And college is…

I’ve been at college for… Okay, I’ll admit I actually don’t know how long but give me credit, it is 6 minutes past 11 on a Monday night and considering I got to bed at 2am I think I’m doing a pretty good job. Anyway, I’m going off track, I’ve been at college for a ‘while’ and I must say it’s pretty fucking epic. I’m fully aware that this is the usual response from ‘teens’ after migrating from a dictated, controlling, Colditz-style school (I’m not even kidding, we had security guards to stop us going out at lunch). However I do feel it’s justified, in my case at least.

Water ad I came up with, spot the typo and I'll give you a prize.

I’ve known for a long time that something “arty-farty” as my nan calls it was the area I wanted to go into. Sure I love English but heh’ I speak that everyday, I can live without it can’t I? Actually I remember exactly when I realised design was what I wanted to do. I was about 12 and I did some lame-oh podcast just because I could (yea, I was that guy). I did some pretty shit album artwork for the show — if in fact it can be called that — It was more 15 minutes when I bothered of some random awkwardness that really should have been scripted before hand. Anyway I realised that I wasn’t much cop in terms of the podcasting and it didn’t really interest me. I loved doing the image stuff though and I ended up modifying site themes and eventually creating my own. For a while I played around with wanting to web design and I may well end up doing that but for now I’m looking at advertising.

Since I knew exactly what I wanted to do I saw my secondary school years as a waste of time, something

I miss her so much.

I didn’t really want to do. It wasn’t until year 10 that I actually got to do graphics and even then it wasn’t graphic design but graphic products which is more of a CAD/CAM kind of thing. Graphics and drama were the two things that kept me going throughout years 10 & 11 (that and Tory and Kurt and everyone else that wasn’t a total nobber). I think I made a huge mistake picking drama though. As fun as it was I didn’t realise what was needed to get in to my Graphic Design course at college and because I took art as an extra GCSE one night a week, I was so close to not getting the C I needed to get in.

All that bollocks is behind me now though. I think I love college because I get to do what I like all week, well not all week, I’m only in three days a week. The two main briefs I have done so far have both been based around branding; one a new mineral water and the other t-shirt company similar to Threadless. If anything it’s totally confirmed to me that I want to do this for a career. I don’t really consider it work if I’m honest, it’s actually just me getting to have fun and coming up with cool ideas that I wouldn’t normally have chance to.

It’s a wonder I ever manage to get anything done though. Seriously Jack, Maria, and Eddie are fucking nuts. Hilarity is sure to ensue whenever they’re around and we’re all totally different. Going to London with Jack and Maria on Thursday actually so that should be goodtimes®. Having Christmas din-dins with them next week too and that I think I’m more excited about than London, I really am I kid. Jessie and Jordan are so fun too. It seems to just be a constant slagging triangle with them generally insinuating one another is more of a whore than the other.

So what is college to me? College is a place I can be myself, have fun with amazing friends and I suppose do some work which isn’t really like work. This place is Disneyland magical, I tell you.

I’m a Loser

Disregarding the fact I couldn’t even organise sex in the backroom of a gay nightclub there are a numerous number of reasons why I am in fact a total loser.

1. I pretend I’m in a music video - There have been several occasions when I have pretended that I am not only some kind of megamusicman® but that I am also starring in my own music video, usually when I’m suffering from sleep depravation and a funky 80s track comes on my iPod.
2. I can’t sleep if it’s silent - I dunno why this is and I should probably just take sleeping pills, but I just cannot sleep if it’s silent i.e. without music, a podcast or something.
3. I host a cooking show when I’m making shizzle - I totally stole this from Riley, but I also do it. Whenever I’m alone and I find myself cooking I pretend I’m hosting some kind of cooking show, with instructions et cetera.
4. I shout at the TV - This is totally irrational and it usually happens when the Royal Family or Gordon Brown comes on the news but I do it to an extreme degree.
5. My love life doesn’t exist - I know I’m gonna get shot down for this but fuck it. I’ve never been with anyone.
6. I talk to myself when sat on the toilet - I think this is probably to help me think about things. Some people read things on the toilet (HELLO, HYGENE!) but that’s just disgusting. I think, but usually that involves me talking to myself — whisper actually.
7. I can’t go in public - Kind of a gross one but we were talking about toilets. I find it IMPOSSIBLE to go to the loo when I’m in public. It can be the nicest toilet in the world, and there can be nobody around but I still won’t go. *Shrugs*
8. I have no life - This is obvious, but if you’re reading this you don’t either. I’m spending my Saturday night writing a blog post about things that mean nothing to nobody — exciting.
9. I own a Charlotte Church song - Please, don’t judge me. I was young (12), naïve, I didn’t know what I was doing and she suckered me in with her flat voice and terrible lyrics; I know that now.
10. I listen to music to make myself cry - I don’t know. Sometimes I just get in a mood where there is nothing I want to do more than cry my eyes out and feel sorry for myself. Music people commit suicide to and is listen all around by wrist-slashers and self-harms is good, but I generally find a little Bic Runga, or dare I say it James Blunt (that’s like old skool now).