Wednesday's Child checks in...

Sydney, I can already tell that we have a lot in common. I will present my evidence to you in list form:

1) I am also a girl. Whilst I may not be a stereotypical clothes-loving, magazine-reading, heart-on-sleeve-wearing individual of the ‘fairer sex,’ I am, unarguably, a girl. We will, therefore, almost definitely have in common certain physical characteristics. We will also most likely both conform to various societal norms, such as using the public WCs whose doors are marked with skirt-wearing stick figures, and occasionally wearing dresses to formal events.

2) I am also a student. You didn’t mention what you study, though, and if it turns out to be maths - or any of its logic-based kindred - I may have to re-think this bullet point. Needless to say (but I will anyway) I do not study anything scientific*; doing so would probably cause me actual physical damage, both from chewing the inside of cheeks with frustration (a bad habit of mine) and from the inevitable cranial explosion caused by my brain rapidly reaching its vital capacity. I study linguistics – safe, interesting, do-able linguistics.

3) I am also not a vicious, rumour-spreading fiend. Hooray! :D

My name is Lucy, and I guess for the purposes of this blog I’ll also go by Wednesday’s Child. The poem lies, though, because I’m not full of woe, for a number of very good reasons: I’m 19 years old, an excellent age at which I’m approaching (or perhaps even at, I don’t know, I’m no biologist) my physical and mental peak; I’m engaged (yes, as in to be married) to a wonderful guy called Chris, whose name you’d better remember as it’ll be cropping up a lot in the ensuing Wednesday blog entries; and, as mentioned above, I’m in my first year of studying towards a safe, interesting and do-able degree at the University of Leeds in England, with the ultimate aim of becoming a Primary School teacher.

There’s my life in a nutshell. I like nuts, by the way, perhaps a bit too much; I discovered this after becoming a vegetarian two weeks ago, and consequently cramming various nutrient-rich meat alternatives into my tiny kitchen cupboard – a small but expensive bag of mixed nuts being one of said alternatives. Nuts are more addictive than I could possibly have dreamt in my omnivorous days. They’re also packed with fat, which is a bit of an inconvenience when I’m trying to lose weight for June 20th, aka Wedding Day.

I never thought I’d be talking about nuts in my first blog post. I guess that’s what happens when you write in the early hours of the morning.

By the way, guys, we can comment on each others’ entries by using our LJ profiles (just try to leave a comment in the normal way and it all becomes pretty self-explanatory); given that we all definitely have a LiveJournal account, I’m thinking this might be the best way to give feedback on other posts? Well, I already did on Sydney’s entry anyway, so that’s the way I’ll be doing things :P

Looking forward to hearing from you all!

Over and out,

Wednesday’s Child.


(* Actually, this is sort of untrue. There are scientific aspects to linguistics, but they’re tolerable and only used in moderation. My brain can just about cope!)