A new blog, a new year, a new routine

The most beautiful city in the world, and the place I call home from home

I used to blog a lot about three years ago but for various reasons stopped doing so. Having seen a few interesting blogs linked to Ravelry lately I decided to get back into it. I don't have a particularly exciting life but it seems to me that even the mundane things can make sometimes make good bloggage!

Tomorrow is the first day of my final year at uni. I'm an English Literature student at The University of Edinburgh. I absolutely love my degree and the prospect of finishing it for good makes quite sad. My hope is to get into publishing but I fear that I'm facing a few years of servitude in the bookshop I work part-time in for a good few years to come - it seems to happen to most people here.

I have spent the past month doing work experience at Canongate Books here in Edinburgh. I enjoyed myself hugely and would love nothing more than for a job to come up there in May. There's a chance that I may be able to go back and work for them (for free!) at the end of the year. I'm keeping my fingers and toes crossed for this because it would be really useful to have a hand in the industry when it gets to the time I'll be properly job hunting. Another year of bookselling may just kill me. I'm starting to really loathe my job - going back to uni will be a relief.

My absentee other-half!

This year it's all going to be a bit different on a weekly basis. My boyfriend, Ali, has just moved to Manchester to do his PhD. The plan is to each make the trip on alternate weeks, or as often as possible. I'm going down for the first time on Thursday afternoon. I won't have seen him for a week by then so I'm really excited. At first I was the voice of doom and gloom on the subject, but now I think having somewhere else to go to every week might prove to be a pleasant break from routine. I just have to be organised and get my work done at the start of each week!

There are only 31 minutes left of the working day. I've got a night of knitting, tea and The Sopranos ahead of me. I want to finish my chunky moss stitch scarf ready for the icey Firth of Forth wind. I'm not sure I have the energy for much else anyway. You wouldn't believe how draining this bookshop can be!

My half-finished scarf, very snuggley!