One of those rare occasions...

To be honest with you, I never really understood the idea of blogs. I mean, why would people really care about my life? It’s not massively different from other teenagers’, or very interesting (being able to fly is fairly normal, right?). Occasionally something pretty cool happens, but not enough to write a whole blog on. Cos of that, you may have noticed my past posts (and future ones if you’re reading this in the future) don’t mention my life too much... I prefer to generally ramble about random and potentially funny things. 

However, on this rare occasion something quite cool did happen. I went to the first ever The Blanks concert. I’m pretty sure most of you are thinking “oh, cool... who?”, but unless you live in a box in the middle of a country where nothing ever happens, like Egypt (hehe, political joke), you’ve probably heard of them, but with the name Ted’s Band. That’s right, the a cappella group from Scrubs are a real band (who knew!)

[If you care enough to wanna know more, click HERE] 

So I went to the concert with my mate Lucas, who bought the tickets when he was surfing the web and randomly came across them. He’s the type of guy who sees tickets to an a cappella band from TV and thinks “Y’know what I really wanna spend my Saturday night doing? Listening to THOSE guys... whoever they are”.

Kudos to him. They were awesome.

The show was pretty great, especially for Scrubs fans (I say show cos there were lots of sketches and stuff throughout the concert), but that wasn’t the best bit! As we were leaving, we popped over to the stage door and ran into a security guard, who told us that the band were signing autographs upstairs. 

It took about 24 seconds to get upstairs, and then 30 minutes in a line that seemed to go on and on (and on) to the end of time, all to end up standing... at the back of another line. Don’t you just hate it when that happens? It feels kinda like you’ve been slapped in the face because you’re blog was overdue, and you’ve then had to wander the halls of school with the sting of the slap met only by the sting of having to explain to people why a red mark shaped oddly like a giant hand is on your face.... not that I know what that feels like...

Anyway, after about 40 minutes and 24 seconds (but who’s counting?), we met the band. We had a quick chat, got a photo and all their autographs and basically revelled in the glow of their awesomeness. Then, just before I left, I realised this made a kinda half decent story for my blog, so (in an act that can only be described by a made up word, like incredibrave or possimpible) I turned and asked Sam Lloyd (Ted) to do something from Scrubs. 

To truly understand the hilarity of what my iPhone camera recorded (yes, it has a camera. And I mean a real camera, unlike the crappy things Blackberry’s CLAIM are cameras), watch the first 16 seconds of this video: 

Now, watch my video (below), AND the rest of the one above (in any order) since both are, quite frankly, amazing.

To finish up, I thought I'd give some tips to anyone out there struggling with their UCAS forms, CV's or any other kind of written summary of themselves. Remember, you need to be interesting, and stand out. A great way to do this is to expand your vocabulary by, like I did earlier, inventing words. Employers and admissions officers are desperate to see a sign of initiative, and summing up your own amazing qualities in fewer words also makes their lives easier. It shows creativity and vision... visitivity, if you will.

An example would be Possimpible, formed by simply combine possible and impossible. In one word you've shown that you push boundaries, and make the impossible possible. Others include intellitegrity (intelligent + integrity) and resaweome/resourceome (resourceful + awesome; say it out loud).

So, in the trying times ahead, remember to go past the possible, to the impossible, and then further still, past the impossible, to the place where the possible and impossible meet, forming the possimpible*. 

  

[*As it turns out, this may not be possible... if so, just settle for the impossible. It's still pretty impressive.]

Have a good week!

     -Jamie

PS: Those of you with particularly keen eyes may notice that this post comes to you OVER one week after the last one, thereby breaking the honorary code of the Slap Bet with Benji and Charlie (and if they hadn’t noticed, they will now. Great). And yes, it did only take me 3 weeks to fail, but I won’t be receiving a slap for three excellent reasons; first, it’s half term (praise be to any and all religious figures who sanction holidays), so Benji can’t get to me. Second, I wrote most (some) of this post on time, just forgot to actually post it... that counts, right? Third, and most importantly, they WILL have to catch me first. So there.