| Ma Birfday |
[Sep. 17th, 2008|10:13 am] |
| [ | I Feel |
| |  cheerful | ] |
| [ | I'm Hearing |
| | Pac 3-Override | ] |
So that's it, I'm officially old...old as the hills! 24! Gaaaah. I'll be an old woman before I know it.
Anyway I had a nice birthday, thanks to everyone who sent me presents/cards/texts etc. On the Saturday before I had a kids party, which was pretty awesome. We had facepainting, vodka jelly, pass the parcel, and a good time was had by all (I hope!) Photos here!Party/Birthday!
In other news, my parents had to buy me a new bike yesterday as mine has officially been declared unroadworthy. I paid £35 for the bloody thing and it's not safe to ride. My Dad pointed out that it had been in an accident and I hadn't noticed the damage, but the frame was buckled, the tire was bent slightly, the brakes were shot and the gears were fucked, which is why it changed gear whenever it fancied rather than when I wanted it to. My new bike is pretty awesome though, it's multicoloured and has a cute bell with a dog on it! Hooray! |
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| Swoon! |
[Sep. 11th, 2008|06:38 pm] |
| [ | I Feel |
| |  surprised | ] |
| [ | I'm Hearing |
| | Master Exploder-Tenacious D | ] |
Today I fainted for the first time in my life, it was pretty damn weird. While scraping some hot glue off a piece of wood in the studio, my scalpel slipped and sliced my thumb. Having hurt myself in this kind of way more times than I like to remember, I was all like " Oh snap, I dun gone hurted myself" and went to clean it up. But it bled more than a cut like that should have so Colin the studio manager came to help me clean it up. Then for some reason I started feeling cold and sweaty and the next thing I knew, I was on the floor, apparently having grabbed at everything on the way down, been caught by Colin (Which left a bruise!) and turning a variety of funny colours. It was so weird, it felt like I was asleep and distictly remeber dreaming in the few seconds I was out.
But I'm ok now, and am left with nothing but a very sore thumb and blood splattered jeans. I guess you have to do everything once.
In other news-it's my birthday party on Saturday! WOO! :D |
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| What's the Most Retarded Scene you Could Possibly put in a Movie? |
[Sep. 2nd, 2008|10:00 am] |
| [ | I Feel |
| |  busy | ] |
| [ | I'm Hearing |
| | Essence-LTJ Bukem and MC Conrad (Live in Tokyo) | ] |
First he brought you the stupidity that was the ending fight of Ninja Squad, now Godfrey Ho takes retardedness to new heights with 'Ninja Thunderbolt', the climax of which is a bunch of rollerskating ninjas chasing a bubble car through Hong Kong. Watch and learn.
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| First Day at KD! |
[Aug. 14th, 2008|10:16 am] |
| [ | I Feel |
| | cheerful | ] |
| [ | I'm Hearing |
| | Hai Hai-Ajay and Sonia Panesar | ] |
So yesterday was my first day at Kinneir Dufort. And it rocked! After wading in through the world's worst weather and being sweaty and wet by the time I got in, I was shown around the studio by Colin, the studio manager (I think) and was allowed to put my soaking shoes and socks in one of the ovens to dry off. I was then introduced to the rest of the studio staff who showed me my first job-to assemble the parts of a radioactive containment vial that KD are doing a small production run of for GE. It was pretty straight forward and I spent my whole day assembling the lids for the vials, but I didn't care that the glue stank and it was repetitive. I WORK IN A MODEL MAKERS! (For one day a week) and I was sat next to Henry, a 17 year old who'd been given a part time job by his uncle who worked as a CAD technician. We got on really well and like pretty much the same stuff, except that he is a terrible racist. Never mind. Anyway. Studio=made of awesome. I get the feeling that KD are going to be a very good company to work for. They're well established, work for many very well known companies and obviously take a LOT of money-my boss Ian is currently on holiday on his yacht. :O
I've decided now that I have no man in my life that I'm going to be a high powered career woman, despite only practicing my career one day a week and it's not at all glamorous. I shall wear nice clothes, work as hard as I can, always smell nice and leave my student mentality behind. No more being leaving dirty breakfast bowls in my room, wandering around with a runny nose because I forgot my hankies and generally looking a mess because I can't be bothered to be otherwise. I'm a lady now! (Ha!) But there will always be time for mucking about with my friends. I'm a woman, not a grown up. :P
