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Employment

Oh Hai Guyz...

As you may or may not be aware, I graduated from University last year, and have been seeking relevant employment ever since whilst pulling in overtime like a bitch at a retail job.

Well, no more for I have been offered a relevant job that is just a 5 minute walk from my house at what is one of the top 10 best companies in the UK to work for. Fewer hours, for double the pay of what I currently get

For the past 6 years, I have had fun times, as well as bad times. I am in no way going to miss the job, as it was shit with little in the way of future prospects. The people I met and worked with have been awesome. A lot of them have been awesome, really supportive.

It's also bound to be good for the weight and wallet, as I will no longer be tempted by the stuff I see whilst at work which I would then buy at the end

And of course, now that there isn't the fact we work together getting in the way, I may be able to see where things go with a certain colleague

Some time in the next few weeks, expect a huge post of things I buy whilst still having the 10% discount

The results are in...

I got my university results earlier today, and I got me a 2:1 (B) overall. Not too shabby, considering I thought I'd done a load worse in parts of the degree.

So now I am BSc (Hons) in Multimedia Technology and Design. This should hopefully make job hunting easier...

And now, I need to find me some alcohol

So long, education

I finally finsihed my Multimedia Course at University. Huzzah! Unfortunately that does mean I have to actually find a job...eep! I do however get to put BSc after my name. HAving done the maths, it seems I need only average a C on everything but my worst module and I'd get a 2.1 average (B overall), Bs would comfortably get me there or even the awesomeness of a 1st (A overall)...Last year I did not think I would be in such a position...

Instead of actually going out a finding a job, I am currently instead working on creating a 3D animated short with a bunch of people at university. Should be something good to exhibit/show people in the future.

On the subject of women, there is a certain someone who I am close to...it seems everyone thinks we are going out but the two of us. Hopefully it can actually move to a state where we are actually together. I'm ashamed to say I watched Glee with her the other week, and actually sort of thought it was not too bad.

Lost finished yesterday, utterly amazing end to 6 years. The more I mull over the ending, the more and more satisfied I become with what actually happened. Started to watch the show from the start again, noticing new things that were referenced in more recent episodes.

Also, Ashes to Ashes ended. Not a bad ending, worked well with the show. Still liked Life on Mars better, except the US version was a little bit rubbish and just seemed intent to cram as many David Bowie references as possible.

You stay classy, Cubed3

Take Back the City

Randomly, through O2, I managed to bag a couple of free tickets to see Snow Patrol. Not really my thing, but hey, I won't say no to anything thats free.

And so I went on an epic drive half way round the M25 (not much of interest there really, lots of Green and, oddly, Traffic Lights half way there) into London.

Having got lost somewhere on the way there, we finally made it to the O2, feeling hungry. Upon entering, however, hopes of getting food fast were dashed as there were massive queues outside every single restaurant there. It took an hour and a half to get sat down, then all of 15 minutes to eat and leave.

Fuck me, is the actual arena big. Really big. And our seats, being the freebies that they were, were absolutely terrible. The stage was so far away, and we were really high up.

There were four drunken knobs in front of us who could barely stanfd up, but insisted on trying at every opportunity, and slurred the lyrics to the songs completely.

Not really being a fan when I went in (hey, I only thought I knew two of their songs), I came out more impressed than I had expected. In fact, they were actually quite good, and hearing 20000 people all singing Run back at them was amazing.

And as for the Encore, it was brilliant, and accompanied by some awesome looking 3D animations, bringing the night to a perfect end.

The journey back was even less interesting, although it did allow me to complete the lap of the M25 back up to Watford.

Also, this is something I made for an assignment at university. It's a single frame of an animation I had to do using 3DS Max, but uploading the entire thing would probably take an age with my internet being as it currently is. Don't think its too bad considering what little 3D I have actually been taught and how quickly I put it together. Took 52 hours to render the whole thing though...using those mental ray lights might not have been the best idea ever.



The only thing I don't like are the books, but I really didn't know how to do them.

Explosions in Watford!!!

Last night, I was driving home to Watford, when all of a sudden there was an explosion, and the field next to the car was suddenly ablaze. At first I thought WTF!!!!

But then, I realised where it was - Leavesden Studios.

We got out of the car on the nearby bridge, and just stood there watching what was happening, although you couldn't really see that much apart from a few faint outlines and cameras moving around. Wish I had a camera with me now...

However, I don't remember any explosions in Harry Potter an the Half Blood Prince... 1 2 Next