The artist formally known as BeePea

é beleza

2009-10-27T18:09:37Z

Week 8 of training....

I earned my first cordão and am having the most amazing whole-life journey learning this art.

Happy.

Capoeira não sai da minha cabeça
Capoeira não sai do coração
Capoeira quem joga é mandingueiro
Capoeira é jogo de irmão

Capoeira
é beleza
Capoeira
é tradição
Capoeira
tem fundamento
Capoeira
é vibração

Capoeira nasceu foi nos quilombos
e no sofrimento da senzala
O nego cantava a ladainha
enquanto o cana cortada

Capoeira
é beleza
Capoeira
é tradição
Capoeira
tem fundamento
Capoeira
é vibração

Na roda de capoeira
pode se matar ou morrer
Mas também se joga limpo
que é bonito de se ver

Capoeira
é beleza
Capoeira
é tradição
Capoeira
tem fundamento
Capoeira
é vibração

Para ser bom capoeira
não basta ter aptidão
Tem que se jogar com a alma
e cantar com o coração

Capoeira
é beleza
Capoeira
é tradição
Capoeira
tem fundamento
Capoeira
é vibração

xxx

hbeepea @ 2009-02-20T11:32:00

2009-02-20T11:32:55Z

more song chart memes

Photo update

2009-01-23T11:04:00Z

I love my Hula Hoop.
Yes I do.

All photos taken by my best friend and ace photographer, Mr. Joseph A. "ginger wizard" Edmonds: Deviantart

Emergency Help needed from my beautiful target audience

2009-01-18T20:53:40Z

Medicine and websites!! Suggestions needed :)

FINALLY I'm doing someting in my degree which (in theory) will be not too hard for me.

I appplied to do a unit in Computer Assisted Learning with medicne and have to make a website.. on anything.. as long as it's to do with medicine/health.

Ideally, I'd like it to be something psychiatric.. and aimed at "our" demographic.. students, young people, the "i-generation". people who are on the internet and use LJ!

Possibly happiness?! A website about good mental health.. or informative? I've no idea.

What do you want to know more about in terms of your mind or your brain?

Do you want to know how to help someone with a mental "illness"?

I can't thank you enough for any suggestions.. I have so many ideas in my head but just can't put them in place.

I really want to make a small website which I can actually publish online which may even make a difference. If you've got any personal health problems which you don't think are well addressed online, let me know :)

Love
H x

hbeepea @ 2009-01-14T22:49:00

2009-01-14T22:50:44Z

I just bought this coat

*grins madly*

hbeepea @ 2009-01-12T19:56:00

2009-01-12T20:21:36Z

Hehehehe- so excited, it's just over 2 months until my 21st Birthday, which I am having in the Alps!!

*so happy*

http://www.snowside.co.uk/

So far, about 10 of my friends are confirmed as coming with me!

Yay!

H x

Take a Glorious Bite out of the Whole World

2009-01-09T12:52:02Z

For lost love
With a smile.

Work More, Earn More, Live More, Have More Fun

2009-01-08T04:40:04Z

.... i love her for writing this song. i hope she meant it when she wrote it.

N.B.

In case of death, I want this song played at my funeral too. Current playlist includes:

Staying alive
Some boring over-emotional choral song which suddenly breaks into Burn Baby Burn (disco inferno) after 15 seconds - (this is presuming I'm cremated)
I will survive

Also, I want mimes.. pretending they're stuck in coffins.. and doing sad faces at everyone there (including the eye rub crying thing)

And I want the coffin to be brought down the aisle (or whatever it is) by men in suits and sunglasses to the Resevoir Dogs theme tune.

Yeaaaaaah :) x

hbeepea @ 2009-01-04T17:37:00

2009-01-04T17:37:41Z

hbeepea @ 2008-10-14T14:29:00

2008-10-14T13:30:01Z

My current life in pictures. Tralalalala

TWEET!!

2008-10-10T12:04:19Z

So, I went out into my garden this morning to enjoy Autumn sun (my favourite type of weather) and noticed birds singing. For the first time in months and months, I realised they were singing. It was one of those cliched beautiful moments where I felt like life was exciting and beautiful and was begging to be explored. Probably helped on by the fact that me and 2 of my housemates made an amazing discovery last night...

