Welcome to Powminator's Page! Thanks for dropping by, please leave a message! This is still a bit of a temporary effort, but I'm working on it.I'm a 2nd year photography, film and imaging student. I am concentrating on stills at the moment. I'm still not sure why I picked photography as I tend to be more academic than artistic. At the moment I'm finding it really stressful just now, I'm right up against it for deadlines. I prefer still photography to moving image, but I will probably go back to moving image at some point. Work. I work part time behind the bar in a miner's social club, which is part nightclub, social club, bingo hall, bowling club and an average pub. Unless you've been in a social club of some kind it's very difficult to describe. It's a whole set of entries all on it's own! Dogs. I live with my dog, Odin, who is a cane corso. They are a mollosser breed from Italy, and extremely rare in this country. I have another one, his daughter, Cloud, who is living in France at the moment until her passport comes through and I can go and get her! Inerests and hobbies. Well, photography used to be my hobby but I can't really call it that now. Between work and uni I have don't have time for much else! I enjoy reading and my favourite authors include: Douglas Adams (of course!) Terry Pratchett Kurt Vonnegut Eoin Colfer Hunter. S. Thomson Angela Carter Peter Ackroyd and loads more, that's just what I could think of off the top of my head, and I'm quite poor at remembering names. Lately, I have found that I have been reading a lot more text and theory books in a wide range of subjects due to uni. The Guide I've only been dotting around here a couple of days, but I'm hooked. Everyone has been really welcoming and there's loads of stuff to explore and take part in. I can't wait to contribute myself, and I'm hoping to meet lots of people and make new friends. Again, please leave a message, even if it's just to say "Hi" and I promise a reply! Pow* How to use guide ml: A986691 People have been talking about this Guide Entry. Here are the most recent Conversations: Journal Entries Welcome to this Researcher's Journal. If you'd like to comment on anything they have written here, just click the relevant 'Discuss this Entry' button. Finished Uni for the Summer (Jun 1, 2007)Hey, Yesterday was my last day of uni until the end of the summer. I got Bs for my photography work, which considering that I had an unpleasant brush with depression and my relationship broke down is not too bad! Must try harder next year though! One of the things I have to work on is time management, and also creativity. It's difficult to get ideas sometimes, and they expect you to come up with them quickly! It's funny being a barmaid, I've been one for nine years now and you get a funny relationship with the punters. You watch their lives play out before you, they tell you stuff when they're drunk and sometimes treat you like a psychologist. Sometimes you know more than them about a situation but you can't say anything because it would be wrong. There's some you want to fall on their face and get caught out, but there's some you root for, and they never know you are standing in their corner. It's strange. I have got another job for the summer, dog walking. The guy works alot and wants me to help with dog care, which is fine by me! While I've got more time over the summer I'm hoping to write some more guide entries and be a bit more involved here. Click here to discuss this (3 replies, Latest reply: Jun 2, 2007) Sore Back (May 17, 2007) Managed to hurt my back on Tuesday night, it's quite a lot better now, but still not sleeping too well so that's why I'm up just now. Have to be at the doctor's for half past eight anyway to get a line. Was supposed to be at uni today and yesterday, but three hours or more driving and then sitting in a chair all day would have killed me! Yesterday, I could only move by emitting a string of profanities! This is the first time I will have been near a western witchdoctor in ten years.  My "free project" is finished though, and I'm quite pleased with it. I put the whole lot together and made a book out of it. I think I will make a box to keep it in aswell. By the end of this course I should be quite proficient at frame-making, book-binding and making boxes and stuff. Quite a lot of the success of a project depends on where and how it is displayed.  The Madeleine missing child news coverage is really starting to grate a bit. Loads of children disappear every day, and we don't hear about them. Loads of children go missing who's parents didn't leave them in a hotel room to fend for themselves and we don't hear about them.  Parents had an attack of the guilties maybe? And there is a big question mark over how the British media has covered the story, leaving out and altering details to make it sound different to the truth! I sincerely hope that they do find her safe and sound, but it does seem unlikely now.  I always think of stuff I want to write here but can never remember it. Will have to start taking notes. Click here to discuss this (3 replies, Latest reply: May 17, 2007) Dunno (May 8, 2007) I find it really difficult to think of titles for these entries! I will just leave it until the end and see what fits I think. Well, I'm still single. It looked like we were considering trying again there for a minute, but really it would have been stupid. Mostly now I feel better for being out of it which is an improvement. Just sometimes I get the urge to phone or text him and it is strange because I would have before and can't now. I don't know how the quest for friendship is going. At the moment I feel a bit angry and defensive and don't really want to be around him. He's coming up on Thursday though. That one is kind of a necessity though. On the plus side I have been talking to his mum, to whom I am quite close. There is a massive geographical distance between us and her, which means there shouldn't be a conflict of interests in me being her friend. I'm not likely to bump into him by accident there anyway. I think it's about time I saw a psychologist or something. I think I've worked through everything I can work through on my own and need some extra help. Uni is going ok. Spent all morning working on my recycling report. Oh the excitment. Ten million other things to do though. We had a lecture which looked at ways of presenting work, and some of the stuff was really beautiful. It was very helpful to think of my project as a finished piece of work rather than a selection of images and text. Anyway, back to the grindstone. Click here to discuss this (No replies) Dinner (Apr 26, 2007) Well, the ex is suposed to be coming over tonight for dinner, as the beginning of a friendship supposedly. Forgive me if I am cynical! I would like us to be friends but I just can't see it. How often does that happen really? Even if it does work, it won't last after either of us finds someone else I shouldn't imagine. I feel a lot better generally. I don't really want him back, but I do feel that I won't ever find anything that was as good. Anyway, I'd better actually do some uni work. I have lost so much time lately over the degeneration of this relationship and depression. So I'm off to study recycling. Not very exciting, I'm afraid. Pow* Click here to discuss this (No replies) One Day Later (Apr 24, 2007) I still feel really bad. I keep thinking "what will I do without him?" and I just don't know the answer. Carry on I suppose. 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