2008 December 31, 2008

Ah 2008. Where has it gone? It’s been a good year. Most certainly. My last full year of being a teenager and I’ve actually become an old woman. Never mind.

January: Erm…what happened in January? My memory doesn’t go back that far.

February: I believe this was the month of the earthquake that scared the living daylights out of me. It was quite exciting though.

March: I think the world war 2 bomb was found in town…consequently I was trapped as they blocked off the exits that lead to my route home, but after many phonecalls and the help of a kind gentleman, I found my way through the horrible rough subway and back home.

April: My 19th birthday was celebrated. Did anything else happen? I don’t know.

May: Exaaaaams. Which I passed. Woop. The end of May was the start of the tediously long summer holidays in which there was no good weather.

June: Can’t really remember, the summer months blended in to one. Ooooh Prince Caspian was released.

July: I believe it was the Godiva festival, which was good but bad. Good in that it was a jolly good laugh, bad in that it poured it down with more rain than I’ve seen in ages. Trips to Stratford and Hampton in Arden were also taken.

August: Mamma Mia! In London. Amazing. Other things may have happened…which I don’t recall.

Sept, Oct and Novemeber: Good months, Uni months, hard work.

December: A really really good Christmas, happy times

2009: Will be a year of change. Really hard work, challenges and hopefully it will be….fruitful. Yes.

Happy New Year!

Christmaaaaaaaaas December 28, 2008

I had a lovely Christmas. I hope you all did too. I was ill again on Christmas Eve, last year I was ill at the FPs….this year I was ill again. Next year I hope to be free from illness on the Eve of Christmas.

I am very lucky, I got a lot of wonderful things and I’m very grateful. I got a lovely big book, containing all of Jane Austen’s novels. It’s lovely.

I have been thinking a lot recently, of how un-Christian both Easter and Christmas are. I know they are what you make them…but the trees at Christmas are Pagan, the FP told me all about it. And then Easter, we still celebrate Easter depending on the lunar cycle, again a Pagan thing.

Back at Uni in a week, for a hard term. I’m going to work very hard though, I feel refreshed. Although saying that, after about a week, I think I might become a bit lazy again.

I’m going to Birmingham on Tuesday, hurray! Although people shopping in the sales annoy me. They’re like vultures picking at a dead carcass.Which is much like the scenes in Woolworths now its closing. I’m also going to celebrate the new year with Sir Sue, I think everyone else is busy, but I find her rather good company

Lully Lullay December 12, 2008

Coventry Carol, in my humble opinion is quite possible the saddest carol ever. Performed in the 16th century, in Coventry, during the mystery play, it’s supposed to express a mother’s grief at losing her child when King Herod killed all the male infants in Bethlehem. Cheery Christmas stuff. The lyrics are below.

Lully, lullay, Thou little tiny Child,

By, by, lully, lullay.

Lullay, thou little tiny Child,

By, by, lully, lullay. 

O sisters too, how may we do,

For to preserve this day

This poor youngling for whom we do sing

By, by, lully, lullay. 

Herod, the king, in his raging,

Charged he hath this day

His men of might, in his own sight,

All children young to slay. 

That woe is me, poor Child for Thee!

And ever mourn and say,

For thy parting neither say nor sing,

By, by, lully, lullay.

I was shown this earlier, quite possibly the weirdest thing I’ve seen in a long time.

Winter wonderland December 3, 2008

I got the job! After my CRB check is all sorted, I shall be a volunteer at MIND, working with children and young people. I’m really excited. And I feel quite proud, 18 months ago, I never would have done something like this.

The interview was OK. I was asked what I knew about MIND and if I’d be in contact with the services before. I managed to throw in stuff about the stigma people suffering with mental health problems face and also that I had experienced mental health problems too. I’ll be doing my training at some point. I’m really happy.

I’m currently making changes to my cognitive essay. I thought I’d finished it, but now I feel it’s not good enough. I may also change some bits of my genetics essay. That makes me feel cross ‘cos I thought I’d finished all my work this term. Hopefully it shall be finished today and I can do fun things for the rest of this month.

Rudolph the red nosed reindeer December 1, 2008

Advent calendars! Hurrah. It’s nearly Christmas. The Christmas music is on. And the Christmas holiday spirit has set in. It’s lucky I finished all my work! I must start Christmas shopping. And get some cards done. Eeeeeeee. Can you tell I’m excited?

That excitement is also mixed with nerves….I have an interview tomorrow. At MIND. I’m nervous. Not overly so. These things don’t terrify me so much anymore. Which is good. I’ve come a long way. Yay! I hope I get a position. It’ll be scary working there at first, but it will be such a learning curve and so rewarding.

Today I saw a very Christmassy thing on the way to Uni. In the subway. A man carried a life-sized plastic Santa. Which nearly decapitated me when the man swung round suddenly to ask his friend something. I was amused.

I can’t wait to see everyone over Christmas. And maybe go to London. Happy times.