dreams and being torn between two degrees
I've been having very weird dreams recently. In the first dream I was swimming in the sea with Andrew and we were among married couples (but I don't think we were married in the dream). There were also orcas (killer whales) in the sea. Then we came back to the beach and the beach was full of lobsters. (I have a huge fear of lobsters.) The poor people on the beach were planning on bringing the lobsters home with them to cook them, because they didn't have much else to eat. The rich people wanted to prevent them from doing so, because they said it wouldn't be good for your health to cook lobsters that had ended up ashore. Then I think the dream ended while the argument was still going on.
In the second dream, I felt like I was watching an anime. There was a boy who was popular among the girls, but he liked this one girl whom he never talked to and was too shy to try. At some point he did try to talk to her, but she was talking to her girlfriends so he gave up. She had noticed him looking at her, though. And then the dream ended. I really wanted to see more of this dream, because I liked both the guy and the girl and I wanted to see them get together.
I had a third dream last night, where I was at Andrew's house (although it looked a bit different than Andrew's real house). I was upset at Andrew's sister, because she had sent something that she had cooked to Jamie Oliver (a famous cook in the UK; in the dream, he was looking for an apprentice cook and was looking for amazing dishes to choose his apprentice from). But she had actually stolen one of my mother's recipes (specifically, the fried spaghetti pie) and submitted it to Jamie Oliver without even asking my mum's or my permission. So yeah, I was pretty mad at her for that.
Obviously I have no idea what these dreams mean. There was a period a few weeks ago where I had nothing but nightmares every night, so at least they're an improvement over those.
As you know, I had a session with my physiotherapist two days ago. It was painful. My muscles were so tense and I had accumulated so much stress in the past few months. When she pushed down on my left psoas, a lot of the stress got released. My head started pulsing, I had to drink some water and lie down on my side until I was feeling better. It was a very intense session and one that I really needed. When I went back to Andrew's house, I had dinner, a hot bath and then just went straight to bed. I am feeling better now and my psoas muscles definitely don't hurt as much anymore. I am very glad I had this session.
I downloaded a bunch of web design/programming books yesterday. They're mostly about HTML5, CSS3, PHP and MySQL, plus a few on Photoshop. I already know HTML and CSS, and can already use Photoshop well enough to make layouts for my websites, but I really want to expand my knowledge. If I have to be honest, I'm not sure if I want to become a web designer. I enjoy designing websites and coding them, sure. But would I be able to do it as a job? Also, my biggest fear is having a creative block and not being able to come up with a design. I have creative blocks randomly with my own websites and sometimes I just can't come up with a layout for various months. And will I be able to come up with a creative design for every website I'll have to work on?
At the moment I'm very torn between a computing course in Perth (where they teach programming and that kind of stuff) or a Journalism degree. I think the latter would be safer and possibly the one I would need the most if I decided to become a writer for a magazine; while for web design, even if you're self-taught, the only thing that really matters is having a good portfolio to show off your skills. A degree helps, of course, but if you show what you can do, then not having a degree would not play at your disadvantage so much. Technically I wouldn't need a degree to become a writer either, but it would be just safer to have it for that particular field. At least that's what I think.
I will write an entry on what I'm reading/playing next time. Right now I feel like I've written enough. Thanks for all your replies on my fandom discussion post! That was fun. :)
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In the second dream, I felt like I was watching an anime. There was a boy who was popular among the girls, but he liked this one girl whom he never talked to and was too shy to try. At some point he did try to talk to her, but she was talking to her girlfriends so he gave up. She had noticed him looking at her, though. And then the dream ended. I really wanted to see more of this dream, because I liked both the guy and the girl and I wanted to see them get together.
I had a third dream last night, where I was at Andrew's house (although it looked a bit different than Andrew's real house). I was upset at Andrew's sister, because she had sent something that she had cooked to Jamie Oliver (a famous cook in the UK; in the dream, he was looking for an apprentice cook and was looking for amazing dishes to choose his apprentice from). But she had actually stolen one of my mother's recipes (specifically, the fried spaghetti pie) and submitted it to Jamie Oliver without even asking my mum's or my permission. So yeah, I was pretty mad at her for that.
Obviously I have no idea what these dreams mean. There was a period a few weeks ago where I had nothing but nightmares every night, so at least they're an improvement over those.
As you know, I had a session with my physiotherapist two days ago. It was painful. My muscles were so tense and I had accumulated so much stress in the past few months. When she pushed down on my left psoas, a lot of the stress got released. My head started pulsing, I had to drink some water and lie down on my side until I was feeling better. It was a very intense session and one that I really needed. When I went back to Andrew's house, I had dinner, a hot bath and then just went straight to bed. I am feeling better now and my psoas muscles definitely don't hurt as much anymore. I am very glad I had this session.
I downloaded a bunch of web design/programming books yesterday. They're mostly about HTML5, CSS3, PHP and MySQL, plus a few on Photoshop. I already know HTML and CSS, and can already use Photoshop well enough to make layouts for my websites, but I really want to expand my knowledge. If I have to be honest, I'm not sure if I want to become a web designer. I enjoy designing websites and coding them, sure. But would I be able to do it as a job? Also, my biggest fear is having a creative block and not being able to come up with a design. I have creative blocks randomly with my own websites and sometimes I just can't come up with a layout for various months. And will I be able to come up with a creative design for every website I'll have to work on?
At the moment I'm very torn between a computing course in Perth (where they teach programming and that kind of stuff) or a Journalism degree. I think the latter would be safer and possibly the one I would need the most if I decided to become a writer for a magazine; while for web design, even if you're self-taught, the only thing that really matters is having a good portfolio to show off your skills. A degree helps, of course, but if you show what you can do, then not having a degree would not play at your disadvantage so much. Technically I wouldn't need a degree to become a writer either, but it would be just safer to have it for that particular field. At least that's what I think.
I will write an entry on what I'm reading/playing next time. Right now I feel like I've written enough. Thanks for all your replies on my fandom discussion post! That was fun. :)
This entry was originally posted at http://chibichan.dreamwidth.org/69803.html. Please comment there using OpenID.