Ugh, Thursdays...

I cannot stand Thursdays. Luckily, well, not really luckily, my Creative Writing tutor has had to have an operation, so I don't have to crawl out of bed to go to a 9am seminar this week. I am, however, coming to the end of my tether with my laptop, who doesn't seem to want me to check my stutent emails at the moment - not fun! I've made an appointment with ISS, so hopefully they'll be able to sort things out for me.

My lectures today were pretty uneventful. The English Literature lecturer rushed a little, so that was a fairly brain-aching lecture, and one of our set poems claimed that the Welsh were 'sick with inbreeding', a statement that I take extreme offense to, but apart from that, the day has been fine, and mostly uneventful.

This evening was fun though. Butterfly and Child-Genius reheated my dinner whilst I was in my 5pm seminar, and at 6:30pm we went to see "Ae Fond Kiss" at the cinema. We only went because it had Tasha from "Doctors" in it, but it turned out to be quite a good film.

A then there were five...

Last night went really well, and now we officially have a fifth house-mate. We were in the bar for about three and a half hours, which is always a good thing. We're going to meet up on Friday for her to sign the lease. Yay!

She's absolutely lovely, really easy to talk to. I was so relieved after our last little disaster. Unfortunately, she has the same name as me, so that could get slightly confusing, but I'm having to cope with that at the moment, so I should be OK. I'm not quite sure what to call her at the moment, but I know that she likes pirates and that she in my dear Metal-Mummy's "pirate corpes", so I think that for the moment she shall be called Captain. I don't know why, it just seems fitting.

I turns out that she knows my lovely Metal-Mummy (so called because of her jolly, nuturing nature and the ring through her lip) and used to live on the floor above her last year, so that's fun. She's also in the Alternative Music Society, so that also comes in handy. I like people with a decent taste in music. She going to be doing her part two sociology next year, so that sounds cool.

Nothing much has happened today - a generic Wednesday really. I have choir tonight, the last one before the concert, so that should be fun. I've thankfully regained my appetite - I have a chicken tikka craving today, so I cooked it and ate it. It seems that I'm getting back on track.

The big night!

I am so nervous about this evening. We're meeting someone who may be our fifth housemate for next year, and after the last meeting that we had with the last candidate, I'm feeling pretty anxious.

This morning was good. I did some work and spent a few hours in Princess' room doing cross-stich and watching "Cold Mountain". It's ages since we've had one of our little craft sessions. I really enjoyed us having some girly time together.

My Language and Style computer session was OK, if a little tedious, and my Creative Writing lecture was cancelled. To be honest, I was quite relieved, as I don't think that I had the attention span to sit through a lecture.

Reading Week is over...

Argh! I love having Reading Week, but I don't half notice it when it's over. Not that I don't do any work in Reading Week, I have no choice but to, but having to get up, have a shower and walk in the freezing cold to a lecture doesn't really seem fun after a week of waking up, doing work in your PJs and having a shower just before dinner.

I think that everyone was pretty phased out in English Literature. The fact that the lecturer had pink and purple hair, lime green nail varnish and I very odd accent didn't help - I got lost in the many shades of her do. She had made a top-notch handout though, so I can give her some credit for that. English Language was as refreshing as ever. Today, the lecturer announced that he would be giving bow-tie tying lessons to those that wanted them. Very interesting fellow.

I had a test in my computer session today, and I got 100%. Not that I'm a swat or anything...

I really enjoy the computer sessions, because I know that I'll understand everything and get it all right in tests. I'm not becoming complacent - I don't really need to. It just sticks. I don't know why. Maybe it's the fact that the course is computer based, but I don't have anything to use as comparison.

Dinner wasn't fun tonight. I cooked myself a bowl of pasta and pesto, sat down to eat and promptly lost my appetite. Butterfly ended up eating it for me. I'm glad I didn't cook anything with meat in - it would've been a terrible waste.

Recovering...

Today was a working/recovering from the immense Trafford Centre day. That might sound rather melodramatic, but I do not joke. I was absolutely shattered when I woke up this morning, but I somehow managed to get through the day.

Nothing much happened. One of Honey's friends tried to convince me to let him go on a date with him on MSN, which was rather scary. Apart from that, the highlight of the day was when I had my reheated Indian takeaway for dinner - that is how thrilling today's events were.

