and really I am starting to think that I should stop trying to 'sort through it' and just chuck the whole lot away.

Everyday things are fine and necessary, obviously.  The problem is various boxes of "stuff" - not particularly junky stuff, because I threw a load of that out last time I moved.  Things that are useful, and it would be a waste to just chuck out because I will need them eventually...

Interesting finds from today's dig through the boxes in my study:

• loads of notepads/pens/pencils/etc
• glow sticks
• big envelope full of gig tickets
• 5 unused pritt sticks (overkill much?)
• at least 3 packs of post it notes
• my calculator! (been looking for this for a while now)
• bag of perfume samples
• vast numbers of postcards/posters/etc that used to be stuck on various walls
• roll of used but unprocessed film.  I have no idea what's on it...
  
• large pot of cable ties and dead elastic bands
  

I've filled one huge bag of paper for recycling, and half filled a normal bin bag..  Yet there is no obvious sign that I've got any less stuff!  Annoying.

Even worse is that my parents have requested I go and sort out the junk in my bedroom there, to make room for some of my current stuff.  That really will be bad, because that's where all the crap I accumulated when I was younger is.  Sentimental reasons aside though, most of that stuff hasn't been touched for at least five years so will probably just be binned.  Quite when, I don't know...
Really do need to go back over to Selly Oak fairly soon and figure out if my bookcase/shelves/chair/etc are going to fit in my room or not. hmm.

Packing etc is rubbish and boring and unfulfilling.  Doesn't help that the BBC are on their "great outdoors" season of programmes which I'm very much enjoying.  Walking and climbing and kayaking and I think some caving too.  yay.  But watching all that kind of makes me want to go and live up a mountain or something.  Get rid of everything and just enjoy the fresh air and the view... possibly not the best idea ever though, hehe
Also I may have been bouldering twice in the last fortnight, heh.  Which is good, because it didn't take very long to remember exactly how much I enjoy it, but a bit bad too because there's still a month or so before uni and club joining and stuff.  meh.

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Ooh look, a weird dream.  I was climbing, only the wall looked suspiciously similar to the changing rooms in Newcastle swimming pool and all the other people there looked like the twins out of Matrix Reloaded, but with blue or green hair.  Also, it was about 3 in the morning and very dark (not that there were any windows so you could tell).

However I think the most unrealistic part was that I was actually good at it.  In reality, I am hideously out of practice and wasn't that good in the first place, heh.  We'll see... 

Apart from that, this weekend I have finished destroying some candles and am currently confusing myself by looking at mobile phone tariffs.  Annoyingly the joystick on my phone is getting quite close to being unusable (common problem apparently, and it is two years old now), and as I am very very low on credit I either need to buy a new phone now-ish, or top this one up and hope it can survive for a bit longer.  hmm.  One the one hand, ooh shiny new gadget, but really I probably shouldn't...

It's lovely and sunny, I feel I should be outside appreciating it, but I'm not because as usual there is nowhere to go and nothing to do and I probably should be cleaning or washing up or something equally boring.  bah. 

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ooh look, here's something very exciting which I've been trying to keep quiet about until it was all sorted and stuff..

email this morning confiming an offer to do a MSc in Computer Science at Birmingham, starting this autumn

Yay!  I've been slightly jumping around the flat in glee about this today, heh.  Just have to wait for some forms through the post to fill in and send back to accept it.

So yeah, I'm going back to uni   This is very exciting! Ever since about half way through the second year of Keele I've had a nagging feeling that really I should have done something computery in the first place (rather than slightly useless music tech), and having now worked in IT (hah) for over a year I'm extra sure of this.  So I'm going to go back and learn something useful.

I've left this all a bit late, so I've only got just about two months now to find somewhere to live and figure out how the hell I'm going to pay for it all, but nevermind.

Especially as I've just been through the list of societies on the student guild website and written a fairly long list of 'things to join'.  Most of which seem to be worryingly exercisey, which means they'll take up lots of time and money  Which would be the two things I won't have very much of anyway.  oh well

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