LIFE, THE UNIVERSE AND EVERYTHING

Hello again! Well, I don’t have anything pressing to do this evening, so I thought I would fill you in on the latest thrilling details of my life, for they are thrilling indeed.

So. Somehow we’re practically halfway through term. I am not sure exactly how that has occurred, but it is quite evident that it has. I think I shall have to have a word with time. Anyway, the past four weeks have gone really rather well - perhaps even swimmingly. I’m enjoying university a lot more than last year, partly through my new method of taking more pleasure in small things and putting less store by big things.

Life at a different college (I mentioned that I’m living in another college for a year because of some extreme redecorating at my home college, didn’t I?) is actually really good, on the whole: we’ve got a lovely kitchen with a dining table (glory!), and I’m on the same corridor as my friends, and I’m a bit nearer to lectures. We have had some slight issues with getting onto the assorted computer-related systems (they’ve known we’d be living here since around April—how did it not occur to them to add us to the system??), and there are some annoying people who share our kitchen who do things like leaving eggshell on surfaces and stealing wine, but other than that it’s pretty good.

I finally decided which subjects I wanted to do this year after going to one pharmacology lecture and deciding it was Not My Cup of Tea; I’m taking biochemistry and molecular biology, cell and developmental biology, and organic chemistry. It is nice to have cut out all the things I didn’t like last year. There are quite a lot of practicals, which I’m not a huuuge fan of, but only chemistry’s assessed, and I’ve been getting good enough marks thus far. In the non-assessed practicals I work with ~Firefly557 and we end up playing hangman and naming our lab equipment when we get bored, so it’s not too bad… And I’m finding the workload manageable! Manageable, I say!

Is there any other news? Why, yes there is. *ignores your look of dismay* I foolishly became treasurer of our college badminton society at the end of last year, and I keep having to do things! Organisational things! But I am coping - I even managed to write a letter of complaint to the people that we hire the sports hall from (they keep leaving it locked )!

Ooh, and I have a college daughter! (She’s a new member of college that I’m sort of mentoring and generally trying to be helpful and friendly towards. And demanding food from when I forget that formal hall is on… ) In fact, I have one college daughter, one step-daughter, two adopted daughters, possibly two goddaughters and three nieces. And they are all very lovely indeed. Well, I haven’t actually met all of my nieces, but certainly all of my new college kin that I have met are lovely, and doing so well - I am so proud! It’s really nice having all our daughters round for tea and cake and whatnot, and they are all very much in-tune with our oddness, which is most pleasing.

In terms of dA news… As you can no doubt see, I’m being really, really, really slow at responding to everything, as per usual. Sorry about that. (I know I said I was going to stop apologising but it is difficult.) Aaaand ~kitkatprincess has uploaded the photo of our latest Many-Tentacled Beast! Look and be amazed! Also, see if you can correctly identify the assorted implements, colony of lemmings, zip, movable facial features, decoy hippo head and wheeled aubergine.

Speaking of entirely remarkable things, I inexplicably came second in =Mattiello and *msklystron’s Confessions Contest! Well, I guess it’s not entirely inexplicable, given that I did enter. But anyway. Click here to see the other winners! And, of course, thank you to the judges and everyone that donated prizes, and well done to everyone that entered. I was also a runner up for the Scripts to Flicks Contest - click here for the other winners of that — so even more “thank you”s and “well done”s all round! And take a look at my sister’s script, I don’t think it’s had the attention it deserves.

So that’s all very exciting, and means that I’ve got a ridiculous number of months of subscription, which I will of course put to their fullest use - that’s right, more inane polls! In other writing-related news, I’m not doing NaNoWriMo, as much as I would like to, because I would never get anything useful done (plus I am terrible at coming up with plot ideas), but I wish the best of luck to everyone who is, especially ~Nikibelia, who appears to be making time for both work and ‘WriMo by not sleeping very much. And she still cooks wonderful things for us.

I think that concludes my extensive description of the past month; you may now go and bathe your brain in something soothing. I hope you’re all happy and bright and skip joyfully wherever you go, possibly whilst whistling a jolly tune. And I hope it fills everyone around you with deep suspicion and unspoken resentment. Pip-pip!