Just enough time to breathe!

I've had quite a manic week, what with my birthday (which was cool, thanks Dan for taking time to come down(!) for it!) Then it was Craig's birthday too, with three essays for him to hand in (and a little bit of added stress for me!) and then one essay for me to hand in... and lots of partying and catching up with folks and boogying!

Then today I had to give in two essays, I don't know whether i'm happy with them, but hey! I don't really seem to care at the moment, I've just had two of the worst opssible marks back to date, and i'm not too chuffed with that. Oh well, there's always like the next piece of work that I might do better on! There must be a reason for it.

Anywhoo, I've just finished my first term of the second year, and have like two and a half weeks off, where I will be going away most weekends for various leader training things with Craig, and then we have a youth weekend comnig up in church which will be good, I love helping out with the youth in church, they're really fun, and remind me of when we were at Genesis group(!) its good. I also have a lot of reading to do for next term, where we're going to be studying tragedy(!) But hopefuly I will be able to get some books out of the library today without having to read them, I will enjoy reading these ones! (seems like a new concept!- to enjoy reading!!!)

Oh yeah, at last I have joined the gadget generation by purchasing my own PC computer, I love it, its so good for watching DVD's on (oh yeah, and for doing the occasional essay etc) It was a bit of a bargain, so its all good :)

Anywhoo, hope everyone's having a good year so far!

chester

Back in sunny chester!!! yay! it's so cold, last night had to have a hot water bottle! (ah bless!) got so much work to do, but i've just seen my new timetable, and it looks really good! Only 5 hours in uni! But the rest is supposed to be work times etc. I wish they would spread it out throughout the year a little bit better because then I don't think I'd be as stressed!!! Anywhoo need to do lots of reading and writing as usual!
Hope everyone elses work is going well Bex, hang in there!

New Year, New Look! New thinking

As it's 2006 I thought that along with a new year I would change the look of my blog too! hope you all like it!
My new year's resolution this year is to not make one because i'm rubbish at keeping them, so I'm gonna save myself the hassle of having to do so, or fooling myself into thinking that I can, so that's why I haven't got one.
So happy new year and all that jazz!

Here's what I got up to, it was quite fun going into London this year, and watching the fireworks at the London Eye (or as close as you could get basically, alongside the crowds!) Firstly we had a nice time in Hyde Park, going to the funfair, going on the Waltzing Waltzers and tehn the 'dodgems' that were never really dodgems but having the true nature of the other name of 'bumper' cars; these people that owned them didn't tell us off for bumping into each other, even having head on collisions at times! My worst hit was actually from Jessica! which I found to be quite amusing as we were also with Daniel, Jonathan and Craig!
Then we tried sushi!(I quite enjoyed it, I had a crab roll thingy!) then we sauntered down towards Diana's memorial which was difficult to see in the dark!!! So we gave up that idea and headed towards the Eye.

Festivals and Eve's have always held great superstition as the world is temporarily turned upside down; Shakespeare has encapsulated thsi idea within his play Twelfth Night and I'm sure that others have written about it too. Painters have captured this in a movement called the Carnivalesque- see Mikhail Bakhtin for more info!!!
The idea that these festivals are a kind of forced passing into another age, (or a new year in this case) strange things are seen to take place. We as people put upon an act at times, and it was beloeved that this 'Theatrical' self comes out at this time of festivity.
Some people have called this the 'Threshold' or a cool Englishy word is 'Liminality' (which basically means the same thing) which makes sense, because 31st December is the threshold to 2006.
Anyway enough of my ramblings! I should really be doing some work! (as usual!)