I'm up early, and all geared to go! On the way to uni, I want to stop by the Overgate for the last (I hope) of my Christmas presents.

And then, I'm done!

I have my Christmas tree and lights up and everything. I should post pictures soon. Perhaps later today? Just FYI, my room is situated right on the river Tay, and it's just hit dawn, and the sky is a gorgeous crazy orange, which is bouncing off the water. Magical.

It's 5am. I moved to some dark, quiet benches, but apparently the airport comes back to life at half 4, as all the lights came on.

In a way this is good- even though I'm sleepy, I need to stay awake for a bit longer. I don't want to miss my bus.

There's a woman intent on cleaning one tile just behind me- she kept on going over the same spot for about 10 minutes, then zoomed off, ignoring the rest of the area.

I'm sleep deprived. And now I'm choking. And this post is making no sense, but it took ages to type on my phone, so it's being published anyway.

Am currently sitting at Costa in Edinburgh Airport, sipping on a very Christmassey cinnamon latte.

Despite all the problems, my flight was perfect.. Except we spent an extra hour in the air. Which was good for me, because now I only have 6 hours before my bus.

Someday, I'll organise an airport BYOB slumber party for when I'm back. I need company!

Off to shower, then heading to the airport.

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I’m typing this up on Windows Live Writer, so I’m not sure how it’s going to end up looking. Worst-case scenario I just delete it all, so that’s okay. I think. This is looking pretty nifty; I gave it my username and password, and it ‘downloaded’ my layout, so I’m typing “inside” my journal. Very WYSIWYG, if I must say so myself.

It’s 11pm on a Sunday, and I have NO idea what I’m teaching tomorrow. We’re starting semester 2, which means we have completely new module guides. And I get completely new subjects, like I.T., for which I have no resources. I’m sure I’ll be fine… if I can’t think of anything, I’ll just do an FOP lecture instead, and figure it out after.

The good thing about having multiple lectures with the same class is that I can change the schedule around to suit my needs, as well as theirs.

The bad thing is that on Thursdays, I have five hours straight with the same class. Poor guys. Poor me!

So – my inner gaming geek is very pleased. Final Fantasy XIII came out last week, and it’s been priced at €50 (locally) or £35 (in the UK; postage costs bring it up to about £40). I wasn’t exactly happy, and was going to wait for prices to decrease… when lo and behold, I found it for £23, brand-new and with FREE POSTAGE on eBay! The guy was nice enough to shave a couple of quid off for sending it to Malta too. Complete bargain, and I’m thrilled with myself.

Also booked flights so I can go up to Scotland for Pamela’s birthday mid-March. I have loads of random flights lying about in my inbox.. some of which need further tickets booked:

March Flights
Malta – UK – Malta (not booked)

April Flights
Malta – London – Edinburgh – Malta (all booked)

May Flights
Malta – London (booked)
London – Edinburgh – London – Malta (not booked)

There’s really no difference between catching a plane and getting a bus, for me. I think I do the former more frequently at this point! Which is worrying on my wallet. :p

What else? I watched about fifteen minutes from Precious: Based on the novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire, and it looks really good. I need to finish it properly at some point this week.

Right- off to look for flights and write up lecture notes for tomorrow. Wish me luck!!

The Hilton was AMAZING! Will post about it in detail tomorrow, probably. It was divine though. AND I found the perfect suit jacket for graduation, but I need to somehow find money. How do you plant a money tree?

I was tagged by clairecommando. PS: Claire, why is your name 'commando'? Are you into military, or are you using the Maltese 'slang' for 'remote'? :P

The rules:
1. Post about something that made you happy today.
2. Repeat for eight days.
3. Tag eight people to do the same: I don't like tagging people, and I don't think I have eight people who post regularly who AREN'T doing this already :p so.... violent_helena, scotzlassie, kylie1403. And anyone else. :-)

Day 1:
Waking up next to Pamela, making fun of posh people, and having a big big big breakfast. :-)

Not exactly the most cheerful person as the April Fool Fairy decided to present me with a rent bill and an electricity bill, and then tell me it wasn't, in fact, April Fool's. Bah. Still, good things happened this week, so I'll be positive -- because that's what TILT's about!

TILT - Things I Love Thursday

• Finishing my Honours Project code. There's actually nothing else I have to code - now it's just writing up all my Appendices and draw a flowchart and write my dissertation. And I have three weeks to do it. Yay!


