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Right, I actually wanted to finish that blog post yesterday but I didn’t get any chance…

So, to quickly bring you up to date:

• The builders finally left on Thursday afternoon (almost a week after they were meant to be finished…) and straight after they’d gone I went last minute shopping for everything I thought I’d need for uni. Nothing like a quick rush, eh?
• Yesterday I went shopping for a load of stuff I managed to think about overnight. Went into Beeston to Wilko and took one look at the number of Nottm Uni students and took a bus straight back out of there, headed for Long Eaton! Completely didn’t occur to me that they started on the Thursday so most of them would be descending on the closest town to the campus to buy stuff!
• Also yesterday went to Matalan for the third day in a row, to purchase what can best be described as eveningwear, despite not knowing what one is meant to wear on nights out (having not been the kind of person who goes out clubbing every night).
• On Wednesday I did my last shift at Barnardo’s. Wouldn’t have been so bad but we had the area manager in, Lorna [not the Lorna who reads this, but then I guess you know you’re not an area manager!]. Had seen her before at the volunteering conference and had thought she seemed a bit ignorant but nothing quite prepared me for how much of a bitch she is! I was helping Cathy out with the computer and she barged in the office, back to me and just cut me off mid sentence to pretend she knew what she was talking about… Still, it was emotional as I hate goodbyes! Actually cried on the Commuter Xprss home - not something I’ve ever done before!
• Today I bugger off to Swansea. Considering I’ve been to three NAGTY Summer Schools before, you’d think I’d be an old hand at all this! But still I find myself excreting fired clay oblongs (I know you don’t like that expression Lorna but never mind :P) and getting nervous and not knowing what to expect!
  Still, Uni is going to be very different from NAGTY in that I won’t have RAs looking over my shoulder all the time, watching me to make sure I don’t do anything wrong!

So, there we have it. Any updates from now for a while will most probably be made from my phone (shoe!) or my PDA as I won’t have much Internet access until I’ve enrolled, signed up for ITS, received my library card, waited in queues for several hours and eaten a cheese sandwich!

Anyway, good luck to all those leaving for uni today (Jason, amongst others) and those in the coming week (Lorna again ;)) - I’m sure you’ll be just as nervous as I am

[edit] Ubuntu (our mouse) was fine. We took her to the vet, expecting to have her put down but he said it’s just a cyst. He gave us some cream and told us to come back on Tuesday and either he’d have to operate (unlikely) or we’d just get some different cream to apply to it and it’d slowly go down. Tae was over the moon when we didn’t bring the poor mouse back in a box!