Autumn In The New Forest

Tomorrow is the start of October, and with it comes a lot of events – clocks go back an hour, the trees drop their leaves, etc. But more importantly are the events specific to me.

On October 16th the next issue of Batman and Robin comes out; a very important event, I assume Streets of Gotham and Batgirl will also have new issues around this time. I’m really enjoying the reversed dynamic of Dick and Damian as opposed to Bruce and Dick. I’m looking forward to the big reveal of who the new Red Hood is, the most obvious person would Jason Todd, but that’d be too obvious, I think.

October 17th is Aberystwyth Open Day, which means travelling 5 hours up to the valleys to check out my top choice for university; it’ll be first time I’ve been to Wales, should be interesting.

Following that, on October 22nd, is my 18th birthday; I’m going up to London to see Ross Noble in the evening, although I still have no idea who’s coming and I need to sort that out rather soon. Normally I don’t really celebrate my birthday, but it’d be kinda pathetic, even by my standards, to do nothing for my 18th, hence why I’m going to see Ross Noble.

The following day, having returned from London in the dead of night, I will then be going back up at 10am on the horror that is the National Express, as a few of us are spending the weekend up there for London MCM Expo. I’ve been twice before, it’s pretty fun, although everything is really expensive, and there’s yaoi and fat chicks with ‘free hugs’ signs everywhere – a necessary evil, I suppose.

Then, on the 28th I’m off to Bournemouth for the Party In Your Pants gig with Bowling For Soup, Zebrahead, and The Leftovers; which will be totally awesome. It’ll be the 3rd time I’ve seen Zebrahead live, and my 5th concert; with Zebrahead being the first concert I attended.

On top of all that, I’m hoping to go to the cinema to see Zombieland, and also possibly go to Forbidden Planet with friends,  or at least hang out at some point.

Halloween is a non-event for me, don’t really care for it, despite my love of all things horror and zombies. At most, if I can be bothered, I might try and fail to do a pumpkin carving.

All in all, October is set to be a rather busy month for me, and will either turn out really good, or incredibly bad. I’m not going to get my hopes up.