uni
until morning
So the exhibition last night was a lot of fun. I didn’t talk to ANY of the promised industry people though, which is a shame, but hopefully something interesting comes of it. Even if it’s just random people saying hi, that’ll be enough for me. What was upsetting was that our so-called ‘free drinks’ was actually limited to FOUR drinks. Luckily being the savvy girl that I am, I managed to steal a page of the wristbands which allowed you free drinks, and pretty much provided free drinks for my friends and family. Go team. Also a friend of mine was ‘VIP’ and she pretty much got free drinks all night anyway. Ahhh, we almost got our moneys worth I think.
It was really nice seeing all of the work from our year, there was a lot of impressive stuff to look at. If you live in Sydney and are vaguely interested in design (how could you not be?) I strongly suggest you go and visit. It’s open for a week, so there’s still time!
I’ve been going through my work and have started uploading it. It’s quite surprising how much stuff I actually do have. Actually, I think it’s more along the lines of, I’m surprised how much work I don’t hate. Which is actually nice, thankyou university…thankyou.
TO THE FORE, my major project is now online. So you can watch it! There’s links all over this joint for it, so I don’t need to bombard you with it anymore than I have already.
And just like that, university is all done. Completely. The only thing left to do is graduate. Now I have to be a real person.
we were asked to provide a blurb for ourselves which went on our panel. Mine of course, was real serious.
handle with care
” /facepalm ” is the only way to start this blog.
I’ve been trying to change this theme for ages, and it’s safe to say that I’ve forgotten a lot of the php stuff that I learnt in my web subject. I’m slowly getting the hang of it again though, which is why it isn’t completely dysfunctional…just slightly. I really should complete this website tomorrow though, especially because tomorrow night is THE night! Opening Night of 2009 Graduates Exhibition! I’m rather excited, it should be a good time. (oh, on that note, I was quite happy with my MP result 
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I wish I could finish it now, but it’s late and I’d rather have an earlier start tomorrow than wearily work away at something that takes a lot of brain power. Even for my massive brain.
my name is geraldine, i’m your social worker
I have officially completed my studies.
Did my presentation last Wednesday, spent the next few days celebrating, and now here we are. Doing nothing, but still feeling anxious. I like being scheduled and knowing when I’m going to do things before I have to do them, but now it’s like… OYSTER WORLD. WORLD AS OYSTER. And I have no idea how to go about things, like you know, getting employed and stuffz. Yes, with a z. I’m also going to Thailand pretty damn soon, Dec 6th, and that’s for 2 weeks. I should go trip shopping, albeit I don’t think there will be a whole lot of shopping I’ll have to do for it. I will hopefully be able to buy a lot of stuff over there But I also have no job (ha, and now I sound like a complete bum) so I can’t spend all of my money otherwise my NY fund will dwindle faster than I’d like, even before getting to NY! /breathes.
I still need to make this place more ‘portfolio-y’ but I’ve gotten a bit lazy. From all of the nothing. I should perhaps start thinking about all the things I will need to make my exhibition space in the graduates show something that will stand out and get people to pay attention. /waves hand. Another day, another day. I have no idea what I want to put up, and the only things I can think of is that I need to design a new business card for myself, that being step one. Anyhoo, this is rather non-exciting.
SKINS MARATHON, however, is very exciting. Friends and I are going to have one this week and I’m a bit over-excited for it. It’ll be my 2nd watch-through of the first generation, as opposed to my gazillion viewings of the 3rd seasons. Oops. So I’m ready to get back into seasons 1 and 2 and give them the lovin’ that they need.
I wonder if I’ll have internet in Thailand/Laos – or if I’ll even have time to use them. But since I’ve never been before, I’d quite like to document the trip and such. We’ll see. I also think I should be getting some injections to protect me from diseases, and that I should have gotten them like 2 weeks ago. Oops.
Distraction Cake.
ON, IN, AT.
Now. As if me reading the books late at night and laughing at an absurdly high pitch at all the funnies in them weren’t enough, emy/lindsey had to put me in it. Like srsly. Tegan and Sara, why do you want me to love you so much? WHY? I need to save some love for real people, ya know?
