So then… in OD

You’re probably wondering how the course is going?

Well, it’s going.

I’m not really learning anything I didn’t already know. Hence the reason I’m not sweating the exam I’ve got in just over an hour. About 99% of it I know from my previous experience and the rest is common sense I know from my previous experience.

I have, however, met some really cool people. The table I’m on is the picnic table cos we bring in food and share it. Monday was a cake as it was someones birthday on Sunday. Tuesday was flapjacks, home made. Yesterday, however, we finally outdid ourselves. We had:

A bag of Chicken and Thyme flavoured crisps,
3 mini bags of Minstrels,
8 packs of Chewits and
2 bags of Amercan sweets!

And we basically nommed our way through the lot.

The American sweets were donated by me. Finally got my latest package from the States after Customs decided they wanted to keep it safe for a while. In addition to them, I also got a bunch more sweets (including 2 bags of my beloved Hershey’s Kisses), a Forbes tartan bow tie (taking my bow tie count to three) and three really, really cool Doctor Who t-shirts. I’ll take photos of the clothing and post them here at some point.

My Nessa monster is amazing, loves spoiling me and I don’t discourage that!

:¬p

Beyond that, not much has been happening. Finally came up with an idea for the Bloody Scotland crime writing competition I talked about before. I’ve told one person about it and they think it’s brilliant. I’m not mentioning it here though…

But I will be asking here for people to read it and give me feedback before submiting it. Once it’s written, which will be after I’ve written the 3,000 words of my novel that I need to submit for something else, as that’s due in first and this bloody course has thrown my writing schedule for a loop. Thankfully, I’ll be finished the morn and will be able to get back on track. (Sorry in advance, honey, that does mean I’ll be a bit distracted when speaking to you.)

I’ll be asking for feedback on that as well, just advance warning.

The awesome boots of awesomness are no more. The soles in the ball of each boot had basically worn through and the heel on one had basically worn away completely and was no longer connected to the rest of the boot. This is annoying bacause a) it’s not often I get like this about boots, but they really were awesome and b) I’d only had them about three months.

The problem is, I walk a lot and modern shoes, strange as it may sound, aren’t designed for that amount of walking. I really need ex-Army boots or Doc Martins, but I can’t afford them :¬(

I have to get going for this exam so I’ll leave you with some pictures:

My Doctor Who baddie collection. Bob the Cyberman, Thorne the Dalek, a Judoon and an Ood (currently unnamed.)

And, just round the corner:

Hope you have/had a good day.

Will