In case anyone is wondering, todays title is from "the lonliness of a tower cab driver", or as it has become more well known "one day like this" by Elbow. My dad introduced me to this band months ago and of course this is their most famous song, which was invariably played at my 18th birthday. I found the video for the song on youtube and it made me smile with happy memories from that party so I thought I would place a little joy in a few more hearts as they remembered the wonderful night of September 18th 1009.
Today my thoughts are slightly concentrated around Mark Hewis, a freelance film maker who came into our university to do a lecture on freelancing. I found him very fun and casual, some of his work was fantastic and sparked a lot of curiosity on my part, but some really didn't agree with me and I guess that's how most freelancers affect everyone really. But I'm not thinking about his work, I am thinking about a piece of advice he gave to us all. His piece of advice was to buy a box, and whenever we have a piece of inspiration or a wonderful idea for a project, to write it down and put it in the box so we remember it later on. This is the point where I tell you I really wish I listened to this advice better and had acted upon it last night because I had a wonderful story to write on this blog and I've completely forgotten it. Lo and behold, this is life.
Back to the title then. I think it sums up very well the atmosphere of today. I'm not sure whether I am happy, sad, angry, tired or just feeling like I really need a holiday, but I think the latter is winning over. I am absolutely over the moon because I have finally ordered the skirt I am planning to wear for the snowflake ball on 7th December. It is a beautiful piece of workmanship for a lot less than I was willing to pay, which of course has put a huge grin on my bank account. Then I felt the lovely, relaxing feel of my bank account almost crying with joy when it realised my mum would be feeding it a nice, big, fat, disability living allowance cheque and so it is about to gain a lot more weight than it has been living on over the past few weeks. Unfortunately the grin it had set in place then wilted once more, when I heard student finance are messing around asking for my mum and dads evidence of how much they earn a year AGAIN. It could be January before I receive any money from them, something that will be a pain for where I live and those I love and want to give Christmas presents to, I still need to purchase the box-set I have promised Emily, find a little something extra for Luke, his family and my grandparents.
I seem to have caught myself in a time rut. That is, time is moving far too fast for my photography project which is still unfinished, but too slowly for my wanting to go home and rest from all the frantic work I have been doing. The next project I am going to do, I will not bother about what goes in the book, but every time I have a thought on the project I will write it down in the hopes I will receive more marks than I am likely to receive for this piece of work. However, I am fairly confident my images are of a lot better quality this time so shouldn't loose marks on that front. However, the quantity of images could be a slight issue where marks are concerned. I have the images I need, but only have about 30 images overall. I do have a few more ideas for images, but the weather will not permit such images to look good. Another problem on this issue is I have already packed my memory card reader in anticipation of moving and can't actually remember where I put it. Not feeling overly clever at this moment in time.
Last night I had quite a nice surprise from Sun Wen. As I went to pour myself some cereal, I met her in the corridor outside my room and we stood talking. I told her I was really quite tired and not feeling particularly on top of the world because of this. She looked very worried but I told her I would be fine and would see her later. About 5 minutes after re-entering my room and sitting at my laptop, I heard a shy little "tap tap tap" at my door. So I went to see who it was and there was Sun Wen. She smiled when I said hi and held out her hand to reveal a beautiful, big, shiney red apple. "I've brought you an apple. Keep eating!" She said before waving to me and going back into her room. It made me smile a lot. I'm really going to miss her and BaoBao when I move out but I know it's the right thing to do.
Craig and Emily have gone to the Cathedral today to look round. They invited me but I really am too tired to do much right now and really do have to finish my work. (This blog is the ultimate method of procrastination.) The three of us went out together to the campus Tower Bar to meet with 3 of Craigs friends. Unfortunately Emily had forgotten her passport and left it at her mums house so me and Emily had to stay on campus as they don't really ID here. We finally have proof that The Shed (another of campus' bars) actually do water down their spirits. The Shed sell a variety of cocktails which me and Emily like to sample which are called "Shed Trebles", three shots of alcohol topped with a mixer. We drunk 3 of these trebles before getting a jug of the most delicious alcoholic drink I have ever tasted. By the end of it, emily was getting rather giddy and I didn't feel a thing (alcohol related). No wonder the booze there is given out so easily.
And now, I shall finally stop procrastinating and actually do some work...
..... This work really is boring you know T_T
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