| (no subject) |
[Jul. 5th, 2009|08:44 pm] |
I HAVE MY CAMERA BACK AGAIN!!!!!
Yes, it was handed in! Just when I'd got used to thinking of it as lost. I'm so happy to have it back, I can't describe! Thank holy fuck people hand things in!
Apart from that, things are pretty good. I'm starting work tomorrow. Only cleaning in the building I live in, like I was doing last year, but it fills the gap while looking for something else and gets a bit of cash in. And I get my results tomorrow. I won't pretend I'm not totally scared because I am. I won't be comfortable until I have them. |
|
|
| Green Lantern Corps this week |
[Jul. 2nd, 2009|11:26 pm] |
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!
RIP Alexander Nero. Nobody will miss you as much as I will. |
|
|
| I cant believe this happened! |
[Jun. 30th, 2009|10:46 pm] |
I've lost my camera! In Newark. I've been to look for it and found no sign!
It's okay though my mum's sending me theres. Which is awesome but I'm still an idiot for losing it! |
|
|
| (no subject) |
[Jun. 23rd, 2009|02:49 pm] |
First, have some pictures from the Awesomeness that was Friday!
( Read more... )
I also got a £30 Amazon gift voucher. I've bought the two sequals to a book I absolutely love, and as I don't have to spend it all at once I'm saving the rest to indulge future obsessions with:)
Future plans:
*Continue job hunt
*Newark on Saturday for a Real Ale and German Wine festival - it's to celibrate the 25th aniversary of twinning the town with one in a German winemaking area
*Apart from that, who knows! |
|
|
| Yesterday |
[Jun. 20th, 2009|11:38 pm] |
It was all I could have hoped it would be!
My parents came and it was awesome seeing them. Then they got on so well with Paul! Then we went to the exhibiton and I won a prize! It was the one which is based on how well you've done relativey, how much you've improved since you started rather than getting a 1st or whatever. I'm still thrilled, I so Had Not expected that!
It made me think of when I was in the 1st year and won a prize for my beach hut. Not long after I went to this Chinese place to get takeaway prawn balls and there was a fortune cookie with it, the motto of which was "Winning is not everything, but the effort to win is" Spot on, just spot on!
Pictures (which mum just emailed to me) to come. It was awesome! |
|
|
| (no subject) |
[Jun. 19th, 2009|10:31 am] |
My parents are on there way over on the train for the Opening Night which starts at 5.30. They should be getting here just after 2, barring cockups with trains. Dad was going to hitch hike up yesterday but couldn't get any lifts at all so they scraped together for another train ticket. They're staying here tonight before going back tomorrow and I'm staying with Paul.
It'll be the first time he's met them and he's a bit nervous. I've said he doesn't need to be. He's a bit worried about the whole being a pisshead with no money thing. I pointed out that my dad is too and my mum isn't much better, as he knows. I'm kind of wondering if it's an age gap thing, what with him being about 18 years older, he's thinking of the meeting girlfriend's parents thing as a bigger deal than it is nowadays and the whole "Do you have a good job/house/car?" thing. Which if my parents were bothered about such things I'd be highly offended, what with being a future architect and being able to look after myself and stuff. They're just pleased I've met someone I like, considering I never even went out with anyone until I was 22 and then there were three people who lasted like two weeks.
Still, I should imagine that when they just all get chatting. I'm really looking forward to it. I've turned my room into a hotel room! The desk has been cleared and has two mugs, a box of teabags (I only drink herb and fruit teas and stuff like Earl Gray but they parents like normal tea with milk), sachets of sugar pinched from Wetherspoons, two wine glasses all polished up nicely, a bottle of Pinot Grigio (chilling in the fridge atm) and a load of carnations in a chianti bottle and a pint glass as I don't have a vase. I hope they like it! The room's also cleaner than it's been since I moved in back in 2006!
