choo-choo

My first year of uni is over, thank heavens! I've had a really tough year, not academically (I've really loved my modules) but a lot of things have happened that I'm ready to put behind me!
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Being either end of the country means a great deal of traveling and train rides are by far the least comfy.. choosing what to wear is difficult for many reasons, which I have cultivated into a very neurotic list...

PIERROT LE FOU EVALUATES DRESSING FOR TRAIN TRAVEL

1. You do want to look nice enough, so that when you arrive home, all flustered and bitter, you don't look in the mirror and see a demon reflecting back.

2. But you also want to be comfortable.

3. Trains, particularly the London underground, have their own freak climate; boiling hot or shiveringly cold. In this respect it is a good idea to wear layers.

4. There's always an underlying fear that by some unknown circumstance I have an invalid ticket, therefore you want to look smart, so that in the circumstance this happens, the train conductor doesn't judge you to be a cheapskate trying to steal a ride...but also, not well dressed that you look like you can afford a full price ticket and hope that they take pity on you. This has never happened to me, but there are so many random restrictions and I'm never actually sure when I'm limited to use my young persons railcard that I cannot help but be anxious!

So this is what I wore on a most recent train ride.. unfortunately the air conditioning on one half of the journey did make me colder than an igloo, I napped it off though.

I'm so happy to be home/in Kent. It's so much sunnier here.. I love independence n' all but communal living is gross. 12 people to a tiny kitchen must break some law or convention, surely?

Am I the only one with horror stories of living with strangers/in halls?

////////////////////////THERE'S STILL TIME to enter my Estee Lauder lipstick/flower garland giveaway- scroll down :D