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 :)

x

Creativity

I don't know about you, but I get fed up with essay upon essay - especially with a degree like Literature and History, information can seem a little dry and suck the life force out of you. This is why I have decided to set my creative side more goals! Already in the pipeline I have an idea for an online magazine, but what I've realised is that with such a task on your hands, extra help is essential. So, for myself, I've decided to help a second year music student who, for his final year, is looking for a student to write short stories relating to his own brand of music. I haven't a clue what's going to be asked of me just yet, but I need to get my creative juices flowing, because I tend to just veg out in front of the TV or fall asleep or just stare at pictures of cats (sometimes all at the same time.)

More on this as it progresses!

Being 20.

I'm 5 days into my 20th year now, and already feel incredibly old, despite age being something imposed on yourself by your mind. I do, however, feel more justified in taking daytime naps and having tea in pubs and needing regular cat cuddles, so I'm already on my way to fully embracing my old age.

I had lovely Birthday celebrations, with wine a'flowing, and my close, beautiful bunch of friends back in Essex to welcome in a new decade. I feel so lucky to have such wonderful friends, and only hope I can return half their amazing-ness ! And now just to soak up the rays of my new 26inch T.V. and watch Swan Lake at the Royal Opera House c/o my boyfriend...oh, life is hard !

2 more university assignments are under my belt now, and I've found I have quite a haphazard approach to forcing myself to do work. I will undertake 30 minutes of reading, or writing, consoling myself that at the end of the said period, I can have a drink, or a piece of chocolate. Then I thought...

"Wait. This is a form of torture."

So now I just use chocolate as fuel to my engine constantly whilst attempting to complete some work.

Now to just enjoy the sunshine, ahhhh!

This is ultimately my dream.

I wake up in this bed, when a ginger cat jumps up to bid me good morning:

A cup of tea (with 2 sugars) sits by my bed, freshly brewed and left for 10 minutes to stand.

I roll over and peer out the window with wooden shutters to see this view:

That's about as far as I've got. Basically, I don't plan on ever getting out of bed.

Desperately making pizza

Today marked a moment of great magnitude and will forever have a place in my heart as the time I fought adversity.

After 6 attempts, £18 and 6 months, I finally managed to microwave a pizza -

That's me. That's my tasty pizza. And that's my face of success.

Next step - pasta.

Hello, lovelies

Ooh, it's the first blog, how exciting!

Welcome to my happy blog, where you will shortly be able to find nonsensical talk and momentous rambles about cats. ('Find' being the operative word there; I'm sure 'ignore' is far more appropriate)

I like to write. I like to sleep too, although I find writing is perhaps a more productive use of my time.

This is my idea of heaven:

(Multiple ginger cats, not their backsides.)

The title of my blog - 'Emily' - is, unsurprisingly, my name. It's supposed to be a parody of BBC's 'Miranda', not an egotistical declaration of love!