Autumn

Wow, where do I start?

Well first with the most important thing, I finished the book today! :D I've been doing all these corrections to it for ages, pointing out an extra comma or full stop and then switching stuff around. And of course, everyone forgets what they've told each other and misses things and it's a bloody mess, but today I finished it and I'm gonna ship it off to the printer's on Monday!

Second I had a major stress out a couple of weeks ago because the uni was offering a practical course in Interpretation which I didn't have time for but didn't care for that, when I heard there was an entrance exam I *had* to go just to see if I'd get in. Sometimes I wonder if I'm not just a wee bit masochistic. Anyway the exam was *horrendous*! I was expecting my teacher but when I walked in there, there was a 'panel' of like 6 interpreters and a mic and everything. I thought it'd gone so-so and I spent the entire week deciding not to do it and then that I should, eventually coming to the decision NOT to when I found out I'd done really well in the exam. Then I had an extra 3 days of wondering what to do about it. Awful! At least I learnt that it's okay not to try to do everything academic. It would have been mondays and fridays from 14-18 and that would have caused some disgusting free periods (3 hours at some point) and, I expect, a mental Chernobyl. Anyway, I didn't go. And now I have time for two jobs and myself :)

The third cool thing that happened this Autumn is that our fuksis (new students) came to uni! We only got about 10 but most of them are really nice and it feels like we can be friends and not that I'm just their tutor. Still have to collect feedback from them though so my opinion might change yet :D We held the fuksiaiset (new student party) in a secret location by the name of Seurasaari and it was great fun.

Here's one of many pics http://flickr.com/photos/steisi/2850846285/

Oh yeah, and, it's my birthday soon(ish)! Whee!