Well, it's only a couple more weeks until the Christmas hols! I'd imagine mostly everyone is counting down by now (or already have been for a while... I overheard some students talking about it at the Halloween feast ( Read more... )

With the exception of having to see my sister around every bloody day, the Christmas hols so far have been WICKED. My own room, Mum's cooking, sleeping in, not having to worry what stupid thing the first-years are going to do next, not finding snogging couples in various empty classroom and corridors (ugh, seriously, enough with that already ( Read more... )

I must say, things are going very well at the hospital these days. I do rather enjoy my job in the nursery. All those little babies - so cute! I have been (what is the word?) recruited? to assist on a couple of other floors and wards when things have been slow where I normally work, which I guess is part of the job description. I do not mind it, of ( Read more... )

Ahhh, May. What a wonderful month. And it's still early, so I haven't heard yet of many people starting their end of year parade to the hospital wing for Calming Draughts.

Though there was a group of first-years that got caught on not one, not two, but three changing staircases that might start trying to find an alternate way to classes because I ( Read more... )

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March is a fairly celebratory month for my family in any given year (my mother and Aunt Marybeth have birthdays on the 17th, and Kester's is on the 22nd), but this year the stakes have been raised a bit, as Portree has matches on the 16th and the 23rd. Both birthday weekends will, no doubt, be improved with Portree wins. I have tickets to both (as ( Read more... )

I suppose I should see if these journals are as... fun, perhaps, is the word I am looking for? I have had one for a little while, and observing has been entertaining, but- well ( Read more... )

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Well, I always was shit at writing, so I don't expect this to be any different.

I'm not bloody talking about work, because I certainly see enough parchment in the run of a day through that. One of the perks about working in the Dutch Office, though - convenient excuses to swing by Amsterdam and visit the coffeeshops. First day back was today, ( Read more... )