There's always something.

Things are good, today.

Yesterday, I got back my first draft of the Wil Wheaton analysis coursework, and by 11pm I'd finished redrafting it. We're supposed to spend a double lesson tomorrow doing that, but now I've cleared the space to do other things.

I've not felt so productive for a while now, and it made me realise that right now, at this point in time, I have literally nothing better to do than coursework, and that's really sad, but it's also really true. If I want to get out of here, to go on with my life, I'm going to have to work hard this year.

Doing work, reminding myself that I'm not quite so helpless as I feel like I am, it helps me out. This burst of enthusiasm is likely caused by the fact that I'm back into reading high school AU fanfictions, and I'm embarking on Twist and Shout, the most well known Supernatural fic surrounding Castiel and Dean Winchester. I'm barely half a chapter in, but it reminded me that all the characters I admire, they get their work done as best they can, and I should, too.

I completed another part of a long assignment booklet we were given, too. Since you're required to only do one every half term, it means I don't have to worry about that until next term, but that I'm probably going to have to put myself through Great Expectations over the holiday. I have a fondness for Dickens' work, but I'm not sure I'll find all the time that I'm in Sweden that's required to finish it. But then, I've got until the half term in February, really.

I promised myself I'd try not to fall behind, so this is me, pushing to get it right again.

My only issue is that on my UCAS University application form, I had to put my name and title, but my gender marker is unchanged, meaning I'm Mr Lorcan, but my gender is female, and the form doesn't understand. I've since realised that I'm not entirely sure how I'm supposed to change my name on all records. Is it simply enough to alert the NHS/hospitals? Do I need to write to the hospital I was born at, across the country? If anyone reading this knows how UK name laws work, I'd love to get a message.

I might try that trans* forum, see if people there know what I'm supposed to be doing.