One day I will actually get around to updating this site properly, and working out some of the finer points of html and the like.

Tonight's been barefacts night - 12 hours of writing articles, laying up pages, searching for pictures, and watching cray things like THIS. It's the funniest thing I have seen in AGES - you must click here and ahve a giggle. It's soooo cute.

This week's barefacts is the last paper issue of the year, which seems weird as there are still 3 1/2 weeks to go until the end of term. Rich has asked me to be in charge of the online version which will go out in around 2 week's time. It's a scary challenge, but I'm going to give it a go. There are a lot of good people involved in the newspaper, and I'm sure we'll be able to come up with some good stuff. It's going to be a more fun, Christmassy edition - so, as long as I can get my coursework done by Friday week 14 (or is it Thursday? hope not...) It should be ok. I'm getting quite used to answering the phone in the media centre - it's normally Jessie, with "hello Sarah, where's Rich gone this time?!" which makes me smile!

It's late. I've been cacthing up on a few things I've been neglecting on the net, but now I'm off to bed. Tomorrow my plan is to get bf finished, and do a load of violin practice. I have this niggling feeling at the back of my mind that there is something else I have to do tomorrow, but I can't for the life of me remember. I should get along to OFU tomorrow, but I don't think it's that i've forgotten. Ah well, I'm sure it will come to me in a flash of lightning!

Blimey, it's been a crazy night, involving several drunk Rawson Freshers and friends, 6 shopping trolley, 2 bins, a couple of trees, and some criminal damage. I'm not sure what's going to happen, but since my boys and some others broke some of the locks on the bikes in teh sheds and then put them in trees, I think they might be in quite a lot of trouble tomorrow morning. I can't believe they did it - I'm used to them bringing home the odd cone, and maybe even a trolley, but SIX?! And then vandalising the bike sheds - that's just not on, boys.

I've done 702 words of my jazz assignment. I'm not quite sure how, but somewhere I found some words. Now I need to write some more, do a time line diagram and notate an improvised solo from "Corner Pocket" by the Count Basie Orchestra. I don't know whether I've done anything near what he wants, but hey. I need to get it done. Don't think there'll be any Chancellors Challenge for me tomorrow night - I've only missed one in 10 weeks, and that was when I had a concert to play in. Letting the side down!

Barefacts last night wasn't bad, and I think the issue is looking really quite good, especially with all the photos of the barefacts and GU2 awards. Paul and Scott did a great job of taking some really arty and professional looking photos last night, complete with black drapes and purple lighting. Groovy!

Tomorrow is a busy day, then off to Cambridge and Royston with Adam on Friday, to visit my sister and his family. We're going to a posh party on Saturday, which will be... interesting! I'm not used to posh do's - we'll have to see if i can behave myself!

I've just been asleep for 2 hours! I've had a tummy ache (grrr...) so decded the only way to forget about it was to sleep, and it worked. Rich and I sorted out what was needed for barefacts earlier this evening, then I came home and crashed. Need to write some articles soon, before a long day of laying up and writing tomorrow. I'm still enjoying it (luckily)! It's kinda like my drama has been over the last 3 years - the thing that keeps me going through everything else. If I didn't have barefacts to do this year there would definitely be something missing from my life. It's so great to have found my niche this year. :o)

I have jazz coursework to do. The deadling is geting nearer. :oS I'm going to have to get it done on Wednedsay - expect it's going to be a later nighter (again). I've been up late (and we're talking about 4am) for about the past week. It's crazy. I think I do things better past midnight. Yeah, I'm a weird girl....

Last night I was leading the concert of the University of Surrey Symphony Orchestra, and it was pretty damn good. The first piece, Vaughan Williams "Wasps Overture" wasn't quite as good as it could have been, as we were quite cold and it was hard to play all those trills, but we did our best. Then the Lieberman flute concerto wasn't bad, though it was the hardest and most underrehearsaed piece we did. Then, after the interval, Tchaikovsky's 5th Symphony was AMAZING! I really enjoyed playing and leading that, and I think everyone else did too, judging my some of the comments on the Music Department Bulletin Board.It gave me such a buzz to play it. It was the most rehearsed piece we did, and Ollie is a very good conductor - you really feel he's in there in the think of it all, as opposed to leading from afar. Adam came to watch and so did my parents, which was good. T'was good that Adam came, even though he had to stay up til 5am doing coursework (not quite so good...!) There's no orchestra tomorrow night, but string orchestra restarts on Thursday, and I think I'm leading some of that. I need to get hold of the music, cos I think there are some difficult solos in the pieces we're doing. No rest for the wicked!

Righty ho, where was I? Ah yes... barefacts.... articles... let's get started! Actually, I really need some food first....

Yesterday afternoon I took my first editorial meeting for barefacts. Granted, there weren't that many people there, but it went fine. You know what? I think I can kinda do this barefacts thing.....

Last night was the National Student Radio Awards - and amazingly our very own radio station, GU2, won Best Station! It really was totally unexpected, so everyone's quite over the moon about it. Well, it definitely gives us a front page article for next week - woo hoo! Speaking of front pages, I had my first main front page story in this week's barefacts, about a couple of violent incidences on and near campus. I'm now Editor of the paper (one below big chief Rich, Editor in Chief), which is really exciting. I need to get some degree work done, but I'm enjoying doing this so much. Need to get the Times Higher and Surrey Ad and figure out some news stories for this week today.

