Quick blog to say I’m still alive and still busy
Birthday was great, got very random presents though including Fair Trade chocolate, a plot of land in Sherwood Forest and a Christmas cactus. Yes. Exactly.

I’m at home now for Christmas but busy socialising, babysitting, writing essays, etc. so no time to blog. Also have site problems again (I swear server system resources will be the death of me).

I signed for my mortgage today. God I feel old.

I bloody must be, seeing as the guy in charge of our ‘transaction’ and sorting out paperwork etc. was only a couple of years older than me :sick:

I skipped my first ever lecture yesterday, because after the Christmas Bar Crawl, I was just too tired. I made it to the first two lectures with Sarah, but we couldn’t be bothered to trek all the way across campus, get yelled at for being late (the previous lecture always runs over and then it’s about a 10-15 minute walk to the next lecture), and then sit through 50 minutes of stuff we did 2 years ago. Plus the lecture slides are put up on the Internet. Unfortunately, that theory didn’t work because for some reason they aren’t up there :grr: So I’ll have to ask Nikki or Harriet what I missed (and hopefully one of them will be in today and didn’t skip that lecture lol).

I’ll gloss over the Christmas Bar Crawl quickly, just to say that there were good parts and bad parts. I’m glad I went though. Tonight’s my birthday bar crawl, then tomorrow I’m going home for the night to see my family on my birthday! Yay!

To Sue, who commented on my last entry with this:

‘I’m not trying to be rude or anything. So dont take this the wrong way but if you live in england then have you ever been to New York? and if not what importance would the city or the hudson river have to you?’

You must have missed my entry about this layout when I put it up. I said that I (or my friend Laura, I can’t remember) took the photograph when we went to New York last year. And it has added importance because this layout marks the fact that I went to New York this time last year on a college trip and had a great time. You don’t think I’d use someone else’s photography without crediting them for it do you?

I’ve started writing my essay on Virginia Woolf, and so far it’s going really well. Surprisingly well. Unfortunately, I’ve just found out that I have to quote page numbers of critics’ books. Which means I have to get the fifty million books out of the library again and look up the page number of every single quote I’ve written down. Which will be almost impossible as every other student doing Woolf will want the books out too. Grrr.

Last night Nathan took me out for a birthday meal, which was really nice. He bought me Season 3 of ‘Family Guy’ on DVD as well :love: I’m going to miss him and everyone else so much over Christmas.

Starlet has a fantastic layout up, and Laura…I hope things get better for you sweetie :love:

It’s my birthday tomorrow!!!!

On Monday I dressed up like a man, and it was scarily enjoyable. I loved my outfit, and the goatee was just amazing. It was our best performance so far, I think.

Monday night I actually had some me time, which is incredibly rare. Like the English geek I am, I snuggled up in bed with a mug of hot chocolate and Virginia Woolf’s diary. Perfect night, with no interruptions by anyone for a whole 3 hours. Which shows how little time I have to myself, that 3 hours seems like a lot

Yesterday I went to MadEvil Studies on my own, since Sarah went to London. We had to translate another unseen text (something about a man falling asleep in church and seeing a dragon…don’t ask). We all had to translate it without dictionaries and then she went round the class and everyone had to read a sentence of their translation. For once, mine was absolutely perfect, even in terms of grammar, syntax etc. I’m not sure who was more stunned (or happy), me or the teacher. So I’m feeling a bit better about that module in general now.

In the afternoon I met Nika in town and we went shopping. I bought a few Christmas presents, some boots, chocolate raisins, other forms of chocolate, and a few other bits and pieces

Then in the evening I typed up some notes and went to the gym with Jenni and Nina (400 calories gone…)
This morning I went to the gym with Laura and Jenni again, but I found it really hard going (burned about 315 calories). Not good since I aim to burn at least 500 calories every time I go, but I guess 715 over 2 days isn’t bad

This afternoon I have an essay workshop 1-3 (although I might try to get out of it early, since it’s optional and everyone in the uni has Wednesday afternoon off), then tonight is the Christmas Bar Crawl. I’m going to wear antlers, jeans, and boots, I just need to decide on a top

Oh, I forgot to mention The Subway Guy – Part II (see November 23rd entry if you have no idea what that means). This time, he was joined by his female counterpart co-worker:

Her: Oh My GOD!!!1111 Guess what happened before?!?!????!?!?!!?!?
Him: What?!
Her: These two Chinese people came in before and ordered SEVEN sandwiches!!!!11111111
Him WOOOOOAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11111

I’m so glad I have a life. Although I did find it very amusing.

My dad is so annoying sometimes. He told us we should keep looking at houses, and then the next day put an offer in for the house we liked. Then he said we should make appointments to see other houses. So we booked loads of appointments, and went to see another house. Then I phoned him up last night to ask him if he could come to the viewings today. What does he say? ‘I don’t want to see any more houses, I’m buying that one.’ So now we have five million viewings to cancel. Thanks dad.

Although now there’s a bigger chance we’ll get our house!!! Yay!!!

I have to go do my essay plan for the workshop, so I’ll return comments and leave you to it. Why my comments have dropped from 40 odd to about 10, I have no idea