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Date: 17 March 2005 21:33:23
I'd actually totally forgotten about St Patrick's Day till, driving home from the gym just now, I saw a guy walking along the road with one of those huge novelty Guinness hats. And it got me thinking about St Patrick's Day last year, where I was UpNorth for the uni's postgraduate open day and met people in the department where I want to study for the first time. That was a good day - the first time I talked through some of my ideas with an academic face-to-face and he seemed to like them and offered pointers and appropriate people to contact and seemed keen that I should apply. Then a ship meet in the evening where we nearly (by dint of our Guinness consumption) won a couple of those Guinness hats, except I couldn't cope with the embarrassment of carrying one, never mind wearing it, so they gave me a T-shirt instead (which has regular outings to the gym).
So much has happened since then - the application to the uni (as chronicled here in all its glorious technicolour detail), relationship been and gone, burglary, counselling, getting the Masters degree, being in my current job longer than any other job ever, and now trying to sell the house. The mailing went out this week from the housing association, and I have someone coming to view it at the weekend. Which I'm really nervous about - if they don't like it, or seem to turn their nose up at what is a really important part of "me", I'll take it really personally! Anyway - I'm praying a reasonable buyer (with a decent solicitor!) comes up reasonably straightforwardly, as I think this is currently the thing which is stressing me most. Everything else seems to be going reasonably swimmingly, I just dread this going pear-shaped. It's so much more stressful selling than buying, I'm discovering!
In other news, as befits someone of my towering intellect, and having promised for a while to delight you with this, tonight I'm going to start my March "reading for pleasure" book. Look out soon for the in-depth soul-searching analysis of the literary giant that is The Adventures of Captain Underpants.