Apparently over winter break I gained several kilograms... enough to put me over the weight category that I am entered in for BUSA (The British Universities tournament) so I have had to lose weight, and am fixated with food! Especially snack food. But it's not all bad, because it's only "healthy" snack food, like Panda Licorice or Geobars.

My weight 'problem' was not helped by twisting my ankle on Friday evening during training, luckily it was at the end of training so I benefited at least from that night!

Watching training on Saturday morning I was speaking to another girl who'd also twisted her ankle (hers was worse than mine) she mentioned I could try swimming and I brightened up immediately... why didn't I think about that!

So I woke up at 7:30 on Sunday morning to hit the pool at 9... unfortunately the pool didn't open until 10, but I went then! Had a good 40 minutes swim (a bit more than 1k) and was surprised by how not unfit I was, I was expecting to be much worse, then met Lana for 'brunch' (a sneaky full english breakfast, but with nothing fried, it was grilled sausages and bacon and scrambled egg) and walked around the city. It was a good day!

Anyway I have complemented all this with a mile speedwalk to uni every morning around 8:55am, half of which is steep uphill (with an ankle support!) so I'm not doing too badly... and today on the scale after eating dinner I was 52kg! And I haven't even started really training.

Yay for healthiness.

In other news I have run into Player Boy 6 times since Uni started 8 days ago. Which would be fine apart from he ignores me unless I acknowledge him first! I mean he's a really nice guy apart from that and really quite easy to talk to especially considering circumstances, and if we had kept on being friends I might've reconsidered, but at the way things are going now I really don't think so.

I've not done much work as yet, but I have a rather large project to do with 9 other people and for my other courses I haven't been assigned any coursework yet but I do need to learn C and read some material, so I've got stuff to do.

I could also study my last semester's courses for exams but I so don't want to! I think I need to get back into working mode after too much time lying on the couch watching TV and gaining weight!

I was slightly melancholy yesterday from being quite tired (I guess the swimming really took it out of me) and it being rainy and gloomy, so I picked up some Adrian Mole from the bookshop (£2.99 for two books in one) and am reading it... it is rather funny and readable. I wish I could pick up some Turing or Hennessey for 'light reading' like other people do but I guess my 'common' brain just can't deal.

I have lots to do next month so I should probably get as much work as possible out of the way this month... next month the big events are:

1) Mom's birthday (am going home)
2) BUSA (weekend of karate!)
3) Sports Union ball (dress up fine and have dinner!)
4) Martial Arts ball (dress up and ceilidh! Have been really good the past two years but this is the first year I'm not going with Ian, which is going to be strange)
5) Nick Cave (live at the Festival!)

so that is a lot to do! I will survive. :P

Anyway going to bed even though it is only 22:14 I am stonked.