A first class first year!

Yayyyyyyy! I got a first overall for my first year at uni... all sets me in good stead. :) 72.6% average... the maths results were particularly good, all being firsts, with three out of four of them being in the region of 90%... English weighs my results down a little, but it was ok this year, so we'll see what happens next year...

Yayyyy!!

Oooops

I've just realised quite how long it is since I last blogged. Ah well, just presume I was rather busy. ;) (That or was doing nothing and therefore had nothing to blog...)

It is raining outside, and thus good weather for blogging (and ducks, apparently).

Amidst the busy-ness of roughly the last month, I spent last Monday to Thursday with Simon in the wonderful city of Florence (as well as a few hours in Pisa and über-early hours on the Monday in London). Amongst other things, we learnt that Italians are crazy drivers, which doesn't really help when you are walking everywhere. We also visited many a tourist site: the Uffizi, Accadémia (where David lives), the Duomo (which we climbed! All the way to the top! And such a beautiful view of Florence from the top... wow. Also so close to the largest fresco in the world! So cool... Photos are in hard-copy format, thus not being posted on here until my parents buy a scanner, or I go somewhere where there is one), the synagogue, the oldest church in Florence, the Santa Maria Novella church and museum, the leaning tower of Pisa, the airport and the train station! A thing that annoyed me somewhat is the ban on photos from inside so many places.

Rather surprisingly (or at least, I was rather surprised), I didn't eat any pasta while I was in Florence. I'm not sure if this was Simon's influence, as he likes fish so much, or rather that I discovered last year in Venice that pasta is never a very filling meal out there, as it is before the main course. Ooo! I've just remembered, I lied. I ate one piece of penne.

Yayyyy the university staff pay dispute has finally been settled!

Sun and swim

The incessant rain that was appears to be somewhat less incessant than I thought: it rained early-ish this morning (9ish I think) and has been sunny ever since, for the first time in weeks. Yay! This was a handy coincidence with my plan to go for a swim this morning at the Aquatics Centre, where I did 40 lengths (the wall in the middle was up, so that's 40 lengths of 25 metres). I managed to keep myself at a pace where at the end of each 15 minutes of being in the water I had finished another 10 lengths. No, it doesn't take me a minute and a half to swim 25 metres: I tend to stop in between lengths every few, but this kept me going better than I may have otherwise. I like it there: there are always at least 8 lanes (3 slow, 3 medium and 2 fast) and barely ever is it that busy that you have more than 3 or 4 people in the lane- at some points today I was the only one in the lane, and most of the time there was only one other.

This afternoon entailed clearing out various drawers and things in my room, in preparation for packing up all my stuff. Funnier is the stuff I found underneath the bottom drawers: a puzzle book and a cake knife! (As well as plastic bags and other things...)

Freeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

Yayyyy! I've finished my exams... In Manchester 'til Friday, so I suspect much fun and relaxation before then, then I'm going home to London.

Exams went alright: today's was harder than I expected, but still doable (we had to answer four out of seven questions, I know I answered three really well and I answered three others, possibly not as well as those first three I mentioned; they take the best four). Thursday's exam was alright too: a little tricky in places (a different format where you could only leave one question out from the second section, I attempted them all though) but generally okay and doable. I should get my results late June, or possibly later is AUT action continues. (Mrrarggh grrr *wants feedback and things to be marked*)

Yay freeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

We won!

Woo! Manchester University won University Challenge!! We won the final 160 points to Trinity Hall, Cambridge's 150. Woooo!