So anyway, I worked til 6, popped into Paperchase (That place has a terrible hold over me...I came out with a new umbrella and almost a lunchbox) and then met my friends Rita and Lare from my hideous temp job at The Rent Service back in 2005. As much as despised the job, I always had them! We had tapas at La Tasca and had a lovely evening stuffing our faces with chorizo and spicy potatoes and having a damn good gossip. All in all a successful day, and I can't wait til next Thursday to get back to KD and stick more stuff together with evil smelling glue. |
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| Career Ahoy! Full Speed Ahead! |
[Aug. 6th, 2008|06:49 pm] |
| [ | I Feel |
| |  accomplished | ] |
| [ | I'm Hearing |
| | Five Fathoms-Everything but the Girl | ] |
( Long Time No See ) |
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| Stolen from Amelia |
[Jun. 23rd, 2008|08:32 am] |
| [ | I Feel |
| |  hungry | ] |
| [ | I'm Hearing |
| | Somebody's Watching Me-Rockwell | ] |
( Meme! ) |
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| News |
[Jun. 11th, 2008|09:55 am] |
| [ | I Feel |
| |  working | ] |
| [ | I'm Hearing |
| | No Ordinary Love-Sade | ] |
Long time no post! I kept meaning to but never found the time somehow. It's been an eventful month. I'm now working part time for Brentry Lodge Youth Centre which is awesome. It's only temporary, is only 16 hours a week (>_<) and is an hour's walk each way but I do like to walk, the people are lovely and the work is only admin, but it's interesting and varied.
The big thing that happened this month was that Leigh and I are now no longer a couple. :( I'm not going to go into details but unfortunately I didn't feel like things were working out. We're still going to stay friends though. Leigh will be moving out at the end of the month and we're looking for someone to take his room-anyone out there looking for a room?
Not been upto much else except crafts and model making for various people's birthdays, although Natalie, my oldest friend in the world came to visit me last weekend. We had a lovely time tramping round Bristol, visiting local festivals, seeing the sights and getting sunburnt. Luckily Powerwave paid me an extra month's pay (As was agreed when I left, although I didn't realise!) so I don't have to scratch around for money right now, luckily!
So that's my news. Not much to say on the matters really. |
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| Om Nom Nom!! |
[May. 3rd, 2008|06:18 pm] |
| [ | I Feel |
| |  creative | ] |
| [ | I'm Hearing |
| | Machine Pour Les Oreilles-Rinocerose | ] |
My first attempt a cutesy girly cupcakes! What do you think? :D
In other news, we don't have move this year, which is a massive relief. Our landlords finally agreed to put us on a month by month tenancy so we can move whenever we want. Hooray! So we don't have to go to the stress and expense of moving, and I can keep the £100 saved to put towards it. A 'We're Not Moving' party will be held at the end of June! :P |
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| What Happens Next |
[Apr. 28th, 2008|08:32 am] |
| [ | I Feel |
| |  okay | ] |
| [ | I'm Hearing |
| | Pizzicato 5-The Night is Still Young | ] |
As you may or may not know, I quit my job on Friday. Constructive dismissal, my Dad called it. They knew I was unstable and decided to scare me into quitting by asking me to attend a disciplinary for things they had allowed me to do for almost 2 years. Obviously I'm not going to fight for the job that put me on anti-depressants, so I quit.
After the weekend, I've felt better and better. I feel like a weight has been lifted off my shoulders and although I'm obviously worried about getting another job and money, I can afford to have at least 2 weeks off working on my portfolio.
I was intending to go back to Scotland to live for a while to work on my stuff there, but I decided it was better to stay here. I've spent 5 years building a life here and I don't want to leave it yet. So my plan is to work my bum off for the next couple of weeks, see how my portfolio looks, get a part time job in the interim and once I'm happy with my work I'll start submitting it to all the workshops and architects in the area again. I've decided I wouldn't mind working as an architectural technician, I almost got a post doing that a couple of years ago and I know some of my college friends managed to do it, so why not. Plus I recently found an interesting model makers in Bristol who said they were always interested in work from new people, so maybe they would be able to help me.
