I’m writing this on boxing day after having the most fantastic Christmas day ever. I got no presents and had glandula fever and yet I loved every second of if. I spent the day with my girlfriend, my flat mate and another friend. The day was so chilled and it was so loving. It sounds really hippyish but I’m not religious and Christmas for me is a chance to spend a day with the people I love, the people I call family. So this is what I did. I sent no cards and bought no presents, I did nothing of the commercial Christmas and it was my best Christmas ever.

With Christmas day over and now that I’m starting to get better (I’ve had glandula fever for a while, I just thought it was really bad flu and thought that I kept losing my voice because I was talking too much.) I am starting to think about the LGB campaign and the year ahead.

The big thing that I am looking forward to is LBT womens day. It’s my baby. The campaign hasn’t had this day for a long while and it’s such a fabulous day. It’s the one time that I get to meet LBT women from all over the country and talk about what they want as LBT women. We’ll also be preparing for the general election to make sure that all parties take the issue of equality seriously. Our publicity on the blood service will be unveiled ie. It will be sent out in a mass mailing to every university, so LOOK OUT FOR IT! I’m also thinking about summer conference although it seems years away. We need to make improvements to our conferences and most of these improvements will come from the lessons we learnt at winter conference.

As well as thinking about the future I’ve been thinking about the past month or so. I found November the hardest month ever. I compromised my place at university as my attendance fell rapidly because of so many NUS events. I was just so busy I hardly saw anyone outside of NUS and it can get quite lonely when that happens. There are not many people in NUS that I would call my friend. NUS creates many illusions, friendship is one of them.

I don’t align myself with a faction and this means that very often I feel in the middle. I also feel that people play on the fact that I’m not in a faction, people play games with me. It may just be my paranoia but I feel that people in NUS talk to me nicely only when they want something. This is one of the problems of not being in a faction. The other problem is that there is no-one to pick you up off the floor when you’re physically and mentally exhausted. People just sit and watch you break down because it’s all a political game and helping someone from another faction is treacherous! If you are one of those people then get a grip it's not peoples politics you‘re messing with it's people lives, so next time think twice.

I have had a rough year but I’m stronger than ever, I’m more determined than ever and this year the LGB campaign is gonna kick some ass!

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