I'm seeing Rush tomorrow! I just wanted to say that.

It's at the O2 Arena in London, same as last time I saw them, and I'm going with my mum again (yes, we are that cool) in a bid to get the female audience total up to... 2. My camera battery is charging, my bag is full of Skittles and Pro Plus (it's a long post-midnight journey home afterwards ( Read more... )

I played my final concert with my symphony orchestra last night. It's a very odd feeling - in my mind it's still "until next time," and realising that there won't be a next time is quite surreal. I joined when I started as an undergrad at university in 2006, and it was one of the aspects of university that I was most looking forward to. I've played ( Read more... )

So, it's my 26th birthday - the term "late 20s" now applies, as does the term "Christmas cake." I don't really do birthdays... haven't done since before I was a teenager, to be honest.

(Err, except from my 21st, when Def Leppard just happened to be having their tiny Islington album launch gig on my birthday and I managed to get tickets:

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I have a rare day off from uni. This course is intense! I've been fully immunised (MMR and BCG - which is still really swollen and sore!), measured for uniform (which looks less awkward if you're an actress on Holby City rather than an actual student nurse), and gotten into practicing all the clinical skills parts, which I'm really enjoying. There' ( Read more... )

I have now been a student nurse for two days! And I don't feel any different at all, it hasn't really sunk in yet that this is quite a big deal. However, in studying at Southampton uni instead of working at Portsmouth uni, I have discovered a few things:

1. I get travel sick on buses and trains (despite never getting seasick on the ferry to Portsmouth ( Read more... )

I have finished tidying my hair! It took literally a week, from Friday to Thursday. It's official - dreads are not as low maintenance as you may be led to believe. I wouldn't mind, but they're nearly seven years old, they're not uncontrollable baby dreads. If they were a child they'd be starting junior school in September (bloody hell ( Read more... )

I am tidying my hair. With waist-length dreads that haven't been tidied up in literally years, this is a Big Deal. I'm knotting up all the roots (some of which have up to 3 inches of normal undready hair), and sewing in all the loose flyaway hairs (I just sewed a clump of loose hair into one dread that was about half the thickness of the dread ( Read more... )

I've been working at my old university for the past four years, since I graduated there myself, and I've absolutely loved it. I've been working in many different departments, with lots of inspiring people, and learned lots from really diverse degree topics... and I've just got home from working there for the final time. I feel quite sad. I've been ( Read more... )

As work is slowly drawing to a close, I've spent the last week or so knee-deep in textbooks. I'd (perhaps foolishly) largely expected the non-practice aspect of my nursing course to cover anatomy/physiology, policy, and learning clinical skills, but I've found myself swamped by philosophy and epistemology. This may not be a good thing, as I only ( Read more... )

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