This week has been a very unusual one in terms of uni, so I think this post will be quite short!
As I said last week, I went to a concert last Sunday in London and I was really excited about it - and rightfully so, it was so good and I got to meet two of my favourite YouTubers and I loved it, but the journey home was a nightmare. Luckily it was only 2am rather than a possible 4.30am return home and a massive favour owed to a friend (thank you Maria!) but with being ill and having throbbing headaches as well, Monday was a completely write off.
I didn't get out of bed until my second seminar had started and I spent most of the day half asleep and blowing my nose before going to dance that night and desperately trying to breathe through intense training.
Tuesday was slightly better - I went to Mettricks for a 9.30am start to get some work done with my friend Nikki and proceeded to spend three hours working on planning my blog posts for the next month. Yes, I hate my priorities and myself too don't you worry.
But I did go to my lecture at 4 and even though it was pointless, I actually got some work done which is the important bit. And I made it to dance that night even if I couldn't breathe very well.
Wednesday was another blissful day off uni. I'll be honest I have genuinely no recollection of what I did.
I take that back - Pokemon Sun and Moon came out that day so my boyfriend and I were playing that all day. I bought snacks, I had a nap and then we played Dungeons and Dragons in the evening. Wednesday was 'full on nerd' day.
Thursday was slightly more productive - I had to go to a Student Ambassador retraining session and it overlapped with a seminar so I prioritised the one I'm getting paid for. Probably shouldn't, because one of them costs me £9000 a year but here we are, I can't change my decision now. I then played more Pokemon that afternoon and went to work at the uni cinema in the evening and got to see Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them for free because I worked it and it was amazing, I loved it, I'm obsessed with it, Eddie Redmayne is a blessing among humanity and I still haven't done any work because I've got to a point where I just hate myself a lot and I keep putting it off even more.
Then on Friday, I went into uni to pick up some equipment I needed for the weekend, tidied my room, did the washing up and then went to Asda with my dad who is visiting for the weekend. So then I went for dinner with him and my boyfriend and then we played Pokemon till 2am.
And then I went into town super early because my Dad bought me my Christmas present really early and we wanted to get to town whilst it wasn't too busy because Southampton on a Saturday in the run up to Christmas. It's not fun. There are many rude people.
But I have a new camera! It's so beautiful! Look at this photo of ice cream I took!
I like it a lot. Tomorrow I have a pretty busy catch up day planned because of how little work I've done this week.
Next week is super busy, so I'll have more to say next week. Thank you for reading!
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I mean, I could give it a really clickbaity title or I could just say it like it is - death has come for me. Probably not but my head pounds when I stand up so I'm pretty sure that's a sure fire sign I'm going to die soon.
I'm not sure how well the sarcasm comes across but it's there - I know I'm not really dying.
Monday! I've realised that Monday's just make me really sad - I have my busiest lecture and seminar day at uni then I have no time before dance and then dinner is really late and I always end up feeling really sad on a Monday. So the week got off to a good start right!
Now realistically, Monday had been this difficult for a while - I was just starting to get ill and I spent most of the day choking because my throat wasn't very good at being a throat. I struggled to see the relevance of the lecture and the seminar was the same as last week except only six people turned up which makes me feel so good about actually making the effort to go to uni. The Producing the Package seminar was just another two hours of doing work but in a MAC suite at uni. So thrilling.
I was so officially ill on Tuesday that when I tried to write 'officially ill' in my notes for what happened on Tuesday, I typed 'officially in'. Sign.
Usually I go for an early morning Mettricks but I made the decision not to push myself and let myself have a couple of hours longer in bed. I got up about 11 and started work on my 6-point to do list. At this point I had it planned that I would have everything on my weekly to do list done by Thursday and then I would spend all weekend playing Pokemon. Spoiler: that didn't happen.
But I started by writing up my Newsday log notes into a proper log so I can just add the information from News Week and submit it in December, which is dangerously and painfully close now. I also edited music for my dance team. And then I didn't do anything else for the rest of the day and I didn't go to uni because I my head was literally throbbing.
I was so glad I didn't have Newsday on Wednesday because I definitely wouldn't have made it and I'm just very ill at this point. I didn't go to voice coaching because I couldn't talk, I did some sofa Christmas shopping, I helped my friend with her fashion photography, I stressed a lot, I nearly had a migraine and then I stayed up really late working on my script for my assignment presentation the next day.
And then on Thursday I went in a little early to finish off the script and rehearse and then we went and did the presentation and I think it went really well, we didn't go over time and we felt really comfortable asking questions. Then I went home and did a bunch of work (like, really slowly), then I went to work at the cinema at uni and watch the new Jack Reacher film (not my cup of tea).
