems like these? Even if it's a friend, or the postman - somebody!