So, I leave for Tanzania in ONE WEEK! I will be... somewhere over Europe I guess, still 14 hours from arriving in Dar es Salaam (oh, that sounds like a long time... just as well I like flying. Except that does include 5 hours in Doha airport.)

Have now reached the stage in my excitement when nothing will keep me entertained for longer than about 30 ( Read more... )

*hands LJ soup and tea*

Given LJ is feeling rather ill at the moment I've imported my journal over to Dreamwidth too, same name and userpic, with hopefully all entries imported if LJ's feeling well enough to work. Everything will still be posted here too, but a bit of back up (and not feeling quite so cut off...) is always good. So if you're over ( Read more... )

Been in the new house for 2 weeks now. Feeling settled in, although I don't think it is going to feel like mine as I'm just staying 3 months. Still no internet, which is rather annoying as the small amount of work I do have relies on it (and, well, I like it!), but the guys I'm living with don't seem in much of a rush to sort it, and as I'm not ( Read more... )

 I GOT A FIRST!

This is very very exciting and rather unexpected! Knew it was possible thanks to viva but still did not expect! Think I might still be in shock... apparently just kind of stared at the wall with them on for a while until actually grinning, as I have been ever since.

eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!


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Yesterday was conspiring to make me feel old:

Me: So how old do you think is too old to go to University?
Student 1: Really old
Me: OK, can anyone take a guess at a number?
Student 2: 21
Me: ?!

Student: My Mum brought me all the Harry Potter books.
Me: That was nice of her, we had to wait for JK Rowling to finish writing in between reading them.
Student: ( Read more... )

We had our Grad ball last night. It was so much fun. Kind of like a cross between a ball, a concert and a fairground, with 3000 people. It was awesome and a little bit random.

We went out to dinner first, to a restaurant filled with other people off to the ball, so it was manically busy. There was a table of little old ladies in the corner too, who ( Read more... )

 So exam season not only saw me re-reading Harry Potter, but also rewatching Buffy. Clearly this cannot be done in a single revision period. Hence I am only just at the end of season 3. This is the least watched of my DVD's (the book still creaks when I open it, rather than nearly falling apart)

( Buffy Season Three )

 So, that's the degree done then ( Read more... )

For some reason LJ is only giving me the raw option for posting, not the nice button to do things for me. Not that they work very often, but this may end up being a long stream of text, for which I apologise ( Read more... )

Conservation Resi went off almost without hitch, barring the almost not having of a bus... But I am now so so tired. They are always tiring, turns out when you're in charge and do all the cooking they are a lot more tiring!

Spent Thursday and Friday running round slightly manically. Food shopping for lots of people on Thursday. Took bus to Asda in ( Read more... )