I got my mark back for my 1st assessed presentation this week. I thought I'd done really badly. I was wrong. I got 67.5%!!! I'm now v happy!

Please note the return of the exclamation marks!

I now have a very cool music notation program (called Sibelius) on my computer. It makes transposing music for the little trumpet players and clarinettist at church much easier and quicker. I can even make it transpose for me, I just have to put the music in, which is helpful. When I'm playing, I transpose really quickly, but when I'm putting the music into my computer, my transposition is far less reliable. It also plays back what I put in, so I can hear if I've done something wrong, & it also means that when I make up parts, I can play it and see if it fits with the tune. Fantastic!

Other than the wonders of Sibelius, nothing much exciting is happening for me.

Not much has been going on for me lately. It's been very rainy, and so I've spent lots of time getting rather wet.

I no longer have my crutches, which is such a relief...

My PGCE application went off yesterday, so I'm waiting to hear if I have an interview, and hoping I won't have to wait too long!

Well, I haven't had much time to do anything very exciting. I have been doing uni work and bar work, and other than that, not very much.

On Sunday, we split into factions...James and his crew went to the Cowley Bridge Inn, and Norris, Dan, Adam and myself went to the Globe. (I'm not sure why Ed didn't come, but he didn't.) We did better in the quiz without the likes of James. We got 37, and were only one point off winning, which was very good considering that usually we're lucky if we hit 20. When I set the quiz it is a bit easier, and admittedly, last time, James' team got 41, but I still maintain we did better.

Tomorrow, I have my 1st assessed presentation. I'm hoping it will be OK, and that I don't lose my voice before then. (At the moment, I do appear to be losing my voice...)

After tomorrow, I am free of work such as presentations until week 6. Then I have a presentation and an essay deadline. Joy.

I did my first presentation yesterday, and it went really well.

Tomorrow, I am going to Plymouth to see the Sisters of Notre Dame again.

Please pray - my PGCE application is being sent to my 1st choice (Exeter) next Thursday...I really want to do my PGCE here...

I have my 1st presentation tomorrow. 20 minutes on Greek sorcerers. I still feel like I know nothing about them. I'm a bit nervous really.

I also start work tomorrow. I'm looking forward to that.

I'm very nervous about my hospital appointment in Oxford in a couple of weeks. I'm having lots of tests done to see if they can work out why my eyesight has deteriorated so much. It involves nasty eyedrops, and having electrical currents passed through my eyes. Not exactly the kind of way I'd like to spend my day...

I have a hospital appointment in Exeter soon too - I finally have an appointment for my knee (which is still a bit painful, but much better).

My little brother was 16 yesterday. It's quite weird when your little brother hits 16.

I have a job! On Thursday, I start working at the Globe - which is just on the other side of Belmont Park to my house!

I also have a school placement on Fridays, which seems like it's going to be fun. I started on Friday afternoon - it was great.

My 1st presentation is on Thursday...I'm a little bit nervous - a week doesn't seem very long to prepare for a 20 minute presentation, especially when I have loads of other stuff to do too...

I have now completed my 1st week of lectures. All 5 hours of it. I do have lots of work to do already though, so it's not all roses.

I think I'm coming down with Freshers' Flu. I have a temperature, a headache, swollen glands, a runny nose & everything. The thing is that I've never had Freshers' flu before, not even when I was a Fresher! So it seems a bit mean that I get it in my final year.

That's part of the reason I'm not going to the CathSoc quiz (that I wrote!) tonight. I am going to music practise though, but that seems infinitely easier to cope with than CathSoc!

We had fun at the CU last night. We handed out leaflets. Not sure we were supposed to, but we did.... They weren't bad leaflets or anything. I'm just not sure the CU would approve of us handing them out outside their meeting, but never mind. Blame James!

Today, I registered. I thought my 1st lecture was on Thursday, but it's actually tomorrow. Tuesdays are usually one of my days off. After my one lecture tomorrow, I then have nothing til Thursday, and then I have 4 hours in the morning - 2 chunks of 2 hours, at opposite (well almost) ends of Queen's Building, which is quite a big building really.