So today I start my role as Queen of the Unemployed Bums. Portfolio ahoy! |
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| Stupid Fuggin' Alarm Clock! |
[Apr. 24th, 2008|09:41 am] |
| [ | I Feel |
| |  aggravated | ] |
| [ | I'm Hearing |
| | Parade-Susumu Hirasawa-Paprika O.S.T | ] |
I ask you, what kind of idiot decides to produce a CD alarm clock that pauses itself just as the CD starts up? I slept for an extra 40 minutes and woke up at 8am when I usually leave the house at 8:15am. So I had to rush to work with a banging headache. Woo! Great start to my day! The problem could be in some ways linked to the fact that I got the alarm clock free with a work stationary order. Maybe.
Plus I have to be a waitress today, one of the things that I really hate about my job. Double Woo!
But it's ok, because tonight I'm seeing Ran (My boyfriend for 2 years, best friend for almost 10!) for the first time in almost 4 years and I'm pretty excited! Hoorah for old friends!
P.S How awesome is my new icon? It's too awesome, that's what. |
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[Apr. 23rd, 2008|10:54 am] |
| [ | I Feel |
| |  loved | ] |
| [ | I'm Hearing |
| | Kirari Sailor Dream-Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon O.S.T | ] |
Well, I'm back. I'm feeling a little better, for now. It was good to get away for a while and relax, but I spent most of the 2 weeks fretting, crying, not eating or sleeping much and staring out of the window instead of doing the work I brought with me. I was absolutely dreading coming back to work, but as it turned out everyone was nice and no-one was mad at me. I think April was pissed off because she has so much work to do and I left for a while, but she seemed fine when I got back and didn't yell at me, possibly because Powerwave have actually allowed her to hire someone to help her with the accounts.
So stuff's ok, but I'm just waiting for the next funny turn I have. A change of scenery did me good but I can already feel work getting on my nerves again, so I went back to the docs last night and had a chat to her and she prescribed me Citilopram (sp?)
I know everyone made a fuss about pills and maybe it's not the best way but right now I'm very fragile and just need something to help me cope with everyday life without booing my eyes out every 5 minutes, so please don't worry. I'm sure as soon as things pick up I can come straight off them.
Thanks to everyone who sent me good wishes while I was off, it's really awesome that you're all thinking of me. ;) |
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| Drugs Plz. |
[Apr. 8th, 2008|04:43 pm] |
| [ | I Feel |
| |  depressed | ] |
| [ | I'm Hearing |
| | Ice Cream Meltin' Mellow-Pizzicato 5 | ] |
Ok, so I seemed to go from 0 to depressed today.
I came into work perfectly happy and the day went downhill from there. By the time April came in I was feeling down, and by lunchtime I was on the brink of tears. After serving cups of tea to visitors (which I hate with a passion) and sorting through recyclable rubbish that people were too lazy to do themselves, I went to the toilet and cried for 45 minutes. I didn't even want to leave the cubicle. Eventually I decided that this wasn't right and that I needed to go home, so I took the afternoon off and ran away.
After blubbing to the doctor, she prescribed me 2 weeks leave which I feel bad about taking and having to leave April in the lurch again, but I just don't want to feel like this anymore. I've been feeling bad in work for nearly 2 months now, just sitting at my desk moping or on the brink of tears, feeling resentful towards anyone who calls in, asks for tea, wants a job doing. I've got no motivation to do that job anymore, it just feels like it's paying the bills and eating up my youth. What's more depressing is that there's no end in sight. I'm not in a position to look for a real job due to my portfolio not being done yet, not in a position to move to where there are jobs, and frankly the idea of just taking another admin job to get out of this one appauls me. No job similar to this one is going to be any less depressing.