I have a new dress for the evening. Well, new-old, from a charity shop. It's red cotton with spaghetti straps and I've stitched on a plan and elevation from a 1930s house in green. It didn't turn out as well as I hoped but it wasn't easy on the Singer as I had to do it one-handed while turning the handle. I also have a pair of charity shop red satin stilettos. Paul has been let off looking neat - he only has to shave and change out of his work clothes:)
Oh and did I mention there's a prizegiving? Probably nothing will happen but you never know ;) |
|
|
| Ooooh what fun! |
[Jun. 11th, 2009|09:16 am] |
Meme stolen from ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) jettcat
A. Anyone who looks at this entry has to post this meme and their current wallpaper at their LiveJournal.
B. Explain in five sentences why you're using that wallpaper.
C. Don't change your wallpaper before doing this. The point is to see what you had on!
I made this on photoshop. The background is a picture of mine from two winters ago. Then on the right there's Joan Crawford and Nils Asher in the silent Dream of Love, then Joan again, Douggie Fairbanks Jr (with Czech Republic pics behind) and a random old photo I found online somewhere. It just makes me smile when I turn my computer on and look at it and imagine the story behind the images together. My romantic side obsesses about fictional Central European countries, castles and snow and uniforms and Big Dramatic love affairs. |
|
|
| (no subject) |
[Jun. 10th, 2009|07:36 pm] |
My parents still don't know if they'll be able to come to the End of Year Show or not:( So may just be Paul. Still, at least he'll be there which is something :)
Meanwhile, have a Long Overdue Picspam. Our trip to the Great Central Railway back in March/early April.
( Read more... )
We seem to be having enough train related days out that it needs it's own tag:) |
|
|
| (no subject) |
[Jun. 8th, 2009|08:30 pm] |
I'm still here. Took a week away from reading lj at all because I just needed a break. My mind's been completely fuzzy since I finished uni and I've only just been able to settle down to anything at all. I've just felt like I can't stand being around people, even via the internet.
I'm still applying for jobs. It's the worst possible time to be after an architecture one but I'm plugging away at it.
I recently went over all my photos and sorted the ones which hadn't been done yet. I hadn't got round to resizing any photos I've taken this year at all to speak of. What I have includes:
*Trip on the Great Central Railway (Steamtrains and stuff)
*Trip to Leicester, including a fabulous art deco factory
*Barrow Hill Beer Festival (the holy grail of beer festivals, held in an old railway roundhouse full of steam and diesel locos), plus Chesterfield and the twisted spire
*Trip round the Lincolnshire coast - Mablethorpe, Chapel St Leonards, Ingoldmells (which was like the seventh circle of hell for what its worth) and Skegness, with a bit of Louth thrown in as well
*Random stuff from places like Nottingam and Newark where we've been already
So yeah I've been getting up to all kinds of fun stuff as well as working hard. Now I'm finished with uni I'm reading a lot. And writing a bit too. I'm doing one that I came up with the plot of when my freind Dan hurt his finger and we were sitting in a pub in Stamford being silly. And I've tidied my room and thrown stuff out and starting being sensible about my shopping and making sure I get fruit and veg and all that stuff. My room's actually really nice to be in now it's clean!
The End of Year Show opens in under 2 weeks. And I find out what sort of degree I get (if I get it at all) the same day. Serious yikes!
*Random stuff from places like |
|
|
| (no subject) |
[May. 30th, 2009|05:31 am] |
| [ | Current Location |
| | Brayford | ] |
| [ | mood |
| |  awake | ] |
I have to be there as a standby on Monday when work is presented to the external examiners. That means I don't nesesarily have to talk to them but might have to so need to be prepared.
It was boiling hot yesterday and hopefully will be like it today as Paul and I are off to the seaside, with a pit-stop in Louth on the way. It's kind of a circular trip, Louth, Mablethorpe, across to Skeg (stopping inbetween at some places that have Batemans pubs which is kind of Paul's passion, beer-wise, and I am not immune myself) and then back to Lincoln. You can get an all-day bus ticket where you can go anywhere in Lincolnshire for £7. Well worth it.
My parents are still hopefully coming up for my end of year show which I'm really looking forward to. And they'll get to meet Paul. They've already spoken to him on the phone (to my mum about an area of London where she used to live and he used to work, and to my dad about Pink Floyd. Heh) I'm going to buy myself a lovely new dress of some kind for the opening night. We get our marks the same day so hopefully I won't be all tear-stained and miserable!
I'm currently continuing the job hunt. I have a couple of months of cleaning coming up, at the student accomodation block I live in like I did last summer, and can probably do it for the rest of the summer if I can't get an architecture one. Apart from that I've been reading a lot.
Now,back to bed for an hour or so, I always wake up way to early on a Saturday morning. |
|
|
| (no subject) |
[May. 26th, 2009|09:37 pm] |
I've handed in all my work, pinned it up and now the course is DONE unless I have to redo anything over the summer.
