The Life and Times of Miss Carter, Law Student, on Being Back in Exeter

Hum, where to start?
I'm back home again. My grandfather died very recently, and it turns out that funerals and death and everything are very messy and confusing and all over the place. I came back to talk through the service, and am staying on for the weekend to sort out things like obituaries and pictures and a family reading.

Death is weird. Like, weird. I've spent most of this evening browsing through poems for something suitable, and I've been completely unable to shake off the feeling that I can't go for anything too emotive, because, you know, it's not like Grandad's dead or anything. It would be silly to be too earnest. Bizarre.

I don't think I'm going to deal with it until the funeral, but that's OK. I've noticed I've started talking a lot more about him and his life and death recently, which I think is a good sign. I'd like to thank my friends for being so wonderful. Especially Hannah and Martin.

I'm also reading far, far too much WWI and general death poetry. I have a collection of favourites. I've tried writing my own. It all gets far, far, too personal, and entirely unoriginal. We've settled on something about moving on and memory, and blah. Angry musings on mortality seem a little out of place. Also too personal. It's silly, I know.


But, in better, more-run-on-sentence news: FRESHERS' WEEK HAPPENED AND WE GOT NEWBIES AND THEY ARE SIMPLY WONDERFUL!
Also I'm taking Company and Commercial and Trusts and a 30 credit Comparative Dissertation on lex loci and same-sex marriage. But shh. Although it is bloody good to be back doing law, real proper bare bones law, again.
And, wonderfully housemates are wonderful and kooky and properly Englishly insane, and dear god, if these 4am conversations with Dave about Hamlet the Musical and Dorchester become habit there is a good job I'm going to end up living in a gutter.

But Freshers. Because Freshers are important. They have come, and they are staying, and we have musicians and singers and dancers general smiley people coming out of our ears, and we love it. Thursday night sessions are proving a success, Monday night dancing had an excess of men, and people are asking about rapper. Thank you, lovely people, and seriously, well done committee.

Next to worry about is Thursday's dissy meeting and ICBINI and exams and IVFDF and so on. But for now, look! Pretty!