So it looks like I'll be off to Scotland to chill out for a while and talk things over with my parents. I'm a bit upset that I'll be missing April and Jess's birthday (Especially Jess's as I had so much planned!) but I need to get out of this, I can't even focus on the work I enjoy right now. |
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| Bored. Meme Time! |
[Apr. 8th, 2008|09:26 am] |
| [ | I Feel |
| |  bored | ] |
| [ | I'm Hearing |
| | Doctor Beat-Miami Sound Machine | ] |
I never get bored of these. Please be aware that my MP3 player is almost completely full of cheesy 80's pop/rock and Japanese lounge.
( Music Meme ) |
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| Fake Legend of Zelda Live Action Trailer! |
[Apr. 2nd, 2008|04:36 pm] |
| [ | I Feel |
| |  amused | ] |
| [ | I'm Hearing |
| | Friday I'm in Love-The Cure | ] |
For an elaborate April Fool, this is pretty amazing!
I fell for a joke yesterday when a website annouced there would be an anime of Harry Potter designed by Akira Toriyama. I don't know why I fell for it considering Akira Toriyama's style is totally not suited to the task...but when they made a manga out of the band TATU, why wouldn't you believe it? XD At least it wasn't as bad a Deviant Art changing everyone's icon to a picture of a pokemon with "so i herd u leik mudkipz?" on it... |
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| IT IS DONE. |
[Mar. 27th, 2008|09:44 am] |
| [ | I Feel |
| | accomplished | ] |
| [ | I'm Hearing |
| | Main Street Electrical Parade-Konishi Yasuharu / Pizzicato 5 | ] |
Finally, it's done. I flogged myself to death to finish it, but it's done. That's probably what made me ill to be honest, and I'm still just getting over what I had, which has lasted over 2 weeks now. Anyway. Comic. Done! Previews under the cut! (Random pages, not consecutive)
( Gaijin Da! ) |
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| Arrr, Doin' What I Love... |
[Mar. 15th, 2008|10:43 am] |
| [ | I Feel |
| |  tired | ] |
| [ | I'm Hearing |
| | The Posies-Love Comes (sample music on my lappy!) | ] |
I seem to have made myself ill. I've been working on this comic now for about a month and a half, who knew that drawing was so stressful? I've been setting myself stupid goals to try and get it finished before next Thursday, as we're going to London on Friday for the Small Press convention at the weekend.
I've now decided to print the comic myself, as it gave me a bit more time to get it finished and saves me a fuckload of money. But still, trying to set myself a pace of 7 pages is a day has taken its toll and I'm now sick with something that could be attributed to a cold, or could be my evil childhood Glandular Fever trying to make a comeback. It's done this before, when I'm really stressed, and now I'm tired all the time and my throat and neck hurt like buggery. I had to leave our works meal early last night because I felt so shite. And I can't stop! 5 pages left to draw and ink, then scanning, editing, laying out and finally photocopying and stapling. Blaaaaaaagghhhh. Then I can die. Or go home to Scotland, one of the two.
In other news, I got a replacement lappy that I'm writing from now. It's super awesome, and although I'm a little worried it's going to conk out like the last one, it hasn't yet and is proving to be very shiny and sexy.
Also...yesterday I was hit by a bus! Well, part of me was. There's an area on Gloucester Road where the road widens from two to three lanes. I was walking to work yesterday and overtook two guys who were taking up most of the pavement. As I went the other side of a traffic sign to overtake them, a bus driving too close to the curb smashed me in the arm with what I assume was the wing mirror. It hurt, and the bus driver did stop because he didn't know who or what he hit, but part of me was annoyed that they drive too close to the curb. I don't know if there's any room to move over, but pedestrians shouldn't have to worry about being clonked by buses when they're on the pavement. If it was a First bus, I would have been more angry, but seeing as it was a South Glos. bus and I like them, I let it be. What are you gonna do? |
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| DA is Officially a Wank-fest. |
[Mar. 7th, 2008|09:29 am] |
| [ | I Feel |
| |  angry | ] |
| [ | I'm Hearing |
| | Cars and Girls-Prefab Sprout | ] |
Today when I logged into Deviant Art, I was greeted by a photo of two naked chicks kissing and touching each other on the 'popular' section. I know I rant a lot about DA but since I joined in 2004, it's got steadily worse and worse, more and more perverts, freakish otaku and people with the nastiest fetishes that probably should be reserved for the darkest and dankest recesses of the internet. This of course is followed by people who exploit the amount of perverts and idiots on DA and start producing samey, boring artwork or borderline porn that gets onto the popular page every time and it's always met with a flurry of comments like "OMG dat is soooo hot LOL" or "OMG so kawaii u r teh best!"
