~S-tygian

lol yeah, another college journal.

Monday was New Students Day at the College, which was awesome fun. I finally got to meet Alex, who might be reading this; hadn't seen him for three years xD There were also some other familiar faces from waaay back when, but mostly new ones. I got talking to a few new people, and learnt about the lessons and stuff.... usual New Students stuff.

The lessons were.... I don't know really. in Film Studies I pretty much got told I don't watch enough films and need to read film magazines or I'll fail... which made me consider doing Literature instead xD I love films, but books are just way better. I think I'll see how the first couple of lessons go, if they're crap I'll probably change.

Photography was just annoying because I wanted to go into the Dark Room but instead the guy spent half an hour telling us how dangerous it was xD

Maths... was maths.

And Art.... oh god u.u; I wanted to go back to bed at this stage xD I had this damn annoying woman who was obviously keen on her abstract art, who told us nothing about the course just gave us a blank A3 sheet, black ink, a twig, a paintbrush, and a piece of card and made us draw some abstract piece around the words "calm, anger" that kind of thing.

Well of course everyone around me did something bloody amazing. Mine looked like it had been done by a seven year old. I wanted to rip it up in shame but the woman wanted to keep them so we could look at them in September. WTF? I seriously hope I don't have her, or have to do another piece of abtract work while I'm there. I don't hate abstract, it's just that I suck at it and hate having to go right into a piece of work without sketching or planning it. And I'm glad I'm not the only one who thinks it xD Slyly wandering over to Samwise ~Pillow-Mint I found out he wasn't having fun either xD

But I shrugged it off as it was just half an hour of them trying to get us to do something productive. So for the end of the day I was looking forward to heading over to the art block again to see what Life Drawing classes were like. But my tutor for the day, who looked like he had just been dragged out of an Austin Powers movie, made us do some crappy quiz in the slot I planned to go there for. Not wanting to go there on my own, I wound up wandering aimlessly around campus with Sam for a bit xD

So um... generally a good day. o.O

With the Art thing though, I think I've just chosen a bad time to have a bit of a block. It's a vicious circle - I'm annoyed that all I ever draw these days is cats, but I'm awful at humans or any other animal, but I don't want to practise because I want to create images from my mind not referenced, so I only draw cats because I can draw them without reference.... u.u;

At this rate i'll never get anything done this Summer. =B

maybe I should actually use my LJ to splurgh this pointless stuff out on.

but then, I really don't like LJ..

anyway, I gots a job interview I'm actually surprised they called me back cause my application wasn't great, but then again if I was the only one who applied... xD

It's only at Sainsbury's, lawl, but I'm doing it for teh monehs and because if I don't get a job this summer I think I might die..

and I need money =B

Aaanyway, yesterday I wrote a list of things I need to do this summer; there is a lot of art on the list and I'm gonna try tick something off of it each day so expect lots of new things =] I had a mini panic yesterday when for some reason my USB device stopped working which meant I couldn't use my scanner, my tablet or my printer, but for some reason just plugging it into a different port made it work again. Thank God xD I think I would've cried if it hadn't worked again xD

And also yesterday all the wonderful stuffs I bought on amazon (with my OWN debit card! =B) arrived. I'm now reading Outcast by Erin Hunter =B It's promising to be better than some of the other books they've done. I still think they're just in it for the money now, and are just mechanically writing books to satisfy publishers instead of putting thought into good plotlines that aren't repetitive. Series 2 was so baaaaaad. But Series 3 is looking to be good ^^ So I'm happy (and glad to see more of Crowfeather )

Also got lots of Naruto books, so I'm not gonna run out of stuff to read for a while x3

EVER.

EVER EVER EVER.

I never have to go into that damned building again!

College here I come!

So I can finally relax And I got so much going on this summer! Loads of parties, and just general having fun. I'm going into the college on the 30th to get an idea of what it's like, which should be awesome =]

I'm so excited ^^

And and and, I'm gonna get lots of art done - as soon as my scanner works again

and and.... yay!

-goes to play Fable-

Finding it hard to concentrate on revising xDD

Me and my dad have been trying to decide if Coldplay's new album is any good. He's a big fan of them, personally I was never into them, but wouldn't mind listening to The Scientist or Clocks every now and then. I've been hearing Violent Hill all over the place, on the radio, saw them play it various places live. Wasn't great. Typical Coldplay right? But it's growing on me.

I saw the awesome new iTunes advert about 2 weeks ago? With their new song "Viva la Vida" and I was like o.o;

wow..

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all the Apple adverts are great, but I thought that topped them all ^^

So on Friday we both watched Jonathan Ross cause Coldplay were on, and I think then I decided I liked Coldplay xD

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The kettle drum and bell sequence is great. And though I still think Chris Martin's voice isn't great, and he's a bit um... weird? I dunno. I found out he attended a boarding school in Dorset which I think was cool, cause my gran's taken me around that area a couple times x3

And so cause Sunday was Father's Day, and Dad was staring at the tv screen in awe when they played Viva la Vida, I bought him the album. He instantly stuck it in the cd player and it had been playing all day. It's not usual I get obsessed over a new album.. xD

And now I can't revise.

But I drew something decent that I'm hoping to scan when my scanner obeys me, and color and make pretty. Inspired by the music, ofc x3

(and yay, my debit card just came through the post!)

What's an actual definition of "meme"?

I'm a total n00b and just kind of go along with it xD But recently, I've seen it being used in different ways so finally I must reveal my ignorance =B

In other news, Media is over =]I never have to analyse another advert again. While I find it interesting hearing about it once... having to revise it over and over, then write about it and compare it with other adverts, kind of makes me lose interest. But I never find it boring the fact that SunnyD actually made kids go orange xD That campaign was seriously clever. I mean, parents actually thought it was healthy just because it was stored in the refridgerated section of the supermarket. Genius.

Of course, I'll have to do exactly the same next year, except with films. But I think I can cope with that. =]

So, I have a break until Wednesday, when I've got an exam every day till Friday. Then they're over! Two Science and one Graphics - then I'm outta there. I won't write again about how much I can't wait till college but..... yay!

And so I've been taking advantage of my break and bought Hotel Dusk, finally. 30 minutes in and I failed xD But that's good. I don't like games that are easy.

Also, read The Wild Road. I started it two years ago but I think it was too dark for me at the time. Reading it now though, I'm like o.o That's awesome. A book about cats that isn't for kids. Almost as good as Tailchaser's Song. Almost.