So I have started a week's work experience at my local newspaper! It's really exciting but also kind of boring at the same time: i spent most of my first day sitting about waiting for people to give me busywork. Hopefully things will be better after the deadline has passed (they have to get the paper out by Wednesday) and things can build up again ( Read more... )

So, those of you that follow me on tumblr already know that this Christmas wasn't great for me.

( Cut because this is kind of a bummer )

So then I think I got norovirus? Yesterday was mostly sleeping and waiting for the sweet embrace of death after a night filled with terrors. I'm mostly okay now, just waiting for the nausea to subside so I can have an actual cup of tea. My last one was Monday morning and if I don't have one soon people will suffer.

In other news: I have a job! A ( Read more... )

I guess I should tell you guys that I got my dissertation results yesterday! I had to call the office in Cardiff because the system for students who are at home isn't great (blargh) but I got my mark eventually! I got 64, which is a pass- I think it equates to about a 2:1 which is slightly above average.

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I totally forgot to post about the Doctor Who finale! Which should probably tell you my thoughts on it, I guess. In other words, I was underwhelmed. The fix was completely cheap, I didn't really understand why the Doctor had to marry River, and everything happened way too fast. At least everybody lived, I guess? Merlin was much more satisfying!

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So, things I have done recently:

1. Signed on to recieve Jobseeker's Allowance, which was made a billion times more complicated than it needed to be by the byzantine online system. I get it, government, you don't want to give me money, please try not to make the fact quite so depressingly obvious.

2. Reached A Storm of Swords, part 2 in my epic A ( Read more... )

Hi! Well, I haven't posted in a while (Dragon Age had a lot to do with that...) so what have I been doing? Let me present you with a handy bulleted list!

• Planning essays and dissertations :| Two of them are actually kind of cool: I'm writing about intertextuality in The Lord of the Rings and my Master's dissertation will be on mythology and comic ( Read more... )

Y'all know I don't normally post about real life happenings (my life is boring, no other deep dark reasons) but last night I dreamed the first episode of Legend of Korra.

This kind of thing happens fairly often, actually. In between Avatar seasons 2 and 3 I dreamed the season 3 first episode (obviously it was nothing like the real first episode, it ( Read more... )

Happy Valentine's Day everybody! Having no significant other to share it with this year, I'll instead say that you are all lovely, wonderful people and I enjoy sharing my online life (and sometimes my real life!) with you very much.

In celebration, my favourite declaration of love ever.


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And now for something completely different.

I turn 22 today! I think that this calls for a party...


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