Bottom left, green check = ME!
I can’t even describe the moment I turned the page and saw the photo. It was 2am, and I screamed out loud. My heart raced. ffs. It was all so surreal. I’m going to exist, forever, in a Tegan and Sara book. Now I know it’s just a random picture and it’s not that big of a deal, but hey, let me have my moment okay?
Album. Books. Inkblot. Peg.
So I picked up the books from the post office, after the postman left one of those COMEPICKMEUP cards in letterbox. After I got home, I ripped it open and instantly started drooling. I think my inkblot is really cute! And the first thing I thought of when I saw it, was that it’s a crab. Like a front on view, see it?? SEE IT?? I don’t know what this says, I think it means I’m self-involved because my star sign is Cancer. Ohhhhh deep. Anyway. I listened to the album immediately, and after all the negative feedback I had been reading from fans, I was quite anxious. So much so that I hadn’t even listened to the live stream off their myspace beforehand etc. etc. I wanted the CD listening experience, all to myself. As soon as Arrow started playing I had NFI why fans were complaining. Arrow’s intro is fucking epic. I was instantly hooked, and then Don’t Rush came on….and I wasn’t thrilled. I think it was something about Tegans vocals, I was so used to The Con Tegan, that I was taken aback. I stated to get antsy about it, could it be possible that I won’t like this album? I already liked Hell which is catchy as, and then I really liked On Directing, Red Belt, then The Cure and then I wasn’t scared anymore. I knew I would like this album. And I haven’t stopped listening since.
It’s not The Con, which is still my favourite album ever from anyone, and it’s not So Jealous or any of the older ones. It’s different and new and current. I think that’s the best part about it. I’m dying to see them live for this album, I think it would be amazing.
THIS is going to be a long post.
So now we’ll move on toooo… SKINS. I am obsesssssssed with this show. I don’t even know what possessed me to start watching, maybe the fact that I had so much off-peak usage to use up and that there was a Skins torrent with all 3 seasons, wrapped up in a neat little package. It just had to be done! And I watched all 3 seasons within a week or so. Ha. To say the least, I was hooked. I was kind of aware of the fact that they change the entire cast after 2 seasons, but that didn’t really deter me in any way, because I knew there were going to be prettier people in the second generation. Shallow, that’s me. I loved Gen1, to bits. Chris, Sid, Cassie, Maxxie, Anwar etc. etc. broken Tony, etc etc. I loved them. But Gen2…oh dear lord. All I have to say is Naomily. There, said. End.
Sign off and move on.
My Major Project is due on Friday. In a weeks time, I cannot believe it. And then I have my big presentation the following Wednesday, and then it’s goodbye university. It’ll all be over and I won’t know what to do with myself, it’s quite scary. My film is almost near completion, and then there are some other elements that I want to do as a bit of ‘extra’ stuff, incl. turning this place into a portfolio of types with a section for my film. So I shall endeavor to do that in the next couple of days, and then a whole bunch of things like make the DVD titles, burn the dvd etc. Today I got my cover printed and the discs printed, it was quite exciting and I made a mockup of it today. PICKCHAS.
Stand for me plzkthx
Inside DVD cover, and booklet
I’m really happy with how it turned out. I now want to make my own digipaks for errrrrything. They’re just so much prettier than the jewel cases, srsly. I am not yet sure how I’m going to make the booklet stay in the dvd cover, that was a slight oversight…but I’m sure it’ll figure itself out. 
I’m struggling quite a bit with the music for the film though, as I was so vigilant that I make the music myself – but 7 minutes is a long time for purely instrumental music. Like, fierce. It’s not like a normal song where I can just strum out a rhythm and create a fun melody, no no no, this needs so much more structure. It’s ridiculous. I swear I’m just going to end up mimicking Sainthood and hoping that nobody knows.
Anyway, I think that’s all the uninteresting things I have to say. I think I only resorted to blogging because it’s Friday night and I’m at home, like I have been for the past few months, trying to get my damn project done. I have never spent so much time on a single thing, ever. If it doesn’t make me rich and famous, some heads will roll.