Arakimentari
Wednesday, March 31st, 2010I received Arakimentari today! I can’t wait to watch it!!
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I received Arakimentari today! I can’t wait to watch it!!
…until I finish university. It is rather daunting. I’m not sure what I am going to afterwards. I want to experience things and travel and live abroad and learn a language or two and take pictures of it before I settle into working full time. I also want 2010 to be my year of ‘why not?’ instead ‘why?’. Of course I won’t do things that seem dangerous, but I want to start doing new and different things. Things that I think will help me learn something about myself. I just want to take advantages of all the opportunities available to me.
I have also been trying to take some photos and upload them my flickr everyday just to get in the habit of taking and editing photos the same day. But as I’m going to be home and away from my mac thats not going to be possible for a while. So there maybe a mega upload when I get back!!
But first I am going home for two weeks to my mom’s. Oh and I am also going to the mass photo gathering tomorrow at noon. There should be some interesting photos from there. I will (hopefully) be able to tweet it while there and write about it here afterwards. depends on money and the capabilities of my old old laptop at home.
Recently I have been reading John Bergers’ ‘Ways of Seeing’ and concentrating on his chapter about how women are gazed at in art. He states that men create a presnce for themselves, whereas, women tend to internalize the male gaze. In other words women see themselves as men would see them. I find it very insteresting to think about this internalization and when I try to analyse whether or not this is true, I always end up going about in circles. As a women I hate to think that I would make decisions about the way I act and appear because I assume that a man would think something of me, but from experience I do know that it is true. I do do certain things because I consider how a man view me. Whether it is a negative view or a postive one.
But I also would hope to think that men also make decisions about themselves based on what women think of them.
So I have been back a week and I am finally able to update here. I have just finished an essay due in at 4pm today.
Prague was beautiful, particularly in the night time. There was a sense of isolation and it was a very quiet city. Much different from London. London is constantly awake and there is a buzz and city lights, in the old town in Prague there was just a sense of romanticism. I tended to avoid the touristy things to do like going into the castle and the Jewish Museum and things, I preferred just to wander around and soak up the atmosphere and see where I ended up. I feel that you see more of the city like that.
Hopefully after my mom’s wedding in June I will get a chance to visit for longer.
As for the photos, I took film so you will have to wait till they are developed to see them.
Yesterday was my birthday and it was a beautiful day to have one if I do say so myself. When I met mom and Paul at Momument we walked to the Tower and over the bridge to the lunch.
Paul made reservation for us at The Chop House by Tower Bridge and we sat outside and had champange. The food was really nice but it was a little too heavy for me (I had posh banger and mash for a main and crab for a starter), and if I am honest then it was probably too hot a day to eat bangers and mash but it was so good.
When I got home I took a nap as I had to go to work for a meeting in the morning, at which I was promised cake but there was none when I got there. It was probably a good thing because I’m not a huge cake fan. Well, in this country anyways, I like American ice cream cakes and whipped icing… yummy!
Emma and Charlotte came over at 8 and we got ready to go out to an indie club and they gave me my presents which included a pop art canvas of Jarvis Cocker!! *sigh* I love that man.
We had a really great night out though. As proved by the evidence below… (more…)
I got the job. Yayy!
I have an interview tomorrow at the Science Museum. I really really want the job. It just front of house stuff, but still it would be cool. Also, I might be doing some photography work for a company brochure, which would also be awesome!
In other news, I am back at home and unpacked. I am so glad to be out of halls, no more thumping bass music at 3am when I want to sleep. I am so tired today, even though I slept really well last night, I think that it is because I have not slept properly in a week or so.
Mmm, I smell roast beef, I love being home.
I am a second year now. October seems so far away. I don’t have much to say in this entry, I am rather at a loss.
This summer I am planning to:
get a job
teach myself flash so I can redesign my site
move out with Charlotte and Emma
And maybe even go see my dad and my sister, but this all depends on money.