This month could be best described as eventful (as if life with the Weird Sisters could be anything else!) There were some lows but also many highs. So without further ado, here is what happened.

Zed & I started going to the gym, albeit not very regularly. We've both had fitness assessments and tailor-made exercise programmes that we are supposed to keep to but laziness (and other, far more interesting time-wasters) prevent us from doing so. Anyway, the first time we went to the gym together was after I had got my fitness assessment and before Zed had got hers. Zed got very annoyed with me when I increased the speed on the treadmill too quickly for her liking. Her exact exclaimation was "You geen! You geen!" which I found rather funny & so I just kept increasing the speed. As for trying get Ell to set foot in a gym - good luck! Ell would have to be dragged kicking and screaming. She hates sport and believes that exercise only causes health problems (wrong, my friend - only over-exercise does that).

As I said before, some bad stuff happened earlier in the month. Ell's cat had to be put down (she comforts herself with the idea that her cat has got to cat heaven where it is happy) & I found out that a Certain Someone I fancied did not fancy me back, even though I pulled him earlier this month. We consoled ourselves with the fact that there are many other things in life that are wonderful & that as long as we have each other & Phish Food (Ben & Jerry's should sponsor this website) we'll be OK.

We all did some travelling outside Canterbury. Ell went home to see her cat put down, Zed went to London to see some friends - unfortunately the journey managed to take seven hours & I went home for the weekend thus managing to fulfil my Divine Comedy cliché ("Take the National Express when your life's in a mess"). I was rather disappointed that there was no "jolly hostess selling crisps and tea" - oh well, as is life.

For most 1st years at UKC, this was a month of coursework, essays & exams - for us there was no exception. I had a Maths test, a 2000 word piece of Intro To Law coursework essay, a 500 word Spanish Civ essay & an entire term's worth of Spanish C.A.L.L grammar exercises which I didn't know about until the week before they were due in & which had to be finished by the same day as the essays. Ell started work on the 2 essays (each around 1500 words) due for December - all I can say is Social Anthropologists, I feel your pain. Zed had a Calculus test.

Zed & I are very pleased to report that she got 100% on her calculus test (swot!) and I got 80% on my Maths test (Did someone kidnap me & replace my brain with that of someone clever? Whoever it was - THANK YOU!) Funnily enough, I received my Maths result a day or two after I pulled the very sexy (aforementioned) Certain Someone so I was on the most incredible non-drug induced high for days afterwards. That's really saying something as I tend to be pretty hyper anyway (except before 9.30am).

For those that don't know, me, Ell & Zed have also given each other other nicknames. We can also be known as Soppygit, Ibid & Pelican respectively. "Why?" might you, the bemused reader, ask. Weeeelll... I am called Soppygit for obvious reasons - I would like to get married & have kids (but not just now thank you very much), I like soppy films & sometimes read love stories. Ibid is called Ibid because she was wearing her froggy jumper when I was starting my law coursework. I was thrilled at learning this handy little phrase and decided that it sounded like "Ribbit!" which is the noise a frog makes (in case you hadn't noticed). The name Pelican came from an unlikely source. I was listening to Invicta (local radio station) when they played a spoof version of "My Name Is" by Eminem which was re-made as a tribute to that famous Eastenders charactor Frank Butcher. I first few times I listened to it, I wondered "Why did he keep saying "You Pelican!"?" I then realised that must be going deaf in my old age (or in my ever more frequent presence at Rock Soc events) because he was actually saying "You pillock!". Ooops! Anyways, I sent an e-mail to Zed about this entitled "You pelican!" and so she became "Pelican".

We've all got hooked on personality tests at The Spark and Emode & I've become addicted to my computer. I am talking like everyone I know and they are starting to talk like me (Ha! Revenge at last!) We've got numerous songs stuck inside our heads. Zed tries to kill me whenever I start singing "Birdhouse in your soul" by They Might Be Giants or "I Touch Myself" by The diVinyls. I must be careful not to start singing that around B (because he does his own special actions to that song - trust me, y'don't wanna know) or around Zed (because when I think about her I DO NOT touch myself & I'd rather not incur her wrath).

When Zed was waiting for B to come 'round, Zed decided to re-write "Should I Stay Or Should I Go?" as "Are you ever going to show?" with a little help from me on the Spanish bits. We sang the song through a few times but I refuse to sing the line "Me gusta chupar tus pelotas". I'm a lady of delicate disposition, don't you know?! (Too much time around Ell, methinks.)

And finally, isn't it funny the ways in which one meets people? I've made a new friend called Lauren Morton (Hi Lauren, if you're reading this). She is also a friend of Ell's. I received an e-mail from her saying "Who are you and how do you know me?" with an attachment of the e-mail that I (allegedly) sent her saying "Ooooh, aren't you important then?!" Needless to say I was a little shocked because I've never written a joke e-mail to someone who worked for the government. I thought the government was after me for writing dodgy e-mails! It turned out that Ell had sent an e-mail from my computer thinking that it would show her name. Ell never signs her e-mails & it was my name that appeared. When Ell told me this, I proceeded to throttle her and then have a good laugh about it, especially as wrote a response Lauren's email saying something like: "The few people that do know my password would not be daft enough to send you such a stupid e-mail." Boy was I wrong!

Anyway hope life is wonderful for you & if it is not, I hope we at least make you laugh,

Gotta go,

En xxx