It's the end of another long week, though I can't believe 2 weeks have already passed since the start of term. It's certainly been a fun packed fortnight, and I've got to know a lot of people a lot better. I've been going out excessively (mon, wed, thu, fri, sat, wed, thu.....) and should be out again tonight. N-Trance are playing at the Union tonight, and the J Teamers are going on a pub crawl so I might go along. I don't even want to see my bank balance after the last 2 weeks. Over £700 of rent went out on Wednesday and with the amount I've been going out... it isn't good! Ah well, you only live once.

Right, I'm off to eat some food, talk to BobGod online and wait for Matty to come over, before heading off round Guildford to crawl some pubs!

I've just been elected as the Union Campaigns Officer - a part time union exec position until June! OK, noone stood against me, so it wasn't too hard to win, but I'm still pleased. Pete was also elected Union chair, which is pretty groovy. All is good. I've just been to a research seminar (impressed? I've only been to one other one since September - they're supposedly compulsory but nothing to do with my modules) and I have orchestra this evening. As if that wasn't enough I have a house meeting in 5 minutes to discuss the problem of our kitchen, which is about as unhygenic as you can get. Oh, the joys of student life.

My weblog's doing something strange. It won't seem to update the last entry, leaving 19th January as the last visible one. Very odd. I'm feeling rather bizarre, but I think I'm just a bit tired out. I think I need a nice Sarah night in on my own... then up early to go to a 9am meeting. grrrr.....

I had an amazing night out yesterday - one of the best I have had in a long long long time, and it didn't even involve my drama friends! I am typing chronically innacurately today, so I apologise.

After going to the Big University AGM with Paul yesterday evening as undergrad rep (quite interesting) we headed down to the bar to join some others from the Union Bulletin Board for a pub crawl around Guildford - luckily they hadn't already left without us! We only went to three pubs in town (king's had, scruffy murphy's and the george abbott), but it was amazing fun, and I spent most of the time talking with Paul, Mr Tea, Scoot and Mental. It was groovy. Scoot was taking lots of photos - can't wait to see them! Mental, Me Tea, Jay and I left a bit early so we could get into the Union before it got more expensive, and I managed to loose my cardigan on the way there... but after some asking around in the Union we found that BobGodJr had picked it up on his way back from the pub crawl and brought it was him! I was so happy!

I spent a lot of the time in the Union with Pete (Mr Tea) and Chris, as well as Adam, Ian, Neil, Sam, Chops, Paul, Scoot..... I have so many great friends. Even Adam (non boyfriend one) whom I lived with for the past 2 years off campus, and who graduated last year, was visiting. It was amazing to see him again - haven't seen him since about October! I was on such a high it was unbelievable. I am going out again tonight, so hope it lives up to Friday. I love Uni.

Anyhow, it's almost 5.30pm and I have been less than constructive today - I'm going to go and tidy my room and then eat!

It's the end of the holidays, yet it feels like term has been going for at least two weeks already. I suppose being around on campus is what does it - I've been popping down to the Union, doing work, writing before barefacts, all like it's termtime. The only things that have been missing are rehearsals, lectures... and practice :( I did quite a lot of violin when I was at home, but everything else has taken over recently and I really haven't been very productive. Need to get down to PATS, get that violin out, and make some progress on the recital front... Oh, and a small matter of a solo performance in the first week as well....

It's our first Roast Dinner of the semester today, and I can't wait. Paul is away at jessie's 21st this weekend, so he might not be able to make it back in time, but fingers crossed... and Ian and Rachel are getting back to Guildford at about 4pm, so they'll be just in time. I really can't wait to see them again, although it doesn't feel like a month since they were last here. I can't believe it's so long ago - the holidays has shot by.

I've currently got two loads of washing in the driers at the launderette... fingures i'd take advantage of the near emptyness of it and get everything done, even bed sheets and dressing gown, aren't I a good girl! They really need a change machine in there though - it's flippin' annpying having to trundle down to the Union every time you need to wash some clothes! And on top of that, I only had a tenner in my wallet... consequently I now have rather a lot of £1 coins and 20ps in there!

I can see lots of students coming moving back in, outside my window. Strange to think I've already been back for 3 weeks. But it has been vaguely productive, which is good... speaking of which, I really must get on with those barefacts articles.... :)

Only 5 days left of my final Christmas holiday as a student at Surrey.... very very scary. Luckily I have finished my jazz coursework that's due in next Friday (I'm getting relatively good at this finishin coursework early lark now), written a few things for barefacts and started on my composition for the Joyce Dixey Composition Competition in March. Again, it's an electroacoustic one (my favourite style) with the theme 'Dreams' - I've found a great quote from the matrix and have used that in the section I'm working on at the moment, the final one. Lots of wooshy sounds, some drums, lots of synth and piano - groovy. Last year I was highly commended, and although it doesn't really feel like a competition to me, I feel like quite a lot is expected of me. But truth be told I have a manically busy semester coming up and I can't spend as long on it as I did last year - weeks and weeks! The week before Joyce Dixey will be my busiest of the term, so I really won't be able to organise rehearsals and suchlike, hence the electricness of my piece. I'm going to write some other pieces for 'proper' instruments for the portfolio, but for now, it's my synth and computer for me.

Adam and I had lunch in Chancellors today... haven't been there in a while... pizza and spiral fries, yum! They've got a new menu with a pretty groovy selection of vegetarian dishes - think I'll write an article for barefacts on it. Have to work my way through all of them...!

