Another of my answers for AQA made it onto the Top 5 today - it won't be up for much longer as it resets tomorrow but here it is:

Q. What 90s movie stared 2 actors who both went on to win best director awards at the oscar?
A. Two actors from 1993's 'A Perfect World' both went on to win Best Director Oscars; K. Costner (Dances with Wolves) & C. Eastwood (Million Dollar Baby).

Woo hoo! There is other work-related news, for later.

They don?t treat me right. They?re always getting infected, stupid STUPID KIDNEYS.

This leaves Ian having to deal with me having to interrupt our conversations to pee every 5 minutes, not fun. Plus, you can imagine I?m not in the best of moods when I can actually feel my kidneys.

In Philosophy 1, we talked about awareness of the body, and how a pin prick in a finger would create a feeling of pain which replicated the shape of the pin point ? essentially, you feel as though your nervous system creates a sensation which generates a shape idea in your head. If this is true, then I felt the shape of my kidneys this week. You?re not meant to feel your organs, and for good reason ? it?s freaking weird.

Going to a movie this week, and needing to pee halfway through, then putting it off until you don?t need to anymore ?cos the movie?s funny ? this probably didn?t help things. I'm also annoyed now because the first time, I'd had a one-off infection, and now it's a recurrance. Sucks.

My urinary tract aside (far, far aside, as I?m sure you?d prefer it), there?s a bit to look forward to thesedays ? going to see 300 tonight, and I have tickets to the Shins in my grubby paws for Thursday. Noo Yawk looms too; I have officially beaten the holiday blues by keeping my mind on kidneys and exciting upcoming events! Um, bonus?

Saw this on MTV while in SA - cute!

I'm back from an amazing two weeks in South Africa, which was spent seeing friends and family, with intermittent tanning.

So it wasn't a big secret or anything, but I had applied for a new visa to stay and work in the UK, officially called an Unmarried Partner Dependancy Visa, which does exactly what it says on the tin: I am now Ian's dependant. I've actually gotten over this, although it did feel weird to consider such an option at first. We had to have a little talk about how this doesn't mean Ian gets to boss me around and tell me to make tea whenever he gets the urge! It is a bit strange but you know - to get my passport back and see it stamped in there made me kind of proud. This place we're at is the best possible outcome of the last 7 years of knowing him - we're in our little flat, taking little holidays together, even our arguments are on the littlest scale, and all seem easy to laugh away. The proof positive is the fact that I'm not relishing the week I have at home by myself before he returns from SA, but rather thinking of how I'm going to fill the time until I have him home, when I can listen to what he did in the meantime and reminisce about the great times in the last 2 weeks.

Saying goodbye to my parents didn't get any easier this time around, and I have to make my peace with the fact that it most likely never will. Things change, time moves on, they're a little greyer, I'm a little less brattish. They were lovely enough to take Ian and I away to Keurboomsstrand for a weekend, which was amazing in so many ways. Amazing, because I managed not to drop the F-bomb once in their presence, and also because it was so great to have lunches and dinners and drinks without any uncomfortable feeling. They like him, they always have.

There'll be plenty of photos, which I'll try to upload in chronological sequence. I feel ready for another year of work again.

PS thanks for the sweet comments on the last post - it really was eating me up inside worrying over whether I'd be back.