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Tue Nov 3, 2009, 1:58 PM
  • Mood: Happy
  • Listening to: Travis
  • Reading: Notes from a Small Island
  • Eating: An Eccles cake
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. :heart: 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… :paranoid: 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! :ohnoes: 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 :shakefist:)!

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. :D

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. :heart:

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. :nod: Pip-pip!

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In an epic inter-species war, who should we side with? 

21%
9 deviants said Dude, we don't need to side with any of them. We've got nukes.
19%
8 deviants said Dolphins - they can whistle!
16%
7 deviants said I can't imagine any species would want to join forces with us after the way we've treated them.
14%
6 deviants said I have an alternative perspective to offer on this age-old debate!
9%
4 deviants said The viruses and bacteria. And maybe the fungi, we don't want to go into combat with athlete's foot.
9%
4 deviants said Any of them but the chickens. They are not to be trusted.
9%
4 deviants said SHARKS CROSSED WITH KOMODO DRAGONS!!!
2%
1 deviant said Fluffy kittens! (You can't deny that they'd make good ammo. Well, fun ammo.)
0%
No deviants said Our closest kin, and wisest of the beasts, the great apes.
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No deviants said No one could defeat the might of the ants.

Comments


:iconpaperdart:
Thank you for all your critiquing at #Writers-Workshop. You made something awesome that much more awesome. :aww:

Also, your submission was mindblowing, but I haven't got smart enough to comment on it yet. :hmm:

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I want a spirit like the wind.
:iconchugglepuff:
No problem - thanks for considering my efforts worthy of thanks! =P And it was, indeed, awesome - I will definitely try to join in with workshops more in future. :nod:

Crumbs, thank you again! :blushes: I'm appalling at getting back to comments anyway, I'm just glad you liked it! :)

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:iconpaperdart:
Four good, solid critiques in two weeks is an impressive (and more-or-less unbeaten*) achievement. :nod:

I think I'm going to watch you now. :)

*depending on whether or not you count =nycterent

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#Writers-Workshop -:- *Critique-It

I want a spirit like the wind.
:iconsitsunderwaterfalls:
Thanks for the fav! And I love your sig :D.

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J'ai décidé d'arrêter d'avoir pitié de moi. Autre que mon oeil, deux choses ne sont pas paralysées, mon imagination et ma mémoire.


Hold fast to the human inside of you, and you'll survive.

-Diving Bell and the Butterfly
:iconchugglepuff:
You're very welcome! And thank you! :)

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:iconsybaritism:
Thank you for the :+fav:! :heart:

I really need to start reading your writing again.

I've always enjoyed it so I don't know what's wrong with me. ;;

I think it's just because I never know how to comment on good poetry, because I feel like such a fraud when I do. :(

But I will make more of an effort! :hug:
:iconchugglepuff:
Don't worry about it, I don't read yours enough... There's never enough time for reading... Hope you're well! :hug:

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:iconsybaritism:
Sadly, there isn't.
And thanks, I hope you are well, too. :)
(Though I suppose I should know with your journal updates. I feel so guilty. :()
:iconlimbs-of-osiris:
Long overdue thanks for the fav and the detailed comment, will get back to you soon =)

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~William Carlos Williams
:iconchugglepuff:
My pleasure, and don't worry about overdueness - I've got a comment from you that desperately require replying to from ages back, which I WILL get round to answering because it was really helpful and kind. Sorry everything takes me so long... Hope everything's all right with you, you don't seem to have been around a great deal of late. :hug:

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:iconmattiello:
Thank you so much for the favorite! :glomp:

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[link] Counting Clouds - an exciting book!

[link] My tutorials!


If you LOVE it then suggest it to a GM - now!
:iconchugglepuff:
Don't mention it. :)

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:iconsheik-kane-heis:
Hey Chugglepuff! I'm back :D
:iconchugglepuff:
:) Nice to have you back - how's life treating you?

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:iconsheik-kane-heis:
Life's Good. Just getting used to college and stuff..
:iconsmallcraig1606:
As per usual, I have forgotten to thank you for the fave ("Raindrops on ...") ... So, thank you!

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Craig
:iconchugglepuff:
No worries, I'd be more concerned if you did remember! :nod: And it was, of course, my pleasure. :)

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:iconjade-pandora:
Profuse apologies for taking so long to come over to thank you for the fave!

"Haikuthon July 1-31, 2009" [link]

I'm so glad you liked my little set! :heart:

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:iconchugglepuff:
Don't mention it - I know how busy you've been with real life. :heart:

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:iconmoondrunk:
present for choogles :matteo:!
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"My little old man and I fell out;
I'll tell you what 'twas all about,--
I had money and he had none,
And that's the way the noise begun."
:iconwavepanther71:
And thank-you (yet again!) for all the :+fav:s and lovely comments! :D

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:iconchugglepuff:
No problem! :)

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:iconb1gfan:
:icongwomp: for you my friend - and my many thanks for the :+fav: you gave to The Calling of Sal Mauriello. I'm giddy with joy my dear! :icongiraffeglompplz:

And how was Wales? Foggy? Wet? :D

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