Done it!

I typed my last word tonight.

Last essay is done.

3 years is over.

Finished.

Ended.

Finito.

No more.

Done.



Where's the fucking brass band??????


lybxx

Hand in Hand.

During the quiz mentioned in the last post I was astounded to be told the amount of children that go missing every year.

At the moment we are being informed about Madeline McCann the three year old that is 'missing' in Portugal. Although there are several theories about what has happened to her...was she taken? if she was, why was she? did she climb out of the window herself? etc..., and there's the whole 'why did you leave three small children alone and go out for a meal?' thing, but what made my mouth hang open and completely astonish me was that in England and Wales 77,000 childen (o-18) go missing every year.

77 thousand.

...and once again....77 thousand.

Thats staggering. I know the media choose what to tell us, and in this case they have chosen a perfectly respectable middle-class white family, both doctors, who had their children by I.V.F. treatment. In this case, and in the case of Holly and Jessica (children who were murdered in Soham) we were informed like these were the only children who this had happened to. But its not.
There is alot of media attention about domestic violence at the moment. There is information about how to get help and where to go if you are a victim of domestic violence, and the statisitics are that 2 women a week are being killed whilst in their homes. This is by far the biggest killer of women. More than cancer or heart disease. Killed by 'a loved one' .

Maybe our missing children should be the focus of the next media information guide. I think that if more people knew just how many children go missing, perhaps parents would think twice about some of the decisions they make. I know children have to grow up. They have to have independance and learn to live their lives without a grown up holding their hands at all times. When told Mumbly about the amount of children who go missing, and she did the same goldfish impression that I had done the day before.

Its really scary. I think that I might insist on a 9 year old hand in mine for a couple of years yet.


lybxx

Odd.

Yesterday was my last lecture at school.

We had a quiz (with alcohol!!) to see how much we had learned... it was a bit 'university challenge' but was good.
Luckily I was on the same team as a fantastic girl I have been friends with for the three years I have been studing (except for the first three weeks when we didnt like each other) and she is hugely clever, and will, I have no doubt, get a 1st.....anyway with her as a not-so-secret-weapon we won the quiz. Horray!!!

Anyway, when it was done, and the lecture was over, we all just sat there. Not gathering up our bags and making our way to the door, switching on our phones and chatting. Just sat there.

Era's end. I have to hand things in now...and mostly its done. These three years have been an experiance I never thought I would have. I have been amazed that I have completed it...hell I'm amazed that I even started it. Reasons for begining this whole process were about wanting both to be able to earn more money and someone to be proud of me. The second reason is not so important anymore as having (nearly) completed it, I am so delighted I couldnt care who is proud and who isnt!!

Looking round the room at the people I have shared this experiance with I wondered who will do what, and in what direction their lives will travel. About who will stay in contract with who, and if there was a reunion in 10 years what will we have to tell each other.

What was interesting to me was it looked like most of us were thinking the same thing!! We are all going out on saturday for an enormous drink which should be really good. But I guess that the real goodbye was in the lecture hall. When we all paused.


lybxx

Civic Duty.

Its important to do your civic duty.

Enjoyable too!!



lybxx