• Two years six months with Pamela on Saturday. Went to a lovely place in Broughty ferry for high tea, and it was yummy-tastic. And watching Ghost was really good too!


• Find time to play my DS again. Forgot how many good games I had.


• Going to Kingspark School on Tuesday and having the kids love my program and enjoy playing with it, then being able to pitch a positive idea to my supervisor. I feel a lot more confident now, AND I might get to write a research paper. Maybe.


• Going for food at the Union yesterday with friends from my course, and following that with waffles and ice-cream at the Nether Inn, as well as a HUMONGOUS bowl of chips with the loveliest BBQ dip ever.


• Watching The Sex Education Show vs Pornography on Channel 4. It's a really really good, frank look at sex, and trying to help teenagers cope with it and teach them that porn isn't always right. They showed some interviews with boys and girls - some boys didn't realise that all breasts weren't, um, fake. And they slagged girls off for it. Geez.


• Renting my Gown for graduation!


• Buying my Grad Ball ticket this morning. Grad Ball's on June 27th, and will be a 6pm - 6am party, where we'll apparently have rides and champagne breakfast and ceilidh and all that sounds really exciting. It's going to be an amazing way to unwind!

I love TILT. Looking over this list makes me feel better already! :-)

I feel like crap. Think I have the flu, which I call a fever because... I dunno. It's fever in Malta, but everyone seems to call it flu here. *shrug*

Anyway - took advantage of the opportunity to order new bedsheets since the ones I have here have been bacteria-infested since Monday. Yay. Hopefully will be better enough tomorrow to i) not miss uni again and ii) wash the sheets I currently have.

On worse news, Pamela's feeling even worse than I am. :-( Meh. Ha just came over with Steph, and they're going to Tesco's to get me paracetamol and other drugs. Yay! I might survive until tomorrow. Though with this illness thing, my dieting is going REALLY well - I've only had two bowls of cereal, two hard-boiled eggs and almost-a-portion of egg-fried rice in the last 2 days. Yay for lack of appetite!

Also really being on my Honours project. Woo-hoo.

*cough cough splutter dies*

Finished reading all four Twilight books. Note to Stephenie Meyer: YOU ARE NOT J.K. ROWLING. OR ANY OTHER FAMOUS AUTHOR THAT'S WORTH MENTIONING. She apparently wants her last book to be "two movies; it can't be one!". But from my observations of all four novels, the latter three novels can be compressed into two films.

Why, you ask? It's all spoilery, so it's under a cut. ( SPOILER SPOILER )

Glad that's out of my chest. :-)

Just for myself - schedule of things to do today:

- Wii Fit (10 min)
- Breakfast
- Shower
- Hons Reading (1 hour)
- Think about how to get cogs turning planets in Graphics; try figure out moon and multiple textures? (1 hour+)

This is what I modelled so far. Any suggestions?

( yay cut )

I... don't know if I like this. It's very reminiscent of Ruslana's winning entry, down to the odd outfit and bad vocalisation. However, it's not a silly love song, and that gives it points.

Huh.

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- I should have probably said this earlier.

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Hey - I need help with creating my dæmon (and this will probably only be understood by fans of His Dark Materials, which they're making in a movie for December(!).

Could you do the following thingy to help settle my dæmon? =D

I'm not going to lj-cut it cos it's not that big, and will provide colour to your friends pages. And cos I want you to do it for me. :D

My mum and dad are visiting me for a whole week.. in 10 days! I can't wait!!! :D

Quite randomly.. I'm just back from Karaoke at the Union. Wasn't in the mood to go out, but I went to be social.. ended up getting bought drinks (:$) and singing! Sang Summer Nights with Kat (not that we were expecting to do it; the duet who had to perform didn't turn up, so we kinda took their place) and Lola with Steve, Chris and Kat.

...Almost got a standing ovation - we were that amazing. :P

I think I'm letting my paid work take over my life.. and I'm pushing uni work aside. I'm not saying that's a bad thing - I'm getting money, and in the next few days I have to pay rent (£196 for these 4 weeks..) and we have a huge electricity bill coming up soon (our first since we moved in this place in June.. cos they had problems with contacting us. I'm scared of this bill, in case you haven't noticed) - so money's always good, I say.

However.. I also have Uni work to catch up on, so I guess I should make a start on that. I'm feeling off today.. going out with Pam tomorrow.. so maybe I can start on Thursday. It's not much I have to do anyway - 2000-word essay on free licensing for OS, and that's pretty much it for this week.

Hm.