Setting myself an unattainable goal, yet again!

So! Well... BEDA is going well for me so far. Lots to blog about when I put my mind to it. I'm also being good and saving blog posts a day or two early and then posting them as and when I wish, which is so unlike me. I'm not normally this blogging prepared! I decided I was going to start a new blog. But I decide to start new blogs all the time, and I set them up and then miserably watch them fail, as I don't have the time to tend to other blogs apart from this one. But no. I am going to set this one up for sure. Because I have purpose and practise on my mind. My Boyf got me a couple of books for our anniversary (sorry, I won't talk about it any more after this post! :P), which are to help people write, basically. Fiction, mainly. One of them is a writer coaching book and helps you understand how to write a story, how to get out of the fear of writing, how to create characters, lots of stuff someone needs to know if they fancy giving writing a go. Which I do in the long run. The 2nd book I have is writing exercises, where you read a chapter and write for 5 mins a day. Different themes and challenges that are supposed to help you grow and learn. SO, to conclude, this new blog will be my writing space where I will share my creations to hopefully get feedback, and just get some stuff out there! I am in the thinking that if I make myself blog about it, it will keep me on track. Make me push myself to do it. And this is what I am planning to do. I promise to at least try to set it up!!! Sam

The Saga Continues....

Well! To say I'm stressed in an understatement. I am sat here in my boyfriends room - he asleep and me happily typing - and I am still stressing about Uni stuff. Basically, I have found out I should have been doing about 2 more courses this year. Which wasn't explained to me when I signed up! I was intending to get a degree in 3 years. And the website seemed to tell me that was possible if I followed a certain route. Took the suggested courses and that was that. But now it seems that I should have more 'points' for my first level. Which means I have to take 2 classes next year at level one stage, rather than progress to level to, thus rendering this year a sort of 'foundation' year. Not happy. Not only that, it seems the courses I need to dp next year don't start at the same time. One starts this November. That's fine. The other... well... it starts at the end of 2012. Erm... no thanks. I can't spread the first year over 3 years. But do they have other courses starting at the end of this year for year 1? No. So... basically they are making it impossible for me to get a degree in less than 4 or 5 years. I don't have time to waste my life doing that. This was supposed to be something that I did whilst working in a job from hell so I could get out of there and do something else with my life. But apparently the God's want me to suffer... WHY?! Humph. I'll figure it out and keep you posted, until then, i bid you all farewell! sam :)

Questions you wish you'd never asked!

Ha! I had to blog about this because it literally made me laugh out loud. I was sat at work and someone walked past. A colleague made a joke, saying to this person 'What do you think you're doing leaving at this time?'. You know when you wish you'd never asked? I think she had one of those moments. This guy just started rambling on about how his mother had diabeties and a cough and its taking it out of her so he's off to pick her up some medicine... on and on and on and on. I was sat chuckling to myself, as things like that amuse me. Whenever anyone asks me 'How are you?', or 'What's up?' - I reply with the standard 'Fine, thanks' and 'nothing, why?' - because I believe no one really wants to know. Sure, sometimes they do, but a normal person can tell when someone wants to listen to you rant. So what is it about some people when they think everyone wants to know their ultimitely dull business? I'll never understand! Over and out! Sam