My Sunday Ramblings: A Never Ending Story

Ok, so although this post is not so much University academia related, I thought I'd just update you with the swirling vortex of nonsense that is currently going on in my head, on a Sunday afternoon.

There's always one. Maybe she
just wants a blue pencil
for her map. Unlikely.

As I was posting my previous post I was reading over it thinking; "I was always told I was pretty rubbish at school in English, I don't want to show myself up for everybody to see", while frantically checking grammar and spelling. As I read it over it again after posting I came to realise, school may teach you the basics, the grammar, the spelling, but how much you continue to develop as an adult cannot be taught. They don't teach life in school!

At school, it's all up on the board in black and white. You copy it out. You practise it. But if you're really just that rubbish at it, it will follow you about forever. Or so it seems, but I think somewhere along the line, I told school to get out my car and it can hitch a lift off of somebody else. That well known feeling of leaving school and thinking "pfft, don't have to think about that garbage any longer" is still true for some subjects - for me it was Geography. I mean come on, what a useless subject. I coloured maps for 2 years and got the top mark! Thats hardly the basis for a degree. Apologies if you're reading this from your Geography lecture. I'm not apologising for what I've said, I'm apologising for your degree. However back to the topic in question - subconsciously I don't think you ever stop learning the likes of English (or French, or German, or Vietnamese, whatever is your first language). What I'm trying to get at, is that I hope my English teacher somehow through the wonderful vast realms of the internet, gets a hold of this, and gives me a long awaited pat on the back saying, "Shona, you finally got better at this".

Wow, that really was some ramble - but it made sense up in my noggin.

VRC - DCA [DJCAD's "Centrespace"]

Secondly, in this black hole of a brain of mine, I was also thinking a lot about this Juteopolis project, late at night in my bed (it's what I find myself doing when I can't sleep). I'm thinking it's a much better task than I had originally suspected, as due to doing a Jute related piece last year, my heart sank at the word coming up again this year. I therefore had reservations about my motivation to go into that research area again, however on saying that, it is amazing what your individual ideas and designs can be transformed into while working in a group. I'm impressed. Who knew we were actually pretty good at this stuff! Handy, studying it and hoping for a career within it, and all.

Right now, I'm pretty excited to execute this final idea and present next week, as I would genuinely enjoy the exhibition if it were to be created! Yay - go team us!

So after all of the above off my chest, I'm figuring that I should probably use this new found lease of life for Jute and get the heck out my bed and off my blog and GET ON WITH IT! (I just love blogging so dang much!)