I want this, I want that.

Hello again.

Ages since I last wrote anything yadda yadda yadda, sorry etc.

Bit of a different blog this time, more about things that I've just been thinking about in general than what is going on in 'life at university'.

I really only started thinking about this yesterday but it has crossed my mind a few time previously. I'm doing a Psychology degree at the moment and I find it absolutely fascinating. I've wanted to go into something like neurospychology for a while now and I know it's what I want and could easily be doing for the rest of my working life. But, there are so many things that I find interesting and that I would love to find out more about them and read about them and learn more. I give the excuse to myself that I just don't have the time, but of course I do, I spend much of my time on my computer not really doing very much at all, why can't I get the motivation to use that time to do something more productive? I would love to learn more about different subjects, biology, some areas of physics such as quantum mechanics, I would love to go to a drama college, or do a music course, I want to write songs, learn about plays, learn more about psychology than just the material for the exams. I want to know more. I want to be able to talk about things with confidence instead of knowing little bits that aren't quite enough to put forward a convincing argument to someone who you know is talking nonsense. I want to learn more about religion and faith.

There are people who do everything they can in their lifetime, 'living life to the full', but all I seem to want to do is sit on my arse. And I enjoy having time to myself, having time to relax and not do very much, but there's so much more that I want to do but I don't seem to want it quite enough to actually do it.

There are so many things that I think I could do if I put my mind to them. I think I'm going to put my mind to inventing something to greatly prolong life so I can do everything that I want and have relaxing time as well. Hmm.

In other news, exams are coming up so I've been doing lots of lovely revising. I had TWO library sessions today and for the first time in all the revision that I've ever done, I've actually been managing to read stuff from text books and not fall asleep in boredom after 10 minutes. Shows that I really do find some of this stuff interesting.

That's it. BYE.

A rambling update of my life

I know, I know, I'm rubbish at updating this thing, life's so busy you know.

Best bit was of course Laura coming to stay! It was amazing having her here and meeting my flatmates, and then the Amblers all came to see me and we all went out for lunch which was fabulous :D. We then ahd a couple of days to lark about, go clubbing, cinema, meal, you know, all the important things. Anyway, it was an awesome week and I can't wait to see her again. Miss youu!

Anyway, just thought I would mention a few highlights of this week. The first being the fact that I won a big bag of haribo for making a paper aeroplane in my cognitive Psychology lecture this week. We were told to, by the way. I didn't just decide to make one because I was bored. The task was to follow verbal instructions on how to make a quite complicated paper aeroplane which had purposfully vague instructions in places. And the one that looked most like it and flew the best, won. Yay!

I've done a few things this week that I've been meaning to do for ages, like e-mail a person about a piano. I really miss my piano but was never quite sure how to go about asking someone if I could use one in the music department to practice on given that I'm not a music student. not got a reply yet, but the e-mail has been sent, finally. I've also just been to the sports hall and booked the dance studio for 2 hours this week! Eek. I decided that I wanted to teach myself quite a difficult dance and so in the process get myself fit and maybe lose a little bit of weight that I've put on since I've been at uni (Pizza at 3.00 in the morning after nights out and ben and jerry's does that to you). So I actually went and sorted some time out for next week in the studio, which turned out to be free to book! Should also hopefully be able to do some badminton next week or the week after as well which will be good.

Next week might be quite busy given that I'm supposed to be doing sound for Woman in Mind, but I haven't heard anything about it yet so I have no idea what's happening. I think the plya is on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday but I'm not exactly sure, and it's in the basement which is fine but I don't know if we're supposed to meet up before hand or anything. I don't know how to do sound...I've never done it before, I'm kinda hoping somebody is going to tell me what I'm supposed to be doing!

I bought awesome Christmas presents for my parents and brother this week, but I posted on twitter what I'd got them and that just happened to be the day when my brother and his house mate decide to look me up on twitter and spy on me (none of my family have twitter so I thought I was safe), but no. He found out what I've got him for Christmas. Grrr.

