New Year, not quite new you

Last night I couldn't sleep, had a tummy ache and kept checking I had all my work. In the middle of the night I woke up panicking that I had a massive project to complete. Yep, I had the back-to-school Sunday blues, worsened by the fact that it was a Monday night. Although I do love Catch 22 when I'm there, a two-week break of eating, drinking and making merry has left me with no motivation.

Before we all left Tottenham for the Christmas holidays, I have to say that tensions were rising in the October Cohort. Everyone had busted their bums getting the first draft of their article for the spring mag in on time, add that to the pressure cooker that is this intensive course and you get lots of grumpy students. Ever optimistic, I thought that perhaps attitudes might have changed whilst people took some time out with their loved ones. Sadly, everyone isn't on the same page just yet and after just one news meeting defences were rising and people are being snide to one another.

I'm not naive enough to believe that a disparate group of people must be friends just because they work together. But I do feel that we've all been given an amazing opportunity to learn so much for free, and our attitudes are really going to affect what we take from the course, and the experience of others.

Without sounding like too much of a hippy, we need to re-group and have some positive team bonding. There's only a month left to go and the pressure is mounting...