We're moving into the house/flat thing next week. The internet seems to have been sorted out, just got to ring BT back on Monday to confirm. :)

I also got my new university timetable this week. I don't start until 3rd October (now they tell me? After I made all these plans to move up, thinking it would be the last week of September like it normally is?), but I have 8 and a half hours worth of web design lectures on a Tuesday. O_O Now, as much as that sounds great (well, better than having a normal lecture anyway... Zzz...) it really isn't. Web lectures, like my computing studies 3 (3??? Woah, where did time go?!) years ago, are not spent playing around on with a computer/the internet. Normally we are shown PowerPoint presentations the whole time, though last year it was just 2 hours. No playing around on computers. You come in to use the comps in your own time. :\
Other lectures are the usual 3-4 hour length, but of course this year that I'm not on campus I have to be in the 2nd seminar groups, where there's an hour's wait between lecture and seminar. Blah. I'll go to the library. Or fall asleep. Or something.

If I hadn't redone my first year, this one would be my last... but it's not. Hurrah, another 2 years of this to come. /sarcasm

Well, after initially starting off rather badly, my birthday went quite well. I got a lovely new camera (Nikon Coolpix 5600) and a few other necessities for the new house/flat thing (I say that since we can't decide if it's a flat or a house - it's tiny small but has a first floor). Yay for us - we're moving in in two weeks! Eeeeep, I can't wait!

Speaking of our new place, does anyone know how to activate a phone line? We need internet in our place (need! NEED!!!!) and the landlord won't do it for us, which is fair enough, but I would have expected him to activate the phone line for us. We can put the net in afterwards (no dial-up for us - broadband it will be), but I really wish we didn't have to wait around for it once we're there. Ack, net withdrawl... *twitches*

A couple of other things I thought I'd mention (not interested? Too bad :P )... Firefox is really annoying me lately. It keeps encountering errors and "needs to close" so I lose all my session cookies and end up losing where I was on forums and such, as well as the 3842739583 tabs I have open. It's not my computer, I defragged it, got rid of spyware/adware/viruses but yet FF still finds cause for making stupid errors. Plus, my Gmail notifier add-on is stuck on 2 new messages, when I know there are no more. *Beats it*

Also: Katrina. You cannot read/see/hear about anything else right now. I have read and heard several opinions on the aftermath, but there is one thing that really angered me.
I was watching a news report on the situation in New Orleans and the (American) reporter ended with "But this isn't Iraq, Somalia or Ethiopia... this is home. It shouldn't be happening here."
Why did this anger me? Because he was implying that it's alright for people to live in those conditions in Iraq, Somalia and other such countries, which I think is totally unacceptable.

That's my opinion anyway.