Uni Pressure Finally Kicking In...

I started a new blog this week after a kick up the arse on Tuesday www.bloomed-photography.blogspot.com as a way to document to the world; my photography "journey". I thought it was a good idea to make a separate blog that talks about my experiences, the work I've made and also what I hope to achieve with my career. could have done it in this blog; but I wanted to keep this to a more personal level to an extent.

I haven't seen the boyfriend in a week because I have been so busy with different things at uni and with friends. I spent maybe the whole of December doing no work, so I have to make up for lost time. Got a lot to do in very little time. It's getting scary to think that in September, I will be in a real university, in a new class full of people I dont know and who will all already know each other. Very scary.

Talking about that; I went to a new class yesterday. It's a photography options class; where basically my course allows me to sit in with other people with a photographer and he gives us guidelines for how to do our individual photography projects. Not only was I left completely in the dark yesterday cause everyone had started a week earlier (I wasnt told the class had already started!) and everyone in the class completely blanked me. I'm bad with people; I find it very hard to stand out in a crowd. One on one, I can deal with. But 10 people who clearly all knew each other made me feel physically sick. Which I hated. The tutor wasn't there in the end; which didnt help me one bit as I got up at 7am to get to that class! And everyone was told to get on with their work. Hello?!! I didn;t know he had set a project?!! I'm very confused, and annoyed that I'm with a bunch of people who I probably wont get along with. I'll let you know how that pans out after next Friday...

Cna;t really report on much else. All it's been is workworkwork. However, got some interesting stuff lined up; a weddinf fayre to take pictures at on the 22nd Feb, haircut on the 21st Feb (ooh very exciting! :P), Snow Patrol gig on the 14th March, Amie's birthday party on the 7th March, wedding to take pictures at on the 14th February...the list goes on and on and on and on....

To The Observatory My Friends!....

I'm an avid Ebayer as much as the next person. I never saw the point in it last year, until I found myself with a lot of old stuff which I didnt need anymore. So I chanced it, and put some dvds up on there. And despite the stupid amount of deductions in fees, it did actually feel good to sell stuff! This last two weeks, I have been selling games on Ebay which my mum found under the stairs, and am happy to say the least to have made a lovely little amount of around £34 to put into my ISA. Not bad for a bunch of old games we don't play anymore!

So after finally selling them all yesterday, I looked at my IKEA Christmas present sitting quietly on my desk just to my left. And knowing I dont use it, I thought I'd have a quick look on ebay for a general idea of what I could get for it. Not surprisingly the other 1000 IKEAns who got the alarm clock which John Lewis sell for £97 had theirs on there too! Might leave it a while, see if I can get more than £50 which the other sellers are getting at the moment.
As I was saying, I was ebaying away, using different keywords to find the radio on ebay. And I ended up opening a whole world of people who sell IKEA stuff on Ebay! And MY GOD it is ridiculous! People actually have Ebay businesses where they've gone into IKEA, bought a load of stuff, then sold it on!!! Foe example, our 100 pack of Glimma tealights are £1.65. How much did I find one guy selling them for??? Wait for it....£7.50...YES...you read right. So I emailed the guy, out of pure SHOCK more than anything. the thing is, some saddo who doesn't live near to an IKEA or isn't aware of how much we sell them for, will actually buy them from this con artist.

Shamefully he isn't the only one. Makes me feel sick.

Talking about stuff that makes me feel sick, I sat down on my break at work today with the Daily Telegraph. In it I found a story about a babysitter who stuck the baby she was childminding in the tumble dryer for three minutes and watched him spin round. Do I need to say anymore?

WHAT. ON. EARTH.

I got home, and thought I'd google the story to find out more. Not only did I find this article, but several others about different cases across the UK and USA where people have stuck babaies in tumble dryers. Not only tumble though people; bins, freezers and dishwashers are also popular choices. Guaranteed, give it a year and all kitchen and household appliances will come with warnings on to NOT PUT CHILDREN INSIDE.

So yeah, it's been a good day for observations. Roll on next week....