It's my 19th Birthday tomorrow, woo... I've only just got used to saying I'm 18. Plus Birthdays after your 18th are pointless anyways! I can drink, I can drive (not both at once obv, and I can't drive either, but I could if I wanted to). Tomorrow is basically a way to aquire some funds for back to uni endevours. Which is a shame really.

Whats really quite sad is I found an old card from my nanny May two days ago, its probably the last one I'll get from her, shes not all there anymore, the last time I saw her was when she was in hospital last year, I had to sit for hours feeding her milkshake food replacement stuff through a syringe. Anyway, shes has got a lot better, but I havent seen her since that. I don't know how I'd cope.

Thats making me sad, so I'll talk about something else.

I'm currently sitting in my dressing gown listening to this mornings Greg James show. He's going to be on at this time of day towards the end of September, which is ace, as well as sucking a little. Firstly its good because I can listen in the afternoon without being destroyed for uni, but also I'm going to miss lots of it with lectures. Does also mean that the American people I talk to when its on live wont be around anymore, and the shows going to be loads busier with listener interaction. So no more shoutouts.... maybe.

Bittersweet.

I cant wait to get back to Uni, 2 weeks 5 days. Its going to be strange at first because I'm living in a house with people I know from last year (last year I was in halls) and I'm going to be a fresher again on the course I've transfered to. I'm also Production Manager for Pure FM. So to be honest, everythings pretty set, it's all looking pretty perfect. I just hope it all goes perfectly.

Radio over the summer has gone well, it started with the Radio Festival in Nottingham (#RadFest09, if you want to read back) which saw me making some new student radio friends and learning some more about Radio. It also won me a trip to see BBC, Global and Bauer (Radio Tour, if you want to read back to that too!) which was great fun!

I've also spent the summer doing shows for www.offthechartradio.co.uk, which is a lovely internet radio station hosted from all over the UK and even from the US. Unfortunately due to my laptop being rubbish, I wasnt able to do my shows live, I think I managed one full live show. Either way, I've got some experience doing a show alone, its good fun. I'm not so keen on prerec's, you loose all listener interactivity.

So back to Pure FM soon, I sure as hell hope the new studios are going be be ready ASAP! Thats been putting a smile on my face whenever I think about it.

Anyway, enough geek from me for today, time to actually do stuff.

Much Love as always

Emma

xx