I'm here!

I have neglected my blog! It must have been weeks since I even thought about it, poor thing must have thought I had died.


So here I am at Leeds. I'm in my new room, with all my new possessions (all not as cool as everyone elses as usual) and of course my new bed. I've heard mixed reactions from the James Baillie lot about their beds - some love and some hate. I actually quite like my bed, but I struggle to believe it is a full size single bed (I didn't know they went even smaller unless your in a cot). I literally have to remake my bed every morning; mattress protector, bottom sheet, pillows, duvet the lot seem to come away from where they are supposed to be all night. I haven't ever had this problem before! Usually my bed stays relatively made. I've fallen out of bed before, maybe ended up sideways instead of longways, but every bloody night my bottom sheet ends up coming away from the mattress and making a break for freedom. I blame it on the bed because I don't think I move too much in my sleep (apart from twitching a lot - you know when you jump suddenly because your falling - I do that in my sleep all night).

Enjoying freshers as a sober ginger.

I've also taken to not wearing make-up occasionally! It's great, back in Northampton it was the norm to wear make-up every day, if I forgot to put on something I would get asked if I was ill or tired (boohoo), but here as no one knows me very well and frankly I can't be bothered, I keep going out with no make-up on woo!


I've also discovered what its like to read boring books/ journals/ articles and still have to keep reading. You know when you pick up a book and by the second page in you throw it on the floor in disdain and think 'What a heap of shit'? Well I now have to keep reading on and resist the urge to throw things away. It is very, very difficult.


I've also gone against my personal tutors wishes,
1. I want you all to fill in your personal profile before your meeting.
I didn't, and had to go away and fill it in because I forgot that was ever spoken about.


2. Start looking at your reading list and buy as many books as you can afford.
Books? Reading list? Where are these mystical books I have to buy? And besides, I've just had freshers week, I can't afford books.


3. Don't join too many societies in your first year - settle in and concentrate on your work.
I've joined 5 and one of them is the Harry Potter Society - you can play Quidditch and have a Yule Ball and everything :)


So yes, everything is obviously going well as a student. I've seen a few famous people, (not many as I'm always in the wrong place at the wrong time) Loick Essien, Gareth Gates and Professor Green. Embarrassingly my favourite being Gareth Gates, and more specifically him performing 'Spirit in the Sky'. Dancing away to that was truly a great moment in my life.