News, I has it!
Bullet point entry, as always.
* I got my AS level Latin results on Thursday morning. I actually entirely forgot about them in the excitement of Reuben's first day at work (more on that later), but I remembered just before me and Jen went out (more on THAT later) and after drowning in a mass downpour, we got back to Tom's around 1pm and I had an email telling me I'D RECEIVED AN A, HELLZ YEAH! On both papers. :) An 84 in Prose and Verse, a 95 in Language. These are all out of 100. I am pretty fricking delighted. Now, onto A2! I haven't done any Latin in a month, I was meant to do some Vergil today but I've instead applied for Boots. It makes my lack of dedication to my dead language more justified, maybe...?
* Job applications! There are a lot more jobs in Reading than there are in Cambridge, but I am still uber scared that no one is going to give me even an interview. The reason that getting a job is suddenly so intensely urgent is thaaaat...
* I HAVE A FRICKING HOUSE. 24 Hill Street, should anyone wish to stalk me. :) From the outside it looks rather hideous, and I think we all had our reservations after being stood up on the Tuesday by our estate agents, and spending half an hour sitting on the step of the house, watching a pigeon clamber through a hole in the roof of the adjacent house, which also had a window boarded up. Also, it is on a CRAZY hill. However, when we went inside, we all fell a bit in love with it. It's furnished, for one thing. It has a nice lounge with two leather sofas, IT HAS A DINING ROOM WITH A TABLE which I will be hijacking fairly often for Latin, a relatively narrow kitchen but we'll manage, a so-so bathroom, and an awesome garden grove thing. Then on the next floor are me and Reu's rooms, both with double beds. Then Jen has the attic room (well, attic floor really - it's mahoosive). This only costs us £330 each per calendar month, and it's wonderful! Me and Jen were on Mould Watch but we didn't see any (after the bungalow, we both have a slight mould phobia) and it's all oooours. We move in on the 3rd of September.
* So as I said, Reu has a job. In Back of Beyond, which is the Spoons where me and Jen basically spent most of our University career. This excites us. :D He has a lot of hours, and has already started. I am mega proud of him <3 I hope I can get a job soon. I can't work with food and drink so I'm a bit limited. When I say I can't, I mean this literally - I can't even carry a cup of tea without my hands shaking and without having to walk at the speed of a snail. Fingers crossed that somewhere employs me and Jen? *Bites lip in terror.*
* Basically, the last week has been a mix of terror, glee, anxiety, angst and more glee.
* On Sunday, me and Soph met up for the first time on our own, like real grown ups! We explored pretty much all of the BM, I wept with laughter for about 10 mins in an Italian resteraunt, we watched Three Men and a baby/little lady and melted over the baby and Tom Selleck. Oh childhood films, you are beautiful. Also she stole my book, the crooked whore. <3
* I got my AS level Latin results on Thursday morning. I actually entirely forgot about them in the excitement of Reuben's first day at work (more on that later), but I remembered just before me and Jen went out (more on THAT later) and after drowning in a mass downpour, we got back to Tom's around 1pm and I had an email telling me I'D RECEIVED AN A, HELLZ YEAH! On both papers. :) An 84 in Prose and Verse, a 95 in Language. These are all out of 100. I am pretty fricking delighted. Now, onto A2! I haven't done any Latin in a month, I was meant to do some Vergil today but I've instead applied for Boots. It makes my lack of dedication to my dead language more justified, maybe...?
* Job applications! There are a lot more jobs in Reading than there are in Cambridge, but I am still uber scared that no one is going to give me even an interview. The reason that getting a job is suddenly so intensely urgent is thaaaat...
* I HAVE A FRICKING HOUSE. 24 Hill Street, should anyone wish to stalk me. :) From the outside it looks rather hideous, and I think we all had our reservations after being stood up on the Tuesday by our estate agents, and spending half an hour sitting on the step of the house, watching a pigeon clamber through a hole in the roof of the adjacent house, which also had a window boarded up. Also, it is on a CRAZY hill. However, when we went inside, we all fell a bit in love with it. It's furnished, for one thing. It has a nice lounge with two leather sofas, IT HAS A DINING ROOM WITH A TABLE which I will be hijacking fairly often for Latin, a relatively narrow kitchen but we'll manage, a so-so bathroom, and an awesome garden grove thing. Then on the next floor are me and Reu's rooms, both with double beds. Then Jen has the attic room (well, attic floor really - it's mahoosive). This only costs us £330 each per calendar month, and it's wonderful! Me and Jen were on Mould Watch but we didn't see any (after the bungalow, we both have a slight mould phobia) and it's all oooours. We move in on the 3rd of September.
* So as I said, Reu has a job. In Back of Beyond, which is the Spoons where me and Jen basically spent most of our University career. This excites us. :D He has a lot of hours, and has already started. I am mega proud of him <3 I hope I can get a job soon. I can't work with food and drink so I'm a bit limited. When I say I can't, I mean this literally - I can't even carry a cup of tea without my hands shaking and without having to walk at the speed of a snail. Fingers crossed that somewhere employs me and Jen? *Bites lip in terror.*
* Basically, the last week has been a mix of terror, glee, anxiety, angst and more glee.
* On Sunday, me and Soph met up for the first time on our own, like real grown ups! We explored pretty much all of the BM, I wept with laughter for about 10 mins in an Italian resteraunt, we watched Three Men and a baby/little lady and melted over the baby and Tom Selleck. Oh childhood films, you are beautiful. Also she stole my book, the crooked whore. <3