NaBloPoMo Post #15: Everything's going crazy - go go go!
NaBloPoMo Post #15: 18th November 2008
This will be a quick entry, and so probably will be the remainder of the entries this month. I've just come back from a rehearsal, it's half ten, and given how tired I'm going to be for the next fortnight I should really go to bed on time. I've got another rehearsal tomorrow, Thursday was supposed to be the day I finally sat down and did some transcriptions but I've been invited out for dinner, Friday is the dress rehearsal and Saturday is the opening night! I will try and produce some longer entries on the weekends, that I can post during the week following, because there's no way in hell I'll have time otherwise.
Guess what I did today? I emailed the lady in charge of the Orthoptics masters degree at Sheffield. Turns out that this course is done once every two years, and so the next intake is 2009 - after which there won't be another course run until 2011. And they only require one year of clinical experience and sometimes take folks with less if there are places free. So you know what? I'm gonna go for it - I'm going to do a masters next September. I'm so excited! And oddly enough, I have this blimmin' NaBloPoMo to thank for it. Like I said yesterday, I'm not much of a one for planning out my future, and if I hadn't been writing about it, I wouldn't have gone back and looked at the website for the masters course, and it wouldn't have gotten me thinking about any of this stuff. Who'd've thought it, ne?
It's a pretty scary thought, actually. Start the course in September 2009, graduate in June 2012. By then I'll be 26! Twenty-bloody-six! If I hadn't thought about it and applied, then I wouldn't have been able to do it until 2011, and then I'd be nearly flippin' 30 by the time I graduated. Sheesh.
You know, it's funny when you're younger, the ideas that you have. Wai San asked me once, how old I would like to be before having kids. I said I wanted to have them younger than my Mum was when she had me, so I wouldn't be out of touch with what it was like to be young and have fun. I wanted to have them before I hit thirty. I dunno if that's gonna happen now, but I'll talk about my love life/lack thereof in another post sometime.
On a brighter note, turns out I did get into the Burns musical after all, despite how shite I was at the audition! They haven't cast the parts yet but it looks like I'll be in the chorus which suits me just fine :) I'm glad that all worked out okay.
Right, that's it from me - to bed!
P.S. I posted up Chapter Nine of Da Capo Al Fine yesterday. It had four good reviews within three hours of me posting it. Allow me to bask in the aura of my own ego for a few moments before I start panicking about when the hell I'm gonna find time to write the next chapter! XD I signed up for gyakusai swap after reading sarahofcroydon's post reminding folks to sign up. Boy, I kinda wish I hadn't. Hard prompts are hard! Mebbe I should draw instead of writing a fic...
This will be a quick entry, and so probably will be the remainder of the entries this month. I've just come back from a rehearsal, it's half ten, and given how tired I'm going to be for the next fortnight I should really go to bed on time. I've got another rehearsal tomorrow, Thursday was supposed to be the day I finally sat down and did some transcriptions but I've been invited out for dinner, Friday is the dress rehearsal and Saturday is the opening night! I will try and produce some longer entries on the weekends, that I can post during the week following, because there's no way in hell I'll have time otherwise.
Guess what I did today? I emailed the lady in charge of the Orthoptics masters degree at Sheffield. Turns out that this course is done once every two years, and so the next intake is 2009 - after which there won't be another course run until 2011. And they only require one year of clinical experience and sometimes take folks with less if there are places free. So you know what? I'm gonna go for it - I'm going to do a masters next September. I'm so excited! And oddly enough, I have this blimmin' NaBloPoMo to thank for it. Like I said yesterday, I'm not much of a one for planning out my future, and if I hadn't been writing about it, I wouldn't have gone back and looked at the website for the masters course, and it wouldn't have gotten me thinking about any of this stuff. Who'd've thought it, ne?
It's a pretty scary thought, actually. Start the course in September 2009, graduate in June 2012. By then I'll be 26! Twenty-bloody-six! If I hadn't thought about it and applied, then I wouldn't have been able to do it until 2011, and then I'd be nearly flippin' 30 by the time I graduated. Sheesh.
You know, it's funny when you're younger, the ideas that you have. Wai San asked me once, how old I would like to be before having kids. I said I wanted to have them younger than my Mum was when she had me, so I wouldn't be out of touch with what it was like to be young and have fun. I wanted to have them before I hit thirty. I dunno if that's gonna happen now, but I'll talk about my love life/lack thereof in another post sometime.
On a brighter note, turns out I did get into the Burns musical after all, despite how shite I was at the audition! They haven't cast the parts yet but it looks like I'll be in the chorus which suits me just fine :) I'm glad that all worked out okay.
Right, that's it from me - to bed!
P.S. I posted up Chapter Nine of Da Capo Al Fine yesterday. It had four good reviews within three hours of me posting it. Allow me to bask in the aura of my own ego for a few moments before I start panicking about when the hell I'm gonna find time to write the next chapter! XD I signed up for gyakusai swap after reading sarahofcroydon's post reminding folks to sign up. Boy, I kinda wish I hadn't. Hard prompts are hard! Mebbe I should draw instead of writing a fic...