| The Beginning - 001/365 |
[Sep. 28th, 2009|09:10 pm] |
I hardly write proper updates here. I’ve been thinking, and I’ve decided to do something a bit different. I was reading about the 365 Project and looking through people’s pictures on Flickr, and it seems like a great way of documenting your life. I didn’t want to wait until 2010 to start, so. As of today, the 28th of September 2009, I will be taking a picture every day for the next year, and posting them on here when I can, ideally once a week unless I do something exciting! I don’t want to clutter friends lists with my photos all the time!
I feel like I should post a little introduction and stuff, in case I make new friends through this or so that in a year when I’m looking back over these posts I can see where I started from. Here goes!
I’m Cate. I’m twenty and (as of today) a second year film and media studies student. I live with my boyfriend, Chris, and work serving drinks and food at the local concert/sports/conference arena. I play bass in an indie-pop band called Squares, and supposedly write electro-pop with Chris, although we haven’t done anything in forever.
This year is hopefully going to be good for me. If you stick around long enough you’ll be seeing pictures of Chris’ and my one year anniversary, my first year having a whole flat to decorate for Christmas, Chris’ and my 21st birthdays, a trip to London to see Iggy and the Stooges and the as yet undecided Expensive Holiday 2010. I can’t wait!
But, for today, here’s picture 001/365. The view from the metro platform on the way home from uni is pretty, especially in the autumn.
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[Feb. 5th, 2009|03:02 pm] |
My first week back at uni is going well. So far I've had two 2-and-a-half hour gaps because of short lectures and then seminars being cancelled, but people who could be going home have waited around with me, which was lovely. I like the people in my classes. And my TV Studio module seems like it's going to be better than I thought, it doesn't look too hard. But oh my god, I was sitting on a sofa on the set in the studio with all the big lights on, and from what I could see of myself on the monitor I was actually glowing with pasty whiteness. Like, seriously. Glowing. It needs to be summer now, I'm tired of being practically see-through.
It was snowing a little again today, though, and it was really pretty. I wish snow and warmth came together! |
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[Dec. 14th, 2008|05:25 pm] |
I just dyed my hair and it's gone really dark, like it always does before I wash it a couple of times and I go back to being ginger. I quite like it though. Next time I might go dark for real.
I've done about half of my work, which isn't enough considering it's due on Tuesday. Stress stress stress and I should at least have my Cybercultures finished tonight. I hope so. |
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[Jul. 3rd, 2007|01:43 am] |
YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!! I passed all my important classes! Even the shit Film Studies exam which I thought I was going to fail for definite. I don't know what marks I got yet so it's possible that I got 41% or something like that, but I don't even care. Also, my Key Skills for Work resit is a 1500 word essay on leadership skills, which is way less work than what I would have had to do to pass the class in the first place. I'm so happy! Hehe.
But yeah, I find it really weird how they send the list of who passed and who failed to everyone on the whole course. I especially feel bad for the people who failed most/all of their classes. Now everyone knows!
I'll probably post again in a couple of days, when I get my actual results rather than the pass/fail list. Now that I know I haven't failed, I'm getting a bit greedy and hoping that I've got a first in English. A (somewhat nerdy) girl can dream! |
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[May. 23rd, 2007|10:57 am] |
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Pete and the Pirates at Leeds! Get in! Kind of gutted that The Academy Is... and Hot Hot Heat are on at the same time as Arcade Fire and the Chilis, but meh. Yay! |
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[May. 15th, 2007|04:02 pm] |
I'm in the middle of building a my first piece of flatpack furniture. It's not going very well. Why are there no proper instructions?! Everything looks the same and it's all just generally a bit scary. It's going to be the best bedside cabinet ever when/if it's done though.
Oh, and I handed in the last of my uni essays yesterday. Three exams and then I'm done! Finally. What a year.
Wish me luck with my new found furniture construction skills! |
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[Apr. 27th, 2007|12:48 am] |
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oops, i forgot to update. i got into college! audition was scary, had to wait around for an hour and then was told by the scary ginger course leader that my bass had 'terrible intonation' (which is yahama's fault rather than mine, thank god!), but i got in which was the main thing. |
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[Apr. 15th, 2007|10:12 pm] |
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haha, i've just spent way too long looking at the bebo profiles of people i went to school with in dundee. it's weird/funny/disturbing. but the disturbing prize of the night goes to the profiles of the 50-year-old woman who was the little girl in chitty chitty bang bang and her two children, who were at school with me. it's nice to know that both her and her son don't like coke, just the way it smells, and it was delightful to see a close up of her daughter's boobs. cheers, bebo.
i just dyed my hair, and it's gone really dark. i look like gerard way in the good old days. meh!
unless i'm feeling very diligent and post tomorrow, by the next time i post in here i'll have had my audition at college and i'll know what i'm doing for the next two years. wish me luck! |
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[Mar. 19th, 2007|03:49 pm] |
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es schneit! es schneit!
