Running the first York Marathon with a 6ft Fox and other tales...

Yeah, you read that right! I am running York's first ever marathon on Sunday 20th October 2013 with Sval, aka, the White Fox of York!

This is what happens in my life, odd little things like this occasionally! Usually in a moment of pure madness before I realise exactly what I have done. I think I have yet to realise that a marathon is 26 miles long....

Wait, I have realised. Oh why am I doing this to myself!

For my more observant stalkers/followers/procrastinators, you will have notice that I have failed to update this blog as often as I promise myself. Mainly because I keep forgetting about it, but also because I get distracted by things, such as uni work and sleep. Oh and food!

Moving on, let us go forth and deal with some other exciting (to me) news, which as usual seems to be revolving around uni. Because that is my life. Well kind of, it has expanded a little bit. So anyway, the stuff you are about to be told may not be in chronological order, but since when have I ever done anything in a logical way?

My life is fully revolving around Doctor Who again. And I mean fully! If I'm not in lectures/seminars/doing prep for seminars/asleep/eating/etc I am doing my dissertation. Therefore, EVERYTHING in my life is now related to Doctor Who, especially my thoughts. Which is entertaining. For me, not you maybe!

AND next week, I may or may not (I am) going to Cardiff to the Doctor Who exhibition with Lauren, and I am EXCITED! This is of course all for my dissertation research and not for our entertainment at all.... Yeah I don't believe me either! More to follow on this after the trip!

The snow has been a bit erratic in Lincoln, it comes, it goes, it comes back again, it goes away slowly again and is supposed to come back again soon. I have enjoyed it, especially on Friday when I spent a few hours with Rebecca firstly just out walking in it, then acting our mental ages and making snowballs, snowball fights and both falling flat on our faces when she ran up behind me. But I do not enjoy it being this erratic. Either stay or go!

Last week also brought a highly emotional week for me. Based on my MA interview. It turned into one of those meetings where I struggle to pay attention and communicate the points I wanted to say. I walked out of that meeting convinced that I wasn't going to get onto the MA at all, nor be offered a place. Luckily, after two days of stressing out over how rubbish the interview went, I have been given a conditional offer to do the MA part time (I MUST GET MY 2:1 NOW!).

Speaking of which, I got two of my three essays back and although I didn't do too well on Shakespeare (52%), I did do a lot better on my Sci-Fi than I thought (64%). I was disappointed by the mark for Shakespeare, but I know where I went wrong, and it is only worth 40% of the module so the world is not going to end because of that score. I haven't got Georgian back, mainly because I am in denial and convinced I have done badly in it and really don't want to know. Which isn't the wisest thing, I am sure! I should get it back next week.

Semester 2/B/whatever the uni now call it, is in full swing, and I only have one new module this term. Literature, Film and Gender which has replace Sci-fi. And I am enjoying it so far. There is a lot of stuff that seems interesting to me. And, oddly, I am starting to think of ideas of things I could do for my project, not something that I do often this early on in the semester.

And a final uni related note, operation get over presentation phobia is now in full swing. My S&G mentor has started getting me to speak aloud stuff to get me to be able to do my presentations for both the rest of my undergrad career and my postgrad career. I am going to get over it! I AM! I am also challenging myself to speak in all seminars at least once, which has been a bit hit and miss. But I am getting there slowly.

So, non-uni side of life, I've started helping out at Scouts this week (the 9th Lincoln (Salvation Army) Scouts to be precise), it is a small troop and I've only met about half of them so far, but I think I will enjoy helping out, never really worked with that age group before. Currently sat looking at the programme I was given and it looks like they are doing a lot of exciting things. Also, I am apparently a lot more talkative than I realise and settled into helping out quickly.

And on that note, time to go back to Doctor Who....

2013

Ok, So I've kind of failed at posting recently. I get distracted a lot. But also, I don't know if you really need an in depth description of me working, attempting to sleep and driving places. Which is the jist of my life for  the last few weeks of 2012.

Saying that, I will do a brief update on adventures from my last post and over Christmas this coming Sunday  and I do intend to try and post a bit more regularly from the week after that onwards.

2013 is in full swing now, it is a big year and already a lot is happening, so posts will occur.

Happy New Year!