The Philisophical Works of a Pseudo Author

Sorry that I've been quiet. Although I'm not entirely certain how many people on my f-list actually read my LJ posts regularly anyways. Sometimes I definitely feel like I'm talking to air! Which is okay; air doesn't care what I say or answer back.

I've been trying to multi-task, only somewhat successfully, these last two weeks. It's kept me very stressed and busy this month and will into October too. I probably won't be around much until November, in fact!

A short update though:

Went to the gym yesterday for 45 minutes. I was pretty bad last night on the pain scale, but okay today. Going to go again in...wow, as soon as I finish this! It's free at the moment, in order to make up for being closed all summer. Already bought the stupidly expensive membership, however, so I'm 'paying for it' anyways, really.

To my NA-list, I'm not watching premieres and television, by the way. I can't risk sending up a red flag on my landlord's internet service by downloading stuff illegally. So I'm going to be without TBBT, Castle and Fringe. VD shows here next month though. And, honestly, I'd give up Fringe anyways. I'm really going to miss PoI though, because I have to wait. They're just showing season 1 here now. TBBT I can probably find somewhere else, or wait until it shows over here (which it will, eventually). Ah well, just Castle then. I'll catch up eventually. Honestly, there's lost of fun shows on UK telly you can't get in NA, so we're probably even. Just letting you know, don't ask me about the current season, because I don't know anything! However, I get DW tonight before ANY OF YOU. Come join me in a cry when you can.

This fasting diet is getting a lot easier the longer I do it. I don't even notice I'm hungry until well into the afternoon now, which is when I get to eat anyways. I'll fit into those skinny jeans again soon, especially now I'm back at the gym.

I think tomorrow I may be posting the last chapter of the last fanfic I may ever write. Tragically, it's Twilight. I may have to write something else just to...make up for that. Not this year though! I need a new fandom. I wonder about Star Trek next May...

Right, I'm going to the gym. Right now. This very second. Yes I am. I'm dressed and have shoes on and everything.

(It's 50km/h winds outside and raining).

I WANT SUMMER. I promise to not complain about the hot weather again! I swear!!

I miss Scotland. I make no pretenses about that. No matter how much I love living in England, and being in Leicester especially, I miss Scotland almost daily. And it's funny, because I've spent about a grand total of a month of my life there, but it feels like a lot longer. It feels like I fell in love with a country I was born to - even if not born in - and it's been ages since I last saw it. It'll be a while longer, and probably not this year, before I see it again.

[To think, I could have gone to Newcastle. Or maybe not.]

Last night I went to my first ceilidh in 3.5 years. It was rather awesome, despite the fact the teenagers couldn't learn the dances, and the caller sort of sucked, and they always picked the hardest variations because there were so many people. I stepped on toes, had mine stepped on, bumped into people while whirling, and very nearly lost my glasses at one point, but much fun, cider and exercise was had. Hell, I feel skinnier this morning than I have for months, which I then completely negated by eating an entire English fry-up (minus the black pudding, as I forgot to buy it). The first dance last night hurt and then the rest were just exhilerating. By night's end I was on a high, despite the vigorous dancing and the alcohol (1.5 pints of cider, thanks very much).

I didn't sleep particularly long, as someone kept waking me up [to be entirely fair, once was the fire alarm at 1am at the building behind, not the flatmate beside me] but when I did sleep it was very deeply. Woke up before 8 to sun, birds and no wind. It appears to be the perfect day outside, all the more as I slept with my window open, so my room actually smells fresh and aired out for the first time in ages. Will keep it open the whole week, if possible.

Now there will be a very long walk, to work off breakfast (ceilidh worked off the entire pizza and garlic bread I had last night, my treat for being awesome with the diet all week!), and hopefully a book read. I've already lazed the morning away watching a pretty good movie with Anna Friel set during WWII and a London girl who marries a Canadian serviceman and gets sent to rural Alberta to wait out the war. It was a feel good movie; sometimes I need those.

I have to book Ireland today; I really do. At least the hostel only needs a deposit, but the flights have to be paid for up front.

Somehow, it's all gone a bit wrong. An announcement was made to the PhDs today by email that the APG exams will no longer be held in June, but in September. This annoys me for a lot of reasons, not the least is which that I will be ready in June to do it. Now I get to spend the summer...reading? Certainly won't be able to get started on a methodology that hasn't been approved by the board yet! So I can read and I can...email people and twiddle my thumbs a lot.

Oh, and go hiking. A lot.

Like a lot.

And join the gym, but I was going to do those things anyways. I can multitask, but apparently my department thinks otherwise. The kicker part is that no one told the lecturers, so they all still think it's June.

Blog meeting on Tuesday! Will have all my volunteer jobs organised by the beginning of March (except that week of filling in for Catarina).

Walked 3.3km in 35 minutes today. Am quite certain I could have done 5km at the same pace. Now I just have to times that by 6 in the next 12 months. I've decided to do a hiking trip in September; Horseshoe in the Lake District, and then 4 days along the Wall. Nice 7 day trip, though the timing will now depend on the exam schedule! Before that, there is the Peak District. And before that there is the countryside 3km east of here. Will slowly build up to 10km in the city and then start going up into the hills on higher ground. Will definitely be ready for a week in September and my first real experience walking with a pack. Though, I might end up going in August. Least the weather will be cool that far north, though the tourists will be many.

I hate when plans get messed up.