Hello all, this is the token first-week-back-at-uni post where I will vow to go to every lecture, buy every textbook, study for 4 hours a day and de-addict myself from the Sims 2.

No seriously, I’m going to go to as many lectures as possible. I do have a lecture at 9am every day, and some days I’m still at uni at 6pm which is unfairly long, but I will do my best to motivate myself into getting up in the morning. I’ve also changed my hours at work to 8am – 6pm Saturday and Sunday and I’m thinking it’s actually quite good that I have to get up EVERY DAY because it’ll avoid the Monday morning syndrome where you have to get up early after having long lies over the weekend. No long lies for myself.

About the textbooks, well I’d have broken that one already. If I bought every textbook I was “recommended” to buy, I’d be spending about £500 on books. Now come on, nobody spends that amount of money on textbooks. So I’m going to do a bit of research and see if I can find some second hand books cheaper. I do already have an obscenely large Anatomy & Physiology textbook so I’m hoping that will tide me over an I’ll only need to buy a few cheap paperbacks.

I’m not going to study for hours a day, for a start I don’t have time. With having lectures, doing volunteering work, going to the gym, spending time with my boyfriend and generally having a life, there’s not an awful lot of room for study. Although having said that, I may be in uni from 9-6 but I only have 3 lectures max per day so this leaves me a lot of free hours to generally wander around campus which I imagine would be better spent sitting in the library doing some studying. Especially seeing as it’s getting colder now, the library is always a welcome roasting temperature.

I’ve kept to going to the gym to keep the boyfriend company, however I’ve decided I’m going to have a fitness plan. So my friend and I enrolled for an induction at the gym where a fit guy shows you how to use everything properly and suggests a sort of fitness plan. Now apparently I’ve to do 15 mins on the running machine, 15 minutes on the cycling machine, 8 repetitions on each muscle machine, a good few situps, 15 mins on the rowing machine and some balancing exercises before retiring to the sauna. Evidently I can’t cope with this as the morning after my induction my muscles all hurt

Other news, I’ve been with Jamie for a year today. How cool is that?