I've just had a really long catch up phone conversation with my mumwhich was good, I haven't talked to her properly for 2 weeks. I'm going home in 4 weeks! I'm actually really looking forward to it :-), it is going to be very strange though after 3 months of being away from home.

Hopefully going to Laura's formal at Ambleside in December, woo! It'll be awesome if I can make it.

Anyway, that's about it from me, sorry for the ridiculus amount of time between posts, I can only apologise. I am now going to watch Strictly Come Dancing instead of tidy my room. Good plan.

Goodbye.

3 weeks later...

Well, so much for keeping this up to date...oops! The first 3 weeks at university have been busy ones, not surprisingly and I've just not had the time to blog. But now Laura's reminder has got my bum into gear so here I am.

So much has happened in the past 3 weeks I can't possibly tell you all but it can be summarised as follows:

Nights out, Powerhouse, Digital, Pre drinking, Ring of fire, wine (not drunk by me), Bring it on, Duvets, Frankie and Bennies, wine (again not drunk by me), Pizza, Wine (you get the picture), more pizza, Permanent marker, Wagamama, Black books, Coupling, Pizza, Army fancy dress, Primark, Wine, Pizza, Wine, Pizza...aand some lectures about psychological things.

Now I'm going to get down to some work before going to Kate's for a chinese take away, yum!

Auf Wiedersehen.

Busy busy busy.

Elephant is finished! It's not perfect but it'll do.



I've got a busy day today. I did a bit of shopping this morning and bought the sieve that I was going to buy yesterday. (Crucial piece of equipment for university life obviously). I've also got to make some fudge for a small person's birthday tomorrow and STOP procrastinating and actually start packing. I have made a list...it's just I've not actually done anything that's on the list yet.

Then later I'm off to a friend's house for tea and to say goodbye *sniff.* Then straight from there to work (my last night at work, *sniff*). Then straight from there to the train station and off into town for another friend's birthday and a big last night out with all of my college friends. *sniff sniff.* ...Somebody hand me the tissues please!

It's a good thing I'm feeling better!

Joy the Second. (Plus elephant update).

Evenin' all.

I need a clothes brush, there is fluff everywhere from this elephant.

It's been a slobby day today, I haven't stepped foot outside the house and I've spent most of the day in front of my laptop. I do have an excuse though: I am ill. Not properly ill though, only ill enough to be feeling a bit rubbish and not be able to keep any food down. Not ill enough to have lost my appetite, meaning I am absolutely starving. And grouchy.

Grrrr.

On the bright side, Elephant is coming along very well, it now looks like an inside out elephant with no ears and no tail:

This is what it looked like yesterday.

This is how it looks today.

I might have to do something other than sew tomorrow. Such as buy a sieve, and I might actually start packing for Uni. That's quite scary as I have no idea if everything that I want to take is going to fit. I do have two large and very pretty suitcases but who knows if that's enough.

Nighty night.

Numero Une.

In the beginning there was Joy,

But no other words existed for none had been written. A blank page. Then lo, unto the page bereft of words, writing began to appear, this was the first blog post.
Seemingly written by a being of little importance who was trying to be amusing and failing.

etc. etc.

Enough of that already. Ahem, yes, first post.

Well, this blog is called Joy because firstly, it will hopefully be a place full of happy things, e.g. new and wonderful times at University (where I will be off to on Saturday), and also because my middle name happens to be Joy as well.

I will hopefully keep it enough up to date so that people who I have left behind in my home town will be able to see what lovely and exciting things I have been up to without them.

Just so you all know, at the moment I am sewing an Elephant toy (pictures below) for my best friends birthday (she will be 20). Updates on how this is going will appear over the next few days. Now I've written that, it means that I can't tell my best friend about this blog until after her birthday, which is thankfully not too far away. Ah well.

As you may have noticed this will be mostly ramblings about whatever I am thinking about at the time so don't expect too much eloquence, wit or narrative structure.

Elephant pictures: Clockwise: 1 ear done, 2nd ear on the way, hopefully the finished product should look like this...hmm.

Until next time, au revoir!