Monthly Blog – August 2024
August was a hectic month. As well as recovering from my operation, I’ve been busy preparing for uni. There’s so much bullshit admin and applying for things, and the uni itself doesn’t help. It just keeps spamming useless emails that don’t tell me anything and make it harder to find the emails I need. But I’m in Birmingham now, and while there’s still loads of stuff to do, I’m feeling energised by my fresh start. I’ve needed to go to the doctor’s every day for most of the month, including my birthday, to get my dressings changed. The walk hasn’t done me any harm, and it was nice travelling along the canal every day. The canal’s so full of fish, and some are fairly big. There’s herons too, including a few that were in my path and I had to scoot around. Sometimes there were cats too. One of my neighbours also got a new cat, and he hangs out in my garden sometimes. He’s a little bitey, but very playful and silly. I also got into stargazing after reading some astron...