At about midnight, we were all sitting on the stairs chatting. Because Pid was sitting on the bottom of the stairs looking up at me, we all quickly remembered the ceiling hatch near the wardrobe next to my bedroom. So out came the chair from my room.. not big enough.. so I ran downstairs to get the ladder from the garden. After a lot of manouvering we managed to clip this huge ladder into place and through the opening of the hatch. I went up and it was totally dark but I found a plug near the entrance, so we plugged in a lamp and ventured up there again.

IT WAS AMAZING!!! Totally dry, warm and comfortable, with a roll of carpet which we quickly put down. It's just this amazing space with low shelves on one side which looks like a bar.. there's also a strip light running along the top (bulb broken) and the sloping ceilings are covered in black plastic. We sat up there for about an hour and decided that we're going to install a UV light and write in UV pen on the black plastic.. turn the shelves into a bar, get a TV/Stereo up there and fill the entire thing with beanbags.. It's so utterly amazing that we've had this huge room which is basially made for partying above us all this time.

So now it the beginning of my weekend.. it's sunny and I'm going to go meet one of my best friends during his break at 4pm so we can go have a picnic in The City. Yay.

Making happy time. I lub him.

2008-10-01T18:28:00Z

hbeepea @ 2008-09-29T18:02:00

2008-09-29T17:36:58Z

I cried! Yay. I'm happy because I know it's a step in the right direction.

And something amazing happened.

Apparently, my Grandpa had written 30-pages of memoirs between 1992 and 1997.

And no one knew until today.

Not a single person.

He had put it in an envelope along with his will and mentions in it that "no one will read this until I'm gone". He even mentions that he has 9 grandchildren (which includes my youngest cousin and the last grandchild) who he is so proud of. It starts saying "this is the third time I've tried to write this and hopefully it will get finished - 3 to 5 years".

I am going to spend some time with my Dad typing it up in the future (my fast typing is finally going to come in useful). This has to be done because I personally can't read my Grandpa's handwriting (kids nowadays don't really learn to write in script I don't think).

So that's the biggest happiest thing to happen today... though the past 12 hours have all been pretty amazing.

J came to meet me at Uni during Lunch. We met at London Bridge and we went to eat in a little cafe next to the Clink museum where I had the most YUMMY chicken salad with couscous and peppers and dressing *mmm*. Then we followed it up by going to The Tate Modern for a little browse. They're installing the giant spider again, which has followed me around the bloody country (I saw it in NY and Canada I think..). Then we went to the minimalist section and both stood there with a slight feeling of rage inside us. Maybe we're stupid.. Maybe I just don't get it.. but 120 bricks in the middle of a floor?! Apparently it's amazing because "evey sculpture has the same height, volume and mass". OF COURSE IT FUCKING WOULD!! If you make it 2 bricks high and use 120 bricks then it'll always be the same height, volume and mass. AAAAAARRRRGGGHHHH!

Some stuff I liked today was:

Raqib Shaw (Jane Seymore)

Sophie Calle

And a book in the shop called "Face Food: Bento Boxes"

So now I'm home with my hoop, which I'm going to go play with in my garden.. and I'm on the way to sorting out my educational status. I've hopefully got an interview with the head of neuroscience soon and I've done my research on US Universities! I love Boston so much that Harvard is obviously my first choice- I'm pretty sure that my 3 A's at A-level will be okay but I have to sit SAT1 and SATII (?!?!) and have no clue what they'll be like! The only problem there is that I'm starting to make really good connections in the UK in terms of interactive art/drama and events.

Excitingly, I'm putting in my proposal forms for the 2009 festival. I've several art installations I want to do, some of which are interactive. One of them involves crowding part of the woodland with hundreds of washing lines with sheets and socks for people to play/hide in. Last years "banana tree" (which was just bananas wired to a tree) lasted a day before the hungry stoned people figured out how to get them off. They even ate the golden plated banana. Damnit.

I also want to do a "6 degrees of separation" style game whilst there. I intend to set up a booth where people can submit the name of their friend, their occupation and where abouts they're from on the front of an envelope and put a message inside. The envelope is then passed onto a total stranger and it's their job to find the person it belongs to. The festival only has about 10,000 people in it, and the majority of the time, someone knows someone who knows someone, so it's a really nice way to get talking to people too.