I had a lie in.It was lovely. I've not been getting a lot of seep recently, so it was a welcome change to NOT set my alarm clock, and wake up when my body told me I should. We have 5 weeks left of term, but I'm coping alright. I don't want this term to end, cos that'll mean I am HALF WAY through my final year. Three and a half years.... that's a long time......

We got an extension on out jazz coursework - wahoo! That means the pressure's kinda eased off a bit this week. The only free evening I had between now and the original deadline (Monday) was Saturday, after a busy day doing DAVE training at the Union for about 5 or 6 hours, so now I have just that tiny bit more time to get my work done. See, even though I'm not course rep anymore, I still have my uses! I've kinda made a start on jazz tonight, after a nice 2 hour siesta at 7pm. I was up until about 2am doing barefacts and down there again at 11.30am til 3pm working on it today, so not a huge amount of sleep. This week's paper is a good issue. I'm so proud of my contribution (hopefully I'm doing more good than harm!). I'm really enjoying doing everything to do with it, and am getting much more confident in my writing ability, voicing my ideas, and my knowledge of the programme we use for laying up. I did several pages all by myself, and it was very satisfying to look at the finished thing and think "I did that."

Had (late) lunch with Paul and Rich in Chancellors today - I've hardly eaten here in Rawson at all over the past few days. Came home and was a bit peed off with my housemates for using my plates, kinves, forks etc etc and NOT WASHING THEM UP. I have no problem with other people using my stuff, as long as they wash it up pretty soon after. Leaving it lying around for 2 days really isn't on. Grrr.... Ah, the joys of living with 13 other people. The other day someone upset a pot of tamarin (whatever that is - it looks like very thick chocolate spread) and it managed to get over everything on the side work surface. Of course, noone cleaned it up (we think it belonged to Roshan) so Neil and I, as dutiful senior residents, spent ages trying to clean the surface. It wasn't nice.

I did some violin practice today - around an hour (which I'm meant to do more than every day, but hey) and it was quite satisfying. I wish I had more spare time to do practice, but I'd never give up barefacts, or anything else that I do. I'm sooo busy at the moment, and I can say that sure in the knowledge that I really have been doing stuff for around 12 hours or more every day. Sometimes I might say "I'm so busy", but deep down I know that I could have found time to do things if i'd tried,but at the moment, "I'm so busy" really means what it says.

But hey - I'm loving it! :o)

P.S. News flash - if you haven't already seen, the Drag and Fetish 2002 photos are now up here - enjoy! (Huuuuge thanks to Adam for his assistance in getting them up on hte web - I am forever indebted! :o))

I have a violin lesson in 20 minutes and I really haven't been able to get in a lot of practice at the moment. I'm kinda getting by on my degree at the moment by binge working when I have an essay due in, and not doing a lot else for my modules other then that. Of course, I'm doing loads of performance, but only ensemble stuff, no solos. And since solo one single solo performance is worth 25% of my entire final year mark, I'm a little scared. But I'm getting so fired up by everything else I'm doing, it's hard to spend a lot of time on academic work. I do what I enjoy, and at the moment, that's Barefacts.

I want to run for VP Comms and Marketing next year. Really really really want to. I need to talk more to Rich about what his job entails, but I'm pretty sure I want to run for it. I didn't realise I'd enjoy doing this Barefacts stuff quite as much as this, but I really do. I've just realised I wrote a lot of stuff like this in my previous entry, but hey, it shows I mean it. I'm enjoying everything so much.

But I'm still a busy girlie.... must toddle off to PATS now....

Phew, things have been crazy over the past few days. Where shall I start?!

Friday night - the infamous Drag and Fetish Night - was stunning. Probably the best night out so far this term - costumes were fantastic, might good, company amazing. I pre Unioned with Adam, Ian, Wrighty, Neil and Jo, before going to the Union at about 10.30pm. The rest of the night was taken up with acquiring 39 free condoms from the condom man, taking 99 photos with my new digital camera (they'll be online as soon as we can overcome some "technical defficulties" at icklesarah.co.uk HQ) and talking to so many people. It was, overall, an amazing night out.

Saturday saw the long planned "Road Trip" with Adam, Ian and Rachel. We visited Bluewater during the day (first time), then went to the fireworks in Edenbridge in the evening (my first proper fireworks display), which were VERY impressive. Then after my first night in a double bed with someone I'm going out with (it was a weekend of firsts)! We came back to Guildford early on Sunday, and at midday Adam's parents came to visit, which was nice. We went for lunch in the Wooden Bridge (mmm), to visit his Auntie and Uncle, then came the evening, which is, of course, Roast Dinner time! We varied the vegetables a bit this week, but they were still gorgeous. I LOVE ROASTS!

And so to the present. Yesterday was mostly taken up with lectures, Barefacts writing, and a rehearsal til 10pm for a concert on Saturday. Today I had one rehearsal, then went down to the Communications Centre to help layup and write for Barefacts - part of my new job as Deputy Editor! I'm really excited. I'm loving doing all this Barefacts stuff - writing, laying up and editing. I've written about 6 things for this week's paper, and done stuff with the film and professional pages. It's groovy. I would like to stand for election for the Comms and Marketing Sabbattical next year, though I think Chris wants to too, and we always said we could never stand against each other. Hmmm... The funny thing is, when I initially said I was considering Societies Sabb, he said he wanted that too! Hmm... I hope we can work something out, cos I really want to do this.

And so, after 8 hours doing Barefatcs, I'm back home. I need to get some degree work done, but everything else is just so much more appealing at the moment. Who would have guessed that stopping drama and "deciding to do mroe other stuff" this year could lead to all this! I'm having fun. :o)