Ginger cat names -

Potential names for my dozens of future ginger kittens:

Tigger

Hobbes

Garfield

Aslan

Mango

Marmalade

Sunshine

Tango

Oompa-loompa

Wish list for the next year

I'm always someone who works best with goals, so here's my wish list of things to accomplish in the next year:

1. Get a 1st in my second year results from university.

2. Travel outside Europe.

3. Get some more work published in print.

4. Save up £2-3000 pounds.

5. Go scuba diving.

6. Volunteer at a cattery.

Will be added to, I'm sure!

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June

June's update is a little seismic, due to all the changes that have happened over the last few months. Let's do a very brief run-through:

1. I have decided to change university! I will now be a History student at King's College London. What swung it for me was the amazing library, which I intend to live in. I'm looking forward to being more central, which will hopefully open up more writing opportunities for me, as well as providing me with more of a chance of part-time work, and time to see friends and family.

2. My travel fund has officially bee

n kick started! After delivering leaflets for a month, my fund is now up to £500 - a tenth of my intended target...

3. I'm due to start working at The Sunday Times on Monday for a few weeks - will be working with the travel section, which, no doubt, will do nothing to ease my travel lust!

4. I have an interview to be an Editor for the University of London newspaper, hopefully for the travel or cultural section. Bit of a long shot, but it will be an experience.

5. I have been discharged from the Mental Health centre! :) I still have my ups and downs, but I'm more aware of what brings on my worries, which will hopefully enable me to strategically manage my life.

6. I have become incredibly interested in geology - so much so, I'm considering taking courses after I graduate in areas such as volcanology. I really hope I'm able to combine my travelling with learning about the amazing world we live in!

For now, I leave you with an image of my current wanderlust. I will get there someday!!

End of term.

Once I submit my last essay to the cave of marking doom, I think this sums up what I'm going to spend my time doing:

My latest phase

I'm slowly coming to realise that a 5* holiday in Australia combined with submarine trips, shark watching and sight seeing is not going to be affordable on my student loan this summer.

I have therefore decided that I will enter every (reputable) holiday competition I find - anything from the Caribbean to the Cotswolds! I figure if I enter 20 a day for a year, then that would equal 7,300 chances of winning one (7,320, if it's a leap year.)

This cannot fail.

One week left...

Well it's fast approaching the point where I will have successfully furrowed through my second semester at university: 4 days, 2 essays, and lots of reading still to battle! I will get it done, but I will just expect to be completely sleep deprived by the end of the week.

But I must look forward to my Easter break! Despite hoards of revision to do, I will be going to:

I bought tickets for my boyfriend for Christmas, and I suppose I must accompany him and just grin and bear the AWESOME amount of....amazingness that's going to be in London's Business Design Centre....!

After that, I will be staying with Ian for a further 3 weeks to take on work experience in Fleet Street. I'll be at Meadowside/Gullane Publishers:

"Meadowside Children's Books was started by a small group of squirrels who, no longer content with living inside the meadow itself, took the radical decision to move out, and live beside it"

Ohhh! How enchanting?! I will be sorting through manuscripts and working in the most gorgeous building alongside Mac Computers and the sort! It's incredibly exciting, but a bit daunting, although I'm looking forward to having access to Ian cuddles 7 days a week :)

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