As an almost-veteran of the IB, I have been thinking about summer a lot lately, and, as with every summer, have compiled a list of things I want to do with this unsullied stretch of time.

The difference here is that the stretch is a good four months long.

Here, therefore is my new and improved Things-To-Do-When-I-Finally-Have-Time-For-A-Life-Again list. I hope it inspires you, but am resigned to the fact that you will most probably just laugh.

1)      Have a movie marathon. For a fortnight. Is this excessive? I don’t think so…it is, after all, a culmination of all the films I have wanted to watch since September 2009. Top of my list are “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind”, “American Beauty”, “Pretty in Pink” and “Brick Lane”. Yes, I am a sentimental twat.

2)      Have a television marathon for a further fortnight. Before you say anything, I am planning food and exercise breaks.

3)      Read: Economics books, so that I’m acceptably swotted up when I start at university next year, but also just literature, the first love of my life. I’m especially looking forward to “The Bell Jar”; Plath was a strange little woman.

4)      Jet off to Spain for a girly piss-up lesson in sophistication. We are staying in a Hostel which has hammocks. Jizz.

5)      Go to a final warehouse rave, the little hipster that I am. I miss my warehouse raves; the bloke that organised them seems to have turned depressingly legit.

6)      Eat a fried mars bar. This has now been on my summer list for three years, and I’m frankly sick the sight of it; all the more motivation to do it, methinks.

7)      Get a job filing somewhere. Because I adore filing.

8)      Go on a pub crawl….in Ireland. Oh yes. Gerard Butler, here we come (and it is completely irrelevant that he’s actually Scottish, because everyone who’s seen P.S. I love you knows that he hangs out in the Irish countryside.)

Excellent.