Aaaaa, I'm so excited already for it and it's not until next June. Until then, I have Luminopolis (http://www.luminopolis.org/content/view/41/105/) which, quite frankly, just makes me happy to be living in London.

x

Post-midsummer-post

2008-06-30T00:02:32Z

"IT'S ALIVE!!!!".. only after a healthy dose of "no medical school" though. I haven't had time to update this in so, so long because the last few months have been a blur of lectures, clinical placements, exams, raving, and a shitload of moving.

So.. so far, in the past 12 or so months, I have lived in the following:

America (Feb-May with a few breaks at home in between)
Europe (May-July)
Croydon (July)

** point at which I actually moved all my posessions to new "permemnant" [in theory] residences... **

My sisters house in Croydon (July-September)
Borough, London (September - Janurary)
Bethnal Green, London (Janurary - March)
Whitechapel (for a week in March)
Bethnal Green again (one week in march)
Bankside, London (March-May)
Dalston, London (May - last week)
Home (last week - Wednesday)
Southwark, London (Wednesday - September)
Somewhere new (September +)

I have done so much moving I have been close to (well, in) tears more than once. I think it was when I had to move from Whitechapel to Bethnal Green, which isn't far, but I have pretty much EVERYTHING I own on me (including a huge duvet and 6 pillows, 3 massive ikea bags and 2 smaller bags) on by back, trying to catch a bus at 8pm just as the handles on the majority of the bags broke due to strain.

ANYHOO... I should be settled again next week, although it's only temporary for the summer as the room is too small and I'm needing more of teh space for next Uni term. One of the main reasons is...... I've had a baby.

Well... not really a baby. More furry. And sans any of my personal genetic material. And I didn't have to go through any form of painful labour (unless you consider handing over £100 for a kitten and £100 for all her injections painful)

(she's normally less sideways)

*said in French accent*

Maaaaaaaa Boooooootiful Amusebouche. She is the best thing I have ever purchased in my life. I love her and she is adding towards my status of "crazy cat lady". She's already reduced the stress in my life by being generally cute and lovely and I get the feeling she'll stop me going insane next year. Incidentally, I passed all my exams this year, so I'm officially 1/5th of the way to being "Dr. BeePea"

I'm going to do my usual thing now of ending this abruptly becuase I'm tireddddddzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

hbeepea @ 2008-01-30T22:15:00

2008-01-30T22:27:43Z

To Do:

1) Keep chugging on with medicine, get my degree and earn enough money so I can travel with my degree and do medicine around the world without having to worry about cash.

2) Change to neuroscience next year.. finish Uni by 2010, go find a job in the city. Use the time I'll have free (as I won't be in lectures 24/7!) to follow up my interests in human rights, travel, communications and management.

3) Accept who I am right now. This second.

4) As tempting as it is to write about happy things, keep personal relationships and LJ as far away from each other as humanly possible.

5) Stop expecting things and looking to the future and accept that actions are louder than words and that's beside the point if the words are there too.

6) Find a house to live in

7) Skydive

8) Go to burning man

9) Actually use glowsticks at a rave even though it's not very PC nowadays

10) Help moondog out

10 a) Buy milk

11) Actually post all those parcels which are at home

12) Find the real friendship bonds and nurture them.. abandon those which are eeeevil

13) Watch SKINS series 1 so I can watch SKINS series 2 when it starts in Feb

14) Become involved in RAG week

15) Actually follow through on my plan of becoming "pet of the week" in the London Lite

16) Go to a regency ball / have a regency party / talk in early 19th century English for 24 hours straight

17) Buy H2's housemates more wine (/edit: bought chocolate instead)

18) Accept the fact that this weekend is going to be the best weekend of my entire life (Bristol + beautiful company + seeing Sanhita + grimy studenty drum and bass + not getting to bed until at least 10am.... HELL YESH!)

19) Accept the fact that valentines weekend is going to top Bristol and that, sadly, I have had to wait almost 20 years to feel THIS excited about spending time with people

20) Figure out how I'm going to get back to Minneapolis again this year for visits and to feed the squirrels. I am 100% serious when I say that the black squirrels in Loring Park are a huge driving force for me going back to Minneapolis... British squirrels are just so rubbish in comparison.

21) Get out of debt. Whoops.

22) Stop updating livejournal at 10:30 at night when I know I have to be up at 7am to get to my GP practice tomorrow morning and conduct my first patient interview on my own and I've yet to read through the notes

heck yeah

2008-01-09T14:23:23Z

Myself and H2 are going to be helping set up "The British Fortress" at Burning Man this year.

