Wandering about

Recently one of my lovely, fantastic & wonderful friends just moved to Oz to start a new life, I am extremely jealous of him and wish I could join him like a shot at his urging!

This however makes me think of all the friends I’ve known and miss all over the years I have wandered about meeting people. This is heavily reflected on me on this day as I buried my grandmother 11 years ago on this date and it hit me hard for a long time. I hope I’m doing her proud each day.

Do I miss my partying phase when i was younger and the people I met? Sadly I don’t as I’m glad to have moved on but it was nice to have people who indulged in my passion for drinking my arse off! Do I miss wandering about the UK for the next event or party to attend? I’m much more of a homebody now and prefer parties nearby where I live so I can head off home early as fashionably allowed to be! Sometime I feel so old, feeling like I’ve lived my life when it’s just barely begun!

I have many friends I met through my wandering phase and I am so happy to call them my friends… You lovely people know who you are and if you don’t…. silly sods!

I’m honoured to have lived in Nepal for 3 months; this finally engulfed my desire to travel but more strongly a desire to settle down somewhere new away from the UK where I can discover the real world and the people out there!  Travelling sound amazing but is it just really skimming the cultures you visit before moving onto the next one? Photographs bore me as most of the times I want an explanation for each shots mainly what I see is beautiful sunsets, sunrises, landscapes but with no stories behind them. Photographs of people smiling rocks as long they aren’t posing in a vain-ish way.

I now have a valid excuse to party around the UK again as seeing I’m a student again at 26 but I won’t and will be sensibly attending events I really want to attend. I have booked some that I’m really looking forward to such as Deafhood Congress in Dublin -http://irishdeafyouth.com/deafhood-congress/ and the BDA conference in Belfast - http://www.bda.org.uk/events/bda-conference-belfast both in November. It is a chance to meet new people, network and to let your hair down (in a non pisshead way). What do I expect to gain from these events? I have no fricking idea so I’m going in with an open mind and to learn (hopefully).

My dissertation questions were submitted and now have been registered with University of Wolverhampton so any bright sparks out there who want my questions… too late! The History dept here didn’t want me to do the questions I submitted as none of the staff here is a specialist in the area I want to work in so I’m very lucky that there’s a well know Deaf Historian here who have agreed to be my supervisor  :D

I’m sitting in my lecture room now ready for a BSL class which is similar to BSL Level 2.. This is a yearlong class and I attend when I feel like it, today I don’t feel like it but I’m attending so I can brush up on my fingerspelling skills as honestly it sucks.

I’m going to a quiz night tomorrow! I love quizzes and I generally can be found in bars/pubs playing on quiz machines… I look anti-social/savant-ish.

Interesting fact 2- I’m a savant (not really! More of OCD-ish!)