In my defence, I was really focused on getting my dissertation finished and sparkly and beautiful.  While also doing part-time summer work in a busy clothes shop at manic sales time.

Still!  The job is over, the money is saved, and (after some furious struggle with the printing company, who ripped me off, the fuckers) the dissertation is handed in ( Read more... )

Something incredible happened in England last month: we had beautiful, sunny weather.  I topped it off with a holiday to Rhodes, Greece, where I got more vitamin D than if I'd chugged a bottle of supplement tablets.


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Probably due to a string of late nights, I got sleep paralysis again.

I woke up around 3AM, because I heard drumming.  It sounded like those beats you hear in horror films, when they're played in reverse so they steadily get louder and make a kind of ssssssssSSHHHHUMP noise.  I remember thinking 'heartbeat' at the time.  My eyes must have been ( Read more... )

The worst thing about being at university was the sense of being constantly unsettled.  I've gone back forth between home and uni so much over semesters and weekends and bank holidays and summer breaks, it's been very difficult to feel comfortable in either place.  I've taken to calling 'home' whichever place I'm notBut, yesterday, I packed ( Read more... )

I hope everyone had a good Easter!  For me, it's been mixed feelings.  On the one hand, I crave chocolate to the deepest depths of my soul, and being home in the sunshine by the beach is wonderful.  On the other hand, the Easter break marks the end of my classes at university ( Read more... )

Wow today was draining, in part because I'm not very well and I knew that when I agreed to help out at work but I went anyway because my flatmates were being grumpy, and - now that I work at a bookshop instead of waitressing - I actually enjoy my job.  In part because I've got a lot of coursework to do, and that workload was pretty much doubled ( Read more... )

Today's title is from Welcome to Night Vale and today's journal is copy-pasted from my forum post in Flight Rising (with some of the swearing repaired because, although not as bad as Neopets, FR's profanity filter is a pain in the arse).

Pre-Warning: I'm going to talk about nightmares and sleep paralysis so if that freaks you out, read with ( Read more... )

Last year, I was resolved to try and post every month.  I'm not sure if I'm going to keep to that this year (my New Year's Resolution was more along the lines of 'get published you lazy fuck') but hey ho.  My other sort-of resolution was a collection of mini tasks to do while I'm still at uni, since this will be my last semester.  For instance, I'd ( Read more... )

2014 has been a ridiculously long year: so long I keep forgetting that all of these things actually happened this year and not, say, over the last three years.  I actually managed to keep up with writing an entry here every month, which is impressive.

The following things occurred this year:
( My achievements are weird )

I am home at last for Christmas!  Everything about the panto went just fine - even the romantic duet - and my 22nd Birthday was great, except for the fact I lifted my satchel to get into a taxi and sprained my rotator cuff.  If I move my shoulder too hard it hurts like hell, and if I don't move it at all it gets stiff and achy, but at least it isn' ( Read more... )