Organisational Nightmare

So, I am currently waiting to hear from my course leader about whether or not I will be able to switch seminar groups. Basically i am doing a module called Writer as Teacher where I go into a school once a week and take an English class. I am also taking a Children's Literature module and this is where the problem starts. I am supposed to be in an 11:30am seminar that finishes at 1pm. This would be all well and good if the only time the school were able to take me on wasn't 1:05pm. The school is about 40mins away on the bus so you see my problem. Anyway I really want to be able to go to the seminars so at the moment I am just waiting and hoping.

I have been told I should get adsense on my blog, but I really don't know, I just don't trust giving my bank details to the internet lol. I guess I will think about it.

C was over this weekend and we watched the last Jurassic park (after he managed to talk me into watching the first a few weekends ago and then I bought him to box set for his birthday). The third wasn't great but oh well. We have also been really big on The Office US, which I really wasn't expecting to like.

Anyway that's all for now. I shall attempt to post again and to try keep up the one a day posts :)

So, You Like Games, Huh?

Ok so lets skip the "I'm so sorry I haven't posted" posts and go straight to something I want to flag up. The main thing is a blog for a game currently in development - Forlorn 2. See blog here. Don't be put off by the 2, I haven't played the first one either but I fully intend on playing the second. Keep checking the blog for updates on how the development is going, and they need all the support they can get so go on, follow, comment, show your love :)

Secondly I am going to start trying to find the time to get this going again because last year I did a big push at trying to help new students and I think I am going to do the same thing again, so check back soon for more updates, discussions, insights into student life and my general rambling.

Oh!

We have hamsters!

The white one is called Nibbler because she bits, A LOT! The brown one is Fudge Cake (Named by me unsurprisingly) We have had them about three months and they are the cutest things ever!

A New Start

With this blog; I think it is time. I have been neglectful and possibly should be taken to blogger jail and have my blog taken away and cared for by someone else.

A quick catch up with my life so far:
I have finished my first year at uni and got 62% overall which is a 2:1 which is good! To all you people who don't know uni jargon, 70% is a First and that is what everyone aims for really (I know its stupid but that's just the way it is!)
I have LITERALLY become obsessed with Stephen King, he is a fantastic writer and is my new role model.
At the minute I am back home because uni is finished until September, we finished in April though! I can move into my new flat on the 14th of July though and I am pretty excited. I am living with two really nice girls, should be fun :)
My friend and I have submitted our finished novel to a competition and are waiting impatiently to hear from them. They say we should hear by late July whether we have been shortlisted. The prize is a publishing contract which is really exciting!
I have been to France to visit the family and it was really good but the weather was disappointing. My sisters are growing up beautifully, but way too quick!
Other than that I still really have no life what so ever, but I am determined to return to pointlessly filling this blog with my ramblings :)

Today Sheffield, Tomorrow, the Rest of the World

Me and my boyfriend have decided to start saving seriously for a trip, if not around the world, then at least around Europe or America/Canada. And you all thought I never actually get out. Well yes, I suppose this blog's name is a little ironic seen as though I don't really ever go anywhere, but in about two years I will hopefully be jetting off into the world. So, I am officially taking suggestions on what countries/cities to visit, anyone got any suggestions? :)

New Hair, New Life

I got my hair cut today, a fringe!! I have had my side parting for at least 7 years? Something like that anyway, and then suddenly on the spur of the moment I decided to get a fringe. Crazy, yes. It looks alright though :) I got a few looks walking through town, though they very easily could have been laughing. I must say I feel very strange with this fringe, seeing it above my eyes all the time, it will definitely take some getting used to! But I like it so far.

Before

After

Tomorrow we go on a trip with uni to Yorkshire Sculpture Park, which yes I went to only a month ago. However its a new exhibition so it should be good. I have a strong feeling they will make us walk the whole way round which is VERY far, so I'm not looking forward to that, but I do need the exercise: I feel like I've abandoned the gym. I'm on this diet you see, so far I lost 9lbs but I'm pretty sure I put some back on because I had some treats but yeah, the 3 mile walk will help :) I'm mostly excited because its just like a school trip :) so should be really fun.

And I've just realised I have just revealed my face for everyone to see. Well, there you go :) thats me!

Oops!

I know, I know, I have gone totally slack with this blog. If I'm honest it is because I am completely lazy! I haven't forgotten about it, in fact every day I scold myself, telling myself that I said I would post every day, even if I bored people to the point they tore their own hair out. But unsurprisingly, my efforts dropped.

OK, so updates. I have recently chosen my modules for next year: Children's literature and Writer as Teacher, both for the second semester, so during the first I will be doing the mandatory poetry and script writing, along with prose and there is some other ones in there I completely can't remember! The Children's lit attracted me because of the reading list and the study of the psychology behind books written for kids. Some of the books we look at are Peter Pan, Alice in Wonderland, Harry Potter 3, The Illustrated Mum, Noughts and Crosses and, the one that cracks me up every time, Bumface! (yes yes I know, I'm childish). With Writer as Teacher, we go out to schools or community groups and run our own writing workshops, which terrifies me to my soul, but that's what I want to do when I finally get out of this place (uni) and get into real life. So I've got to start somewhere, right?

Erm, wow, the last book I reported on appears to be the Millennium Trilogy. Well, since then I have finished the MONSTER that is Under the Dome by Stephen King and, just finished tonight, American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis both of which were very good. American Psycho very detailed and gory, much worse than the film, but still great. The next book on my reading list is The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon, by Stephen King.

I went up home for the weekend last week, first time since being back from Christmas. It was great but it was way too short. I miss home already and if I am honest, I cant wait until April to be back there for summer. I'm starting to hate being down here because I am just so out of the loop with home. I miss that life and this one here isn't good enough to make up for it. Roll on the end of uni I say!

At this particular moment this is all I can think of to report and, it being 1:23 am, I would like to go to sleep. So, goodnight.