i feel that i finalyl made soem progress in my psych sessions. I hate noise because i am hypersensitive to it after a childhood when i felt that i had to be accutely aware of noise and atmosphere.

I had a rather cold weekend.

It was a hard, bright day in early January.

and my fire broke. It stopped worked, so i upscrewed the plug (thinking that i needed to replce the fuse) and found that part of the plug was burned, as was the live wire. But the 10amp(!) fuse was fine.

I bought a new plug, with a 13 amp fuse. And my Uncle bob (nto really, my uncle) came aroudn to have a look at that and my warm air heater. He took teh filter out, which was filthy with dust, and that made a difference of about 4 degrees in the temperature of the downstairs. I was very pleased.

I also listened to most of "northern lights" on R4, which ended an hour after it was advertised to end! I didn't feel that i really sympathised with any of the characters, so i'm not sure whether i will listen to the subtle knife next week (by far the best of the three)...

I also finished off the first quarterof my first proper tma, and started studying sonnets. Because of the lack of heating i didn't get much studying done on Sunday, so i'm going to work hard and make up for that tonight and wednesday. I want to keep ahead, especialyl since i have this weeks skiing holiday coming up...although i might just use that for reading my set texts. Nothing like getting those firmly entrenched. Or maybe i could buy or borrow a small walkman and take my tapes with me? Still, it will be good to get away.

I also need to think about geting my essays typed up properly. It'll be easier to make changes that way.

At the moment i'm onto sonnets, which i am enjoying more; but i haven't really got into the deep discussions of them yet...we'll see. I suddnely remember how rubbish i truly was at this sort of thing at school, and i how i realyl did earn my appalling as-level grade (d or an e). But this will make up for it. I don't know what i will get, but anything above 40% (which i guess is what d or e is) will make me proud.

I think i also need to buy a wallplanner (or see if mum has one going spare) so that i can mark out quite clearly when my tma's are due in, so that i can plan my work well. I will probably be keeping a lower social profile, but what with trying to do up the house, i think it will be ok.