Pomi

The pink is back today in every way, I went Barbie-core to uni today, pink jumper, pink nails…God I’m cool. Unfortunately I had to sit through the most insanely confusing lecture of my life, I only realised after about 10 minutes that the lecturer was on about architecture. I mean, am I meant to read his mind and instantly know what his lecture is going to be about?! The only title he put was ‘High Tech’. High tech what? High Tech trainers, High Tech shopping trolleys? Pfft…

And he was using those inferior slides…God, get a fucking grip and use Powerpoint!!

After that shambles, I walked to the bus and got angry with people in general, some people are so inconsiderate…………………. I hate students they’re all really weird and impersonal and cold and dead inside! Anyway…

…I grumbled to myself for a few minutes then put it out of my mind. I went to Boots and bought me some make up, that made me feel better. And I got a sweet free gift. Result!

That is all. 

PS. Decided to stay in England. We make a proper cup of tea.

Watched Amelie t’other day, and I’ve now decided that I want to live in France when I’m old and withered. I always thought it was a jolly place. And I reckon I could get by with the language too. I did A Level French, I’m not bad! I can hold a basic conversation! Sort of… Apparently it only takes you like 6 months living in a foreign country on your own and you’ll be fluent in it’s language. I’d go for a year though just to be sure.

Maybe I’ll take a gap year or gap season or whatever and go work the ski slopes for the winter…how cool would that be? Yeaaah.

I am muchos excited that I’m going to ye olde France in less than 5 weeks! For none other than a grand skiing expedition! And even more exciting is I’ve just bought some snowblades off eBay!! I can’t sit still I just want to go NOW!

In the meantime however I have a lot of work to complete before the 30th March so it’s a bittersweet thought. If I keep on top of it all and be sensible and shit it’ll be fine. My new illustration module is the BIZ lol, so I’m having fun with it. Unfortunately my core module is a big steaming pile of horseshit. Composition and design principles. Hopefully it’ll improve…..

Sayonara xxx

What is the phrase du jour today? Maybe there isn’t one. But today I felt this sense of importance that I wasn’t quite used to. I suppose it comes from feeling exceptionally inferior most of the time. It happened in my theory lecture. I was sat there and I realised I felt completely at home with what was being discussed. I recessed back to the time of A Levels and exhibitions and discovering the ‘great’ artists of our time. The lecture was on Installation Art. Before entering the lecture theatre, I had a deep seated dread as I was never interested or cared for installation; or video art; or performances. This was clearly going to be a very boring hour. But, when my lecturer had been talking for about 15 minutes or so I realised I was listening intently and actually enjoying myself. I wasn’t exactly sure why at first. There’s something about the fine arts that calms me down, and switches my brain onto a different level of thinking. I was being shown artists, pictures of their work, galleries, and the why and how of what they were trying to achieve. And it made perfect sense. I remember we were always going to galleries and researching fine artists in my time studying art at high school. Take a picture, put a title and an artist to it. Stick it in your sketch book. Today, I realised how valuable that practise was. I underestimate my knowledge of the fine arts - I recognised a lot of the artists and works my lecturer was exampling. I had studied them in depth years before. It’s such a sense of achievement when you actually understand what your lecturer is harking on about. Judy Chicago’s ‘The Dinner Party’, Olafur Eliasson, and the Sump Oil room! So much installation I have crossed paths with, without even realising! I went into the lecture doubting my knowledge of Installation Art; I walked out remembering that I did actually know more than I gave myself credit for.

And that was really nice.  

So I suppose, the phrase du jour is: Don’t underestimate yourself.