Proper shops and Pizza Hut...

Today was a good end to the week. Princess's manfriend took the four of us to the Trafford Centre for the day. It felt so good to be around proper shops again, not just the repetitive sequence of Topshop, Monsoon, Next and Dorothy Perkins. The whole place was generally amazing. It was so nice-looking and clean, and the decor was really snazzy. The girls thought that they'd have to sedate me when we first got in there.

I was a good girl until we got to Waterstones. I'd not spent anything all day, and then proceeded to spend £34 in one go. Naughty me! I got good books though...

After our little shopping expedition, we went to Princess' house for dinner. It felt so nice to be in a house, with sofas and a family and stuff. Her dad is a great cook too, so we all filled our faces again, causing me to be quite ill in the evening. On the way home we stopped off in Asda, which proved to be quite an adventure in itself.

All in all, it's been a great day, and we're all getting along fantastically.

A very icky day...

Today was a repeat of Sunday 13th February. I had a good morning, got some English Language work done, that kind of productive thing. I thought that the four of us had been getting on well since our chat on Wednesday evening, but I obviously thought wrong.

I could see that something was bothering Butterfly, so I asked her what was wrong and her and Child-Genius gave me a bit of a grilling. I called The Hair and he came over to console me, whilst Princess quickly went and told the other two that they'd been unreasonable with some of the things they'd said and that they'd upset me.

Nothing much happened for a while after that. I went to the Indian takeaway on campus - they cook the perfect chicken korma. Then, at about 11pm, myself and Princess got letters pushed under our doors, explaining how they were feeling and that they were sorry if they'd upset us. We went to see them, and we all came to the conclusion that we're all a bit stressed, and I told them how I was especially upset having been told by them that they thought that I was spending too much time with The Hair. They understood where I was coming from, we all hugged and we're insisting that we have a good day at the Trafford Centre tomorrow.

A good day...

Today has been rather successful. With it being Reading Week, I didn't have to get up at some unearthly hour of the morning (I know 8am isn't that bad, but I am a student) and go to a seminar where only a small percentage of the class can actually be bothered to turn up. Instead I could go at my own relaxed pace - still recovering from the gig, and now have the mosh-pit pains.

Like the beginning of the week, today has been a good but uneventful day. The only thing of interest was going to the cinema with Child-Genius, Butterfly and Enigma to see "The Incredibles", and as childish films go, it was actually very good.

Very very sleepy...

The gig last night was amazing! They played all my favourite songs (minus "Over the Hills and Far Away") and I got to the second row from the front! The atmosphere was very intense and happy. I also managed to get a tour T-shirt in small, which was a very rare and pleasant moment for me.

The wait in the train station wasn't so cool. We got there at about 11pm and had missed the last train home, so we had to wait until 5:30am. Until about 2:30am we stayed in the main part of the station where all the shops and food outlets are, freezing our butts off. Then we decided to go for a little walk, where we discovered a heated (yay!) waiting room on platform 4. It was the The Ritz compared to what we'd been in before.

I had a scare on the journey back when I woke up in a place I didn't recognise. Logic now tells me that I probably wouldn't have recognised this place anyway, seeing as my geographical knowledge of the North-West isn't too hot. However, it turned out that we hadn't missed our stop, so we made it home no probs.

We got back to the Uni at about 8:30am, and decided to go straight to bed. Never before has my bed felt more comfortable and warm - myself and The Hair slept until about 2:15pm. Choir was cancelled for the AGM, so it meant that I could lounge around in baggy clothes all day.

The evening wasn't too hot though. What started off as friendly banter ended up as one of those discussions which is meant to make everything better but makes everything worse. We'll see the results of that in the days to come.

YAAAAAAAAAAAAAY!

Today is the big day. I might even go as far as to call it "N-Day" so as to celebrate this grand occassion. Today, for the second time, myself and The Hair are going to see Nightwish. One of The Hair's friends is going with us too, so that should be fun. I've decided what to wear (finally) - my Bloodstock '03 T-shirt, black zipper trousers, my boots, my long black coat and lots of fleeces (the last two listed items are in case we don't get an early train back). I'm not going to take my digital camera in case we're not allowed them in the venue, but The Hair is going to buy one when we get there.

Off to catch the train!

Yay, yay, it's Valentines Day!

