less sleep

i think i left out without explaining much about my seminar, so i will begin with that. my classmate CJ and i led the seminar on human remains and the museum, which was infinitely interesting. we came up with the genius idea of splitting people into groups that included one curator, one human remains, and one general public and then asked each how they would want to see the display of human remains (if at all). the second issue was repatriation, so we asked everyone to think about that as well. which leads me to ask the same question of you: do you want to see human remains in the museum? think about mummies, bog bodies, and things like bodyworlds. is there a difference to you? what can you learn from these exhibits? do they make you squeamish/ fascinated/ bored/ question your mortality? anyway, this is the type of stuff we went over in the seminar.

on wednesday, i spent a few hours editing M's paper about Foucault (great subject to be reading in 1500 words). i also watched angel a (F's favorite film of the moment) and a couple others. thursday i cleaned my room so that em wouldn't die when she saw it. i picked her up from the station at 2 and we walked around city center for a bit. i was so happy to be able to find all the places i wanted to find, it made me feel like i'm actually a part of this city now. we got tea and caught up on life (a whole 8 years of it!) before heading back to the flat for dins. then we got all bundled up and headed out for the lighting of the christmas lights.... it was amazing. we ended up not finding anyone that we were supposed to meet up with, but the fireworks were still amazing!

after the fireworks, we found N and walked back from town rather than taking a bus (due to there being 20k people at this thing). on the way, we decided it would be fun to take em out in manc, so we went to subspace for 80s night (rachel, they played living on a prayer & i died a bit inside but in a good way).

friday em and i went to font for some late breakfast and then i dropped her at the train station. i had time for a short nap before heading to the lads for dinner. D and L cooked goulash, but it wasn't served until after 11pm... and here's why: the geniuses were cooking it in a ceramic dish. on high heat. on the stove. it exploded. it's probably the hardest i've laughed in... god knows how long. N made banoffee pie and by the end of the night, i almost exploded like the dish. it easily the best dinner i've had since... well, whenever i last had mexican food (little mexico 2 i believe).

saturday was... well, the closest thing to perfect that i've had in a while. i woke up to sunshine and N's text telling me that she got into the university course that she was most worried about (as in, she accepted to uni). she was so happy she couldn't call because she would start crying, and that reminded me a lot of my reaction to my acceptance into manchester. if i remember correctly, i couldn't tell da without sobbing like a maniac. anyway, i picked up flowers while running some errands and then N and i went for coffee and hung out in our favorite little corner of trof. we got to chat with D since he was working, and then we got hungry and went to N's for dinner. i got to adore her fat and disdainful cat, which absolutely made my day. in case i haven't said it enough, i miss joey. N and i picked up S and went to the venue, where they play good music. i wasn't so thrilled about the crowd of people, but we learned to ignore it (apparently S was getting some pretty nasty looks). in all, it was an excellent day.

i slept enough today, which is beneficial since i have some work to get done. i have my internship meeting tomorrow morning, so i'm very excited for tomorrow to get here!