I've finished my first week back at uni now and so far so good. I'm now in three days a week as opposed to two and most of my classes seem pretty good. On Tuesdays I have the "Craft and Form" seminar which I wrote about before, on Thursdays I have "Creative Language Awareness" seminar which, in short, is pretty dull. Two and a half hours dedicated to words and grammar and communication. DULL. But at least all our assessed pieces of work are group work. In our first lesson we looked at situations where you would use communication and talked about why the way we communicate might be affected by things e.g. relationships. We then went through an exercises looking at old and new "smoking kills" labels on cigarette packets and rewriting then working out what made each stronger and weaker. I can't say that at 9am that lecture was thrilling. Our final seminar of the week then is "Words and Images" which is by far the best we have. I don't really have a grasp on what exactly we do in it yet, but I think we look at how imagery has inspired pieces of work, how writers have used images to enhance their work and also how they incorporate imagery into their work. We also have a group project to complete which consists of a 20 minute presentation based on an art exhibit in the Millennium gallery Sheffield entitled "Graphic Nature". We also have to write a blog! But this one doesn't count so I am officially writing two blogs, this one and one for uni. So far though it all seems pretty good and I'm looking forward to next week.
I have also finished "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo" which was so good and I would recommend it to anyone. Basically its a murder mystery crime novel, you just have to force yourself through the first hundred pages; its very business focused for alot of it. Besides that it is brilliant.
My boyfriend has been down this weekend for his birthday. I say the weekend but he came Wednesday night and is staying until tomorrow afternoon. All we have really done has been to go to the cinema; we went to see the Mechanic. It was actually pretty good, nothing that required too much thinking, but yeah. And actually, thinking about it, that's about all we have done except play computer games and go to Tescos! I also had an almost argument with my flatmates about taking the bin out. They keep writing notes to the house about keeping the kitchen clean and everyone needing to pull their weight. I know that they are partly getting at me about this, however even though I know I should do something for the house, I still stand by my argument that I rarely use the kitchen and when I do I take things back to the bin in my room and I was up in my bathroom sink. I am not the one who leaves dirty dishes out for weeks and I'm not the one who fills the bin to the point that it overflows. Anyway I am trying to stay on their good side but its easy to see that we don't really see eye to eye.
I'm also thinking about entering a poetry competition within the uni, but I'm not sure what to write yet. If I'm honest I don't really like poetry that much, but my old tutor (who is actually one of the judges) always praises it and says he's impressed by it so maybe I would be in with a chance? I'll keep you posted.
