I woke up this morning to the sound of my phone ringing by my ear. I didn't know who would be calling me at quarter to 10 in the morning, I honestly thought it could be work. I answered it and it was Tom, the guidance fella from Manchester College. He was calling to give me and update on how things were going with my career search and looking into ( Read more... )

I had my meeting with the college guidance/careers team today, which went pretty well considering I was so god damn nervous! I just went in there knowing what I wanted to say and how to make my point without trying to sound too demanding, and it all came across pretty well. Mentioned how I wasn't enjoying the course anymore, and the content was ( Read more... )

Last night was good, yeah, good. We'll leave it at that I think ( Read more... )

After last nights "let's actually get myself out of this awful slump and DO something with my life" post, I have conducted some research, and found out one thing - the music industry is a right bitch to get into. It's, once again, a case of 'it's not what you know, but who you know'. Seeing as I don't know anything, but know a couple of people (how ( Read more... )

I think I can now start to see a pattern forming in my life - that of constant EPIC FAILURE. Especially now that I've moved up here and tried my hand, and mind, at something new, I just seem to keep failing pretty damn hard. Everything keeps going wrong, I can't get on with the course is the main thing. I'm not finding the material stimulating or ( Read more... )

Today has been one of those days where I realise I hate my life. I've been having far too many of these recently. Well, I don't actually hate all of my life, just a few big aspects of it. I hate my course. I hate who and what I've become since moving up to Manchester. I hate the fact that I have nearly no motivation for anything these days. I hate ( Read more... )

Argh, today has been full of fail. After staying up until 6am fiddling around with the layout and design on LJ (What do you think? Nice? Not so nice? Feedback welcome!) I spent most of the day in bad. And when I say most of the day, I mean I got up at 6.30pm and went and cooked some dinner - Cheese omelette and savory rice, nom nom ( Read more... )