(Blogging takes a lot of effort. Especially when you don't want to sound self-centred or whiny. Or my delay in finishing the blog post on my trips to Wildwood, Old Trafford and Liverpool could be down to simple sloth.)

I'd like to share some news with you: I've been accepted by Waseda Uni in Tokyo to study there for a year and I'm very excited! I fly out on September 13th around 9am from Heathrow and arrive at lunchtime the next day. In exactly threee months to this day orientation begins. Three months gives me plenty of time to hunt around for a job to build up funds, improve my Japanese, learn to cook, read the material required by the core modules I expect to have failed and so expect to be requested to resit over the summer..

Hi. I'm in the process of telling you about mine and Steve's trip to Wildwood but the camera and computer aren't co-operating, so I won't publish the post until I can upload more photos to illustrate it. I'll also eventually tell you about my trip home last weekend and Bank Holiday Monday and how I have to go back home again today yet it feels like I just got back here/Canterbury. The hot weather and sharing a single bed with Steve means that I'm awful tired a lot of the time. Hopefully I can convince mummy that I needn't come home every weekend after this since I'll be moving back home in a couple weeks anyway and there's plenty of tidying up to do before then.

Today, Jenn's hosting a picnic for her birthday that was a few weeks back and as a big goodbye-for-the-summer do, so this week I'll be going home late Saturday afternoon instead of the Friday afternoon agreement. I'm going to leave the picnic before anyone else I expect, at around 3, to get home by dinner time. Then, tomorrow, Aakash and I are volunteering to help out at a fair in Camden, though he's not yet told me when we are to meet or where. Then, the day after I will finally rejuvenate my wardrobe with my first ever trip to a Primark. I plan on getting many, many simple (cheap) dresses to decorate from the grand Oxford Street store.

I've told mother that I intend to stay in Canterbury, at least until the end of term, so that I can attend Japanese classes. Weekly classes. So she's asked me to come home Fridays and she'll drive me back on Tuesdays. I've just booked my coach ticket for the start of this commuter-like lifestyle. Uh, such a lifestyle requires packing.. But at least the proportion of my photographs that contain Steve will decrease.

I am pointing at my boyfriend Stephen who is blow-drying his hair after a shower. When he's finished we will go to mine for lunch. At the supermarket yesterday, he bought a whole fish: including head, tail and scales. He's going to grill it. And, er, we might have it with.. Well, I'm going to suggest leaves and potatoes.

Down the hallway, our pal is practising on his saxa-ma-phone. He'd bought it just a couple weeks ago and seems to be making good progress on it. Well done.

TICK

I do like the idea of having a man that makes me want to kill.