On Friday I slept a lot, I spent a very long time very slowly working on one work experience application (but I did it!) and I spent a surprisingly long time questioning how long I need to cook two tins of spaghetti hoops for lunch. It was a very slow day but not in a nice relaxing way, in a 'I want to be motivated and get lots of work done but my head throbs if I stand up too fast and all I want to do is sleep and be sad'.
I found out on Friday that someone that was in my form at school passed away and it really hit me and I didn't even know her that well, but I saw her basically every morning for a year and she was so lovely and I know people who knew her really well and it's just really surreal. Especially with watching Children in Need that night it just really hit me how short life is and I was really sad on Friday night (and most of this week) but I just wanted to write something here - just, make good decisions, be careful with drugs. I'm feeling very spacey right now.
Today, Saturday, I had the biggest lie in I think I've ever had and slept until the afternoon, I then had a little Asda trip to pick up some fresh veg to make a roast dinner tomorrow then I tried to be productive but I felt like death outside so I'm actually a little bit worried about going to London tomorrow.
I'm meant to be seeing Panic! At The Disco tomorrow and I'm really excited about it but I also feel like death, so I'll update you on that next week.
Sorry this week has been so rubbish, I get really sad when I can't be productive and I'm trying my best and it's not going very well. Too much thinking, I'll get back to you next week where there's no deadlines and hopefully less disease.
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This week has been a long one, it feels like months since I wrote one of these posts when it's only been seven days. So let's go back to Monday.
We have a new lecturer for our Concept to Commission lecture and seminar and he didn't use a PowerPoint for the lecture, which make a Monday morning after a week off much more difficult to concentrate on. I actually did quite enjoy the seminar - we were given a sheet with a bunch of information on it and we had to write a 500 word feature in two hours in between chatting to our lecturer about our assignment due at the end of the semester. It wasn't particularly useful but I enjoyed in none the less.
In Producing the Package we got our results from our first package hand ins back - I wasn't massively overwhelmed with a high 2:2, but I know exactly what areas to work on to pull the grade up in the next package and I've already got the go ahead for my next package idea.
On Tuesday morning I went to my favourite cafe Mettricks to sit and do some work with a hot chocolate. I then went to Spoons with some friends, went and tried to book a tattoo and then started a discussion with the tattoo parlour on Facebook to try redesigning it. I then went to HMV to pre-order Busted's new album Night Driver and get a ticket to the signing they're doing at the HMV in Southampton. I'm going to meet Busted and it's going to be a childhood dream come try. Then I did some work at home, went to a really shit lecture, went to dance and then came home and sat on the sofa for a really long time.
Wednesday was another Newsday and this week I was on the TV bulletin team - I had to write the script and present for the 5 minute long TV bulletin at 5pm so it was a really long day but really satisfactory - I had an awesome team and it was so much fun to work with them.
If you want to watch my bulletin, you can do so here:
On Thursday I had a slightly later start because I no longer have InDesign sessions as that assignment has been handed in. So I went to Who's The Boss at 1pm, luckily we didn't have to have a debate because not many people were there and our assignment hand in is less than a week away (not that our lecturer didn't try). So I worked with my partner really well on our PowerPoint presentation - it worked really well that both of us were in the right place and on the same page about what we wanted to do because we made massive progress.
And Friday was my much needed day off, not that I took it - I met my partner about midday and we worked for about five hours putting together both the PowerPoint and the script and we're nearly at a point where we can hand in the PowerPoint on Monday.
On Friday evening I was given a complimentary ticket to see the World Premiere of Wind In The Willows at Mayflower theatre (post to go up on SophieCountsClouds tomorrow!) and it was amazing - seeing 'press' printed on the ticket is something that made me inexplicably happy and is something I'd love to do again!
This morning, on wonderful Saturday, I had another lie in and went into town for an Asda trip, I came back to make a bunch of lists of stuff I need to get done and then I spent the evening being an actor and helping my friend film her documentary for her course. Having got back at ten, my boyfriend and I have just ordered take out because we're too tired to cook dinner!
Tomorrow I'm getting my fourth tattoo (and I'm so excited) and then going to meet my partner to finish off our presentation for next week and then I'm going to have a really chilled evening and finish catching up on Flash Season 3.
This week's been jam packed and I'm running out of energy for sure - I need just a little bit of time off and I keep saying 'after this deadline' and 'after this hand in' but each of my assignments are due in less than two weeks after each other, which makes it a little bit more difficult to find 'down time' and chill out.
But I'll manage it. Somehow. Or if not; I'll blog about it.
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