I didn’t actually go anywhere really, but over the past fortnight, I’ve had two colds followed by food poisoning, with a side order of essay and conference organising induced stress. Probably all interconnected (except the food poisoning, that was just bad luck), but it explains why I haven’t carried on with my new years resolution to blog more.

But I’m well again, and getting back on track with lectures and other stuff, so blogging and my attempts to learn Dutch will be resumed, along with a couple of late entry resolutions to eat more healthy food, and get more exercise. They’re such basic resolutions that most people just have them by default, but the last two weeks have proven their usefulness to me.

Who’d have though organising a little thing like an international political youth conference with no budget would be difficult! This has been the dominant activity of the past week. To be honest, while it is hard work, it’s also quite a lot of fun. I wouldn’t do it otherwise. Anyway, next weekend I’ll be welcoming young greens to Edinburgh to take part in the third Inter Isles Young Greens ‘get-together’ (yes, I do insist on using ‘get-together’ in place of conference).

The coming week will be doubly hectic. On top of the get-together, I have a couple of essays due on the 14th and 20th, and a postgraduate study application due on the 23rd. Hopefully I won’t burn out before everything is done. Anyway, today has been my last full day in Edinburgh. Tomorrow I’m driving down to Manc. to get stuck into a to-do list almost as long as my scarf.

This last fortnight of term is proving to be particularly hectic (so if I’ve forgotten to do something I said I’d do, sorry I’ll catch up next week). I have to complete the first draft of a chapter for my dissertation by Monday, finish an essay on the Spanish Civil War, and get the bare bones of one on the EU’s Energy and Climate Package sorted out.

On top of all that, I’ve had an annoying cold recently, so I ended up missing a few classes this week. . Anyway, I’m having a film, pizza and parlour games night with some friends at my flat tonight, so I’m going to try to forget about everything else for a few hours.