I commented on someone else's, so this goes on mine:

Comment, and . . .
* I'll respond with something random I like about you.
* I'll tell you what song/movie reminds me of you.
* I'll name something we should do together.
* I'll say something that only makes sense to you and me (or just me).
* I'll tell you my first/clearest memory of you.
* I'll ask you something that I've always wondered about you.
If I do this for you, you must post this on your blog so you can do the same for other people.

sun = little work done

Gah. The sun makes me procrastinate more and more and not want to do my work. Damn essays and exams. *grumble*

Broken toe

So, after thinking it was broken on Thursday (it refused to bend when my brain told it to and was painful), I strapped my toe to the one next to it and left it to see if it would improve (bending and pain). It did, until yesterday. I was sitting down on the bus, and flexed my toes and suddenly it hurt ridiculously lots and lots... more so this morning. So I took myself down to A&E (it is literally southwards, although not far at all) to get it checked out this morning (oh, the joys of not having many lectures midweek)... and it's broken. Fourth right toe, one of the bones is cracked. It makes the toe painful and swollen... apart from that I'm good. Trying to work out what on Earth I'm going to write for my final English essay of the year and trying to revise too (one complete set of revision notes made!). All fun. ;)

Holidays

Well... back in Manchester for the new term. Something like three weeks of lectures (or two weeks of proper lectures and one of revision thingummies) and then exams and then home!! So soon!

You may have been wondering though about the crazy yellow post below this one. Well, it was posted by a friend one evening at her house, when we were hunting for holidays for this summer. (Woo, hopefully there will be seven of us this year! Such funnnnnn. Which reminds me: Christina, if you're reading this, PLEASE TELL US IF YOU'RE COMING!!) Likely to be somewhere Spanish, semi-beachy, semi-cultural for a week at the beginning of September. All good stuff methinks. :)

And Simon and I have booked to go away together in June. :D We're going to Florence for four days just after Simon finishes uni for the year. Yayyyyyyyyyy! :D

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YELLOW

Right now that's out of system...I have some very exciting news...Christina is officially a donkey's uncle's auntie.

That is all

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to confirm that you agree with this statement.

Wooooo

Heehee :D Our exam timetables are finally up... and I finish my exams on 22nd May!! Yayyyyyyy!

Why don't I remember my dreams, when everyone else does?

Maths rep!

So, I won my position on the union council for next (academic) year as maths rep. (Something like 48 votes to 25... not many maths students turn out to vote.) All good. :)

Went out with Josh and Adina this evening to celebrate (or rather, that was the excuse for getting out)- they are also school reps on union council next year, like me, but for their schools instead (computer science and law respectively).

Last weekend was the UK Jewish chaplaincy weekend, so Hillel was rather packed with people, especially over Shabbat, with Jewish students from all over the UK turning up and wanting somewhere to sleep: I had three girls sleeping in my room... all lovely, my room just got rather messy and I keep finding bits and pieces of debris left from them and am wondering how I'm going to return half the stuff, since I'm only really in contact with one out of the three of them. We'll see.

The last two weeks have been rather sleep-deprivingly busy, and I am thus rather tired and greatly looking forward to the holidays, when I am sure I will sleep lots and relax and possibly not manage to do the essay that I need to write. Hm. Oh, and obviously see Simon lots too. :)

Anyway, beddddddddddddddddddddddddddd

Monty python lego version!! Heehee.

Purim sameach!

Quite possibly the strangest setting for a megilla reading I've ever been in tonight. It was the dress rehearsal for Utopia (opening night tomorrow!!) and so seven of us gathered in the orchestra's dressing room during the set change between acts for a very quick reading of the megilla (the story of Queen Esther for those who don't know). Impressively, we finished just as Act II began, which was fine, since we were all chorus members and weren't needed on stage for a while. But it was rather strange. We were in fancy dress though, given the fact that it was the dress rehearsal. ;) Currently wondering if I'm going to wake up in time to go for the 8.30 reading in Fallowfield in the morning. Hm.

Mid-March and it's snowing again. What's going on?

The Nature of Blogging

I don't particularly want to ramble for ages on this, although I do have oodles to say on the matter. Rather, I will link you to two blogs: one Simon's and the other Zoe's where you can read my copious, lengthy and possibly repetitive comments on the matter. There will possibly be a long post on the matter, once my essay is out the way. The English (which seems slightly like a history) essay takes priority first though. Blogging this as I'm procrastinating as ever. :)

Update

I'm standing for School of Maths rep on student council... funfunfun. Vote for me! (If you belong to the School of Maths...)

Other news: it is cold, frosty, snowy here. Birmingham was similar, if not colder when I was there during the week. It was lovely to see Simon too. :)