Where did my day go?

Into two whole seasons of Sex and the City that's where! I've only got two left to go until I've finished them all (and I've already watched the films), and I'll be back to looking for something else to obsessively watch. Programmes can just be so addictive I can't control myself. I watch too many at once and then I'm lost all over again. (Previous indulgences include True Blood, Ugly Betty, Glee)

I did also manage to (so far) write about 1000 more words of my new story (Mslexia says that if you write 300 words a day from the 1st of February your manuscript will be finished before the deadline for the competition I might enter it into) So far I have 1,606 words and my first chapter finished. I still haven't decided on the ending yet.

I was going to go out and start my "guide to" blog posts, but it turns out i was too lazy today. I very well may do some tomorrow before or after my seminar. I have, however, begun to create a folder of things for my accommodation guide, so that's some sort of progress. Anyway, that's my whole day in a nutshell.

Actually, on second thoughts, I did take out both the kitchen bins today and cleaned the cooker and the sideboard, but no one will notice. My flatmates will still think I'm a good for nothing lazy thing. But at least I know the truth, right?

Bringing People into the World

Of blogging, of course! No, I am way too young to be a mother yet! What I mean is I have introduced my friend into the wonderful world of ranting to the Internet. So far he only has one post, but if anyone has time they should check him out (right after they click follow on my page of course :P )

http://stopbeingsosynical.blogspot.com/

I've also made the decision to, because of the increase of future Sheffield Hallam students viewing my page (mainly because I posted this to The Student Room - if you don't advertise yourself, no one will) I am going to be posting a series of "A Guide To..." blog posts, focusing on everything you need to know about being a student in Sheffield. The first to come will be "A Guide to Sheffield City".

And finally, I have begun writing a new story, one I think I mentioned in a previous post. One and a half pages written and I think it's going well! Off into town tomorrow to start accumulating pictures for my first "Guide" post. Remember, check out my friend and give me a follow to restore my faith in the world :P Thank You and good night!

First Week Finished

I've finished my first week back at uni now and so far so good. I'm now in three days a week as opposed to two and most of my classes seem pretty good. On Tuesdays I have the "Craft and Form" seminar which I wrote about before, on Thursdays I have "Creative Language Awareness" seminar which, in short, is pretty dull. Two and a half hours dedicated to words and grammar and communication. DULL. But at least all our assessed pieces of work are group work. In our first lesson we looked at situations where you would use communication and talked about why the way we communicate might be affected by things e.g. relationships. We then went through an exercises looking at old and new "smoking kills" labels on cigarette packets and rewriting then working out what made each stronger and weaker. I can't say that at 9am that lecture was thrilling. Our final seminar of the week then is "Words and Images" which is by far the best we have. I don't really have a grasp on what exactly we do in it yet, but I think we look at how imagery has inspired pieces of work, how writers have used images to enhance their work and also how they incorporate imagery into their work. We also have a group project to complete which consists of a 20 minute presentation based on an art exhibit in the Millennium gallery Sheffield entitled "Graphic Nature". We also have to write a blog! But this one doesn't count so I am officially writing two blogs, this one and one for uni. So far though it all seems pretty good and I'm looking forward to next week.

I have also finished "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo" which was so good and I would recommend it to anyone. Basically its a murder mystery crime novel, you just have to force yourself through the first hundred pages; its very business focused for alot of it. Besides that it is brilliant.

My boyfriend has been down this weekend for his birthday. I say the weekend but he came Wednesday night and is staying until tomorrow afternoon. All we have really done has been to go to the cinema; we went to see the Mechanic. It was actually pretty good, nothing that required too much thinking, but yeah. And actually, thinking about it, that's about all we have done except play computer games and go to Tescos! I also had an almost argument with my flatmates about taking the bin out. They keep writing notes to the house about keeping the kitchen clean and everyone needing to pull their weight. I know that they are partly getting at me about this, however even though I know I should do something for the house, I still stand by my argument that I rarely use the kitchen and when I do I take things back to the bin in my room and I was up in my bathroom sink. I am not the one who leaves dirty dishes out for weeks and I'm not the one who fills the bin to the point that it overflows. Anyway I am trying to stay on their good side but its easy to see that we don't really see eye to eye.

I'm also thinking about entering a poetry competition within the uni, but I'm not sure what to write yet. If I'm honest I don't really like poetry that much, but my old tutor (who is actually one of the judges) always praises it and says he's impressed by it so maybe I would be in with a chance? I'll keep you posted.

