S**T!

Ok here's how it goes; HOLY CRAP! I've been having the most amazing time, but not because I've won the lottery or some other huge deal that you should really think about, but because I am finally living the kind of University life I have always dreamed of, really. I'll start off by explaining a couple of things, please don't get too bored.

I didn't have the most amazing year last year, leading from pretty much last summer to the end of this summer. Sure, there were excellent days and there were good days, but they were few and far between, and not through lack of trying. It's just a combination really of not having had a job, despite looking everywhere bar the holes such as Maccy D's or such lowly jobs [I'm extremely sorry if you are currently working there, but really guys, aim a bit higher. If you apply yourself, and lie on your CV a bit, you can get a better job, I don't care if you think you can't!]. Oh god I'm losing track a bit. Last summer was superb actually, I got a great job, working with great people, who turned into great friends, and I'd saved up enough so I just flew to the USA and had a personal holiday sorta backpacking. It was amazing, really, if I haven't shown you the pictures or told you any stories, keep away! I could talk for days. Of course, then there was University to look forward to, and that was intense waiting for it. I cannot tell you how many times I had thought 'Wow, I'm going to University, this is going to rock so much!' and so when it came, of course I was ecstatic. I really had a low key but still excellent week.

Then, one of my flatmates moved away, and this led to a chain of events which slowly changed everything. It was just little things. Sure, I didn't really make the most of being there, but I didn't care; lectures were easy-ish, friends were close by and what I had I thought I loved. It really wasn't true though. I had run ins with a couple of people, who turned out to be two faced, such as the girls in my maths class I had previously devoted a lot of time to being friends with. They would snidely talk about me when I wasn't nearby, and when they were near, they just ridiculed me but I was enjoying myself too much to notice. I have lots more little things like that, but I'll save you the bother of having to read them. Just assume that even though I thought I was having fun, things were turning sour.

Cut to last term of the year, and house hunting was afoot. The one big story that most of you already know was that my late addition to our house group, basically replaced me with another person and didn't inform anyone until they'd already asked someone. At the time I panicked because I thought I'd be living alone, and I still wanted to live with this person in the same group because I was afraid. However, I couldn't change things, and despite the unhappy situation it was just left with me on my own. Shortly afterwards I spoke to one of the others in the group and they'd left too, I was happy that someone saw my side, and so we hunted for houses. there were no suitable places, and eventually she and I split up and looked for our own places. I joined a group of four people, one being my classmate. So at least I had a house sorted for next year, excellent.

Around that time, I was considering my next years moves. I wanted to get involved in the Media; TV, radio and Newspaper all available on campus. I had a radio show, I'd gotten to know the Film Editor and did a couple of reviews, and I was keen to try the TV studio out as it was going to be a new part of the Media Guild. Luckily, I got onto all three committees, again I was setting myself up for a better next year. Add to this, I had gotten to know a brilliant group of people, though my status in their crowd was more of an extra rather than part of the main cast, but it was nice to have the alternative.

Finally, it came to years end, and things had finally started to get truly good, rather than just having the illusion of it. I was spending more time with that group I mentioned, and even though I'd sort of abandoned my flatmates and they were abandoning me, I felt they weren't missing me and they were having a good time all by themselves, so I didn't feel too bad about it. Come summer, I'd had plenty of plans, and it was going to be good!

But it wasn't. By all means, I still had excellent nights as I mentioned before, but the boring or the bad outweighed the good by a ton. In fact, I was about ready to slob out and just give up when I finally got the job [only part time, in the Swansea stadium, but I met a few nice people through there, I just wish I'd gotten more of their numbers!] and snapped out, at least partly, from my mini zombie trance. Still wasn't making enough money, and it was too late to do any of the things I had planned. Though one of my old primary school and then college friends, Rhianon, she and I became good friends and that was definitely a highlight. if you're reading this and you thought you and I had fun even during one moment in the holidays, I wasn't faking it, I really did have good times, I'm just bad at the whole remembering bit!

Summer ended, and I was really desperately looking forward to going back. So much, that I came back a week early! A little fuss with my landlords refusing to let me in the house unless I paid the rent, which even though I owed, was only going to be available after my loan came through a week later, and I rung them up before and they seemed cool about it, but for some reason changed their minds. Thank god my parents were able to lend me the money, though I do feel bad about it. I'm paying them back straight away. I came back, and this is where I stand now.

I've just had my first day of lectures, and they went well! i really think I'll be able to handle my lectures this year. Also, me and two of my classmates are having a competition; a £5 in the pot, whoever misses the least lectures overall this year gets the prize fund, so we intend on attending all of them, even the 2 9am ones in the week :) I went to freshers fair on saturday, the big event for societies and clubs for all the people in the uni to join up to their fave and preferred clubs/societies, and i was helping to get members for the media guild table. It went phenomenally well, especially since the membership price was doubled to £10! It was a great laugh, I dressed up as a cowboy to promote the TV section of the guild, and that's the first time I ever dressed up. As anything. Ever. A big first for me. Also, a friend of mine called me a 'legend' because of the way I was just approaching women at the fair and just chatting away, even though I'd never met them before. That was quite a big thing for me :) Wednesday is the day I get my first foray into the media spotlight; I'm attending a Disney press conference, for the new film 'The Guardian' starring Ashton Kutcher and kevin Costner. I will be watching a press screening of the movie, followed by a press conference with Mr kutcher and the director, with free lunch and refreshments provided in between, and transport fully compensated for! Wicked B-) Also, my first issue of The Rabbit [Uni newspaper name] as Film Editor came out last Sunday and it's a really weird feeling having your own work out there on over 9000 copies of the paper, for everybody to read! Will be good this next issue though, as I'll be creating my own design, which I have already done using photoshop which I learned to use by myself! It's a marvelous feeling! Remember earlier when I said about living with these four guys, three of which I hadn't met very much at all before moving in with? They've turned out to be really awesome, better than i could have hoped for, and we've been hanging out at the SU bar way too much, one of them polished off a 28 unit bottle of gin and got temporarily banned from the SU bar, sometime last week. There's been quite a few good laughs thus far, and I hope there are more! Also, that bunch of people I met towards the end of last year? They've turned out to be even better than I could have hoped for. I am so utterly astounded at my life at the moment, I don't deserve it, and I await my ultimate punishment for having such luck so far.