Ate all the painkillers last night and it was too late to go out to buy more, so I found myself in the bathtub until around 3am, just sitting in hot water while dosing off.

First thing this morning, Tom went out to get some more painkillers and came back to surprise me with a gingerbread coffee (OH YUM) and some chocolate cake with custard. :D

Feeling lots better now and will definitely go in to University tomorrow. Been getting on with work and really enjoying it.

Have also been watching the show called ‘How clean is your house?’ where the two cleaning-gurus Kim and Aggie visit really disgusting houses to help the owners get back on track.

Here’s part one of one of my favourite episodes (the other parts can also be found on youtube):
Pat’s Bedsit
I really feel for the lady. She’s such a lovely person who just got stuck in a rut and needed some help.

The same goes for this man:
Nightmare in Northampton
He suffers from depression after a breakup.

There are episodes where Kim and Aggie go and help people and they really don’t seem to appreciate it and just return to their old ways again, but the times when the people take hold of their own lives and change it for the better… It’s just so nice to watch!

It’s perfect telly when I’m lying on the sofa with a hot water bottle :P Don’t judge me!

I was going to go to Oxford today, but woke up feeling very off. Sure enough it was the period saying hello again. My train ticket will work all day, so if I miraculously feel better, I want to go, but to be honest… Doing 4 hours of travel on the first day of a period just isn’t a good idea for me.

I’m really frustrated, mainly because I’m feeling a bit guilty. I was going to meet some online friends in Oxford and had promised to do a little drawing thing with a friend who planned to recite a poem. Was looking forward to that collaboration and had practiced drawing at home for it. :/

Anyway.

Have been looking up The Pill again. I stopped taking it in Sweden after getting bad side effects, but am seriously considering taking it up again. Can’t have life grind to a halt every month because of my periods, especially if I’m going to travel to meet friends and go to conventions.

Here’s the NHS site for the pill. Click me!

Will spend the day contemplating whether it’s worth taking the risk. Am frightened of side effects. :/

… Yup. I don’t think I wrote about that, did I?

It’s been a bit hectic here. Last Tuesday afternoon, I came down with my first case of food poisoning. Won’t go into details, but… In a nutshell, I spent that day throwing up and the following four days unable to eat properly.

This blog has been silent because of that, and also because the moment I got better I really had to get back to work again.

There is not much to report otherwise. This last year of University is just so intense that there is no time for dithering about. You just gotta knuckle down and do it…!

Good news is, I finally got my Swedish student loan through, so I can stop chewing my nails over that!

Gotta get ready to go to University again. We have a fundraising meeting (have to get money for the final 3rd year Show), and then I’ll spend the day working. I really want to start painting the first chapter of the Graphic Novel, but am a bit stuck on some basic layouts still, which is slightly frustrating.

Oh! And I’ve also taken up at year-challenge! I am to create a self portrait everyday for a year. So far I’ve done five. They will be posted on my art blog everyday (unless I chicken out, which I don’t intend to do)

And finally…! Me and Tom will celebrate Christmas in Italy(!) Just gotta check up on flight prices and I need to get someone to take care of Chester and Ruffles.

Phew! Sorry for the rather dull entries lately..! I suspect this will be the case for a while.

OFF TO WORK.

As you can probably tell by my last entry and my lack of entries after it, I’ve been quite ill. I’m still feeling the lingering aftereffects (snotty and coughy), but otherwise it’s back to normal…!

Lots of stuff happening. Let me try to keep this brief. I’m currently printing out a few beginning pages of the Butterflies and Moths script to get myself going again. I’ve really missed it! Can’t start working right away though, as I’ve got lectures this morning.

Because of my illness I missed a lot of things. I missed the Zombie walk, the Finger-Pistol Flash Mob, halloween party, birthday party of a friend, several belly dance classes… The list goes on, really. So as you might suspect, I was not amused. I also was unable to do any type of work. I couldn’t write my dissertation and I couldn’t do the last mandatory brief we had for Uni (before being allowed to start our own studies).

When I finally got well enough to hold a pencil, I had a huge backlog of work to take care of (which is still being worked on). A short period of stress ensued. :P

Now, I’ve had my second dissertation tutorial in which it seemed like my tutor was more excited about my work than I am. An odd experience. ‘You got it in the bag Jen!’ ‘You’ve moved this forward!’ ‘You know what you’re doing!’ ‘You have the knowledge! Flaunt it!’… I was just thinking: ‘No no no. I really don’t have enough to go on and I know far too little. Eeeek. You’re expecting a masterpiece. I’m officially -scared-.’ She also ended up borrowing my copy of Fun Home (the only graphic novel that has made me cry rivers).

To be honest though, it’s really nice to have a tutor who’s interested in what you’re doing. I don’t tend to feel the same enthusiasm from my own illustration tutors. They are too busy telling me what I need to do better. I think I understand why illustrators and comic book artists are so self critical. We get it hammered in at University. :P

‘That’s nice…. But THAT could be done better, and THAT isn’t right, and THAT looks horrid, and THAT is rough and THAT… What the heck is THAT doing there?’

*hides under desk*

I think it’s safe to say that I will be a bit absent for a while. Now that I’m well, I have so many things I need to redo.

Today is a day of lectures at University and then off to our local coffee shop. Me and Rich always hang around there, drawing and chatting. Yesterday when he was there on his own for once, sketching, he actually met a girl and clicked with her straight away. I only heard about this over MSN, so the information is a bit vague, but SO CUTE nonetheless. Problem was… He didn’t dare to ask for her number, but he said that he always hangs around that coffee shop, so now he’s approached me going: ‘I NEED TO LIVE THERE THIS WEEK O_O’
I’ve agreed to keep him company. :P
Let’s hope that girl comes back.