I am at home for the next week in an attempt to get well and get some work done. Its been a pretty hectic couple of weeks. First was the last week of term before Easter, Varsity week and various goings out! I shot the Women's 2's, Men's s'3, Women's 1's and Men's 1s hockey over the course of the week and managed to get four or five shots published in the Forge Press which I am very proud of. I'd love to turn this into a paying hobby to do at the weekends, as I really feel that I am improving immensely. We went to the pub on the Thursday and it was good to see everyone before we all disappeared for Easter, sadly there won't be too many nights free to meet up in the next month or so due to the final push for dissertations and revision. Fortunately my exams are spaced nicely and I'll be done by the 5th of June so will have loadses of time to sort out Morocco stuff and have a great time with Karen and the rest of the gang.
We had a great couple of days in the Lakes, a wonderful walk up to High Dam with Chippa! I took a reasonable amount of photos and should eventually get round to editing them once I have got Crufts and Varsity out of the way. On the Wednesday we went to Bowness and Windermere and had an ice cream, super tasty! Then we went to Lakeland and bought some really exciting salt. Why yes I am a student and do lead the most typical student life, not. It doesn't matter what I do, no matter how mundane or boring it may seem, as long as it is with Karen I genuinely don't care because it makes me so happy. On Thursday we went to Holker and stalked deer, I really need a longer lens, and a wide angle and a tripod (hehe :~). Once we got back to Preston we went to dog class and I was interrogated as usual and had cake, it was pretty good cake but my cake was way better in my and Karen's opinion, plus mine was far more calorific, a key point int judging cakes. We spent a lot of time playing on Professor Layton and the Mysterious village, which we eventually completed the storyline for. It was pretty good, and its fun to do stuff together like that! I was taken show shopping on Friday as I need some shiney shiney shoes for the ball and various other engagements. I really don't like shoe shopping, I don't see what's wrong with my Merrells. =P I didn't struggle too much but I'll sort it out on my own soon enough.
I found out that I have an interview at Oxford a week on Friday which is absolutely terrifying. I have booked train tickets for my day trip and will heopefully have the chance to explore Oxford and take some photos too. Its going to be an interesting experience and hopefully it will go better than my Cambridge interview for undergrad! I'd really like to get this PhD, to be setteled for the next three years would be great for us, Karen would have somewhere to direct job searching after her PGCE year and I'd be very very proud of myself. I also got contacted by a professor and Nottingham who linked my application to his lab, if I definitely got an offer from there I and not Oxford I'd take it in a shot. Whilst people have spoken against a masters I genuinely think it would be difficult for me to enter the job market and then as Dr Graves said it may be difficult to lift myself from a technicians job to a PhD although I don't know for sure. At least things are going in the right direction for the time being.
We had a great couple of days in the Lakes, a wonderful walk up to High Dam with Chippa! I took a reasonable amount of photos and should eventually get round to editing them once I have got Crufts and Varsity out of the way. On the Wednesday we went to Bowness and Windermere and had an ice cream, super tasty! Then we went to Lakeland and bought some really exciting salt. Why yes I am a student and do lead the most typical student life, not. It doesn't matter what I do, no matter how mundane or boring it may seem, as long as it is with Karen I genuinely don't care because it makes me so happy. On Thursday we went to Holker and stalked deer, I really need a longer lens, and a wide angle and a tripod (hehe :~). Once we got back to Preston we went to dog class and I was interrogated as usual and had cake, it was pretty good cake but my cake was way better in my and Karen's opinion, plus mine was far more calorific, a key point int judging cakes. We spent a lot of time playing on Professor Layton and the Mysterious village, which we eventually completed the storyline for. It was pretty good, and its fun to do stuff together like that! I was taken show shopping on Friday as I need some shiney shiney shoes for the ball and various other engagements. I really don't like shoe shopping, I don't see what's wrong with my Merrells. =P I didn't struggle too much but I'll sort it out on my own soon enough.
I found out that I have an interview at Oxford a week on Friday which is absolutely terrifying. I have booked train tickets for my day trip and will heopefully have the chance to explore Oxford and take some photos too. Its going to be an interesting experience and hopefully it will go better than my Cambridge interview for undergrad! I'd really like to get this PhD, to be setteled for the next three years would be great for us, Karen would have somewhere to direct job searching after her PGCE year and I'd be very very proud of myself. I also got contacted by a professor and Nottingham who linked my application to his lab, if I definitely got an offer from there I and not Oxford I'd take it in a shot. Whilst people have spoken against a masters I genuinely think it would be difficult for me to enter the job market and then as Dr Graves said it may be difficult to lift myself from a technicians job to a PhD although I don't know for sure. At least things are going in the right direction for the time being.
