I love new hobbies. In fact, so far, I'm loving my activity/social life this year. I've really quite filled my week, which is rather great; makes for a good work-play ethic. [no sex jokes please. :3]

But no. I've seriously started this year off on the right foot - sure, I still suffer from SAD as the weather turns from ok to naff, and I really really really miss The Lanky One, but overall, it's ok. I've decided 3 of 4 of my essay titles, and work levels are manageable. How the exams will work out is something I'll worry about next term.

Mondays are nice. 10-12.30 ''workshop'' lectures in this really quite fun course on the history of "science" or 'natural philosophy' in the Renaissance (15th-17th century). Go home, have lunch, then spend 2 hours doing Archery. I had a bit of trouble starting off with Archery, cause not only are my arms too long, but I wasn't taught until the third week in what I was doing wrong with my draw. It's not that I wasn't hitting the target, just my technique (and other people's) was wrong. So that's sorting out my posture a LOT. Really.
Then in the evening I talk to Lanky One, as it's the only proper day we're both in. xD

Tuesdays are busy during the day. Unfortunately, I have nothing in the evenings, so I use that time to do some work and watch films. Fun. Lectures are ok, just that it's a 9am start. And I finish with this crazy lecturer... Socialist (that's fine), Scottish Nationalist (also fine, though bordering annoying). He also slurs a lot so you have to *really* work to make sure you get what he's saying.

Wednesdays are completely free. Actually, as I write this, I've just realised that I have actually a History Society meeting at 3. It's now 2.35. I'd better get dressed! o_O In the evenings, I have been able to start pursuing one of my loves: Dance. I do ballroom dancing now. :D Ok. so I don't have a regular partner, and it'd be nice if I did, but I suppose that's just what I've got to put up with. I had a great partner the first night, which was really helpful as now I know I'm doing the dances correctly, even if any following partners are scared of body contact and therefore can't lead.

Thursday I have just the one lecture, followed by any work I have left to do for that week or the week after, and then in the evening, a history society event - last week was a 3-legged bar crawl (actually quite exhausting, but fun) and this week it's a guest lecture, followed by a meal with him. Sounds nerdy, but it's actually quite fun, and you might learn something too.

Fridays I have quite a late finish to my day: 5pm >.< I hate 4pm lectures. Though last year there was one (which I didn't need to go to in the end) that was at 5-6pm! Horrible. After that it's the Archery Social, so going out with my friends is nice.

Saturdays I have Casualty on t.v. xD And Sundays it's a roast at the friends' house, and then the pub quiz in the evening. Wahey.

Yeah, hobbies are good. They're refreshing, and you meet new people, and even if that doesn't stick, you have a laugh week-to-week. I did try going to Pagan Society (it was interesting) on Monday evenings, but as I said, only time I can really talk to The Lanky One, so I've sacrificed that one. At least for this term. We'll see.

Dance and Archery are really great fun. Honestly. And they do wonders for my posture >> which has always been a little dodgy. I'm quite lazy, and used to slouching at school, cause of their crappy chairs, or benches, or the tables being too low. At home it kept going, and yeah, it's just annoying. But I am consciously making an effort now. Woot.


Do any of you have any interesting hobbies? New ones you've taken up? I'm starting up my writing again, sort of, in my free time. When I have some and inspiration at the same time. I'm also starting up my photography thing again xD

Honestly. You wait for one idea to come along and suddenly a whole bus station of them arrive.

I've not written for well over a year, so it's going to be tough getting back into the groove. I've suddenly overwhelmed myself with my writing-style hobbying. I mean, I feel I should update this here blog with interesting, quirky things. On the other hand, I've had an idea of a sort of story/novel that I've attempted to start writing. I just need to get around to planning the real dynamics of the thing; plot, how it'll progress, characters, what happens to each, how they inter-relate, etc. And on top of that I have accidentally created a sort of children's story (something I wanted to try anyway), when telling The Lanky One a bedtime story last night. [It's our thing occasionally. We tell each other silly short stories. Apparently this one is book-worthy). I'd quite like to give it ago. So I need to plan how I'll illustrate it - style, colours, textures - and then write it out a bit, filling in the bits I think need filling, but keeping it stupidly short at the same time. I think it'll be more art than words, but it's the combination that makes for a good child's book, no?

So arrrgh! I'm having an over-load. I guess I could always divide my time and just do each as I see fit. The children's rewrite won't take long at all. I had sense of mind last night to copy and paste it into a word document, rather than losing it in the archives of my past chats.

Busy busy.

Once again, it's been a lovely day, but as soon as I contemplate leaving the house, the ''sky poured open'' (thanks to Lanky One's grandmother for that phrase) and it's incredibly wet out there.

Said party last night was erm. Interesting to say the least. More like an orgy, but still fun.
Glad I left at 12 though. I was getting sleepy, and there was really no way we'd have slept at all last night.

I'm supposed to be doing homework now - finish an essay on how Angellica Bianca is or is not a victim in The Rover. I've done half - just need another page or so. But motivation is lacking.

I also got sidetracked by continuing my 'novel', 'story' thing. It's just an ongoing thing I've had going since last year. I've written a lot, but I'm also rewriting bits and adding to it. I'll probably never finish, to tell you the truth. I know what I want to happen, but it's the writing part that gets tricky. I should probably plan out each chapter, as it were.

You random people could read it Here. Bit of plugging for my pal, Flid, but also why not? I'm writing this thing, I have a few readers, and some random people might actually read this blog and think, 'heh, might check it out'. I'm no literary genius, but I do try to make sure it's not rubbish.
Summery is of an assassin who is sent to protect this young prince and along the way makes a fudge load of life-changing discoveries about herself, that prince and other things. Blah blah big fight in the end, and maybe some deaths.
'Death Loves Me' is what it's called. It's just a hobby. Bit like my photoshopping, but harder. =P