November 28th 2008
Perhaps it’s about time that I update my blog, considering I’ve not done so in the past couple of week (not like me, is it?).
To be honest, I’ve not really been upto much the past couple of weeks, aside from knuckling down at uni and trying to get all my work done. I’ve come to realise that I’m not a happy bunny at the moment however, it’s not just the uni work dragging me down- I’m still finding it difficult dealing with an illness that a family member is facing.
Right now, I’m pretty much panicking about everything and I don’t really know what to do. I have coursework due soon and although I’m a bit stressed about that, I know that’s going to be done on time- it’s almost complete. The downside is that I have 4 exams in 2 weeks and I feel like I haven’t had enough time to revise. It’s my final year and there’s a lot riding on them- I don’t want a fail or a third. Then there’s the issue of the coursework that’s due after Christmas. Personally, I don’t like Christmas and if it was up to me, I wouldn’t celebrate it at all (I don’t subscribe to a particular religion) but I know it means a lot to my family. Given the rough time my family is going through at the moment, Christmas needs to be as special as possible this year. I’m concerned that the coursework will limit the time I can spend with them 
Yeah, I know, I’m in 4th year and yeah, I’m aware it’s supposed to be harder. C’mon if something is easy then it’s not worth doing. The workload at the moment is just insane
There are black patches under my eyes at the moment- watch them grow as the days wear on…..
November 14th 2008
Around a week and a half ago, I logged into Hotmail, to find that my account had been switched over to Windows Live Mail.
I use Mozilla Thunderbird as my email client and I soon discovered that I could no longer access my hotmail email address using it. So, for the past few days, I’ve begrudgingly logged into the hotmail site to access my mail. After a little bit of searching, I found a solution….
1. Make sure you have Thunderbird version 2.0.0.17.
2. Download the webmail plug-in version 1.3.2 and install it.
3. Download the hotmail plug-in from this website. Choose the hotmail-1-2-19b49.zip file and install it.
If you’re having a problem, this should solve it for you. That said, I was reading a thread on a forum and it didn’t seem to fix it for everyone. For those that are interested, the forum thread can be found here.
November 12th 2008
Yes, I caved. I bought another iPod.
Why? Well, I think iPod Mini’s look cool, my old nano just isn’t big enough and this was only £30 off of eBay, including postage. Plus, look at the condition it’s in- it’s immaculate!
I still want to try and fix my kind of broken 20GB 4th Gen iPod though because it’s the first one I ever owned.
November 5th 2008
I’ve just reached 35,000 songs played on lastfm!
The 35,000th song? “Black Pearl” by Bryan Adams.
When I first used last.fm, I remember it didn’t support scrobbling from an ipod which was manually managed. That’s all changed now and when I get home in the evenings, I can connect my ipod and scrobble whatever I’ve been listening to during the day.
C’mon 40,000 
November 4th 2008
It’s readily approaching 3am and I still can’t sleep. Maybe now is the time I should explain why…..
The beginning of last week was fantastic, in fact, it couldn’t have been better. Sunday night was awesome- I was 2nd row at a Bryan Adams gig and I got to meet him and the band afterwards. Monday brought another Bryan Adams gig this time in Glasgow which was fantastic as well. Things began to go downhill after that though…..
I’m going to try not to go into specifics so, here goes-
A family member was taken into hospital at the beginning of the week. At first, everyone thought it was a minor illness. After a couple more days of speculation a few things had been ruled out. We then got a phonecall on friday night saying said family member had been moved to another ward. The name of the ward instantly sent thoughts racing round my head but we were told it was “nothing to worry about”. Wrong. Turns out it’s something major and I’m absolutely gutted.
Although I had a lot of stuff to get done for uni, I just stayed in bed/the vicinity of my room, lying there in the dark for almost the entire weekend. Saturday night/Sunday morning I was awake ’til about 4.30am. If I’d been awake much longer, I was going to go downstairs and attempt to get some work done. Sunday night/Monday wasn’t much better either.
When I first found out I was totally shocked and was in a state of disbelief because the situation had escalated so quickly. Why was the illness not picked up before? How could it have lain undetected? Where did it come from? How long has it been present? What can be done about it? So many questions. As of yet, not a lot of answers.
I think I’m over the initial shock of being told the bad news. The shock seems to have transitioned into anger….how can life be so cruel? How can life be turned upside-down in the space of a single week? Really pissed off with everything right now.
I know I just have to pull myself together but it’s really tough
stressed Music : How Do Ya Feel Tonight? by Bryan Adams
