Back to school...

... At least that's what it feels like! Final year for me, almost time to go back to the more traditional fare of study and academia after my placement year is finished.

Now the nailbiting REALLY starts, because I have to get my final year done, all my other assessments, plus find some kind of workable employment after I've finished my Degree.

Oh, and I have to graduate too! Here's hoping.

The great Year 3 moveout begins

... And I have far too much to do in what seems like not nearly enough time. We have to be out of this place by Sunday, and we still have walls to paint, carpets to clean, stuff to move out (not in that order) - why is it we always leave moveouts until the very last possible moment? Urgh.

Never mind, I'm currently sifting through my detritus and working out what I need to keep and what I can afford not to - and listening to Beauty Of Uncertainty by KT Tunstall while I do it. That track is absolutely sublime.

Only a couple of months until my final year starts! And I'm so ill-prepared. Oh dear. :(

Flippin 'eck, where did May go?

Blimey, we're into June already. I've finished my mandatory placement weeks, and I'm now working for the boss on an ad-hoc basis (for real money!) until the end of June . In other news, we're getting ready to move out of one house and into another at the beginning of July. Here's hoping that all works out ok (there's a five day overlap between us having to move out and being able to move into our next place) but, of course, there's so many things that could go wrong.

Urk.

Last year of uni coming up soon - and I still haven't picked a final choice for my Final Year Project! Aaaaaaaaaargh. Help, someone!

Right, back to the old web design (to earn some more money to squirrel away in the savings account)

I swear blind I'm having more senior moments these days

... And I openly slurp my tea in public! I think it's time for a nice sit down to accompany.

My housemates are either on the home stretch twoards finishing - or have already finished (in Iain's case) Uni now; I've still got a year left.

It's going to be a little strange next year, but still fun. Time to really start getting down to business, I have a job to try and find well in advance AND a final year project to plan. And write.

Good idea #3: keeping up with your logbook entries

Unfortunately, I'm sometimes a lazy tyke, resulting in situations such as the one I faced last week - I'd only just refound my diary afer losing it (in my room! haha), and I then had sixteen weeks of work placement to document. Of course, I hadn't done any of them.

This blog's been quiet lately... Again, partially due to my laziness, but partially because I've been so busy at work. It's quite a difference from the crack of noon ;) that most students have to face every day - up early, in work, constant application of brain all day, finish at around 7pm, half an hour's drive back home... Then I'm usually so knackered it's just a case of scrounging for some quick grub, then an hour or so checking emails / keeping in touch with family / preparing for tomorrow, and off to bed.

And of course, although everybody else in my house gets three weeks off for the Easter break, I get nothing because I'm on a placement (and you have to negotiate with your employer for holiday). Circumstances just don't permit me to take time off - there's nobody to do my jobs (plural) while I'm away, and we're down to the wire on staff levels as it is!


I still have to decide what to do for my final year project too, and I have to decide (and submit the revised title) before the end of this term, but I'm stalling once again because I can't decide. I also have to sort out accommodation for next year, and it's getting later and later (when we found this house, it was all sorted by the January of the year we moved in - people arrange their accommodation crazily early in Birmingham because there's such a high demand for it!) I really don't want to be homeless, or worse still, have to move back into Halls for my final year, that'd be awful. One of the downsides of doing a placement is that you're always a year out from everybody else :(


Anyway, that's where I am right now in my life - looking forward to my final year of uni, apprehensive about accommodation and final year projects, and still uncertain of what I'm going to do after I graduate. I really want to work in local commercial radio (or even BBC regional) but it's hard-as-anything trying to find a decent in-road to these kinds of organisations. I've got fingers, toes, eyes crossed for luck, but I think it's going to be more serendipity than anything else that helps me in my job search.


Signing off for now... I need another cup of tea (I'm already enjoying the nice sit down).