by the strangest things. i walked home from work today and looked over at the canal, and it reminded me of ho wsometimes i am fascinated with the idea of water. i've held bottles of drinks in shops before and thought "there's a liquid in here that's taking the shape of the bottle, and if i poured it out it'd never be in that shape again.". i've marveled at how breathing in is the movement of my ribs increasing the volume of my lungs so a drop in pressure causes air to be sucked into me. i like to walk down empty roads at night and hear the silence. it's odd. i sound like i'm taking drugs or something, but believe me i'm not :p

i just feel like sometimes there are joys to be had in appreciating the little things. what's better? to seem a little strange being fascinated by these things, or to go on paying them no attention? if i can stand there and enjoy the way that ice melts, then i don't see why i should feel unhappy ever.

i downloaded the office's christmas specials for lainey. i watched them again and they're still making me feel the way that i did when i saw them for the first time on boxing day. so wonderful. lainey, if you see this get in touch so i can send them to you.

want to work from 2-10 tomorrow, then go straight into watching dawn of the dead? i don't think so, but my flatmates want to go then. bah.

believe what i am holding in my hands. it is as if music and sex and.. uh.. more music were formed into one tiny little box of love. yes, i went and bought myself an ipod! :D

so freaking awesome. i love it. i got a little excited and punched the air when i opened the box it came in (sent by my good friend buffy) and then i felt a little dumb. but then, i felt even more awesome. this thing is wonderful oh yes it is :)

i've finished one more crappy assignment, the next one's due in next friday. four assignments, one a week, each friday. this is why i a) don't say much b) feel like crap sometimes and c) bought myself an ipod to feel better.

i still have to get the mons ($$$$) to buffy when i come over though. swifty, hands off.

agree with swifty. titles to posts make things harder to write. so i'm just going to ignore them.

i really need to write in this thing more often, mainly because things happen to me and i don't tell anyone about them, and people want to know. so i am telling you now! i've watched a lot of films at night here in the flat recently, and i've fallen asleep in 8/10 of them. i really don't know what's wrong with me. something triggers a sleep mechanism. i stayed awake during tonight's film, the big lebowski, which is both very funny and really well made. i love it. i should start making a list or something of films i've watched. maybe i'll do that on the next design, whenever that comes.

speaking of this website, i have to renew the domain soon. they want me to pay £60 for two years, which is a pain because i bought it for £12 a year. maybe if i let it go i can buy it back. i don't know. the hassle of domains is annoying to me.

i finally finished a couple of assignments, i have two more that are due in on the friday after next. i'm going to work on them all next week.

i worked ten hours at the amc today, it sucked. i hate long shifts where i lose the whole day. i only turned my computer on when i got back at 10:20ish tonight, and that's a big thing for me! as is writing this post. i never quite know what to say about myself and what i've been doing sometimes. i'm sure there's a million things i could have said and talked about that i haven't, but i guess if you talk to me online you'll get to hear more about that sort of thing. i'm bad at the talking at people thing, rather than the talking to.

anyway, it's late so i'm going to hit the hay. goodnight!

i totally got the job. this is awesome. i'm a web designer for the manchester education partnership! :D :D :D i am very very happy.

i went for the interview on tuesday, and it seemed to go really well. they were impressed by my presentation (yay) and the websites i showed¹, and i'm just so pleased everything went well :) apparently they said at the interview² that i could walk into any web design job in manchester! i was very flattered and a little shocked :)

so yes. i feel a little bit better. hurrah!

¹ which you can take a look at here
² not while i was there though, after i left

my interview yesterday! it went really well. i spent a while preparing for the presentation i gave to the manchester education partnership, and although i know i'm the first person they saw i think they were pretty impressed by what i talked about. i even got told that my pixel art was good! hurrah :) i really hope i get this job, it's pretty much what i've wanted to do for a long time now :)

so i've been stressing out over a couple of assignments, but what's new? i'm going to work on one that's upcoming today with a friend of mine, hopefully i should make some headway.

i went to see along came polly last night, which wasn't too bad. it wasn't a classic movie, but it was enjoyable! short but sweet. i'm really looking forward to seeing starsky and hutch in a couple of weeks too. i've heard good things! of course, i'll have to find time between work and stuff to go see it, but i'll survive.

anyway, i better get back to work. i might come back later with a few points from the oscars too. but i'll say this for now.

i do think that lord of the rings deserved best director. because it was an incredible task for peter jackson to undertake. i don't think it deserved all the oscars it won though. i don't mean to say it's a bad film, but sometimes people just like a particular film and think it should win everything. i loved lost in translation but i don't think sofia coppolla deserved to win best director for it, because it really couldn't have been that challenging - it's just a series of moments.

but yeah, lord of the rings didn't really deserve all of those awards. belleville rendez-vois should have had best song, damnit! that was great! :)