Still Here!

Howdy Folks!

So, I haven't updated in a while; life has been crazy! Spring break was spent writing my thesis "Germany and the Bologna Process: The Effects of European Integration on German Higher Education", and May was finals. I am now, however, free! And awaiting my degree results. Scary times. I should find out in a couple weeks.
But I am still here, and I haven't deserted the blog. I hope you're still reading!
I've been working on a few things for it, so look out for them coming soon!

xxx

So Rubbish

I am so bad at writing in here. I must try harder.

I just had a flash of inspiration and creativity, and sat down to work on my novel. I now have five chapters completed (until the final edit of course), which is 10,500 words.
I am aiming for 80-100,000 words in total, so although it 10,500 sounds like a lot, it's really not. Hopefully I will be finished by the fall. I would like to say before then, but it's senior year, final semester, I have a thesis to write, as well as four presentations and three papers, two written exams and an oral exam, so novel writing is on the back burner until summer, but maybe some miracle will happen and I will get to write a lot before summer.

In other news ... graduation is 10.30 am, Tuesday July 7. I cannot wait.

And I got new glasses. They are plastic, colored frames, very different from the plain boring, wirey ones I have been wearing since like 1998. They feel kinda weird, like they don't quite fit. But they do fit. I hate glasses. :(



Anyway, I need to sleep. Night night.

Blwyddwyn Newydd Dda

In 2009 I will:

1. Graduate,
2. Read at least 30 books (for pleasure),
3. Drive again,
4. Own a Nikon D40,
5. Visit Wales,
6. Lose weight,
7. Dye my hair brown,
8. Turn 24,
9. Write something,
10. Make an impact.


Happy New Year xxx

I cannot convey in words how much you walking out of my life hurts.

I wish you cared. I wish you were sorry. I wish you would stay.

Woaaaaaaah, I haven't written in here for two months! Things have been crrrrrazzzzzzy lately, I never seem to have time for anything anymore, and Ibiza definitely seems more like two years ago that two months.
It's almost November, England has suddenly in the last week turned unbelievably cold, and I am swamped with work ... the joys of being a finalist. I am hoping things will settle down soon and I will be able to write in here again.

Ibiza

Hello, devoted readers!

I'm soooo sorry for being so rubbish at this blogging malarky; I am sure you are all eagerly awaiting the next installment of my oh-so-thrilling life.

Well, right now, I am writing this from Ibiza! It is hot, and I am a little bit sunburnt. I am home next Wednesday, so I will update then. Promise!

Lots of Ibiza Love


Elenita xxxxx

Week One:

Shopaholic Ties The Knot - Sophie Kinsella

Shopaholic and Sister - Sophie Kinsella

Shopaholic and Baby - Sophie Kinsella



Week Two:

Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides



Week Three:

Alphabet Weekends - Elizabeth Noble



Weeks Four - Fifteen:

Mr. Maybe - Jane Green

To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee

Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov



Weeks Sixteen - Twenty:

Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit - Jeanette Winterson

Remember Me? - Sophie Kinsella

The Other Boleyn Girl - Philippa Gregory

(College Books: 20)



Weeks Twenty-One - Twenty-Six:

The Double Life of Anna Day - Louise Candlish

Thanks For The Memories - Cecelia Ahern



Week Twenty-Seven:

Breakast at Tiffany's - Truman Capote

Chocolat - Joanne Harris



Week Twenty-Eight:

Notting Hell - Rachel Johnson

Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck

My Sister's Keeper - Jodi Picoult







Total (including college books): 38