I was glared at all day yesterday by Ron Weasley. Most unnerving. Lol.

There I was, minding my own business as I took stock down to go on the shop floor and every time I looked up, there was Rupert Grint with a most sullen look upon his face. They'd left one of the carboard cut out for the release of Half-Blood Prince right by the door of the stock room. So about a dozen times I forgot it was there, looked up, and then blergh-ed! at the appearance of an angsty, moody Ron Weasley

I'm not sure what this says about my memory capacity, my attention span, nor for my perception of reality; but damn kids are angry these days, even fictious ones... He's a wizard! You'd think he'd be a bit cheerier about that


XJaxX

P.S.
I saw the Coca-Cola advert this morning so it is now offically the Christmas season!
Holidays are coming, Holidays are coming...

...

Crap I haven't finished Christmas shopping! ARGH!

All artistic/creative projects in the last fortnight have come to a grinding halt since I have now got a job. It's the temp job I thought I'd missed my chance at, but it's hard work. Or rather, everyone is getting more stressed the closer we get to Christmas and they take it out on the temps >( Not that I'm prefect, I've made mistakes, but as they don't seem to explain anything properly it's no wonder. The usual niggling details, "everything must go there... except for that... don't leave that there, but don't go there either unless you have one of those..." Which is a pain when they seem to expect me to be in two places at once.

But it's not really that bad. Things'll probably run smoothly when I'm properly settled in. I seem to avoid rebuke if I keep traversing the store in a hurried manner looking busier than I am. I drew short straw and in my first week of working there I had to work the Sunday shift which meant I've worked the last eight days straight not used to it. But hopefully won't have to do that again until late December. But it's a little annoying that they seem to be loading more responsibilty on me than the other temp girl. I can guess why. They assume cos of my degree that I'm supposed to be smarter than her. Alas, this however does not give me common sense, quick wits, nor co-ordination. But other temp girl doesn't mind cos she gets easier work, grrr....

The other reason for artistic hiatus is my laptop is totally fecked. Wasn't the virus that killed it after all. A completely different hard drive and it still didn't start up properly, and now no longer connects to the internet. Dad presented it to me proudly "all fixed!" and the moment I switched it on it became as efficient as a demented geriatric retard. So no laptop, so I can't work on any of my digital pictures.

Work on my bedroom has finally got underway. Despite trying to avoid a purple colour, I still ended up with a deep sort of violet, and what was supposed to be this mellow sort of almond colour, but now looks more like pink ¬.¬ Pink is not really my first choice for interior, but I'm not making my dad paint it all over again.

Anywho, I think that's enough of an update. See ya in another 6 months!

XJaxX

My internets is going to be a little retricted for a while. It seems the inevitable has occured and my laptop is all virus loved up. Damn virus hooking up with MY laptop! I had suspected for a little while but hoped otherwise as my antivirus didn't detect anything. My disc space was filing up consistantly but I assumed it was because I was consistantly making new files . But now Windows won't boot up or shutdown properly; and despite taking off all my personal files and attempting to defrag, my disc space is alarmingly small . I'm pretty much certain now as it booted up with the firewall turned off and it wouldn't allow me to turn it back on. Huh, stupid virus.

But you don't need to know all this, and I think I have all my stuff backed up so I'll probably wipe the machine when I get chance later in the week. And 3 1/2 years without a virus is pretty good, I'd say

At least I can use my family's computers. The joy of not having to hammer the keyboard to type out a sentence! Unfortunately late night trawling through fanfiction is out of the question . What will I do at night???

In other news, finally got another job interview on Wednesday. It's only a seasonal temp, but I'm hoping if I prove I'm damn amazing they'll keep me on permanent. And long term I can possibly work part-time and do my Masters Degree at the 'local' University. I still want to try for the Pixar program, but I know my experience is limited and my show reel doesn't really reflect much of what I can do

I'm working on it though! Slowly mind you. Hopefully I'll have a bigger room by the end of the month, with a desk! An actual desk that I can draw at! And a book case! I won't have to sit on boxes of books and DVDs anymore!!! Still don't know what colour to decorate though. Mum is ever so 'subtlely' trying to suggest a purple colour, but I'm not keen. I like purple but I don't think it's really me anymore. I had my room that colour in our old house.

Lets see... I also Graduated last Thursday! I thought it would feel kinda redundant as we finished Uni 3 months ago, but it was actually really great! It was really cold but at least it was nice and sunny! I got to spend the afternoon with my housemates and classmates. We went out that night to the '80s bar! IT was awesome. Cocktails £1.99 all night! Almost as good as the Dungeon. Shame I gave myself blisters running for the train the next day I had to rush home for another family party, lol! So yeah, drinking two nights on the trot with little sleep left we kinda wiped out this weekend. It was a shame I couldn't have stayed in Southampton longer, even if it was a little weird staying in the house-that-wasn't-my-house-anymore.

I miss my uni buds . I wish I could live with them again. I sorta wish I'd had the guts to stay in Southampton and try to find a job there. But there's no way I could have kept up with rent and bills. I'm still wrestling with my overdraft now. Everytime I get some benefits come in, I find something to go out. I still have savings but the longer I can stay out of those the better. Most of it is my inheritence and I wanna save it for something special.

Bah... and there have been some awesome semi-good paying jobs I've applied for, but I'm rejected everytime because I haven't got enough 'experience'. We all know how fun this scenario is. You can't get a job cos you got no experience, can't get no experience cos you can't get a job.

Anyway, blah blah, I could go on forever. Seriously I could. I'm like flood gates. It's a real problem. Sometimes I wonder if anyone ever gets a word in edge ways. Well Matt does, but he's loud too. And a massive geek so he has lots of useless stuff to say. Me, I at least have semi useful information. Okay, so none of it is actually present in this journal, but I say useful stuff all the time!

All the time.


XJaxX

Okay, that's it. There must be something extremely odd about the way I speak! I've have three job interviews now, and every single time they've asked me where my accent comes from. They think I'm Australian!

I'm british! I've lived in england my whole life! I don't even have any Australian relatives! I wouldn't mind but I don't even watch Neighbours or Home and Away!

It's crazy, I'm telling ya!

.... Maybe I was Australian in a past life?

Wish me luck on the continued job hunt!



XJaxX

Urgh... my mum has joined facebook. Which wouldn't be so bad, but as we have no study atm and I still have no space in my room for a desk, we're both sitting at the dinning room table on our laptops.

Every two seconds it's "ooh, what do I do with this Jacqueline?" or "Urgh! I don't want them to be my friend", and loads of "Well apparently [blank] has done [blank]" which I already know because I was on facebook half an hour ago to reply to a bleeding message! And I'm not kidding, it is literally every two seconds.

My mum doesn't seem to realise that when I'm sat at my laptop I am CONCENTRATING, and her inane chatter drives me up the wall. Scratch that - she does know. She even said as much, but she does it anyway. Thank god she's back at work, so I only have to listen to her aggravating commentary at the weekends.

I'm just glad there's no chance of her joining Deviantart. At least there's one place where I will maintain a little privacey. And if any of you dare tell her how to join Deviantart, my wrath shall fall upon you swiftly.

*****

ESTING

It's not life or death. In fact it makes no difference what so ever, but if you like my work, I appreciate anyone wandering over here [link] and taking a look at my animation. It be nice for the view count to go up and know that half of it wasn't me checking to see how many times it had been watched

I don't think I'll get through to the next stage of the competition though . My stuff just doesn't seem to have the same impact that other people's have.

[link]

XJaxX

PS
Look at the others too. This is one of my favourites [link]