First Day Back at Uni

Today was our first lesson of our second semester in our first year as Sheffield Hallam Creative Writing students :)  We met our new tutor today (well, one of several) her name is Suzanne Batty and she's a poet. It was a pretty decent lesson, except for the painful and cheesy "get to know each other exercises" that, even though we all have known each other for half a year now, had to endure. We had to think of an animal that begun with the first letter of our name and then say an interesting fact about ourselves. Pure cheese. Except for that we mostly just did a few writing exercises.

After uni I went to the flat of the two girls I'm living with next year to decide which room we would each have in our new house. It was all done by random but I still got the room I wanted (in the attic) so yey.  I wouldn't have minded the middle room I just didn't want the one downstairs. It seems wrong to have a front door in a bedroom. The door isn't used as the main door, you're meant to use the back one to get in and out of the house, but what if people knock on your door while you're asleep or something. It just creeps me out basically.

A Long Weekend

It's been a while since I last found time to make a post, I was aiming for everyday but oh well. My boyfriend came down this weekend to visit and all we really did was watch a heck of a lot of Glee! We did, however, find time between all the singing and dancing to venture into Sheffield centre for some shopping (though I didn't actually buy anything) my boyfriend bought an iPod touch, second hand but it still cost a lot. I'm not complaining though; some of the apps are brilliant! And very obsessive! We also watched Friday the 13th which in my opinion was boring and repetitive, satisfying when the most annoying characters were killed though, and especially satisfying seeing that Dean from Gilmore Girls (or whoever from Supernatural) was the main character.

We also went to the cinema last night to watch Little Fockers, which was hilarious (and one woman in the audience obviously agreed judging by the volume of her laugh!) It was such a good film, I would definitely recommend it, if you have seen the first two films then you pretty much know what to expect, and if you haven't, why not?

Another main focus of my weekend has been Ratchet and Clank a Crack in Time on the PS3 that my boyfriend brought down for me. The game is just as good as the past ones; funny, challenging and generally great. I just need to be careful it doesn't suck all my life away!

A Not So Great Adventure

Last night the plan was to go out and have fun and dance all through the night. There is only one word to sum up the success of this plan: Fail. The start of the night was perfectly good. We went to a friends flat, played some drinking games, they smoked almost none stop and i sat next to the open window so I didn't choke, and we had fun. However, despite my constant input of what time we should have left for the club, we didn't leave until past 12. When we got outside Corporation there was still a huge queue, and it wasn't going anywhere; I'm pretty sure it had gotten to the one in one out stage of the night. So, after being stood in the queue for god knows how long with these three pretty drunken guys talking to me and my friends friend about god knows what, we realised two of our friends had disappeared. It turned out they had found people they knew further down the queue and not bothered to say anything to us. Eventually we did follow them to the front of the queue where we stood for another long while. Once we were all bored one of my friends decided we should go to the club Leadmill so we hopped in a taxi. When we pulled up we realised, surprise surprise, Leadmill was closed! We got out of the taxi and, after a long discussion, decided to walk back up to Corporation. By this point all I wanted was my bed and a good TV programme to watch (this was at 1am by the way). Whilst walking me and two of the people I was with slowed down, and the other two were further ahead. By the time we reached Corp, my two friends had gone in and the bouncers had decided that nobody else was going in. So, there we were, 1:30am stood in the cold after a rubbish night out. I took a taxi back to my flat alone (which cost a fortune! £5!) and snuggled down to watch a bit of Glee before I tried to go to sleep. That, however, also posed a problem. I couldn't fall asleep.

It got to 5am and I was just drifting off when my flatmates decided to return from whatever adventure they were having and they brought their friends with them. So, at 5am, there I was, lying awake listening to some girl screaming in my kitchen! Some people have no manners. You don't just go round to someone else's flat in the early hours and start shrieking. It is plain rude.

Another Exhausting Day

This morning I began to attempt my new routine. Admittedly, it didn't start well; I only decided to get up at 11 instead of 9:30 like I had planned. But nevertheless I still made it to the gym by one and was sweating it out on the machines for a full hour. I was surprised by how few people were there, I expected more seen as though it's January, the time where everyone decides to get fit. I suppose I am one of those people, but hopefully I will be one that sticks with it, I mean I payed enough for it! The gyms pretty good though. Smaller than I would like (especially after hearing how my friend's uni gym has a swimming pool and everything) but anything to get me back in shape is good to me.

After the gym I went around Sheffield centre looking for birthday presents for my boyfriend (He is impossible to buy for!) and a shirt for my outfit tomorrow night, and I found one £2.50 from Primark, what a bargain! I'm going to a school disco theme at the club Corporation. It mostly plays metal and rock and some pop, so my kind of music; I can't be doing with that dance and dubstep rubbish! I want bands with talent! Not annoying noises. Some songs that are created are just awful, and make no sense. Like that song that just says "Barbra Streisand" over and over again! What a load of rubbish!