I'm so friggin' excited, it's ridiculous.

hbeepea @ 2007-12-20T10:02:00

2007-12-20T10:18:29Z

Current favourite things:

1) Decent mathrock
2) When Hannah says "I say!"
3) The fossa ovalis
4) The pretentious "lets have an expensive party in a warehouse" art scene
5) Going with Annabel to the above
6) 20-somethings with business cards
7) The story of Paul Potts, which I didn't know existed until 2 days ago... it made me happy
8) Having hair which only takes 5 minutes to dry
9) Charlie Brooker. Oh my god. I love this man.
10) Moondog
11) The sort-of-yuppie City worker scene
12) Commuting with those belonging in 11 at 9am
13) Drum and Bass exactly when you're in the mood for dancing
14) Forgetting that salsa dance until 20 seconds ago
15) Remembering 14 despite very nice gin
16) Very nice gin
17) Wednesday evenings at Guy's Bar
18) 17 + my friends on sports teams + them having being ginned 10 minutes earlier (and not with 16)
19) Feeling sorry for Sixte and his coffee because it "tastes like curry"
20) The word "intergallactic"
21) The fact that medical students learn, on average, 5 brand new words a day every day during their education
22) Brain stretching because of 21
23) My laptop
24) Facebook
25) Angels we have heard on high (GLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOORIA)
26) Having confidence
27) Slowly eating the decorative gingerbread house in the dining room
28) Life

hbeepea @ 2007-12-07T23:55:00

2007-12-07T23:55:47Z

whoops and bugger

"Project to stop Harriet buying some Sea Bream"

2007-12-05T07:46:07Z

It's always exciting when arty farty stuff happens on your doorstep. 1000 extra points if it involves a celebrity. 10000000 more points if that celebrity isn't C-list. Minus a zillion points if said actor is Jude Law though (exception = Closer. If he hadn't been in that, then the universe would have been deprived of 2 hours of Clive Owen and Natlie Portman with her hair which reminded everyone of when she was younger and in Leon and just fantastic and therefore helped to leave a bit of film history which'll erase the memory that she agreed to be in V for Vendetta.. *shudders*)

Anyway....

http://justjared.buzznet.com/2007/11/30/jude-law-live-art-project/

Okay. Honestly. "Real Time Movie?". Yes, Mr. Director, well done.. you have got us talking about Jude Law and Borough Market and your "real-time-film" experiment. The only issue is that he wanted to make people question where film ends and life begins. He started off on a bad foot.. if you watch what he filmed back in March:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=2oul1SbVCu8

Empty Borough Market?

Bollocks to real life.

CamBRRRRRRRRRRidge

2007-11-17T12:49:55Z

Was freezing.
So I'm back. Because I have no stamina. And I left my phone at Mana's house. And I want to see my parents tomorrow. And it was feezing. And we were in a field (with a river, obviously) but it was freezing. Really. Really. Freezing.

So, after getting to bed at 1am and getting up at 3:30, I will mostly be:
Sleeping
Reading about cell molility
Going to Tesco
Sleeping
Watching Green Wing
Reading about cell motility again and hoping that I'll actually understand it
Learn the different G-protein coupled receptor ligands and actually bother to remember the differnt sub-type distribution and effects (especially the interaction of MAOIs and tyrosine- mainly because it's called "the cheese reaction" and that's quite funny)
Starting on my "ethics of obesity" essay
Sleep

Sarcoplasmic Ridiculum

2007-11-16T16:46:11Z

I need to stop making bad medical puns (which aren't even puns). I'm getting a reputation, which isn't a good thing (after the "glycolysis can go fructose itself" thing)

Still getting roung to replying to all the comments but I have to be off down to Kennington in a second, so wanted to get down the thoughts which have been banging around my mind today.

