The Slog

Ah hello. Today has been (and still is till about 10 o'clock tonight) spent slaving over the computer again, with photoshop and InDesign. Oh how I love them but resent them right now. Here is a lovely picture taken with my mobile of my work 'desk'.

As I'm scared of my work going horribly wrong at the moment I will promise to show you the final products, providing my books arrive in time for my final hand in...otherwise I do not know what I will do... Slip away into abyss or cry forever, turn around and run away screaming from university, I don't know, but I'm sure it would be really dramatic and then I'l be embarrassed by it all.

Oh wouldn't it be nice

For a photographic blog I apologise again for the lack of imagery! In the last week I have not left this house, unless it was to go food shopping, or pick my mum up from the train station, or enjoy a spot of lunch in the garden. Otherwise, 10-5, gradually becoming 9am-9pm and even later, I am welded to my laptop with InDesign and Photoshop. So much so that I think my forefinger and middle finger on my right hand have become worn down, not joking. Colours have also started to blend, focus has started to soften and white balance and all that has begun to p*** me off. It's also annoying that viewing a laptop screen out in the sun is just not possible.. Hopefully the weather will hold out for when I do have some time to do nothing!


Sorry that this is short and sweet, but for now, I must try and relax, unwind and forget. 


Happy Easter! 

panic/sunshine/calm

It's a miracle... I post again so soon! Today I spent time in London on my own to go portfolio hunting, who knew it would be so time consuming, energy consuming and money consuming! So overall quite draining. To top it off the sun was hot and tiring, but if the sun wasn't shining, I would have been one miserable git. I enjoyed an hour in hyde park for some gorgeous sunshine in the hope to get a bit of 'glow' as in the last week of this fine weather I have been glued to my laptop screen (which I fail to see clearly in bright sun) or at work. 
Most people are happy for these two long bank holiday weekends, but for me and many fellow students I am sure, it means less time being able to go to the library, print things, buy things needed for projects, etc.. all in all a bit of a nightmare. So here I am, when I should be editing my 600 odd photographs, having a subtle panic attack. 


So for now, Auf Wiedersehen. For the next few hours it will be me, photoshop and Einaudi ludovico. 

I Apologise

Once more, how rubbish have I been at blogging!? I should set myself a target of at least blogging once a week. I may seriously take this on board. Maybe every Sunday at the end of the week to at least update you? But for me there really is no end of the week. Days roll into other days, days roll into weeks, weeks roll into months, being in my third year there are no weekends anymore. I feel guilty even taking one day off, unless I am just stupidly exhausted.

So what have I been doing which meant I didn't blog? Well I suppose everything. Got work experience/job/future to think about. My final major project and degree show to which I handle the accounts with a fellow friend. On top of this there are portfolios to be done, reports, websites (to which mine went and crashed and have no idea how to rescue it). As well just being able to socialise. There are not enough hours in the day.
But having said that, I like being kept busy, I feel productive and achieved something worth while. It is a nice feeling. So with it all coming to an end am I going to miss it? Yes and no. Bring on new challenges please!

I was thinking about the future and how I would love to go abroad for 3months - a year and help out in a third world country to make a change. Build a school, hospital or homes, provide water, malaria nets and such like. Or help in an orphanage or help educate. It would be such an achievement and it is things like that in the world that I feel matters the most. Just one more thing on my tick list to do.

However the next pit stop is to graduate.