Let's See What Happens.

A few people recently have asked me where the hell my blog has gone. Truth be told, the dreaded dissertation got the better of me, and doing anything other than that got in the way. Then I graduated and got a job and sitting around writing blogs for procrastination took a back burner since someone is now paying me to do shit. I'm going to give the whole blogging thing a go again, though, assuming I find some time to do it. Let's see what happens.

In order to get up to date, I thought a sweeping run down of everything that has happened over the last few months was probably in order first. So here goes:

February 2010: Stand in a student union Sabbatical Officer election. General terror, stress and fatigue ensue while trying to run said election and write dissertation. Not much writing is done, but I win the election, so, you know, every cloud...

March 2010: Vice-President Academic Affairs elect at Edinburgh University Students' Association realises she has less than a month to write almost an entire dissertation. General terror, stress and fatigue continue.

April 2010: Dissertation completed, after a month of constant reading, writing and tea drinking. Surprisingly, no cigarette smoking. Degree looking finally achievable.

May 2010: With just one exam, degree completed. Holiday (to Turkey) for the first time in years. Probably the most skint I've ever been in my life after a few months of not being able to work due to lots of electioneering and dissertating. Looking forward to starting new job at end of month.

June 2010: Officially take office as VPAA. New life begins, and it's brilliant. Still pretty skint. Finally graduate.

July 2010: Settling in at EUSA. Pretty scary but amazing all the same. The phrase "let's see what happens" becomes my most used as I start doing things at work that I've never tried. Gambles tend to pay off. Phew!

August 2010: Edinburgh Fringe Festival begins. Since EUSA let out most of our buildings to Festival Partners, I and my fellow sabbies get free passes. See lots of shows, bump into loads of celebs on scale of relatively unknown > pretty bloody famous. Very fun. Still skint.

September 2010: Freshers' Week happens. When you're a sabb Freshers' is like writing your dissertation in less than a month. No sleep, food little but often. Ill at the end of it. Still pretty skint.

October 2010: Work continuing. Big wins for students happening all the time. Browne review has reported so Student Union focus has changed entirely to fees & cuts. Proudest moment as a sabb so far: Bollocking Lib Dem MP Mike Crockart who phoned to try and catch me off guard. Mobilising students for NUS - UCU National Demo in London. Things going well. Break-up gets in the way a bit. Elected to NUS National Executive Council on a Widening Access to Higher Education platform which is pretty exciting.

November 2010: National Demo happens. It's amazing. 250 students from Edinburgh travel to London on five overnight buses and we manage to avoid any chair-throwers at Millbank. I do a lot of going out and getting drunk, leading to lots of hilarious embarrassment. Plan is to stop doing that so much now.

Wow. Who knew I could sum up ten months of my life so succinctly?! At least we're pretty much up to date now though and I can get blogging again! So, let's see what happens.