wednesday- spent the morning doing some work and resting my foot. dean took me back to mum's, had dinner, went back to dad's stayed there. thursday- chilled with dad in the morning, came back to uni, did some more work

monday- had a lecture on "working with emotion" which wasn't very helpful but looked at bombings of Guernica and picasso's painting, photos and an article on it. had my seminar in the afternoon, turns out i didn't send the piece to the teacher (because i'm an idiot and i put his address in the subject line instead :/) my group really liked my piece, had a little argument about the last line whether it should be included or not which was quite funny but all in all it was good. after my seminar, met up with a couple of people from my halls and went on an alcohol run. One of the boys bought a battered mars bar looks gross but think i'm gunna have to try it! had a drink up in the kitchen for carolines bday and then they went to locos, dean came over we went to meet them but they decided to go to the club instead and dean wasn't feeling it so we came back and made some pasta and went to bed!

tuesday- i had the world's dullest lecture with the most patronising woman in the world "lets practice turning on the computer and logging in" :/ then went to the medical centre for my ankle as it is killing! the doctor told me that it's probably soft tissue damage and has spread up my leg a bit but just to rest it and support it. spent the rest of the day relaxing

friday- ill. went to my seminar for poetry and prose (lecture was cancelled) learnt about John Donne's "the flea" and Shakespeare's sonnets 116 and 18. was quite a good discussion. had 5 books arrived from amazon which was actually quite exciting (cos i'm sad like that) then went to mum's. me mum and holly went to Catherine's sing a long thing at bar cosa(?) and then got milkshakes.

sat- went to a nice french cafe with mum in holloway. chillaxed dad came round watched x factor

sun- went for a walk to highbury fields watched where the wild things are but fell asleep :( hurt my foot/ankle in the morning, still hurting now bit worried about whether i will be able to walk in the morning.

tidied my room today. yay.

just had the dullest lecture of my life. "Academic practice" is easily the worst module. Spent 2 hours talking about chicago/harvard style referencing furiously taking notes and getting confused to be told at the end that its all in the booklet so we don't really need to remember it.

monday- went to a lecture called "punctuation is our pal" which was pretty dull... was told i could stay in the seminar group that i went to for the first week. Bareka wants to change to my group :/ gave in my piece of creative writing which went down surprisingly well. everyone thought it was really good and praised me for setting the scene so well etc. suggested that i added dialogue. Assignment for next week is based all around dialogue. dreading it.

went to lecture, was really good, focused on the book of margery kempe which is actually really funny. looked at a scene where margery's husband asked if they could break their vow of celibacy. she asked god. god said no... talked about how it was rather convenient etc. did some creative writing. had some chips. dean's gunna collect me later and take me to mum's/

Today is a crap day. Slept really badly due to crazy noise levels and again someone drunkenly screaming for Elijah at 2am. Woke up and it was rainy and crappy. Had some cheese and crackers for breakfast then went to my lecture. A whole group of us got lost, as the room was called "council" and we had no idea where that was. i followed a girl who thought she knew and it ended up just 3 of us. Called Bareka and she was with the big group who got lost and they found it. We went to try and find it and walked past. eventually turned up 25 mins late to a 1 hour lecture :/ missed all analysis of Beowulf, listened to a bit about the other two.

This week: Beowulf (the fight with grendel) the pardoners prologue and the book of margery kempe (margery sees the host flutter at mass)

next week: the english bible from 1 Corinthians 13

the opening of 'The Faerie Queene" by Edmund Spenser

William Shakespeare Sonnets 18, 71 and 116

John Donne "the flea" "the sun rising" "batter my heart, three-personed God; for you"

Aemilia Lanyer "Eve's apology in defense of Women"