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Eep.

We have 10 seconds of CGI. We have 2500 words of essay. And then, we have this;
A minute animation to be entered into an film festival.
Eep. Lots of eep. More eep is that we have to have a presentation crit in 4 (now 3) weeks.
Now people have got jobs from being noticed in film festivals, [...]

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“Tell us about yourself”

Interviews. Shudder.
I think it went ok though - probably one of the best interviewers I’ve ever had. But I couldn’t tell whether I was doing well or not. And I didn’t want to interupt, so I couldn’t insert brags about “I can do flexible hours!” when she paused for breath after talking about the timetable [...]

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First day

And… somewhat spiffing. Hopefully my enrolment’s gone through ok so my loan will be ok, and instead of giving us a timetable they’ve put a teeny tiny sign up saying “go online to get it” so half the people aren’t turning up tomorrow. Oh, and we got a letter saying we started at 10, when [...]

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Oh shi-! Uni!

Starts tomorrow. Be good to see everyone again and OMGINVITE THEM TO CHOCOLATE FOUNTAIN/RANDOM DESSERT night. It’s gonna be cool actually doing something now, I’ve felt kinda… purpose-less most of summer. At the same time, a lil bit of me’s dreading it. The second year’s the hardest. No exams, but shitloads of coursework.
I mean, this [...]

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How difficult is it?

I need a good knife, a big strong black binliner, a shovel, and 900g of vegan chocolate.
The first three because the virgin technician to sort out our phone line didn’t actually turn up, and the last one because I can’t throw a chocolate fountain night and just leave a certain lactose-intollerant friend to sulk in [...]

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Damn all this DHCP PPPoE bollocks

So it’s been 2 weeks, waiting for the “7 days” Virgin said we needed to wait for them to disconnect the last tenants who never cancelled their contract, then calling up when they didn’t call back and getting it done semi-instantly when someone else in their building answered the phone, I’m now stuck with my [...]

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