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Finished Uni for the Summer
Posted 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.
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Charlie Brown
Posted May 23, 2007
Yesterday I attended the funeral of Charlie Brown. He was 82 years old. He lied abou his age to join the Royal Argyll and Southern Highlanders and fight in WW2. He was also a Mason of considerable standing. His funeral was really amazing, and had just the right mixture of gravitas and humour.
Goodbye Charlie, I enjoyed knowing you!
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Sore Back
Posted 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.
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Dunno
Posted 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.
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Dinner
Posted 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.
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