I'm in my 4th of 5 years at University, going for a degree in both Electrical Engineering and Physics, cause I'm cool. I too am on break, school resumes at the beginning of February for me.

Pre-degree art and design, my current project is drawing Grimsby Docks. So I'm off up there tommorrow. I'm also trying to get my drawing mojo back - i dropped it a year or so ago really and have only just got that spark back. Just need to nurture it again.

Also just had my room redecorated, just had a conservatory built and I've been told to think about booking my practical driving test. I'm getting fairly adept these days at shoving depressing thoughts into the back of my mind (which was what i was battling with for pretty much the entirity of last year) although it still does crop up a bit.

Deciding on what unis to go to - right now my shortlist is Sheffield Hallam (Sheffield), Anglia Ruskin (Cambridge) and DeMontfort (Leicester). Animation looks good. As does Illustration. Sheffield is well known for animation, Anglia is well known for illustration and will have THSley 20 mins away (he's got an offer from Cambridge Uni), and DeMontfort is just near my parents house and thus cheaper.

So not bad, really. At the crossroads

Well, I'm enjoying my little break from school. I hope to be making more videos like the one I posted in the SPA, soon, and hopefully they won't be as dumb.

Edit: Not cool. Not cool at all.

Naff bloody all.

No seriously, the height of activity at the moment is watching Angel.

All of Angel.

Enjoying my holidays (which'll end in about a couple of weeks) and looking for some part-time work. Not much else at the moment.

Still working, thank heavens, now in tax (will probably have to change my sig, now I think about it). I've signed up for chartered tax advisor exams, to be taken in November. So from March onwards, I will have no life, as study will take up most of my free time.

But in November, after the exams, I *will* go to Disneyland Paris.

DW

College, college and more college.

Wish I had time to fit "getting a job" and "getting a love life" into that, but I really just want to pass school right now before distracting myself with anything else.

Oh, and dealing with snow and wind chills. So... very... cold.

I've been unemployed since April last year and have been struggling to get work, I've been planning to get XNA working on my computer and start learning some programming, hopefully start making some games at long long last. Also trying to draw more, but I can't seem to grasp idea lately, and I'm also trying to lose weight.

As for games, I current;y want to complete Star Ocean and Fallout, and start on Odin Sphere, MGS4, Valkyria Chronicles, Lost Odyssey AND Persona 3, plus Yakuza 2's out and there are sooooo many PS2 RPGs I want to acquire it's insane.

I've got Semester finals for school, today I have Computer Graphics which isn't too bad. I have History and Pre Cal tomorrow which I'm a bit more worried about. I also started taking a class at the community college on Tuesdays and Thursdays. I also have our year end concert for marching band on Thursday, so I'm going to miss a day of class. Also, I can finally play TF2 with Silver so yayz.

I'm still in my A&P school (That's airframe and power plant, certified aircraft mechanic) and will continue to be until December 2009. After that i plan on hopefully moving out to maybe Seattle area to be closer to my girl and find a job working for whomever wants to hire a plane mechanic.

I'm still in my 3rd year of my PhD degree. I'm wrapping up a manuscript to submit maybe to Journal of Virology or J of NeuroVirology for publication. I'm starting to work on my comprehensive examination, which if I don't pass I will not be considered a PhD candidate and potentially be kicked out. I'm taking classes # 13 (Advanced Immunobiology) and # 14 (Neuroimmune Pharmacology).

I'm recovering from 3 close people dying (best friend, uncle and friend's 4-year old godson). I'm missing my boyfriend, YES I finally got a boyfriend but it's a long distance relationship XD which sucks.

I started working out 2 days a week with some friends by going to classes at the school gym (1 minute walk from my apartment). I'm freezing my butt up here while I was warm and comfy back home a few weeks ago -.-

And right now, I'm procrastinating on reading articles for lab...

Job-hunting (stoopid recession!) and more than a touch of stir craziness.

Just got my security and crowd control license last week, and so going to be going for some jobs. Also, had a bad night, giving up on my love life and feel like going back into my social-less shell and being more of an internet freak again.

*Gives Sam-Sam and Bobobob the Unemployment cabin-fever high-five*

...giving up on my love life...

I still love you sweetheart. <3

Just working my butt off. Bit of dead-end retail, but it's money, and I like money. =D

...giving up on my love life...

I still love you sweetheart. <3

And I still love YOU as well. We Aussies gotta stick together, yo!

