It would be safe to say that recently I’ve had a fair bit on my mind.

For starters my Family has a new media center PC which hasn’t been working quite as expected. It refuses to wake up properly sometimes and the radio part isn’t working, and before Saturday it wouldn’t record anything and the signal was very very poor. I’ve spent hours and hours making it work as best I can. It was the last thing I needed really, but I didn’t feel like I could come back to Brighton without leaving it in a state where it mostly worked. Especially as it was my idea!

Then there has been the vast amounts of work I have to do for my degree. I didn’t do enough before Christmas and I now have a huge amount to do until Easter. From Easter I’m pretty much free and would really rather be 3 months from now and passed this busy point in my life.

I’m also job hunting and applying to what I can so that if/when I finish my degree I might actually have something to go to at the end.

Oh, and then there is Japan. I have had my family bugging me to sort this trip out and really, the last thing I needed was another thing to go on my mind. My brother wants to go out there this summer and so would I. But I don’t really feel like I have the time to devote to all the research I want to do before I go. But I’ve booked the flights now, so it’s happening one way or another. Yey stress.

Then finally I want to spend as much time as I can in Roehampton these next few months seeing Demelza, but I know I will be insanely busy, and I know she will be too, but there are so many reasons I have to go up there that I’m going to hate not being there as much as I want to be. As it is I haven’t seen her in 3 weeks… this is pants.

So with all this on my mind I spent Friday night in the pub and then chatting to Demz on MSN. Made me feel a whole lot better, but still a way to go I think.

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