...these are extraordinary qualities

Today's journal title is provided by Peter Gabriel - Down to Earth (again)

Wall-e needs to hurry up and be out on blu-ray, I got my student loan now


After a lazy summer that was devoid of the corporeal forms of the pipe dreams in my mind I'm back in Middlesbrough. I know I'm definitely back since I saw a kid carrying a massive chunk of wood as I went to see the dark knight for the second time...

To be honest I knew in the back of my mind that I wasn't gonna do half the things I planned over summer, and now I'm back at university I'm spending a lot of time with my house mates(+1) - props to Jo for the awesome Sunday lunch... not that she reads my journal.

What I'm not looking forward to so much this year is the fact that, now I'm back with my mates at uni, I can't afford to spend lots and lots of time with them since I'll have a lot of work, a planned 3 day gym routine and sei-ken-so on Saturdays. I've got a bit of work done over summer but I know I'll have to really knuckle down and produce a load of pages for my dissertation and some high quality animation. To be honest it's not so much the animation itself that I'm dreading, more the technical work that goes into making it.

I've been thinking that I might look into what it takes to be a producer (which could mean a higher salary), though my word speaking skills leave something to be desired. Hopefully my Studio and Business practice module should be able to help with some of the elements of that, though I've learnt from one of my podcasts that it is possible to get into the job just by helping out, offering some organizational skills here and there and filling the gaps.

I'm expecting that there should be all kinds of awesome in my 3rd year as well as stress... I just hope my 'living a chilled life' podcasts can help along with my usual optimistic outlook.

Last year I shouted 'F**K OFF' at a misbehaving animated chair, I'm just wondering what lies in store this year.

Peace Out