Firstly, that there was a lot of relief had when I realise that, for ONCE, I can actually do something *well* in this medical school. YAY!! The ironic part is that it's (*drumroll*).. maths. Yes. Turns out I can "do" numeracy and calculating drug doses etc. The only reason I say this is because I've been feeling so STUPID since I got here and it's not helped at all. Beating myself up/lacking in self belief isn't going to help in any way (yeah, that took me a good 19 years to realise) so, at the risk of actually gaining some confidence and self respect, I might stop beating myself up from my mistakes (and learn from them) .. forget the bad stuff which has passed which I can't conrol and focus on the good. Easier said than done, probably, but'll make for a less stressful life. I realised that the worst things that could EVER possibly happen in life are:

You feel sad/angry/jealous/any "negative" emotion
You die

And the first one is controllable by everyone. Not that they should be ignored- because, obviously, you can't feel happy unless you feel sad at some point. BUT.. you can limit how long you decide to dwell/spend time thinking about those feelings. I was always under the impression that not spending hours grieving or stressing means you were "surpressing" your emotion, only for it to bottle up and explode at some later and inappropriate time (like in the middle of a horror film in a dark and busy cinema.. or in the middle of church). So far (fingers crossed) I've not been beating msyelf up so much and things are actually getting better. Weird.

So.. one technique- there's a lot of stuff I miss a lot at the moment which could be getting me down. However, I've tried my hardest (well, on my walk back home) to re-think it all and have concluded the following:
Anything which I miss is actually just something I can look forward to hopefully having again in the future.

Simply put, I'm now looking forward to:

Having a room which is bigger than 14ft x 4ft
Having a pet cat/mouse/ferret/dog in my accommodation next year (sorry for Mum/Dad reading this, it's going to happen, I miss having a small furry around the house)
Falling in love again (thank you ms_elusive!! You rock!!!!)
Buying another one of those mince pies from Borough Market next week again.
Having an MP3 player. I've not had a working one for about a month now and I'm going slilghly nuts.
Shrooms (the film.. out tomorrow.. I'm so friggin' excited about seeing it)
Going back to Minneapolis and seeing everyone again.. and going shopping in Target (<-- yes, I'm serious)
Laughing so hard it hurts
Singing Christmas carols
Snow
Being disappointed that there's no snow
Eventually being able to afford to buy Sea Bream again
Spending time with Jack and Libs
Not feeling too stupid (hopefully will happen)
Catching up with everyone's LJs
Having the perfect stress-free lie in

I want you guys to all tell me what you're looking forward to in the future
Trust me, it's "Be Happy Friday"- it'll make you smile :)
xx

p.s.
BELLY FLOP!!!

Brillo

2007-11-13T13:45:18Z

I've been allocated a place with a doctor near Albert Square

'Cor Blimey Guvnor.

Oh dear

2007-11-12T21:17:27Z

http://www.blogthings.com/couldyoupasseighthgradesciencequiz/

Question number 6

The irony makes me die a little inside.

"Shhhh!!!"

2007-11-12T16:35:11Z

Firstly- I can't say thank you enough to the amazing response I've had so far to the new journal.

Even though I've been negtectful not only of my own journal, but of reading other peoples', so many of you have been kind enough to want to keep ties. This makes me so happy as, before everything went a bit mental, I loved being in contact with you all and am looking forward to hearing from everyone else from now on.

So.. now what? Well, I could tell you about the lectures I had today (cholinergic and adrenergic control of the autonomic nervous system) but:

1) Unless you're into that kind of thing (thankfull, I am) it's probably really boring
2) Anyone reading this who's from America would get as confused as I did after reading my text book (published in America) until you realise that "noradrenaline" is actually "norepinephrine" in the U.S. I actually spent an hour looking at my text book in confusion. So do you guys in America not use "adrenaline" in normal conversation (I'm thinking something along the lines of - "dude, what an adrenaline rush!", because I've never actually heard anyone refer to it as "epinephrine" before.. not even in ER... and ER knows all...)

The differences between European/American spellings is starting to confuse me slightly now.. like foEtus, neuronE and aEroplane. Okay, the last one isn't used much- but I thought it was worth a mention.

So now I'm sitting in the library after another little moment of "oh my god, I'm here and studying medicine and I'm so friggin' happy!!!". Probably helped by the fact that I've finally chosen my essay title (1800 words- argh) for my Interprofessional Education Portfolio (*snore*). How does "Ethical Implications in Obesity Treatment" sound? It sounds to me like I can scrape 1800 words on it, which puts a smile on my face.
If anyone has any input/thoughts on the subject, please please please feel free to share them with me. I thought it was such a hot topic at the moment (is there actually a link between obesity and all these health problems the papers are telling us about? Surely everyone has a right over their own body and how they treat it?)

