¡Viva España!

Well, we've been back for a week from holidays in Spain (me, my sister and John), and boy is it depressing going back to an office Job!

The weather was really good - always very hot, although ranging from bright sunshine to thunderstorms and hailstones (that's the mountains for you!). We didn't arrive at my dad's house until very late on the Sunday night (i.e. sometime after 1 in the morning) after braving the drive down from Barcelona. The fiestas didn't start 'till Tuesday night, but when they did, we were treated to the correfoc (cue hundreds of bad puns about correfoccing, meeting the correfoccers etc) which was a parade through the streets of the village with lots of fireworks and small children dancing in the sparks. They also had a huge dragon with fireworks in its nose! Unfortunately we didn't take our cameras, but maybe next time!

Aside from the fireworks we managed to get around to see some of the surrounding area - like the roman ruins at Tarragona, Tortosa, the castle at Miravet, the beach at Hospitalet...

But now we're back. Today I got my tattoo done that I've been waiting for for a while now, which is very cool:
So I shall be looking after that very carefully for a while now! It didn't really hurt, I was expecting a lot more pain, but I suppose the arm isn't a very sensitive area...

Masters/Computer/Holidays

Computer finally fixed!

I had to buy an external hard drive casing so I could connect my hard drive to my neighbours' pc to save my documents...and reinstall windows again...but it's done. Now just struggling to get my programs installed again, I've lost all my emails...all fun and games.

But good news - I got my funding for the masters course! This means that I'm back at uni in 6 weeks' time, which is quite a scary thought. I'm hoping that I don't have to end up doing any weird elective modules, but I'm not gonna find out for a while. It seems that the bank have decided they might give me a part time contract, so I won't be with the agency any more (which is fantastic).

Apart from that, we're off to Spain tomorrow, we've got tonnes of stuff to do today, but haven't managed to get up off my arse yet and do any packing etc. We still have to go into town and do a million things! Sounds like the start of a busy week (I'll be glad to get back here for a rest!)...