Today was a good day. It was the start of Reading Week, which is always a good thing, and it was also Valentines Day. Although myself and The Hair didn't do anything special to celebrate the day (it's a bit over-commercial if you ask me), it did give us an excuse to have a lovey dovey day. I also means that we're going to see Nightwish tomorrow, which is a bit yay!

This evening was fun too. Princess was at work, and I decided that I wanted to watch a DVD with Butterfly and Child-Genius. We watched "Sweet November", and I was very impressed with myself for not crying.

Being Reading Week, there's nothing much to report from today. No insanely boring or surprisingly interesting lectures. Everything's been pretty quiet.

Noooooooooooooo!

Today was a horrible icky day. It started off OK, I woke up, did some English Language work whilst The Hair did some Music Tech. That took up the majority of the afternoon. I also had a chat with Daddy (he's not very well at the moment) and chatted to some people online.

This evening was a bit horrible today. The girls are distancing me because of the amount of time I'm spending with The Hair at the moment, and I'm feeling really bad for Princess, because she's feeling really left out of everything. I had to ask The Hair if he would go home for the evening, and we sat in Princess' room and watched "Chicago". It was OK, but I couldn't help but feel that I was being forced into making a choice - should I spend time with my boyfriend of two years or my friends and future housemates?

A generic Saturday...

Today was an overall uninspiring day. I went into town with The Hair to buy my Mum her birthday present and card. I was good girl and didn't spend much. The only things I bought myself was some sour cream and guacamole for tomorrow's dinner (Tex-Mex - yay!). We bumped into Enigma and The Caveman in Sainsbury's and had a lengthy chat in the Indian/Chinese/Thai aisle, which was rather amusing.

It was very cold today and I was glad to get on the bus and come home. Once at home a put on some very warm winter clothes (ooh, comfy) and had a lovely lazy afternoon. In the evening we watched "That Thing You Do" - one of my childhood favourites. Butterfly is annoyed with the BB - she spent the evening cleaning her DVDs after someone had put their grubby fingerprints all over them. Not fun.

Bye bye Mummy...

Mummy left this afternoon. I was upset but I didn't cry - I'm turning into a real big girl! We went into town today - I bought "The Lord of the Rings" extended trilogy on DVD (a very worthwhile purchase me thinks), a new bag (me and my bags) and Mum bought me a summer top from Next. It's really nice, and Princess hadn't seen it before, so I caught her out!

I was going to go to the cinema with The Hair tonight to see "The Manchurian Candidate", but we decided that we couldn't be bothered and opted to stay in and watch "Godsend". Films with little demonic children aren't nice!

Yay! Mummy!

Mummy came to tea this afternoon (by that I mean she came to stay the night). We had a good day. She blitzed the kitchen for us (I didn't make her!) and pottered around my room. In the evening after my seminar I cooked us a lovely chicken korma and we had dinner in the kitchen with the girls.

In the evening we dyed my hair (a very mother daughter activity for us) and watched "Bridget Jones's Diary". She liked the film which was good, and we managed to get through a tub of Ben and Jerry's between the two of us.

It's so nice to have her here - I don't really realise how much I miss her and Dad until they come to visit.

Doctors and nurses...

Even though today's events included a trip to the medical centre, it's been an rather successful day. I woke up at about 8:30am and rang the centre straight away to book an urgent appointment. They said that a nurse with access to a doctor would see me at 3pm that day, so that was lucky. I spent the morning going though notes etc. (so much work) and then went to my appointment.

The nurse was quite scary - she had this air of "you're wasting my time" about her. I heard her talking to someone when I was waiting to get my prescription from the doctor, and I was surprised that the poor girl didn't burst into tears. I've been given some tablets, so that's good.

On the way home I went past the student union shop to pick up my college hoodie that I ordered at the beginning of last term. They let me have a Uni t-shirt because I'd been waiting so long, so that's cool. I'd wanted one last term but they're about £18.

Choir was fantastic tonight! We're doing a piece called "Evening Hymn" that I used to do in the Cathedral Choir, and it is one of my favourite songs in the whole world. I was lucky that I didn't cry - I get really nostalgic about choir sometimes.

When I got home we watched "Desperate Housewives" in Butterfly's room. We've missed the last two weeks, so we have to watch the video before next week. Butterfly's getting all her forms ready to go to America next year (we love you Butterfly!), so she's a busy bunny at the moment.

