Heeley City Farm went okay. The people there with learning difficulties are lovely and make you feel really wanted. A few of them bombard you with questions though. Only thing I didn't really like was all the animal stuff. Don't get me wrong, I like animals..but having to know how to clean out/feed every animal in the Small Animal House was more ( Read more... )

Though I'd update about university, as that was the last thing I posted about.
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1. What did you do in 2009 that you'd never done before ( Read more... )

Since Boxing Day I've had the flu. I'm feeling alot lot better today (I only just got up at er 1.15am!)though Christmas has been pretty shit because I've been sleeping or feeling like death most of the time. I haven't been out of the house since Christmas day. How depressing. I haven't even looked at my presents since opening them.

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I'm trying to sort back going to university at the moment but the University of Derby are absolute idiots. I'm being passed from person to person and department to department. Nobody seems to tell each other anything, and it's just been weeks of waiting for them to sort things out to see if I can go back. The longer I'm getting fucked about the ( Read more... )

I've been reading loads lately. I've constantly got at least two novels on the go, and I'm also reading graphic novels and poetry alongside it. I'm normally always reading, but not as quickly as I have been lately.

Yesterday I went to the central library and then to see the Spectacular Crafts exhibition at the Millennium Galleries. I really enjoyed ( Read more... )

I'm sat watching Dickinsons Real Deal whilst my dad is asleep and snoring on the settee. This is the life...

I really need to motivate myself lately. I've been doing more social stuff and have been getting out more, but I'm finding anything that holds any importance is really hard to do. Sorting university, making plans, sorting appointments and ( Read more... )

Sorry for my absence. I'd give an excuse, but I haven't got one.

On tuesday I went to a lecture given by Roy Hattersley on Political Biography. It was good, considering I only went because my mother loves him. I felt like a member of some academic elite. It was all old history and politics lectures laughing at in jokes and talking about their ( Read more... )

Yesterday Marie said that she thinks a lot of my negative thoughts and unhappiness stem from the fact that I need other people to create my happiness and that I depend on other people's approval and company to make me feel worth while.

I think she's probably right. I need to be fulfilled by myself, I need to make myself happy.