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I'm back from holidays...

Well, here, school report stylee is what I doned this summer...

What I Did This Summer

By Elizabeth Overal, Second Year History, University of Kent

This summer was mostly a test of endurance for me but it's weird to look back now and see how optimistically I started it off. I was happy to be home, I had work to look forward to, I was well, I was relaxed.

I read Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix which was good but didn't live up to the hype...neither did work, which I began on the 12th of June but had to wait until the 27th of the same month for a computer account. The work was boring, but the people were ok and I started to strike a balance. I also learnt html for the su website. The bits I wrote include the freshers FAQ and another project that is secret but I only HTML'd the FAQ.

I met foo for the first time and I found out that I scraped a pass in the year despite bad performance in HI360 \o/ I also started to get ill which turned out to be the defining moment of my summer. I can still remember how painful it was and I treasure the memories of the kindness of sophie and foo^rah. At a time I was very ill and low they helped drag me up again and feel more in contact with well people.

After 4 weeks off work with illness (Glandular Fever) I went back to finally work properly with Stella, a new line manager. Oh Dear. This is where the summer took another downturn. She and I rubbed one another up the wrong way entirely. And at this point I was also having doubts about my relationship and having gone thru several nasty days trying to sort out my head actually went to Havant where I ended things. Pete says there's no bitterness but thinking about the thing makes me feel rather nasty even now.

And still there was work with the woman who became known as StellaBitch.

I hated her.

It was a trial to get through work as I felt she was picking on me.

SO I wrote a letter to management on leaving :) Hopefully it's being actioned as I type but I hold no illusions...

On top of aaaaalllllllll this mum and I have been trying to adjust. Everything this summer is very different and I spent a lot of the time feeling torn between two places and achieving a very poor balance. I don't even know that it's been achieved now.

Hilight of holidays...The great foo^rah wedding. More photos now on line :D Ben's, Terry's, Giles's and Darren's are all up now. Some or me are just plain nasty, but NM.

That was a truly great day :)

So, to complete the report...after the wedding I went on holiday to Yorkshire which was relaxing and stressful at the same time. I love it up there but I kept missing my friends (who conspired to send me over 100 texts between them over a week) and kept thinking of things I needed to do before going back to uni. Current state of panic is due to student loan stuff...which hasn't come through yet.

And this completes my summer report.