This week is officially a "geek week" , the term now used (started by Aaminah) which refers to a week of not-drinking or going to Ministry Of Sound/Tiger Tiger/Zoo Bar/Strawberry Moons/Anywhere which is chavvy (but fun) like that and going to all of the lectures and drinking your 2 litres of water a day and generally being an all round fantastic student. I'm worried, however, that I may be missing out on some fantastic opportunities this Geek Week. Not that I want to go out and party, but on Saturday, Hannah and I were on our way to Leicester Sq when we got on the tube and had possibly the coolest encounter of our lives.

The Dude.
Yes.
THE Dude Lebowski. Glasses, dressing gown and all.

I have a photo and I will put it on here as soon as I get back to my boxroom.

Dude.

/edit
Yes
yes
and yes again
there is so much that is right with this photo

Zombie journal wants your braaaaaains!

2007-11-11T21:31:53Z

It's been a while.

So, if you're reading this, chances are it's because you knew me from my "beepea" journal- hello again!

I decided to lay "BeePea" to rest and see that portion of my life as a series of experiences, some of them wonderful and some of them not so fantastic- either way, I feel that trying to intergrate what I'm doing now with what I was doing this time last year is pointless.

So what has changed? Pretty much everything. In the past 3 months:

I moved out. I'm at Uni and now live in a very nice 8ft x 12ft "room" with a "showertoilet" ensuite. The shower is over the toilet. Some say it's "small", I say "convenience".

Sitting in front of me right now is "Clinically Orientated Anatomy"- which is a good sign that, yes, I have started to study medicine.

A few relationships have changed. Ironically, the love which livejournal brought me was ultimately tested by.. well.. life, an ocean and lifestyles which were incompatable. Pathetically, I will admit that I haven't read Nik's journal since he left for America and then decided to end our relationship. Time will tell whether it was sensible or not for me to cut ties in staying updated on his life in such a way. All I knew was that the situation was totally out of my control and I could see no benefit in torturing myself over something which I couldn't have. I do still keep in touch with him through e-mail and care about him very much- it's just that the dynamic between us has changed (as well as movement from "2 feet away" to "4500 miles away" and from both of us being "bored" to "stupidly busy with life");

So now I've thrown myself into what I see as a new chapter in my life. Time only moves in one direction- there's no point trying to fight it (ooo, that's deep, man...)

I got a haircut (okay, that's not exciting considering I've been dissecting cadavers, but it's the sort of thing people write about, no?)

So this journal is going to serve as an outlet for my University/Life experiences from here on. I thought it would also be quite interesting to look back on this over the next 7 years and see how my opinions of medicine change. Also, I missed stick_on_stars.

University has been in session now for about 8 weeks. There are 400 of us in my year, all studying medicine. We have our lectures in a theatre and I'm still meeting new people who are on the same course as me. My average day consists of about 4 hours of lectures, a tutorial or two and the odd workshop/dissection here and there (so about 6 hours in classes a day- yay!)

Dissection is fascinating and I can't even express just how grateful I am to the body donors and their families- it's really amazing and I'm so humbled whenever I walk into the dissection room as to just how generous some people are. We're all learning so much from the experience.

My flatmates? I don't know if I should name them, so I won't, and will just refer to "flatmates" in general. Our flat is.. well, boring, frankly- which is no one's fault, it's just that everyone goes out and the place is empty most of the time.

I've started to drink Horlicks.

My friends here? I can name them. The following names will probably pop up a lot from now on (and hopefully photos too)

Old friends: RoRy, Monkey, Duck, Jack, Libs, JJ, Sputnik, Liv
New (Uni) friends: Hoey, Hannah, Phil, Kim, Holly, Adam, Dan, Joey, Fauzia, Alice, Bel, Gill, Alex, Mana, Craig, Aiden, Naveen, Flannel, Roxy, Katie, Ben, Kris, Katie, Alex C... *thinks*... Clint, Saira, Alex K (I know a lot of Alexs now), Kam, Aaminah, Ali, Bo, Josh, Hugh, Shimmings, Chris........ Yes, I have spent the first 7 weeks just learning people's names.

I'd say that the most significant people there are Hannah (my soul sister), Hoey (my home-counties homeboy), Dan (talking about family guy during lectures), Mana (my agony aunt), Gill (conversation and curly fry queen), Alice (cup of tea supplier) and Alex ("You're a LEG END!").

I still haven't figured out how to finish livejournal entries without it seeming abrupt though.

edit: Uni life summed up in a photo: