A Million Miles an Hour

Somedays some people just make you frustrated, never more so than when you're ill, and people around you seem to be going at the speed of light. When you feel like taking things slow and steady, they're OCDing about getting somewhere fast, despite the fact that there's no need to. Well today was one of those days.

Despite this Uni wasn't too bad today: my last lesson was cancelled because Andy's got the Swine Flu, and thus I've since discovered my only lesson tomorrow is also cancelled. Whoop to lessons being cancelled but not whoop to him having the flu, not fun. Anyway, in today's "Inside Multimedia News" lecture nothing amazingly interesting happened. The specifics of our semester project which looks fairly easy: a 650 word article with 2 interviews, pictures and is to be based on a magazine format of our choice. We'd been told about this project this time last week, and I'd tinkered with the idea of the title of "Violence in Video Games" but decided to buy an NME and write an article on the "Teach Yourself to Play" culture in music these days. Nothing's set in stone however, so I can always change my mind within the next week or so if I want to.

My second lecture however was a lot more interesting. The guest speaker was Dr. Martin James, a music journalist turned lecturer. What he said was very interesting and spoke to me. I didn't realise how much contact music journalists got with the musicians themselves, some of the people he's met are once in a life time opportunities, and he got paid to do it too. I'll ask Julia on Wednesday for his contact details, as he said he was going to take a group of students to a festival in the near future to interview some of the acts. I think this could definately be the course for me.

My only other thing of noticeable mention today is my 4 hour stint on Photoshop when I got home. As you've probably noticed the two pictures at the top and been wondering what they are and why they're there, I shall enlighten you. They're pictures of my and my friend Matt's WoW characters. Sad I admit, but I wanted something to do on photoshop so I thought I might as well. They're icon sized for MSN or whatever messenger, as this was what I intended them for. As you can see, the purple and green one was the practice one (mine) and the red and black one was the result of experience (Matt's). Overall I'm very happy with Matt's, mostly due to his choice of pose. The "mugshot" actually works very well and I think if I ever decide to redo my character, or do another (several of Matt's college friends are pining for one of their own now) I'll use this pose for them. All in all a pretty constructive day for a sickie, don't you think?

-Ross