My Mum's coming tomorrow. Yay!

Purple pancakes and poorliness...

Today had all the makings of a great day. I got up at a reasonable hour and had pancakes with Princess for breakfast, which was all very well and good. My seminar and lecture seemed to go OK, even though the Creative Writing lecturer went on as if he and Sylvia Plath were involved.

The Hair came round after his lectures and made me a lovely dinner of burgers in buns and chips, which was very gentlemanly of him. It was after that that the problems started - not that I'm blaming my condition on my evening meal. We went to the cinema to see "Hero" at about 6pm. I'd said about ten minutes earlier that I was in too much pain to go, but I figured that I'd be in an equal amount of pain where ever I was, so I may aswell stick to my plans to see a good film. I had to get up and leave in the middle, so I was confused when I came back to discover that the whole plot had changed.

It was still bad when I got back, so Butterfly went to the nurse's unit with me. The nurse was really good - she did more for me than my local GP i.e. she actually did a test to see what it was that I have. She told me to mention to the doctor that I have a history of diabetes in my family, as some of my symptoms could lead to that too. So everything's fun here.

P.S. - I've managed to keep this going for a month - more than I used to manage with my diaries.

A good start to the week...

I managed to get up at an OK time this morning, which was good. I think that my sleepy Friday really helped me get stuff back into a routine. The Hair isn't sticking to it, which can be quite tricky, but I'm doing well. I bought three cartons of cranberry juice from Sainsbury's on Saturday and now I only have one left. I really should control my cranberry intake.

My lectures today were alright. I had an interesting English Literature lecture this afternoon, but the guy giving it had an extraordinarily dull voice, so he nearly made the whole lecture theatre fall asleep. The English Language guy didn't sing or hit anyone over the head today, so his lecture seemed extraordinarily ordinary for a change.

My English Language seminar was quite fun actually, as sad as that might seem. We had to label words, and then we had to parse the sentences that the words belonged to (i.e. label the noun, verb, adjective and prepositional phrases). I know that might sound pathetic, but I caught onto it pretty quickly and so it made the session enjoyable.

Dinner was fun. I cooked a lovely korma for myself and The Hair. Princess nearly started WW3 by making a humourous remark involving watching food and showering whilst BB was still in the room, after which she made a quick exit leaving me in disbelief and Butterfly in fits of giggles. She later told me that she was actually considering having a shower but realised that her food would be ready in two minutes so cowered in her room and hoped that the comment had washed over. Of course it hadn't really - Butterfly was still giggling - but BB didn't catch on.

Tonight was quite good. Myself and The Hair watched "Saw". To be honest I was disgusted, but not impressed. I thought the acting was a bit wooden and the script a little too predictable, even though they did go all-out on the ending. Basically, I wouldn't recommend it. Then I washed his hair for him, and that brings me to the present moment. I'm about to dry his hair so that we can go to bed. A relaxing ending to a good day. A little like stroking a cat actually.

Plastic rings and party games...

Yay! Happy birthday Child-Genius!

Today, our much loved Child-Genius turned 19, and so we threw her a little party. It was the kind of thing you expect to have for an eight year old - she actually called it her "Jelly and Ice Cream" party! Butterfly made the jelly last night but make a slight mistake, so we ended up with three varieties of jelly but all made with part water, part vodka. So really, it wasn't like an eight year old party. Princess finished her jelly (well, it was pink), but a lot of other people gagged and had to give in to the burning at the back of their throats. I don't like jelly, so I stuck to the ice cream and Smarties. Yum yum!

We had a party-crasher in the form of one BB. I don't know why she bothered - it wasn't like she did something wild like get drunk and throw chairs against the walls. She just sat there, flirted with everyone else's boyfriends, and ate our party food. She didn't even wish Child-Genius a happy birthday. Such a weird girl...

Myself and The Hair didn't go for our Chinese in town this weekend, but we did get the munchies tonight and bought some Singapore Vermicelli from the takeaway on campus. Hee hee, I like evening munchie episodes!

It's been an over all good day. I found out that Mum and Dad are going to Prague in May *scowls*, so I'm very jealous of them, but they didn't get to join in our wonderful party today so HA! to them. I know, I know, that was very childish, but all I will say is that I am expecting postcards, and good ones!

