Well, the freedom I spoke of in my last entry was short-lived.

I found out my grandfather (not from the same side of the family as the grandmother who turned 90 last week) died of a brain haemorrhage on Wednesday, so I'm off to France for his funeral next week. Not quite sure when I'll be back, I'll probably be staying at my parents' until they feel better about it all. :(

Uni is over til September :D Well, I say September... It'll only be September if I actually pass this year, and considering the amount of confusion over a 4000 word report worth 50% of the year that I had to hand in today, I don't think it will quite have made the grade. :(

Oh well. Summer! :D

I still have a couple of bits and pieces to do that I didn't have time to do for my work placement, it's not urgent any more since the work placement actually finished last week, but I'm going to do it anyway because I'm nice like that.

Happy birthday to my grandmother - 90 today! :)

For some reason that song's been circling my head... Perhaps because I've been stupid yet again.

On Saturday, me and the boyfriend went to Alton Towers as a belated birthday trip. The weather forecast said it would be sunny and warm - yay! Perfect.

...you'd think, wouldn't you, that with advanced warning I'd have thought to protect myself against the sun, being that I'm very fair skinned and burn very easily... Wrong, I didn't. Hence why three days later I am sat here with first degree burns all over my face and neck and am hardly able to see for the fact that my forehead has swelled up so much that it's kind of drooping over my eyes and forcing them shut. I look like I've been punched in the face repeatedly :\
Had to go to the emergency out-of-hours doctor thing yesterday, and, after she'd Googled my condition (!) the doc sent me home with some cream and some tablets I'm not allowed to take (and she knew it. When I pointed it out to her, she said "oh, well, it should be fine..."). Errr... Right. Jem had a similar experience where an incompetent doctor was searching the net for how to deal with her particular case. WTF? Do doctors not need to go to medical school or anything any more? My grandparents (retired doctors) studied for years to specialise in their field. If it's just a case of Googling a condition and sending someone home with some OTC meds then I can be a doctor too. O_O

And the Alton Towers trip wasn't even worth it. There were huge amounts of queues and half the rides were out of order. We queued for 2 hours for one such ride before being told that it was experiencing "technical difficulties". We went to another ride, which, after an hour and a half's queue, experienced the same technical difficulties. Gah! We waited around since we weren't sure we wanted to find another ride to queue all day for, and after about an hour they told us rather annoyingly that the ride would be closed for the rest of the day. So, we found some other ride to go on, even though the park would be closing soon. Guess what? After an hour's queue, the SAME THING happened yet AGAIN. Although this time it got fixed relatively quickly (we weren't moving - we were at the front of the queue this time!) and we got to experience all 30 seconds of the ride, but argh, the frustration! We complained, of course, but got money off for next time and a priority ticket for some rides. Psh, we wanted a complete refund.

Anyway. I must go and lie down again. My work placement finishes on Friday but I can't do any work. *Sigh*

Oh, and anyone know of any cheap reseller hosts? I'm in need of one. Kind of tired of my site being constantly down. :(

Edit on 8th June: If you can see this, my site's successfully propagated onto the new server! :D