What a finale!

I know I called this blog 'bev's life in full', but you're just going to have to get used to a few catch-up summaries from time to time...this is one of them! What have you missed? Well, among other things, I visited the zoo! I went last weekend with Libby and her mate Danny. I believe a good time was had by all. I think the whole experience was definitely on our level, particularly the Close Encounters event (we were surrounded by 5-year-olds!)

I have finally finished uni - hurray! This landmark was (predictably) celebrated in style. Nicole, Susan and myself appeared from our last exam, only to be met with bucket loads of ice-cubed liquid, water pistols and other such delights. After a quick shower, and a necessary stomach load of food the pub called. We all met up in the union. I had (what I'd like to think was) my last shot on the dance machine, and almost won £40 (except Jamie was too hasty on a Teletubbies question) on Who wants to be a Millionnaire.
Then someone came up with the revelationary idea of mixing Neighbours with White Wine...an impromptu party at my wee cottage got underway! To be honest, from here onwards the evening get quite hazy...After Neighbours Lizzie had the 'revelationary' (maybe 'outdated' would be a better adjective here) of putting on a spot of Boyzone. All of a sudden wine bottles turned into microphones and the kitchen stools turned into Westlife props - hours of fun ensued!
Somehow, we all managed to transport ourselves back to the union, where we were obliged to carry on drinking at Sheree's party - it was a tall ask! All I remember is ranting at the barman about the difference between coke and pepsi!

Magically (as happens with every night out) I woke up the next morning in my cosy bed with a snuggly Bagpuss. With the hangover soon quenched by some over-the-counter drugs, I began packing up my things and said farewell to St Andrews.

One down, three to go!

What a relief to have my first written exam of the semester under my belt! It wasn't the most stimulating of exams, consisting of a question on text-messaging and a question on advertising, but nevertheless it's over! Now I am treating myself to a spot of relaxation and will be meeting up with my old flatmate Ali J. What's more, due to the small inconvenience that was my German exam, I missed lunchtime Neighbours and will of course be indulging in the teatime omnibus!

For revision purposes I watched City of Angels last night (yes, the one with Meg Ryan). Despite the slating many of my friends gave this film, I actually quite enjoyed it. To be honest though, anything was going to be more enjoyable than memorising German phrases and History dates. You may be asking why on earth it counted as revision...well...believe it or not, the Germans made the film that City of Angels is based on (Der Himmel über Berlin) and it's one of the films I have to analyse in my exam on Thursday...fun fun fun!

A Satisfactory Day

Well, today started off very productively for me. I got up bright and early (around 9:30am) and spent the morning swotting in the Bean Scene. I can now tell you that the Iron Curtain wasn't really made of iron! From about 2pm onwards things went downhill revision-wise though. Back at the cottage I got a visit from some random double-barrelled LibDem bloke wanting my support for some up-and-coming ballot I was supposed to know about...I blagged it. He was a nice enough guy, but the whole flat erupted into laughter the second he left in reaction to his 'secondhand car salesman-like' banter! Afterwards Cat and myself took a sly trip to Jannettas. I got back on my tv-watching perch just in time for the start of the Scottish Cup. What a match! Of course I wish that Hearts could have won during regulation time because then I could maybe have fitted in an extra 30+ minutes of revision..!

The evening has since been capped off by a bonus-point win for the Gunners over the Dragons - superb! For the rest of the evening I am now going to try and resist the temptation of the telly and get on with some more swotting. I'm getting the impression my first week of blogging could get quite repetitive - the constant struggle between procrastination and revision, who will prevail?!

My weblog is born...

The email that sparked this creation...

Hi all!
Well, this week is revision week here in St Andrews - a week I have chosen not to take too seriously! I did start a spot of revision at the start of the week, but it was so difficult to concentrate when the weather was so lovely. I felt a pity to be stuck inside. On Tuesday I spent the day revising in the garden but that ended up in sun burn - oops!





Thursday night was the staff/student dinner that I organised. We went to Pizza Express and it was a really good evening. I made a seating plan (typical me) to try and split up the tutors a bit and they were actually really relaxed and lovely to chat with, which was surprising. The banter was flowing!
Ironically it was the oldies of the department that carried on with the masses to the Gin House. Sadly they didn't last long enough to make it to the Union however! I had a very merry evening, which culminated in a paddle in the sea! Then me and my mate Jamie wandered around the Old Course, swapping the flag poles around and throwing them in bunkers etc. - it was really funny, just harmless antics!

Yesterday I hosted a BBQ in our back garden. The weather decided not to coordinate with my al fresco plans however, and it did intermittently rain a bit, never mind!

Now, I am going to pause for a spontaneous thought. Maybe I should create myself a blog spot?! They're all the rage these days and then that would mean that you guys could catch up with my frolics whenever you want to! Interesting...watch this space!

The mums from the thursday morning creche that I help out at gave us helpers a farewell gift yesterday - an ingenius one at that! They gave us each a £20 voucher for the Bean Scene. I am going to take full advantage of this and camp myself there tomorrow for revision purposes. Waiter-served coffee on tap will be much appreciated! Aside from coffee, tomorrow's aim is going to be to digest as much of Germany's history since 1949 as possible - hurray! My history exam is on Wednesday. I have decided it's not worth getting too stressed over these exams, I'm gonna take my usual laid-back but focussed approach. Ali is gonna be in town from Monday and she will be a welcome refuge from revision!

Well, I think I've written a healthy email this evening despite my bleary eyes and sozzled brain! I will say cheerio for now.