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I have too many fandoms and not enough icon space. You'd think a paid account of 250 icons would be enough, right? Nope. Not for me. I'm trying to delete some icons so I can make space for other fandoms and I'm trying to have between 3 and 5 icons for each fandom... but of course it doesn't work that way. Because for some fandoms I want to upload 10+ icons and that leaves no space for other fandoms. Also, the ever-present problem of 'which icon do I delete'. I want to keep pretty much 90% of the icons I already have uploaded. So I have no space to upload new icons. I'm seriously considering giving in an just buy some permanent icon space, but I don't know if I should.

My advisor of studies replied to one of my emails. She wants to meet on Thursday, which is the day of my last resit. That, and the fact that she did not reply to my second email (the one where I had asked her some serious questions and told her I was considering not going to the resits) slightly ticks me off, to be honest. I kinda needed some advice about my resits. I know she probably wants to meet and talk about this calmly, but she could have written something via email. She could have told me what she thought about me not going to my resits. But nope. Nothing. She's not exactly doing much to make me like her.

I have some great news though - I think I've made a new friend! :D Her name is Aisling and she's an American who's lived in Scotland for most of her life. I met her a while ago, while going with Andrew to this place where young christians hang out (although I'm not religious, Andrew is and I decided to tag along for the discussions). I added her on Facebook, but I was too shy to talk to her. But I wanted to get to know her better, if that makes sense? So after thinking about it, I decided to send her a message and we started talking. She's studying coding and programming at a college, so we geeked about that for a while and then moved onto a variety of other topics, like books, games, university and such. We talked for hours. She doesn't play much video games, but I told her that there's a variety of games out there and that she probably hasn't played the right game yet! So I told her about the Harvest Moon games, which I'm completely addicted to. She told me she'd like to try them out! :D So we're meeting sometime next week, on Andrew's day off from work, to hang out and I promised her I would lend her my Harvest Moon game so she could try it out! Ahh, it's so great to make friends. Shows that I still can make friends. And as usual, I make more friends outside of my uni course than in the actual classroom. So yeah, I'm really happy about having made a new friend. ♥

Andrew and his dad went away yesterday with their climbing coach to do some serious climbing and they won't be back until Thursday, which is the day of Andrew's birthday. I'm getting him a cover for his Macbook, because I don't know what else to get him and I already got him a copy of Catcher in the Rye last year as a random present. Ever since he started his job he's bought me quite a lot of presents: a pair of earrings, the whole Sailor Moon manga in Italian and Animal Crossing: New Leaf! And I'm pretty sure he's going to buy me the new Harvest Moon game (A New Beginning), as soon as it comes out in Europe, as a present for my birthday, which is... relatively soon, actually (20th August). I'm going to be 22, you guys. Scary thought.

So, I promised I'd talk about books... and here it is! Beware though, I've read quite a lot of books in the past few months, I'll try to summarise my thoughts as much as I can, but for some books I need to rant, so... you've been warned!

( cut for huge list of books + spoilers! )

Aaaaand that's it! Whew, that was a long update. Do follow me on Goodreads if you're interested, though!

Hello, DW! I'm writing from Andrew's house. I just felt so bad, I couldn't stay at uni anymore. I mean, my room seriously felt like a hospital room - I constantly felt sick and I desperately needed a change of air. I wasn't going to lectures anyway and there was really no point staying at uni this week. What was I going to do - torture myself because I can't go to a commercial law lecture? I don't think so. So I hopped on the train on Thursday and went to Perth where Andrew picked me up.

I'm happy to say that I've been feeling better ever since I got out of my campus room. I'm very glad I decided to pack my stuff and go to Andrew's house. I hadn't seen him in a week, but somehow it felt a lot longer than that. I really missed him and I couldn't wait to see him. And I'm glad I'm with him now. He really makes me feel loved, even when I'm feeling super bad. ♥

I'm less irascible now because I don't feel as nauseous. I am, however, taking two medicines every day now. I got a headache a few days ago and took my usual medicine to make it go away and I noticed I felt less nauseous for most part of the day. The medicine I take for headaches is also good for muscle pain - and if my nausea is really caused by a tight muscle, then that might explain why I feel better when I take this medicine.

Anyway, I'm going to see the physiotherapist tomorrow and hopefully she's going to work on my tight muscle and make the nausea go away. I really hope this tight muscle is the source of the problem. I can't wait to go back to eating without feeling sick.

As for my essay, the reading is going well. I only skimmed through one of the chapters I had to read on the textbook because it was mostly about stuff I'd already done in contract law last year - so you can imagine how boring and repetitive it was. I'm going to concentrate on another aspect of law of equity for my essay that doesn't involve that particular chapter anyway, so it shouldn't be too much of a problem. Now I need to read only some cases and maybe a couple of articles and I should be okay. I sort of have an idea of what I'm going to write, I'm just a little nervous because I have to critically assess one sentence said by a judge - literally, one sentence. And the essay itself should be no longer than 2,000 words. So yeah, I kinda need to pick what I want to focus on and work on it. The lecturers have made it clear that they don't expect us to write an essay on the whole law of equity, also because it's impossible to do so in only 2,000 words. But I'm always nervous when it comes to essays, so don't mind me.

On a happier note, I bought the Kobo glo (aka the ereader I wanted so much)! I bought it from the WHSmith website on Monday, which was the day it came out here in the UK and it's currently on its way to me. ♥ It should arrive on Monday, or, if I'm lucky, I will find it outside my door on Sunday when I go back to uni! But I'm fine with either, really. I'm just so glad I bought it! I watched a couple of video reviews of it on youtube and it really looks like it's the perfect ereader for me. I can't wait to have it and start reading all the books I want to read on it! ♥

And that's pretty much all right now. I'll keep you guys updated on my health. :) Until next time!