Result!

Blimey! Someone has updated this blog. Oh, yes that's right- it's me...need to confess to mucho crapness on the blogging front. I seem to have spent most of the summer sucked into the black hole that is my life (you know- that other existence that isn't made up of imaginary characters in your head). Writing, blogging and focusing in general seems hard to keep up to in the summer- autumn and winter seem much more productive seasons-wonder what the general consensus on that would be? Maybe it would be 50/50 depending on your personality, a bit like being a morning or evening person...Mmm food for thought.

One of the things I did manage whilst in the black hole was to sit my AS Level Eng Lit paper. I didn't think I had done particularly well and in the immediate aftermath decided that my paper was probably a B/C effort, the coursework being of a higher standard would probably pull it up to an overall B grade so I was fairly surprised to open the envelope last Friday to find out I got an A and not only that, I scored 120/120 in the exam. Obviously I am pretty chuffed at the result but there is a part of me that agrees with the predictable media furore that always accompanies A Level results. I didn't feel that my paper was outstanding quality and I knew I could have done better so why did the examiners disagree? Am I doing myself a disservice or is there something else going on? Whatever the answer might be many of my fellow students worked very hard regardless- so well done to everyone celebrating this weekend.

The biggest disappointment this summer was having to postpone my application to the Screenwriting MA at Leeds Met. Sadly the sums don't add up and like many other families the recession has affected our income. All is not lost though, the plan is to return to some form of paid employment and hopefully to save enough to go next September. In the meantime I am starting to look forward to the autumn writers class at the LBT- the spring/summer term involved a collaboration between the writing and the acting class, whilst this was a lot of fun and we produced a great 40min play the writing element didn't really stretch me enough.

Enough blabber for now, here's looking forward to a hugely productive end to 2009.

I shall leave you with my thought for today- isn't 'festooned' a funny word? Go on, say it quickly a few times and you will see what I mean. I am going to add it to my list of favourite unintentionally funny words, it will nestle nicely between 'trowel' and 'wonga'.