FREEDOM!!! So long Dissertation my old friend!

Well...this is it folks, the moment I have been waiting almost a whole academic year to arrive. I am now FREE from the burden of my dissertation!!! Wohoooo! :) It's been a long and winding road quite literally. Looking back on it now I really can't believe I'm finished with it, that it's out of my life forever and that I can now come back into the normal social world and actually have a life!!! :)


I really can't describe the feeling at the minute, it's just one of immense relief and happiness! I've been thinking so much about my dissertation recently that before I knew it my LAST EVER class at University crept up on me! Yesterday was our last official day of teaching and I have to say it really got me thinking...WHERE THE HECK DID THESE THREE YEARS GO? I can honestly say that these have been three of the fastest of my life. But not only that they have been three of the best! I've meet some amazing people who I hope I can stay friends with despite the fact we will all be scattering off to various parts of the world. It has been three great years full of laughter, tears and everything in between. Now I am getting a little presumptuous as we're not actually done with Uni yet, we still have another two assessments and an exam, but still with dissertation out of the way I can actually see the light at the end of the loooonnng tunnel which is hopefully graduating with all my friends!  :)

DEFINITE Exciting times!!! :)

Ps. I can honestly say that Liverpool will ALWAYS be my home from home, one of the best cities in the world with the friendliest people you will EVER meet! :) A little tribute to my second home: Btw Video is NOT mine, just one I spotted on YouTube. Enjoy! :) x

When the going gets tough, the tough get going!

So my blog title is a reference to two things at the minute in my life. First is of course my lovely Dissertation which I am still working to perfect before handing it in next Thursday (WOHOOO!!) :) And it is also a reference to the absolutely AMAZING Boyzone concert which I went to last Friday night! :)

Lets get the boring part out of the way first then so I can fill you in on the fabulousness that was the Boyzone concert! So yes, it's almost a week until my dissertation is due and I am still soldiering on with it. At this stage, I've kind of got to the point where I'm thinking what really is the point?? I seem to be constantly thinking to myself now... Is what I am writing here even right? I know it's a bit late to be asking that question but I think it's because I have been working on it for so long now, and the end is most definitely in sight I am just about FED UP with the whole thing! So a week from tomorrow, I will be one HAPPY HAPPY bunny having handed it in and said SO LONG DISSERTATION! It's been emotional...and believe me it has!

Now, of course all hard work deserves a bit of a treat and a break and I did just that last weekend when I went home!! :) I hadn't been home in almost a month which is NOT normal for me at all! Although my boyfriend did visit me in Liverpool during that month because I would not have survived otherwise, I am very much a home bird! So on Friday night, I went to the Boyzone concert and it was absolutely BRILLIANT!! We had amazing seats and I instantly felt how I felt the last four times I've seen them in concert, I LOVED IT!! :) Of course it wasn't the same without Stephen, and I'm not ashamed to admit I shed a tear when the four boyz did a wonderful tribute to the late, great Mr Gately. Overall, the boyz did not disappoint, they have unfortunately lost a bandmate, but as long as they are still together and still performing their heart's out Steo will always be there, singing his heart out from up above! <3
Here are just a few of my pictures from the concert:

xxx

Dissertation, Dissertation...DISSERTATION!!

I apologise in advance for this post because it is going to be one massive rant about that word!! Yes I mean my DISSERTATION!!! It has become the word that has absolutely taken over my life at the minute. When I get up, I'm thinking about it, when I go to bed I'm thinking about it, it NEVER leaves my mind! Even when I try to escape it and have a little break, it's always there niggling at the back of my brain, so much so that I have come to LOATHE the word dissertation! I probably wouldn't mind it eating up so much of my time and brain cells (all two that I have left) if I felt like I was making progress with it, but I have yet to feel that way about it! I feel that every thing that I write has a large possibility that it could be wrong and will need to be re-written! Despite reassurance from my dissertation supervisor that 'I seem to be on the right track' I can't get that feeling into my head. It's one massive headache at the minute! :( And it'snot just dissertation that I've got to think about which is even more annoying that it dominates my mind. I've got my final project to worry about as well as contemporary issues, and journalism regulation! Not to mention that they are all in quite close proximity to one another...it's a disaster! Here's hoping that I start to see the light at the end of the looonggg dissertation tunnel soon!!