it's really pretty. my computer faces the window now too so i'm just sitting here, watching it. i'm glad it's not hailing any more too. when my english seminar let out me and nicky were massively attacked by hailstones and it hurt.
leeds tickets tonight! i'm going out for a meal so i'm leaving the ticket buying up to my mum. i hope it's not as busy as last year cos i think it'll freak her out.
oh, and i'm tidying my room right now, and it's so cathartic throwing so much stuff away. i have awesome plans for my room. no money, but awesome plans. oh well.
we've got a gig on the 25th in aid of anti-slavery international, and it's going to be amazing. mint line up. everyone in the world should come, because it's a fantastic cause and because shields isn't that scary. honest.
it's not snowing any more :( |
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[Mar. 11th, 2007|01:09 am] |
every week i decide to drop another lecture. right now i reckon i can get by on four at the most out of my seven hours per week. if i was any more of a slacker i'd be getting yelled at by jeremy kyle.
if college doesn't get in touch with me soon about my audition, i think i'm going to go insane. knowing for sure what is happening next year will take a massive load off my mind.
oh, and 43things.com is really addictive. i've been looking at lists of stranger's life goals for about two hours now. |
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[Dec. 28th, 2006|01:18 am] |
it's been so long since i've updated this that i don't even know where to start with writing about life. um...basics.
+ passed my a levels with an 'a' in english lit, an 'a' in film studies and a 'c' in psychology.
+ got into university with said grades.
+ got a band together with daniel, martin and kylie from the film group.
+ started gigging with the band in october, stopped for a while because daniel's throat packed in and are starting again tomorrow with an impromptu gig supporting an emo band at a methodist church.
+ decided that university was eating my soul and that i had finally come to the end of my tether with academics.
+ decided to give it until the end of the year, and then become a fully fledged teenage cliché and drop out to study music.
+ applied for the btec in popular music (plus a health and safety qualification and a drugs awareness certificate, yay!) course back at newcastle college.
meh, i was looking for one of those year in review quizzes but evidently i didn't do one last year so i can't find it. but hey, i'm having fun looking back over my old journal entries. my dad still wants me to go to university in wales. i broached the subject of dropping out of uni with him and he was fine about it, and gave it about two seconds before happily telling me that you can study music at university in newport. he's decided that he wants to have his own radio show now. he thinks it'd be amazing. he's a strange, strange man.
but yeah. i go between being really enthusiastic about going back to college and being really stressed because it'll put me in a really shit financial situation. i'm basically going to have to save like a crazy woman and try and get a good job this summer just so i can live for the next two years. i feel really bad that i made bad decisions and got myself into the situation of dropping out and going back to living on EMA and everything, but i just can't stay at university. i'm just finding it incredibly pointless and it scares me and stresses me out and annoys me, and it's redundant because i don't want to do anything that an english degree will let me do. so, however unsensible it may be, i've got to do something that'll make me happy in the long run. |
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[May. 10th, 2006|10:47 am] |
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I'm really nervous today. Daniel and Martin are setting up a band, and they're coming over today to teach me some songs they've written. I'm really excited too, and I was totally excited until Daniel gave me a CD of his and Martin's last band, then sent me lyrics for the songs I'm learning today. They're really good, like really good. Apart from the sound recording and the electrodrums (they recorded onto a bootleg 4-track in Daniel's room, as far as I know) I'd have thought they were signed and playing the NME tent at Leeds this year. Which is amazing because they've asked me to play with them, but scary because they've never actually heard me play, and now Daniel is telling me that one of the songs he's teaching me today is a 'masterpiece'. No pressure.
In other news, 12 days til the end of timetabled classes at college. I can totally do that. |
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[Mar. 12th, 2006|05:37 pm] |
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I just about gave my mum a heart attack a second ago. She puts the fish in the bath when she needs to clean it out (it sounds weird but yeah), and it was in the bath and I could hear it crashing off of the plug-chain quite a bit. So I went through and there was no water left in the bath at all, and it was lying there looking half-dead. I freaked out (I'm really attached to the fish, it's nearly six years old. And I hate the idea of things not being able to breathe) and started shouting for her while I was trying to figure out a way to save it. I think she thought I was being murdered or something, and I feel quite guilty for it now. I was really scared for the fish though! It's OK now, back in it's tank and looking quite disturbed (of course I can tell!) but otherwise good.
Catherine, saviour of water creatures.
The Osmonds were actually alright, for what they are. I can see why people like them. Crazy Horses is actually quite a good song, and the one who plays drums played a solo which to me un-drum-trained ears sounded very good for someone who is about ninety. The audience was really scary though, I've never seen a place full of people so obsessed. I'd say there were a good few people who follow their whole tour every time they come over here, and at one point the band were singing random lines from Jingle Bells or Twinkle Twinkle Little Star and the audience would finish off the song. That's power, when you can get about five hundred middle aged women to sing Twinkle Twinkle Little Star because they loved you in the 70s. I bet the Backstreet Boys won't get that. |
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[Apr. 1st, 2005|12:55 am] |
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