Busy busy busy

Have been very busy recently. Last Saturday Matt, Matt's sister Hil and I went up to the Isle of Skye, where his mum and her partner have just moved. As I can't drive, I slept for most of the 8.5 hours it took to get there. Still, pretty tiring. After experiencing the rain, mist and cold of Skye, we came back on Wednesday. More sleeping for me.

On Thursday Matt and I did the second part of scoping out areas we might like to live: Besses o'th Barn (in Whitefield - you'd want to live somwehere with a name like that too, wouldn't you?) and Bury. Matt was still tired from driving rather than sleeping so kept saying "are we finished now?" Eventually we had. So we drove to Lytham to see Little Matt and dropped in on Dave and Hannah too.

On Friday I had a meeting with Cris to sort out the Sanctus session we're leading on Wednesday, then got on a coach down to London (sleeping most of the way...). Soundcheck, SPEAK's 'gathering of the network' is in about 4 weeks and I'm organising the stewarding. So this was my opportunity to see the venue. I stayed with Duncan, who I was at uni with in my first year, and we had load of fun. We stayed up til 2.30am on Saturday playing board games. I also saw someone from Mcfly but failed to recognice him - he was talking to Duncan's flatmate Sam, who is a features writer for Sugar. Then back on a bus to sleep over large parts of the journey home again. After a small nap when I got home I did a bit of work (only because I had to do it for today...) and then back to bed...

You would think after all that sleeping I would be wide awake but actually I'm pretty knackered. Not good when lectures start again today. The next month will be busy, with a hen weekend, Soundcheck and a wedding to fit in, but after that I'll have some time to get some studying done...

Off to uni!

And for the next...28 months...

So I handed in my essay. I felt bored. Term starts again in early February. What shall I do? I need a project. How about starting thinking about my dissertation? It's part of one of next semester's modules anyway. As I'm part time, it's not due in until May 2008. Talk about starting early.

I'm thinking about economic growth. It seems to be assumed that growth is not just good but essential. We Must Buy More. Is this true? What are the alternatives? This is what I hope to find out...

Bored...

I am quite bored. Since finishing my essay, I have just not had anything to do. When I have letures, I'm so busy reading that I don't have time to do much else. I've tidied the cupboard under the stairs, fixed my bike and taken down Christmas decorations. I've also done quite a lot of cooking and washing up. But not much that's fun.

There are things I need to do - some stuff to do with www.sanctus1.co.uk, my church, some stuff to do with stewards for Soundcheck, and I should keep applying for a few jobs - my contract runs out at the end of January and if they don't renew it, or they try to keep me on casually, I will need a new job.

I also look at houses on the internet. But I'm even getting bored of that now...

January is a rubbish month - it's as cold and dark as December but without the christmassy lights. February is like January but slighly wetter and slightly lighter. Looking forward to March...

Et voila!

All done... my essay is finished... I took out 1000 words yesterday to get it down to the word limit. It's a bit sad taking out all those words I'd worked so hard to find. And someof them were very good words. Some of them were interesting points which I had to take out because they didn't add anything relevant to the specific argument I was making. I think it's a good essay but I'll have to wait until I get the mark back to find out.

So now my time is my own... I can do what I want - until work on Monday...