Oh, a skirt...

Today I wore a skirt into town. It was a long red one that I got from H&M, but I hadn't been brave enough to wear it yet. The Hair picked my wardrobe out for me, so that's the only reason I thought about wearing it. It was OK actually, even though at the first opportunity I found a toilet and took my tights off. Ick, I don't like tights much.

I didn't buy much in town, just some candles, candleholders, sweets and some food stuff from Sainsbury's. I've asked Mum to bring some cartons of Cranberry juice when she comes up next week - my addiction to it has become something of an obsessive compulsive nature.

This evening was good. I had a nice healthy stir-fry followed by a lot of chocolate ice cream and chocolate, so it kind of cancelled it out. Never mind. Princess and Child-Genius have both got their boyfriends round, so that's cool. We had a chat in the kitchen and then all went off to watch films. Myself and The Hair watched "The Life of Brian" - always good for a giggle. I also borrows Gwen Stefani's "Love.Angel.Music.Baby" from Butterfly (she's a lovely lovely girl), so I can dance along to "Rich Girl" now. Yay!

We gave Child-Genius part of her present - a very long "Bambi" banner, so she's happy. When she's gone to bed we're going to decorate the hall for her, so that will be fun.

Oh, very sleepy...

Today has been one of my lowest days for a while. I woke up with a rotten headache (again), but did manage to drag myself to my seminar. The seminar itself was pretty painful. My headache made stuff fuzzy in my head and I kept offering answers, some of which were wrong, and the tutor wasn't being the kindest.

Over all, there's not much more to tell about today, as when I came back to my room after my seminar I went back to bed and stayed there until about 6pm. The Hair looked after me well, putting blankets on me when I got cold and making sure I had plenty of my beloved soft toys. He's a really good guy.

Oh, I'm tired...

OK, today could've been a bit better had we not got home at about 3am. I'm happy I went last night though, I had so much fun. I think we should go there more often!

This morning was FANTASTIC as The Hair gave me the second part of my two year anniversary present. It was a signed print of this picture, one of my favourites in the whole world...

Yay!

I was really annoyed about the whole Creative Writing thing, as my tutor changed the groups we were meant to be working in last night without giving us any reasons why and still expected us all to be able to meet up and submit our feedback by this evening. I couldn't see how it would work, so myself and the person I was meant to be working with sat in my room for the afternoon and got it done. As per usual, only two pairs actually submitted it - so typical for my group. I don't know why I bother sometimes.

In general my lectures and seminars have been good today. I had a chicken korma for dinner, always a good thing, and I learned from Butterfly that Sizzle 'n' Stir jars are on buy one get one free at Sainsbury's, so I'll be going there on Saturday.

Now I'm going to go to bed and watch "Thirteen Ghosts" with The Hair. I only watch scary films when he's around.

A lovely day...

This morning was a good start to the day - I woke up to see the sun streaming into my room as if we were in the middle of summer, so I knew that it would stay dry for the open day. I did some ironing whilst watching "Ten Thing I Hate About You" and decided to have a shower at around midday.

Having had my shower and got the majority of my clothes on, I hoovered my room, cleaned my bathroom and made sure that everything was basically looking like a show home.

The tour went very well. I had a group of five girls who were all very chatty and got on well with each other as well as myself, so that was a relief. They all seemed pretty impressed at the University, saying that it was better than any other they'd been to visit, so I felt a sense of smug pride. Afterwards I took them to one of the Senior Common Rooms, where we all had tea and buscuits and spoke to the English Literature staff, so that was interesting.

Now I'm really to go to the cheese club Princess and Butterfly are dragging me too, so I'm going to have to call it a night.

TWO YEARS!

YAY! Today was myself and The Hair's two year anniversary. He liked his marching hammers (hee hee) and made me a lovely stir-fry for dinner. We might go to a Chinese place in town at the weekend, so that should be fun.

Today was obviously a good day. Even my lectures seemed fun. It feels so weird that we're celebrating two years of being together, it doesn't seem that long but at the same time it feels like forever. Odd.

Surprisingly there's nothing much to report. I spoke to Dad online tonight which was lovely, and Princess put my hair in a French Plait. Apart from that, I tidied my room for the open day tomorrow. Eek!