A Writer's Life

when i woke up this morning i knew how i was going to die. suprisingly this was not all that unusual for me. it happens to me every day. well actually not every every day. just on the days when something will kill me. i can go a few weeks without it happening. of course there's always that anxiety that this stupid thing i have will rear it's ugly head.
some days it's not so bad. a trip results in a broken neck. not looking when crossing means a car hits me. occasionally i'll be in line to run afoul of a bank robbery gone wrong. they're easy things to prevent. it seems strange to think that they never come true. sometimes i think it's all in my head and i don't have so werid gift. but i've tested it over the years. hesitatated that one second and seen what would have happened had i not changed it. fore warned is fore armed and fucking annoying. it really puts a cramp in your plans for the day when you know you can't go on that highway because there will be a massive pile up or you can't visit that friend because some idiot will drop something out a window fracturing your skull. i've never had one that's more than a day ahead though. that would be too easy. it would be so reassuring just once to glimse me dying of old age or something. but no. i get to make off the wall choices every day because i'd be tempting fate otherwise.

I'm pretty sure i mentioned that i was alive before... but just in case you haven't caught on yet, i blog at my wordpress one now instead of here.

http://ajodonovan.wordpress.com

and i can prove it.

Go to http://ajodonovan.wordpress.com/ to see pictures of my university room.

This morning i woke up and headed down to reception to sort out my welcome pack. See, i was meant to have a pack telling me where to go for enrollment, what day it's on, where i have to go this next week (welcome lectures etc) as well as what's on at the SU and maps and general things like that. Well, i never got it, and when i phoned up the uni said they'd send me another one, but that never turned up either.

I asked the guy in reception, he told me to see some woman inside the welcome hall from the day before, she told me that i had to actually go see admissions and oh by the way they aren't open until tomorrow. so first thing, i'm going to have to go down there and see if i can find out when my enrollment is, because i'm a tiny bit screwed if i miss it really.

After that i went and got a bacon roll, wondered around a bit and headed back to my room I did talk to mum and dad and assure them i was alive etc lol. I also noticed a lovely trail of blood from the SU area heading back towards my block. luckily it turned and headed towards C and D blocks (I'm B - Bleanavon).

Spent the rest of today unpacking things, sorting out paperwork etc. I also went knocking around doors and met a bunch more people. There's two guys (who i can't remember the names of, but one of them is next door to me) and i met two girls, Francesca (who's insanely shy) and Kate (who seems awesome). that makes it 4 guys i know about and 8 girls (including me) there's two or three rooms empty/haven't seen anyone in at the moment though so it may even up.

Umm...yeah not much else to report. Even though we have some weird new "swipe" card system (it's a blank white piece of card which probably has some kind of magnet in it or something) a guy managed to get in and slide a menu under my door. ah uni. :D

Apparently there's a BBQ going on now, and later into the night so i may head down to the bar soon. see if i can round up a few people to come with me maybe.

Not much else to report. I'm alive, mostly settled in, and hopefully have made a few friends. go me!

No, really. I am. I just forgot to update for a long time.

So i'm now in university! It's been really good so far with one exception but i'll get to that.

I arrived yesterday and started unpacking my stuff. I managed to carry two light things up and everything else was done by a small army of board helpers. (honestly, they asked to carry my stuff). I've mostly finished that now, just have to finish putting my pictures up. Surprisingly not many people had moved in yesterday. A guy called Ashley who i went down to the bar with, a Hyperactive girl called Anna and her friend Emma? not sure i think it's Emma (both STAR people...aka the peeps who help you move in) Who else did i meet? umm a 3rd year advertising student also called Emma. And a guy who was here last year with Chris who's called Stuart.
Decided to go to the compulsory health and safety thing. Decided it was going to be boring, but again, it wasn't. For the first 20 mins we did have the whole "fire is bad" thing (although the video they showed using actual students was funny. it had people responding to the alarms by walking out with their food and stuff). After that we were told some Professor from America was doing some big important study using our uni and he only had a few minutes to talk.

This is where it got interesting. He started talking about how the university in California he went to had the highest amount of drinking, but the highest passes too. so he discussed how they lobbied for permission to carry out a study on the students etc etc and the results showed that 3 to 4 points a day gives you the best chance of passing. he then asked if anyone was willing to meet in the bar to be a sample of highest drinkers. and then he told us what the study was called. Blood Alcohol Levels and Learning Study...BALLS.
yup. he said his study was Balls and then proceeded to rip his clothes off, stripper style. no i am not kidding. i was front row, it shocked me! He had had on a suit, and apparently his long hair was a wig lol.

Basically he gave us about an hour talk about how to keep safe and make the right choices etc. but it was so funny! he was cracking jokes left right and center and was probably the best health and safety lecture i'll ever get.

after that i headed back to my room for a bit. ended up talking to Ashley and then we headed down the bar. It was quite quiet at the time. Some second years i know were out on the balcony so i joined them with Ashley (who bought me a drink!! i payed him back later by buying him one too)

Had many a weird conversation and decided a few hours later to go get another drink and ended up in a queue. They guy in front of me turned because i think i banged into him, not sure. but he spotted my t-shirt (Dr Horrible) and struck up a conversation. turns out the guys name is Rowan (how cool is that?) and he is completely nerdy lol. everything we talked about we both liked and he's on the same course as chris! he ended up joining us at the table outside and we got on really well.

I stayed until quite late. the bar ended up three deep and it took a good 20 mins just to order so a lot of people were buying in bulk and drinking that way. there was a weird Dance Off thing just before i left. Everyone had gotten really cold so we had gone back into the building and a bunch of people were dancing to sound clips essentially. Although most of the time they were so drunk it looked like they were having a fit.

Called it a night around half 11, and came back here. Tried to sleep but had to block the window above the door (idiot uni took away the light switch so the damn thing is automatic now and stays on for ages) managed to find some newspaper and masking taped it up. It took me a while to sleep because i was so damn cold (i had been sat in the cold for about 4 hours)

hold on, i'm doing a second entry as this is too long now.

I forgot to say was, i got rejected for that submission i sent in. No big loss as it was only a 5k story, but i thought i'd mention it

I forgot to say this yesterday (and those of you who read mum's blog already know, but,) I'm freeeeeeeeee! Glamorgan canceled my debt to them, so i officially do not owe £825 to them. horray! justice prevails (as does bugging and complaining at people)

Also, i should be getting accommodation information for newport tomorrow or the day after. good news all round :)

I just phoned up Glamorgan, and apparently because i finished my acadmic year and transfered rather than withdrawing early (i knew i should have dropped out), i still have to pay the £825 pounds.

Which they tell me now instead of 3 months ago when i could have afforded to pay them. I have accomodation information coming from Newport soon, although knowing my luck recently, it'll be "sorry we can't give you a room" which quite frankly can only be good on my finances at the moment.

ARGH!