Pastures new
I made that new blog. It isn't very good or anything, but if anybody so desires they can find it here:
http://perpetrating.blogspot.com/
Rambles, rants, knitting, cooking and procrastination. Somehow I manage to leave out the interesting bits...
I made that new blog. It isn't very good or anything, but if anybody so desires they can find it here:
Ok, I haven't posted here in a long time. More to the point, a long and exteremely eventful time. My life now bears very little resemblance to the how it was back in May...or how I thought it would be now. To cut many many very long stories short-I split up with Graeme (amicably), had a summer of unbelievable freedom, happpiness, drunkeness, festivals, travelling and a huge range of new experiences, kind of ended up with a new fella, moved to Italy, found out a month after moving to Italy that I was nearly 2 months pregnant with new fella's baby, had something of a crisis, came back to England, decided to keep baby, went back to Italy to finish semester, ended up hospitalised and on bed rest, came back to England for good.......whew. And that's where I'm up to now.
Note to self-do NOT bid more than you can possibly afford on ebay. Repeatedly. Even when you are bidding for sexy sexy sock yarn, even when it's dyed with natural products, even when sock yarn is all you have thought about for days. Especially not when you know that large amounts of yarn from various different places is currently in the post for you. Especially not when you are going to Texere tomorrow. And especially not when you know that you won't be getting any more significant amounts of money in your account until after you've moved to Italy, and there's a whole summer to get through before that.
Tomorrow morning I have my final exam, a French oral. Since it is less than 24 hours away I should really be preparing for it, but I just don't want to. I don't really think there is anything I can do, other than find someone to speak French to, and that would just be silly (despite being a university level language student I have a real fear of actually speaking any language other than English. It's a bit of a problem). If I still cared about this module then it might be different, but I really don't anymore. I just want to get all the exams out of the way so that I can concentrate on knitting, sewing, learning Serbo-Croat for my holidays, and improving my Italian for...err, moving there (aaaaaaaaaaaaaagh! Three months to go!). French is just an irritating distraction at the moment, I should have known I don't have the brain for studying 2 foreign languages at once.
Last night was great-two very different experiences in one evening. First, Caroline's exhibition opening. I was very impressed indeed. There was very little work that left me completely cold, and for any contemporary art exhibition that's quite a feat, never mind for a BA show. Her work was brilliant, which was good as it meant I didn't have to feign enthusiasm (unlike at Graeme's show, but that's a different subject...). The space was great as well, and the whole thing had a really professional feel to it, much better than I expected. Plus there was free wine, and lots of fancy crisps with nice dips. I was the greedy person standing next to the food table for at least 15 minutes of uninterrupted snacking, cramming food into my mouth because it's FREE! Yes, I have no social graces whatsoever when it comes to any sort of buffet.
...with my fancy new blog template! Felt like changing it around a bit since it was shoddy and old and the about me bit was somewhat embarassing. Now it is spring like and good. And, if anybody actually reads this, they may notice the title has changed slightly. Yes, I realised that it really wasn't very good Italian before...really not at all. So, although I thought my Italian exam went well this morning...maybe not so much.
The last week has not been much fun. I have had so much to do, but have been doing so very little, and not even enjoying doing little, just feeling bad about not doing the things I need to do-and yet still not doing them. Hmph. But my essay got completed and handed in (20 minutes before the deadline-nice. Funny thing is, even 2 hours before the deadline I was still wasting time on the internet. Clearly i have masochistic tendedncies). And three of my four exams are now over, leaving only the french oral which I don't really care about. My exams went.....erm, they went, at least. Yesterday's was horrendous, and really highlighted the fact I haven't read a single book for my International Organisations module. This morning's Italian went surprisingly well, considering when I tried to do a past paper last night I had to look up every other word. And the French listening this afternoon was just farcical, but that's what I expected.
I truly am I great big moron. Just made the schoolboy error of rubbing my eye after cutting a chillie. I mean really, everyone knows not to do that. At least I didn't have my contacts in. Anyway, now I am squiniting with tears running down the left side of my face, and feeling like a complete fool.