Yep, am down with the bug this week. I was working quite a lot in my part-time job trying to save for the upcoming term, but that’s all gone a bit wrong due to me feeling like crap. It’s not so good. I have been watching Series 1 of Dirt- it’s trashy, it’s tacky, but I can’t deal with anything more demanding. And sleeping a lot. I just checked my college internet-blackboard-thing and I have a review the week I get back. So when I get better, I’m just going to have to crack on with sorting out my portfolio etc all which is simmering away at the back of my mind since the dissertation. I have a friend who has finished uni and is now in a well-paid ( dull-sounding) job who was complaining that she only gets a week and a half at Christmas off in employment.That is paid, and she doesn’t have to do anything at all. A whole week and a half. I bet most of the students on my course would love that amount of time off, but it doesn’t happen. This is probably why I am a little bit cynical about Christmas these days- to me it represents work, spending too much money on people I don’t want to, and more work. But enough of the sob story.
In my fluey leisure, between sleeping, bathing and making tea, I have been relaxing and it’s good. I like it a lot. I’ve found a lot of cool things on the internet to occupy my time and have been catching up on ‘fun’ reading ie non-dissertation related. my book today is Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez which I am really enjoying because
a) cholera sounds a hell of a lot worse than flu
and b) it’s really really good!
It’s a book where you really get into the characters lives, time seems to skip about a lot, but it’s done so well. I’m looking forward to continuing it later.Anyways, unfortunately I have very little design news today so I’ll leave off by mentioning www.typeradio.org which is brilliant. Typography and talking, and all done by some really top designers. Get this in your ears now.
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