I have been uncommunicative and crap, but it's done. It's over, until the 19th of nect month.
I can't believe this it hasn't even sunk in! |
|
|
| (no subject) |
[May. 19th, 2009|08:52 pm] |
So in short, I had the crit and got a provisional mark. That's just for what you've done then and there, not for anything you do after that. So we had about a week and we pin up on Friday.
In short, I'm passing everything except the final bit that involves presentation because I fudged that. It's a case of the fact that someone who isn't familiar with what I've been doing needs to look at my work and see I've been considering all this stuff, as opposed to the lecturers who know I have because I've been talking to them every week. So I've had a week to sort that out and I'm nearly done. I'm hoping to get done tomorrow and my reward will involve seeing Wolverine on Thursday. Then it gets pinned up on Friday. And sits there until the middle of June and you can't touch anything.
I'm a complete mix of emotions about the bloody thing to be honest. So nearly there, so not, don't know if I'm satisfied with what I've done, don't know if I'm good enough to pass. It was suggested to me that I *might* end up having to redo construction in the summer, but I feel like I haven't done badly at it. It wouldn't surprise me if I messed up environmental design though. I sort of failed it twice last year (two seperate assignments) and had to fix it.
I've still got that homesick feeling. Though not for where my family live now (which I've only been to once and it was a total squeeze even with me just sleeping on the sofa for an entire three nights) , where we lived when I was a first and second year. Which is kind of pathetic but I guess it happens. I wouldn't even want to live there one bit even. It would just be nice for a few days, you know? I would like to go away somewhere so maybe I'll get a couple of days down there once everything is done.
Things have been funny with Paul as well. Not really bad, but he's been having a horrid time at work and he's been in a right mess around the same time I've been feeling wound up about getting the project in. Hopefully it'll all settle down now.
Also? I'm gripped by the desire to read and write loads. I think that's what I shall do after Friday when I just have to forget about the project for a while. |
|
|
| (no subject) |
[May. 17th, 2009|10:24 pm] |
A whole load of stuff has happened. I have been through the final crit, the one where you have a week to sort it all out before it gets finally marked.
And what do I have to do? Not much. Fix the way I've presented a load of stuff.
Yesterdy we went to a beer festival at a place called Barrow Hill which is an old railway roundhouse. They have a whole load of trains there including Blue Peter, the only surviving A2 loco. And a load of old diesels. Paul wanted me to bring a teaspoon with me because he knows how to start a deisel locomotive with one! We didn't in the end but we ended up meeting some people he knew from when he worked on the railway about 10 years ago!
It's funny how there's a connection between Real Ale and vintage trains. I don't get why but it comes up all the time!
Being in Chesterfield was also awesome as I got to see the Twisted Spire! I have pictures of course.
I can't believe it's all so nearly over! |
|
|
| (no subject) |
[May. 5th, 2009|08:18 pm] |
*de-lurks*
It's all been really hectic lately with the final crit a week on Thursday. Problem for me has been getting the hang of the construction side. I can do it but I'm not as confident as that and it's been keeping me awake at night, I've been having horrible nights and thinking I'm going to fail.
However:
We had a structural engineer come in today and basically - I've pretty much got it. And I did a fuckload and will have it finished tomorrow, then I have a page where I explain my environmental stuff (u values - booooo!) then I need to do some mockups of what it'll look like. And then I'm done. We have about a week after the crit to finally finalise everything.
I'm feeling very weird about it because although I'm sure I'll be okay I won't be able to know it is until the crit so I'm on tenterhooks all the time. This is a really big deal. The summer before I came to uni we were basically homeless and moving from place to place. Then for a few weeks after I arrived I kept feeling like I'd made a terrible mistake because it took me longer to get some of the technical stuff. I kept feeling like Reece Witherspoon in Legally Blonde. But I did it. And last year I nearly failed when I was suffering horribly from depression related stuff. I didn't realise how bad it was until I sliced my wrist open that time and that's what kind of woke me up and made me start coming out the other side. And I've done really well all year and now it's so nearly over I'm terrified I'm going to mess the whole thing up and it'll be such a waste and I will have let myself down and everyone who's been supportive. I won't feel normal until I know I haven't.
