Misc.

Now that I've written the title I honestly cannot think what to write other than there was lots of it a moment ago and now it has all gone...hmmm....
Shall start and ramble from there:

1. The Conference: This happened last Monday (17th) and was a conference of the entire Postgraduate research department for Geosciences (GIS, HG, EEO, the lot basicly); the 'scientists' have held one every year, but this was the first time Human Geography had been invited to join in. It was a good idea, and a very enlightening experiance for all involved - possibly myself most of all! As a taught MSc student I am basicly the lowest of the low, and in reality I didn't have to present at all, but me being me I thought 'It'll be good experiance and will help highlight the weaknesses in my arguement (for my dissertation'. It was possibly the most stressful yet rewarding experiance of my life! All the angst and late nights for 20 minutes of rambling about theory. My presentation went better than I expected and I got some pretty positive feedback (this may have had something to do with my low-cut dress - doing the cause of Feminism a world of good...). I got so nervous before hand that I calmed myself down by helping set up the poster stands with Caroline (our postgrad secretary) just so I wasn't thinking about the presentation. When it actually got to the real deal I was fine; I just did what I'd do when about to go on stage - shoulders back, stomach in, and a deep breath. Works every time :)
   
2. The Mikado: This happened the week prior to the conference. I agreed to FoH a couple of nights, and thoroughly enjoyed the show and just hanging out with Savoy again. Obviously after the break up with Chris I didn't think it was fair to continue with Savoy (at least for a while) cause it's really his thing rather than mine. All went well, except for the night that one of the chorus girls hurt her foot/leg falling down some steps and needed to be taken to A'n'E. That was a good week, and helped to put some stuff into perspective. Oh, and went and saw Juno - great film :) Didn't stop smiling for hours.
3. I've been on a couple of date-type-things recently: they've been fun, but neither of the guys were anything like 'my type' (what ever that is) but it's still fun to chat to randoms from time to time. And have another on Wednesday :)
   
4. I've booked my train tickets to London to visit the folks down at that end of the country - really really looking forward to it :)
5. Teaching is going well - starting to really quite enjoy it! (No, I don't want to consider it as a career prospect, before you ask -too short tempered)
6. Should probably be writing essay of doom right now rather than blogging, but cannot sum up the energy to care!

Right, I'll probably remember more stuff in the near future - shall update when I do.

1. Just remebered: Felt really bad about how I've behaved toward one of my lecturers. I've not been unpleasant or anything, but she scares the bejesus out of me cause she's really very intense and a bit brash. I only really discovered in a social setting that this is really because she's very insecure - she doesn't show it, she just over-compensates and doesn't vary her behaviour. Shall try and make an effort to be nice and try not to think that she thinks that I'm a bit dense (although that's how I feel around her).
2. Something I did recently has been playing on my mind a fair bit, and I can't work out whether I've hurt someone I've not even met, and wouldn't wish ill to, just by being indirectly connected to them? It kinda sucks; but I guess the reality is that we all hurt people we don't know, and they'll never know it was us. I'm not even talking at an economic scale or anything; just the ways in which we shape other people and their behaviour and actions. I guess I was on the recieving end of that with D. Wow - that was a bit heavy.
3. Things with D. are better now - still haven't hung out much but I'm ok now, and comfortable enough being around him with other people. The past few weeks have been stressfull and difficult in so many ways, but I think I've moved on.

Later:
Oh Gods. You know when you just start thinking about something, not seriously, but just playing about with an idea in your head and all of a sudden it starts looking like a really really good idea? Oh dear - I really hope this thought doesn't plan on hanging around cause it can only ever lead to trouble! And not the good kind either. Dammit. If I actually thought about my actions rather than rush headlong into things then do the thinking afterwards then I wouldn't find myself in this kind of quandry.