I feel kind of cut off from the world right now... sitting here at my computer hidden behind my huge headphones and listening continually to synthesised sounds and a quote from the matrix. But I'm getting somewhere with my compsition, and that's a good thing. I love my keyboard. It's a yamaha s80 keyboard/synth - fully weighted and all that, at the top of the market - took me years to save up for it, but it was worth every penny. There are still loads of settings I haven't worked out - need several weeks to get through the manual I think. I wonder when my next proper holiday will be...?

Righty ho... off to mess around with some more groovy sounds! :)

I am Chocolate Flavoured.

I am sweet and a little bit naughty. I am one of the few clinically proven aphrodisiacs. Sometimes I can seem a little hard, but show warmth and I soon melt.

What Flavour Are You?

Despite my whole 'go to bed and work all day today' resolution last night, I haven't really managed to get stuck in to my project yet. However, I have been vaguely productive with my time - I now have a half decent system for displaying my photos on my website and have put up the snow, new year and drag and fetish up in that format. I'm really pleased with it. I'm somewhat of a website-making novice, so it really is quite an achievement for me.

I've done a few words on my jazz so far today, but now I've done the photos I'm going to resist the temptation of getting my roast dinner ones uploaded now and get stuck into it... thearetically....

I seem to be shivering ever so slightly as I sit her writing this 'ere weblog. My room's not particularly cold, but damnit, I am! My hads are cold, I'm cold... I think I'll get into my nice cosy bed soon and drop off to sleep. I've done something horrendous to my sleeping patterns over the past couple of weeks, but I suppose that's what the life of a student is for. I can't believe we only ahve 10 days left before term starts. Whatever happened to my lovely resolution of getting my jazz project, 3 compostions and a load of other stuff done before term starts? I really need to get my arse into gears and finish some work. I've had approval for my project title today, so hopefully I'll be able to spend a good chunk of tomorrow working on it. Then I need to rustle up some ideas for a couple of compositions, and get my Joyce Dixey Competition one done asap. The composition competition is the week after elections... so can't see me having much time to finish it off at the last minute like last year! And barefacts needs to be done at the end of next week. Blimey I need a good kick up the behind.

It snowed yesterday. It snowed and it was wonderful. I've been waiting for it to snow properly whilst I'm on campus for 3 1/2 years, and as soon as I woke up and looked out of the window at the glorious whiteness I was out there, wrapped up and taking many, many photos. Amazingly, I've already put them up on the web here - all nice and resized too, aren't I nice?! The lake area looked so wonderful, and the actual lake was covered in ice and snow - the only unbroken snow on campus (before Adam decided to throw a snowball right intp the middle). There were loads of international students out taking photos in the morning, and by afternoon all the UK students were out throwing snowballs at eachother and building rather rude snowmen (and women). Adam, Neil, Neil's friend Jules and I set to work on a snow sheep in between the goalposts on the Twyford field, which turned out rather impressively, seeing the amound of snow that was being thrown by and at its sculpturs during the construction process.


Here we go - mr Fat Snowsheep. Isn't he great?!

Anyway, I'm slightly less chilly now so I'm going to make my way across my room (all 2 feet of it) to my bed and disappear off to the land of nod... for at least 6 hours!

It feels like term's about to start again... many of my friends are back in Guildford - drinking in Chancellors, going to Tescos, going back to the old haunts - but there're two weeks left of the Christmas break! I suppose that's a good thing, seeing the amount of work I have to do. I've been feeling pretty unmotivated on that front recently. My computer is being generally poo (oh, how I yearn for a new 2.7GHz, 512MB, 80GB machine like my sister's new one) which really isn't helping my inclination to get down to some hardcore composing. I really need to get at least my Joyce Dixey piece sorted this holiday, and hopefully a couple more, since elections are around the time of the competition, and I don't want to have to worry about everything at once!

Today's been a thoroughly lazy day. Actaully, saying that, I did give John a 'miming violin lesson' earlier this afternoon, and read his story that he was writing over the summer and finished a few months ago. It was very good. Very messed up, but very very good. The rest of the day has been spent on the net talking to Adam, doing my website, and posting far too much on the USSU BB - I really must stop doing that so much!

Anyway, to end my "Sarah Day" I think I might settle down to a good film, of just some random TV, then lie in bed, on my own, and read. Sounds good. :o)

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Last night's New Year party was absolutely crazy, and I am still recovering. We had a cocktail party on our floor, with me, Neil, John, Sam, Steph, Jo, Taj, Amanda, Martin and Tom and I had the best night in a long long time. We started at around 7pm, and the last person didn't leave until about 6am. We made some punch from cider, red wine, white wine, brandy, whiskey, gin, vodka and lemonade, and it was LETHAL. It's zapped my memory of certain parts of the night, but luckily has only left me feeling a little detached today, not really hungover. It was so amazing to spend New Year with some of my very good friends - despite the fact I'm not doing drama this year, MaD Soc has certainly given me some of the best friends ever over the past 3 1/2 years. I'm meant to be giving John violin lessons this holiday so he can mime convincingly for Fame, so that's going to be funny! Hopefully i'll be able to spend some more time with him over the holiday, as we've both been so busy over the past semester, and I don't want us to drift apart.

It's really nice only really having Neil and me on the floor at the moment - somewhat calming after the last 13 weeks with my mad housemates. it feels a bit like it did at the beginning of term before the Freshers moved in - long may it last!

I'm going to go to bed soon, and get a good night's sleep before Adam arrives back in Guildford tomorrow. I need to start getting some work done - so much for the holiday!