So this is Christmas
Well, once again the holiday season has begun to roll around. the Christmas markets in Newcastle are up and running this week, and all the shops are playing that god-awful music that they play at this time of year. The weather is cold but bright, and all the shops are having their sales a month early because thanks to the credit crunch nobody wants to buy anything! The other benefit of this time of year is that by this point nearly all of my university project deadlines have passed. I still need to email in my bioethics project (we were given a week's extension on that one, much to my annoyance after working my arse off to get it finished) and the dissertation casts its ever-present shadow, but all in all things are going quite well. My Marine Biology presentation on Monday went as well as I could have hoped it to, and I reckon I'll have scored pretty highly on that. All my Investigative Biology stuff has been handed in, and I'm personally glad to have nothing more to do with it; its not that it was particularly tedious or difficult (cos it really wasn't), it's merely that with all the other stuff going on, IB seemed like an irritating thorn in the side that needed to be removed. Anf fortunately, for this semester it has been.
Newcastle LARP was a blast last night, though it left me with the feeling that I really shouldn't invest so much emotional energy in my character - by the end I was completely burned out and starting to get annoyed with people. The game itself was awesome though; the Prince of the city became possessed and as a result my character attempted to stake him - and actually freakin' succeeded. I was very pleased, though what happens from there is anyone's guess.
But in the wider scale of things at this time of year, who am I really to complain? Christmas is certainly my favourite Pagan festival, and I'm looking forward to another few weeks of shamelessly eating like a pig and watching DVDs while the weather outside does its level best to freeze everyone to death.
Happy holidays, people!
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