We Feel Fine

I really, really like We Feel Fine. I wish I had the creativity and originality to come up with something like that.


I love the gallery and the way snippets of blogs have been used with images. I think it produces beautiful pieces which are pretty powerful or, in some cases, heartbreaking.

"At its core, We Feel Fine is an artwork authored by everyone. It will grow and change as we grow and change, reflecting what's on our blogs, what's in our hearts, what's in our minds. We hope it makes the world seem a little smaller, and we hope it helps people see beauty in the everyday ups and downs of life."

Gah

Buying pens/paper/folders in Tesco in a desperate bid to kick-start some proactivity:

Checkout Man: "Is this so you can do your homework?"
Me: "Hmm yes something like that"
Checkout Man: "What year are you in at school? You revising for exams coming up soon?"
Me: "It's for uni"
Checkout Man: "Oh! I see, planning ahead for September are we?!"
Me: "Um, no, I'm in 3rd year"
Checkout Man: "Oh..."

Sigh.

Writing

Am I the only person who writes stuff and then reads it and cringes? Sometimes I write an entire entry, preview it, then with a shudder and a click I've deleted it. I suppose what this really means is that I actually don't have anything I want to say to the outside world. That or I can't write.

Dissertation

So today at uni I got told that my project is vague, has no direction and is pretty much all nonsense.

Which is funny, because... that pretty much sums up my life right now.

Careers Workshop

Today at uni we have a careers workshop. We're working this term on placement pitches in a bid to create a one-stop shop for prospective employers. The idea is ultimately for each individual to create a video selling themselves, all of which will be uploaded onto the site.

We've been looking at values within ourselves. We took part in an activity in which we were given a pack of little cards with lots of values on them. We all picked out our top five. Here are mine:

I like taking risks.
I like to be independent.
I like challenges.
I need to be in a competitive situation to thrive.
I enjoy being a leader.

So what I have drawn from this, is that I am easily distracted, bossy and a bit of a loner. Great.

Employ me?

Unproductive

I'm fairly sure I'm one of the most unproductive people in existence. I realised today I have managed to make it to week six of this semester without doing any work. I don't know whether to laugh or cry.

I don't think it helps that I have pretty much no direction in life. I have no long term plans, hell, I don't even have any short term ones. I don't even know what I'm going to have for dinner tonight.

I should probably be doing a lot of work before uni tomorrow but instead I keep getting "distracted". I've managed to waste a fair bit of time today riding my horse, making my Twitter look nice (follow me!) and writing this poor blog entry.

Action brings good fortune. Surfing the net, I'm not so sure.

Microsoft Mosquitoes

Microsoft founder turned philanthropist Bill Gates released a glass full of mosquitoes at an elite technology conference to make a point about the deadly disease malaria.

"Malaria is spread by mosquitoes," Gates said while opening a jar on stage at the Technology, Entertainment, Design Conference in Monterey, California — a gathering known to attract technology kings, politicians, and Hollywood stars.

"I brought some. Here I’ll let them roam around. There is no reason only poor people should be infected."

(Via MailOnline)