I am about 8 pages away from the end of barefacts, for me, for good. And I can't wait. I'm sure I'm going to be left with a gaping hole in my life, but I'm going to love it. Barefacts has been, as with any other VP Comms, my baby, but it's been a baby I could well have done without at many points during the year!

I have had an amazing team this year, but being the only (barely) paid full time member of staff working on the paper, I have been invariably left with a lot of responsibility for getting the paper published when people have coursework/fancy going out/want to stay at home etc etc. And it's a pretty much thankless task most of the time. There have been a lot of people moaning about barefacts on the Union Bulletin Board. I guess a lot of them don't realise how much work is actually put into it, nor acknowledge that whilst they may not like a section, other people may do. There have been a lot of sweeping, hurtful comments, and at times it has really upset me. But I've developed a pretty thick skin, and with 'wonderful ben' (as mattypoo calls him) to support me, I've got through things..... almost.

It's now 11.30pm and I still have quite a way to go with the paper. It's only Ben and me in the office, as usual, and i'm taking a rare break from layup to write this, whilst he does the lyrics quiz. Ben really has been an absolute 100% star this year. People say this a lot, but I really really believe I couldn't have got through it without him. He has stayed up late with me working on the paper every single week. That's 21 Tuesday nights since September, staying at work with me til normally gone midnight (sometimes much later), and he's in his final year of a pretty tough course. I can't imagine many people doing that, if any. I just hope I can support him through his final coursework, revision and exams as much as he's helped me over the past year.

Rightyho, I'd better get back to work, and hope my tummy ache goes away so I can concentrate on work. I have a Channie's chocolate muffin sitting on my desk, so I might just have a nibble on that! :)