I suppose it's time I updated, since I haven't done so in waaaay too long. God, since January!!! Truth is, I've been so busy, I haven't really given much thought to LJ. So, what've I been up to in the last... er.... 7 months?

( What I've been up to! )

Hurrah! The year's hard work is over. Today, I was awarded my Masters' degree in Creative Writing! I feel very strange, actually. Can't sit still and am really excited. Went out and got rather drunk, which I shall no doubt pay for with a hangover because I am usually teetotal - or good as. Still, if a girl can't celebrate at a time like this, then ( Read more... )

Yeah, yeah, it's ages since I update. My life has been so busy that I haven't had time, and just forget anyway. Basically, I'm still teaching and loving it. I have another contract for next semester and the possibility of a proper permanent contract for next year. Yay ( Read more... )

Blimey, it's hard work marking assignments! Hard work trying not to be too critical, even if someone can't write or spell properly, and doesn't seem to know the first rules of grammar. I mean, come on! How are people taught these days? Badly, judging by some of the stuff I've read today. It's really depressing, reading stuff from people you thought ( Read more... )

Arroooo! Went to Woburn safari park this afternoon to a craft fair, and we got to see all the animals. There were lots of lovely Lupin-wolfies. I think wolves are my favourite animals, apart from kitty kats, and it was a real thrill to see them loping about. A couple were even chasing each other. I wish I could've heard them sing; it must be ( Read more... )

Well, it sounds as though war has broken out in my area. It's Bonfire Night, for those who don't know, the time when we British 'celebrate' Guy Fawkes' execution after he'd failed to blow up Parliament. There are those among us who think it may have been better if he'd succeeded, the way the present government is mishandling the country ( Read more... )

I am loving my work. This is a weird thing for me to feel, really, because I never imagined that I could do a job that would be so stimulating and interesting. It's hard work, prepping for lectures, but I like researching, and I'm learning loads - almost more than I did when I was still a student! I've been given four more hours per week too, which ( Read more... )

I have just finished my first week at work and I have to say, so far I love it! I am teaching first and second year students, the first years alone and the second years in conjunction with my former tutor ( Read more... )

Well, my baby's gone and I'm here alone. Sounds like a line from a song, right? Except, of course, that my baby is literally my baby, Kat. Heh - she won't like being referred to as my baby, but what the Hell, she is ( Read more... )

I have been horribly remiss in pretty much anything LJ wise at the moment, and I do kind of miss it. I'm not reading any fics, writing any fics or even reading my flist. All this because of my stupid mood swings and the return to anti depressant drugs, which means I have trouble concentrating on anything much for too long ( Read more... )