HELLO.

I finished university 16 days ago. I handed in my last piece of work (see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EzvFntGlz4I) and I am FINISHED. I've been in uni every single day since then doing various other stuff, but all the work stuff is done. I've been at uni because we have had the Exhibition (that Amy & I and our committee totally DID) and I have also been shadowing the current intern Bryony for 2 weeks in preparation for starting that job in September! It has just been the best couple of weeks. I am so, so enjoying how it feels to be done with the education side and to have been spending time with my lecturers (not that they are that anymore to me!) in a different kind of way. We have been (well, in mine and my friends' eyes I think anyway) friends with them for a while now, but obviously there has been that professional boundary type-thing that is in place with teachers and students. Not that that's a big thing at uni (or on my course, at least) anyway, but it's there. But now we have been spending time with them outside of hours and socialising with them and I have had such a good time doing so. I mean, part of my finds this TERRIFYING because lecturers are grown ups and I am (in my own head) still a 15 year old schoolgirl. But obviously this is not reality anymore; I am finished with full time education and I am going into the (oh god) REAL WORLD very very very soon and this is something I need to come to terms with. Bearing in mind when I turned 16 and 18 I had massive freakouts I thought I would find this difficult. But I've absolutely loved experiencing this new side to university life. I have the most incredibly mind-blowingly wonderful friends, they are just perfect, perfect people and I couldn't wish for them to be any better. I haven't felt this happy in my whole life I don't think. The icing on the cake is that me and Joe are talking again, which is an enormous weight off my shoulders that had been there for quite a while. I just feel so lucky! I just got back from the pub with some of the uni staff, and Amy, Lucy and Jamespeach. It was originally just us lot but the staff were there too and Damian (lecturer) told us to merge with them, so that's what we did. I thought it would be weird as to them I figured we would just be kids. But this is what I mean, I need to realise that this is not how I will be seen anymore. I am a person in the (oh bloody hell) REAL WORLD same as anyone else now. It's scary, but so far it's wonderful. I am loving it. I have so much to be excited for. I have achieved VERY highly academically this year, I have done insane amounts of extra-curricular and have won an award for it (and the award was NAMED AFTER ME AND AMY), I am starting a job at uni in September with the wonderful lecturers that now are not my lecturers anymore, I have just been told today I am going to be the social media manager for my degree course & I've got an interview later this week to be a social media manager for a film that is going to Cannes and Edinburgh next year! It's just perfect. I couldn't ask for any more in life at the moment. Oh, and next Sunday I'm going on holiday with 3 of my best friends. And then 5 days after I get back from that holiday I'm going on another one with my family and Stuart.

I'm so incredibly happy.