I don't know. Does everyone get like this when they've nearly finished uni? There are all these people on the course who are worried sick but manage to laugh about it but I'm just no good at doing that. |
|
|
| "I was left alone to willow in my grief" |
[Apr. 29th, 2009|02:16 am] |
Having hit a brick wall with my construction (ha de ha) I finally get it sorted tomorrow. Yay! I think I've been over-worrying. It's just really hair-raising when there's less than two weeks to go.
Still sleeping badly hense online at this time of night, but I just read an absolute stinker of a CotC Mary Sue fic and now I can't stop giggling. Sueing oneself with Isaac = EW. I just. dont. get it. |
|
|
| (no subject) |
[Apr. 22nd, 2009|09:05 pm] |
I finally *touch wood* seem to be getting there with the construction stuff. I've been stressed about it and sleeping really badly.
I was kind of ahead in finalising the design though, I think. I probaly don't need to worry but seeing as we have three weeks tomorrow I've been freaking out quite a bit. I'm a bit unconfident when it comes to the more technical/scientific end and worry all the time that I'm getting it wrong but I've done okay so far. If I was that bad at it I wouldn't have lasted on the course this far. I have to keep telling myself that and get stuck in.
Of course I always have my adorable evil boys to fall back on when I've done a load and need to give my brain a rest. I kind of love being a terminal fanbrat in a way :p |
|
|
| Erm |
[Apr. 16th, 2009|10:29 pm] |
I just found a song inspired by *that* movie and it mentions *that* character. And his name gets sexier and sexier every time I hear it...
I swear to god I will post something interesting and mature and intelligent tomorrow.
*spazzes out* |
|
|
| (no subject) |
[Apr. 16th, 2009|10:07 pm] |
Today had been somewhat productive only in the sense that I got rid of *touch wood* a particularly loathesome Trojan Horse off my laptop and broke the back of the construction. Well I didn't actually do any CAD work, but I've done some serious swotting and I can see how the whole building is going to fit together. We have four weeks from yesterday to get everything done. I'm going to continue swotting until I have a chance to talk to my lecturer about what bits we actually need for the Final Crit and then I'll eliminate them all one by one. I was freaking out and now I feel confident again, which can only be good.
Having a boyfriend who works in a Cash and Carry has its advantages! This week I aquired:
*A Mars easter egg (squashed but will taste just as good) with four chocolate bars.
*A box of Dairy Box chocolates, near sell-by date
*A box of Terry's All-Gold chocolates, near sell-by date
*A box of Quality Street Chocolates, near sell-by date
Am thinking of saving the latter for the final crit and sharing them out.
I've been horribly horribly restless today. It comes from knowing I shall have a glut of money in a day or two and wanting to spend some NOW but not having access to any. I have promised to treat Paul to a meal out somewhere, which I'm looking forward to very much.
This evening some friends bought as a pint and then Paul went home for dinner and I indulged in chocolates and Children of the Corn until I felt nauseus like a kid raiding their stocking on Christmas Morning. You can have too much of a good thing I guess ;) |
|
|
| (no subject) |
[Apr. 13th, 2009|06:25 pm] |
After a dream last night I'm having a serious attack of homesickness. I haven't been able to afford the train fair back and even if I had there wouldn't really be room for me. The last two years though I've particularly loved the Easter holidays, just doing lame stuff like watching Midsomer Murders and helping mum with some baking and repairing horse rugs on the sewing machine and going for a few drinks with my brother to catch up. And being around my way too many collections of stuff. It did wonders to recharge my batteries.
But that home I liked going back to isn't there anymore. The house is so small that even my parents and sisters don't really fit in (one of my sisters has a bedroom which is more like a cupboard, it's only really intended for a baby in a cot) so I can stay for a couple of days on the sofa but I am in everyone's way a bit. All my stuff is in boxes in the attic.
Also I'm feeling a bit odd about what happens when the course is over. I've never planned to move back to Devon, there just aren't the oppotunities there. But it's suddenly kind of scary that I don't have the option, you know? I guess what I'm trying to say is it's hit me I'm out on my own and I'm a grown up. Or something. |
|
|
| navigation |
| [ |
viewing |
| |
most recent entries |
] |
| [ |
go |
| |
earlier |
] |
| |
|
|
hot
excited![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif){kind=small}
bouncy
calm
contemplative
anxious
tired
restless