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I shall simply call this post home, because that's where I am now and forevermore Amen! Ahem. Anyways, its been a pretty hectic few days:
Thursday: Travelled home from Southampton, having packed most of my life in to boxes!
Friday: Chill day but charity quiz in the evening. Won a wooden spoon with the word LOSER on it, for being in the team with the least points!
Saturday: Went to London for the Keswick Training Day and saw Ruth again!
Sunday: Spent all day in the park doing the RBL tombola stall for Armed Forces Day. Absolutely loved and was very moved by the parade. Hope the bloke who fainted doesn't get in too much trouble!
Monday (today): Blog! Sort out my phone issues hopefully...

This month is reasonably full of events and travelling and if I sit back and think, I quite enjoy that side of it. I've always been quite happy to spend the entire summer with my nose in one good book after another, but this summer its all about getting out of the house, meeting new people, doing new things, going to new places and lots more besides.

This blog is no longer really a Disney blog, so I'm considering changing some of the blog furniture as it were. What do you think?

I've been inspired by an Onion to make a list or two:

Things to be excited about this summer!

-KESWICK! 11th-18th July. Doing kids work with the 3-4 year olds! Was truly impressed at the Training Day and can't wait to actually get there and get stuck in.

GRADUATION! 20th July. The entire School of Humanities is graduating on the same day and so I'm so happy I get to see all of my friends again! That's aside the huge excitement of gowns, mortar boards, ceremonies, photographs, degree certificates etc!

MOMENTUM! 22nd-27th August. I love Momentum and it always seems to just have a never ending stream of amazingness to recharge my batteries and get me excited. Chance to see a few friends who aren't otherwise engaged too! (I guessed the dates, don't quote me on them!)

WEDDINGS! 4th July and 29th August. Issac and Becky in Woking, James and Emma in Southampton. Dresses, photographs, presents, dancing etc!

WORK! Continuous. Not generally a thing to be excited over, but it is kind of, because not only am I going back to Argos in July but I also am applying/looking for proper jobs now I am a "proper adult"!

Rant connected to that: WHY do so many people insist that I look like a 12 year old? Or, for that matter, that I AM 12 years old? Cheers lovely people, I know I'll be grateful when I'm 50, but can you please consider what its doing to me NOW?

Anyways; home is me, Mum, 2 dogs who are always standing in the doorway you need to get through and occasionally my Dad, when he drops in and is not working. No-one else has ever set foot in our house aaaannnndddd I don't blame them - its a tip.
On the upside, its summer; the sun is shining, its warm, I don't burn easily, I don't suffer from hayfever and I have no "homework" to think about!

Adios.

BA (Hons)

'Ello

I'm reporting on the most important thing that has happened recently. A la University of Southampton today, it was results day!! Yours truly was amongst many frazled looking finalists who picked up a rather ominous white envelope and found out the news we had all been waiting for!

2:1 Wahey!! I'm rather happy with that and to express it, I went and chatted to my tutor - in her office - for SIX hours and also gave her a card and some Thorntons for being amazing this year. So that was nice!!

It's the end of term (officially) today and so that is it. Finished. Finito. Done. Over. I am now a graduand which sound very swanky and means that I am a 'degree candidate who has yet to graduate'! Nice. One month tomorrow and I'll be a GRADUATE!! Whoooooop!

I leave Southampton in six days time. Sadness. I get to come back for Graduation. Happiness.

Elsewhere in the world, ParkyPants has been in Florida for 10 whole days now (as has Daz and all the others from that group) and the pics etc on FB seem to suggest she was enjoying every minute - save the early starts!!

Not a lot else to say really... People keep going home and disappearing, tis very sad indeedy. Said goodbye to Lois and Lizzie today :'''( Glad I will see them all one last time at Graduation!

That's all really. I leave you with this:
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us - Ralph Waldo Emerson

The End AND The Start of Something New!

Hello!
It's been a little while I feel, so apologies! Let me start filling you in on the news:

***Michelle Park flew to Florida Today!***

As I write this at 12.30am, she is at the mall, and it's 90 degrees out there. Gosh I'm so happy that her day has finally arrived, I really wish her the most amazing year. Same goes for all the June 9th people!

In the mundane life of me, UNIVERSITY IS OVER FOREVER!!!!!! Yep, the end came after a rather gruelling 4hr exam on June 1st and now I'm free! I also have no purpose to my life...if only I had a job in Florida waiting for me... No such luck!

So, although the end of Uni means a new start, it also means lots of confusion and a ridiculous amount of debt! Que sera sera, I guess. Well, time to start taking the advice of graduate recruitment agencies and take a gap year lol. Unfortunately they also require funding.

On the bright side, the Grad Ball is on Wednesday and promises to be an extremely awesome night. We get driven to the country-estate venue, have a 3 course meal, enjoy the party with performances by The Streets and DJing by Scott Mills, enjoy a funfair including rides and vendors and get a lift home again. For that I had to pay £59 - which burnt a serious hole in my pocket - but I'm hoping it'll be well worth it!

There seems to be a couple of birthdays coming up soon: Nikki and Kathryn, so a variety of festivities to look forward to! Not to mention it was my Mum's birthday this weekend and we had a great time in Salisbury.

Plans for the summer are also shaping up too. Keswick 11-18th July (travel on the 10th to overnight with Ruth), GRADUATION on the 20th, Issac and Becky's Wedding on the 4th July, Momentum the 22nd-27th August and then I'm staying in Soton that weekend to attend James and Emma's Wedding! Whooop. Plus I'll be working too obviously!!

Anyway, I am pleased to report that yours truly will indeed be recieving a BA (Hons) degree in History at 2:1 level on that fateful day in July, having got 65 for my dissertation and 67 for my exam (which I was convinced I'd messed up)! So excitement all round, now I'm almost certain that the job is done!

I go home to Hastings for good on the 25th June and go to a Keswick Training Day on the 27th, so not long before I have to put the last 3 years of my life back in to boxes! Hmmmm, a sad day that shall be indeed. Then it's back to being tied to the maternal apron strings and under the maternal thumb... ...
Ummm I'm shattered so I'll leave you with this brief and vague semblance of a blog - which I may or may not update soon.

**UPDATE THE NEXT DAY...**

Welcome to Tuesday. Today has been bewildering. I'm just wandering from idea to idea about what to do with my life and not sure that anything is right for me. Now a job at Disney... Well, that would be perfecto!! Gosh I dislike decision-making.

Suffice to say I am currently considering a gap year. Where? How? When? By what means? With whose money? I do not know. Some things seem the right thing to do, others don't seem so good on second glance... Who knows? All I know is that if I go and live back home for good then I may as well have never gone to college, let alone Uni, for all the good I'll do.

Hastings is not a good place to be attempting to establish a graduate career, that much is clear to me. I love Hastings. It is - and always will be - home. But I can't go back there right now. Well when I say right now, I know that I'll be there for the rest of 2009. 2010 though? That's different. I want to get out and about. If Southampton broadened my horizons this much, then how much more, would time abroad benefit me...

Enough pointless rambling from me. Michelle and the others move in to their apartments in a matter of hours, which excites me greatly! Here in Southampton, the very real temptation is to put the heating on! In June :-(

I can't think of anything else to write. Ooooh, I must just record my excitement actually...I set up my 30 day free trial to LoveFilm.com today and have a lovely stack of films waiting for me to watch over the next couple of weeks, including Aladin and WallE!!