Cheryl's Blog!

Bored bored bored.
Why is it that I've loads to do, I don't feel like doing any of it, yet I feel really bored?
Can anyone enlighten me?!

Cheryl
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Yeay! I'm back and everything is in full working order!! (I'm referring to my computer/internet/e-mails; everything else was always in full working order...I don't think we should go there though!!)
And I've just spent the last hour catching up with you all - luckily for me I'm a fairly speedy reader, otherwise I would have been here all day!!
I've been back to my folk's house and have been ridiculously busy...doing nice things though! Like I said before, I was making the most of the summer, which is now almost over.
Next Wednesday (21st Sept) I've got my IBMS assessment, to see whether they will let me call myself a biomedical scientist (instead of a trainee biomedical scientist)...apparently the assessment is about 4 hours long, so I will let you all know how I get on next week.
Then the following Monday I start my PhD - I'm all excited about it! Lord knows what I will be up to - if anyone reading this has a PhD and can give me some hints and tips they would be most gratefully received!!
And just on a last note...I haven't been watching the cricket, because I didn't want to. Don't get me wrong, I'm more than pleased to hear that a national team has excelled, and that the increase in popularity of cricket will hopefully encourage more people to get off their bottoms and go outside and play, but personally, I'm not a cricket fan. That's all!!

I hope everyone else has enjoyed themselves at least a little this summer, what with holidays and what-not - I'm saving my holiday until Christmas...I can't wait! Unfortunately the remainder of the payment is due at the beginning of October, so I will be a little poorer than usual - but hey, I'm sure it will be more than worth it!

Finally, I'd just like to apologise for the bizarre random-ness of this particular entry, but if you're reading this then you must have been brave enough to survive it, and for that I thank you!

Cheryl
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Hello all!

As the title suggests, my e-mail's broken totally now, and I wasn't planning to go home for a while yet so I'm not sure when it will be fixed...*very annoying!*
Otherwise everything's going ok...my mum and dad are on holiday this week and tonight my brother's girlfriend is staying over. Rather her than me - my brother has to be awake at some ludicrous hour of the morning to go to work!
I was trying to have a conversation with him earlier tonight about out prespective views on our childhood. I was explaining that there were times when I felt 'overlooked' by our parents (not intentionally I'm sure), as they had to spend so much time attempting to get my brother to behave himself then learn to read/do his homework etc. that I didn't get to spend as much time with them as I'd have liked (I was taught to read before I went to school and didn't struggle with academia as my brother did), and I felt a little left out. I think my brother was tired though, and basically told me I was talking crap. So I asked him how he remembers his childhood, to which he replied 'he didn't'. Now baring in mind the boy is only 19, is it unreasonable of me to suspect he was lying?! Like I say, I think he was tired and it was a conversation that was far too interlectual for him.
BTW, I'd just like to add that I was in no way mistreated as a child, nor am I suggesting that my childhood was terrible!! (Quite the opposite!)

I do like this blogging lark...I just seem to be typing whatevers on my mind, and I like that...I'm not sure what everyone else thinks mind...!!

Cheryl
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I've just had a look at the 10 best and 10 worst places to live in Britain, and I'm disappointed to see Middlesbrough at 5th worst! I now live close to Middlesbrough and I really like it in the North East; in fact I like it so much that I'm staying here to do my PhD now that I'v finished my degree - I could quite easily move to Durham if I wanted to but I don't! Ok, there are areas that aren't too friendly, but there isn't a city in the country where this isn't the case! I worked in the heart of Middlesbrough for two years whilst I finished my degree and the people there were lovely! I will admit the chemical plant isn't the most beautiful of structures, and does lead to the nickname 'Smoggies', but it doesn't smell as is claimed on the website! You may catch a whiff crossing the Tees flyover (A19), but its certainly not as bad as the rapeseed fields that you often find along motorways! And, as the site tells us, Middlesbrough is the birthplace of Royston Vasey (Roy 'Chubby' Brown) - but lists this as a bad thing! Well, each to their own, but I think that's mean and very unnecessary - I think he's really funny, and I'm not originally from the North East!

Ohh look, I've had a rant!! And it's only taken me a fortnight! I said something would annoy me enough sooner or later didn't I?!

Cheryl
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Well, as the title suggests, I haven't been up to much...again! I really do like having this lazy summer you know; I do appreciate that it will never happen again!
I was a bit constructive today and did go into town with my mum to give her a hand with the shopping...she was trying to convince me to buy some new clothes...again!! The woman never stops!! Honestly, my mum has so many clothes she can't possibly wear them all; I told her I'd help her sort her wardrobe out because she claims she just doesn't wear some garments often enough; hardly surprising really
Anyway, enough about my mum's clobber!
I have managed to see a few friends and neighbours since I got back, and everyone's said how pleased they are that I got my degree - so am I!! I had to work really hard for that 2:1 but it was all worth it!
Hope everyone else is keeping well - I'm still happy! Just like most people on here; although I haven't as yet 'vented my spleen' (re: Just_A_Guy, tee hee), but I'm sure something will annoy me enough soon for me to moan at everyone! But as for now, happy happy happy!

Cheryl
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