I've no life whatsoever. It's school, internet, TV and sleep. Nothing else... basically, I'm in a really, really bad rut. I'm thinking of applying for a job at the local Sam Goody (store that sells movies, music, anime, and other stuff), so I actually have a purpose of some kind... Ultimately, I want to be some kind of professional designer of something. Be it a comic, a website, a game, a movie... just dunno. It's kinda crap to really have no motivation for changing my life.

Dini - my Siberian husky - somehow pulled a muscle in her neck, badly, last week. She's been in a lot of pain lately, though we have some medicine from the vet now.

Other than that, I've been having a lot of sleeping problems lately. And my dentist says I'm grinding my teeth in my sleep. So, yeah, guess. 😛

The bellboy scratched my briefcase. So I snapped his neck and his body under my bed

I'm not sleeping much at the moment, either. I probably need to find something a bit more active to do during the day - although one that preferably doesn't zombify me as much as my last job did.

My life right now is in a perpetual state of limbo and cabin fever, with bright rays of unanticipated adventure and awesome.

I'm very happy with the state of it, for the most part, but the big problem is that I am unemployable due to my green card not being in yet.

So, I spend my days at home cleaning and surfing the net and playing video games or exercising or playing video games that have me excercise.

On Tuesdays, I accompany Tricia to her college to attend the cosplay club (oh and I build my cosplay in the ever abundant spare time, too) and on Mondays we tend to visit her parents to mooch food and watch Heroes, though in the off season our schedule's been erratic.

We go out and about with our house mates every now and again, or go out on our own. Usually to a Denny's restaurant to discuss our RP campaigns that we run on AIM with one another when she's home.

During extensive off-time I try to immerse into projects, whether they be National Novel Writing Month, Wii Fit, building cosplay, getting online certifications or such.

The constant, of course, is that damn Green Card. I needs it. I wants it. Without it there is no job, there is no money, there's no possession, I don't need that s-... I mean there's no car. No car means no getting out of house, no getting out means all play, no work.

All play and no work make Craig a weird Kitty.
All play and no work make Craig a weird Kitty.
Al;l PlaY aNd No woRk mAkE crAig a WeirD kiTTy,

*Gives Sam-Sam and Bobobob the Unemployment cabin-fever high-five*

Where's my high-five? I haven't been searching for work in a hick southern town with no success for nothing now! =O

Hm, got a letter in the mail yesterday. Turns out, the security company I worked for years ago came under a class-action lawsuit recently. Something about not paying full overtime wages (I wasn't aware, I only spent two or three months there before I quit).

I'm now about 350 dollars richer. Yay. *eyes Amazon.com*

Congrats, PSX. Hope you're able to get something really awesome with it.

Sorry Hukos, but Yanks don't go crazy quite the same way brits do...

My life's been all over the place lately. Mainly down, but I'll get to that in a minute.

Currently going through my third year as a store manager of GameStop, going on 6th year with the company, and just went through my 6th Christmas season. And I'm exhausted. On top of that, I've had last minute "screw you"s from life hit me pretty bad, money-wise. My car decided to crap out on my and have the fuel pump die out, the DAY AFTER CHRISTMAS. I was on the highway, going home, three minutes away from my store. To top things off, I was supposed to double back and help my store out since one of my part-timers was not able to make it in that night. That was obviously not going to happen. Fast foward to waiting in the freezing weather for 2 hours waiting for insurance roadside assistance (that never showed up), paying for my own $120 tow home, and fixing the stupid GM fuel pump required an exact unit FROM GM ($1000 including labor, not at a dealer, and even trying to go up and down on a different price... time was not on my side).

Blahhh. Needless to say, I'm not going to see a penny of my tax return or my bonus from work as I will be busy paying off a credit card of $3000's worth of emergencies (stupid car, stupid central air at home), and $1000 worth of emergencies on the other (stupid car). So I'm total still stressing about that.

Not to mention that Stacy's birthday was this month, followed by house insurance, and property tax all at once, then Valentine's day in February, and then our anniversary in March, moneywise, it's stressing the duck out of me. On top of that, I want to do something special for our wedding this year but... it keeps ... getting either pushed back or... looking like it'll land as a court marriage instead.

Money sucks.

Good news? My insurance reimbursed me (woohoo), and I take my vacation next week. My FIRST relaxing vacation in 5 freaking years. No visiting anyone. No flying out for vacation and stressing about time and seeing what we have to see and do, etc etc. I'ma just lay in my boxers on the couch and LOOUUNGE.

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