The photo in question showed very little artistic merit, it was just a shot where the photographer went "Right girls! Lie on a bed and kiss and touch each other!" Bang, upload and a million 13 year old boys with the interpersonal skills of a lump of mud are right there to fwap off to it, you know, when they're not fwapping off to pictures of obese anime characters or pictures of Sonic the Hedgehog getting it on with Amy-Rose. Correct me if I'm wrong but personally I think that kind of thing should be reserved for Nuts magazine and Maxim, not the front page of a so called 'art' website.
I know you'll ask "So why do you keep your stuff up there if you hate it so much?"
Basically I don't think my work would get any attention at all if I didn't. I live in hope that someday someone will ask me for a commission, or possibly buy a comic from me. Maybe it's hypocritical to remain on a wesbite I hate but there is so much good work on there. It's just people like this that spoil it for the rest. |
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| A Short Lived WOO...! |
[Mar. 6th, 2008|07:58 am] |
| [ | I Feel |
| | angry | ] |
| [ | I'm Hearing |
| | Theme to The Racooons in my head | ] |
OK, after all my w00ting about my new lappy yesterday, I got it home, started it up, then closed the lid for a bit while I had my dinner. When I opened it up to show Jess, the screen was blank and all the lights were off. After fiddling with the power I rang Dell. 20 minutes later (after telling me to do some really stupid things to it) they decided it needed to be sent back. I'd not even had it 24 hours! Pathetic! Luckily it broke through no fault of my own but seriously!! It was box fresh!
I'm really disappointed and upset about it. I was really looking forward to loading all my programs on, making a slide show of mine and Jess's work and taking to the convention to put on the table. Now Dell say it's going to take 20-25 days to replace the fucking thing.
WEAK. |
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| WOO! |
[Mar. 5th, 2008|10:03 am] |
| [ | Current Location |
| | Woo-Land | ] |
| [ | I Feel |
| | cheerful | ] |
| [ | I'm Hearing |
| | Put Yourself in my Place-Kylie Minogue | ] |
I have a laptop! I'm so happy! Apart from it being sleek, sexy, fully up to date (The first computer I've ever owned that's got an up to date operating system) and a good price for what it is, I kinda see it as my ticket out of this shithole job. Last week I was feeling terribly down about my drawing work, my job, everything really so on Friday I went onto Dell's website and bought me a new lappy.
The Mooglet Machine (tm) will allow me to start working properly on my portfolio, as I really need to sort out some of my old work and bring it more up to date i.e. on a computer and not badly hand drawn. I'm going to re-teach myself Vectorworks and do lots of tutorials so I know what I'm talking about when I go for interviews, and it'll come in handy editing and laying out my comics too. And with that, I must get on with them. I have less than 2 weeks to finish, ink, scan, edit and lay out a 52 page comic for the London Con. Details coming soon!
That is all. |
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| Boo Fucking Hoo. |
[Feb. 26th, 2008|11:10 am] |
| [ | I Feel |
| |  discontent | ] |
| [ | I'm Hearing |
| | Hiphopopothamus vs. Rhymnocerous-Flight of the Concords | ] |
I want out of my job so badly right now. But I'm not prepared to leave it for anything less than a job in the model making industry. I mean, it's comfortable here. I earn nearly £14,500 for not doing a lot and I can draw at my desk but it's still massively frustrating.
I hate answering the phones, I hate processing invoices, I hate serving tea to visitors. I hate it all! Not so much that I rue the day I was born, unlike some other jobs I've had but still, after 1 1/2 years it's really starting to grate on me.
I just sent a CV to an interesting company in Bristol that I hadn't heard of before. The job was for a vacuum casting technician. It's not ideal, but it's away out. Unfortunately the job had been filled but the guy who emailed me back said they were always on the lookout for talented new people, which could be my foot in the door without having to move away. I'm in two minds about sending my work over right now as my porfolio is a bit of a mess though... |
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