It's been a while!

You know, it's not in my nature to outright lie, so I'll just come clean. I've done a fantastic amount of nothing over the Christmas holidays, apart from plugging a 100 or so hours into a console game. I didn't rise before 11am on any given day and slept for an average of 13 hours. I think I walked about a mile over the course of seven weeks.

All in all, a qualified success!

So, to ease me back into the routine of actually doing anything at all, I've been asked to look at blogs belonging to journalism students from other unis. From what I can gather, we're pretty hard done by. Most of theirs seem to be more 'personal' blogs, talking about their experiences at uni so far, relationships, opinion pieces, festivals, stuff like that. No tedious law notes or metaphysical discussions. Maybe their courses involve more hand-in assignments than ours?

Now I think about it, personal blogging would probably be far more challenging for me. I think I'd be stuck for material when I lead the life of a particularly lazy pensioner. I'm not complaining or anything because my sedentary lifestyle is pretty sweet. It's just not very gripping.

There's a Cardiff student blog that specialises in newsworthy though - it's all law reporting, like the one by Andy Giddings we have here. Sadly, it seems to be inactive.

I've left comments on the other blogs, but due to moderation or inactivity I'm not sure if they're showing up or not. I'll continue to find some more and add them as they come through.

Links:

Cardiff Court Reporting: http://thecardiffcourts.wordpress.com/

UCLan blogs:

http://studentlifeofmine.wordpress.com

http://lifeoffatima.wordpress.com