When going mad always turn to Mad Men

I've been having these 'f*ck everything'-moments quite a lot lately, actually even 3 or 4 times just today. It's just so frustrating when one thing goes wrong after the other. Can I get a break, please?

Anyway, I have loads of work to do as always and coursework due date is not even close. Swell life I have right? Most recently I've I wasted about an hour on going through every freakin' issue of Camden New Journal in 2005 without finding the article about the abandoned pub I was looking for. I'm defeated by this  Investigative Journalism piece even before I've started writing it. There's journalism fail for you.

What else am I failing at? Ah, I spent the whole week working on my CV and cover letter for 'Journalism & Employability' in which we're (the class) is going to run the school's news website and before doing so we're staging the employment process for the different positions as in a real news website. Can you imagine? A whole freakin' week for 2, no actually 3, pages of text most of which are bullet points. There's just general fail for you.

In the end I was lying defeated on my desk, banging my head repeatedly on the wooden surface and decided to just f*ck everything. So I watched Mad Men until the sun decided to come out.

This was cheerful wasn't it?

Toodles,
Tiffany

News, without the boring bits

A Swedish London-based journalist slash fashion student's take on everything's newsy

Hey, you make sure to follow my news Twitter for my take on news - without the boring bits. ;)

www.twitter.com/stuffbytiffany (or click on picture)

Cheerio,

Tiffany

Very hipster stuff



Runway show at Pure Spirit

 I've started my new term now, and with a new term comes new burden. So far I've stuck to my "get things done as soon as possible" strategy (which has unfortuantely failed previously), I could even squeezedin some normal life activities such as shopping, going to the museum and yoga. I also went to the fashion trade fair "Pure" (yes very hipster stuff), which we have to visit as a part of our new coursework.

Other than being completely awkward and clueless of what to do essentially, I have to say it was really interesting. I've never been to a fashion trade fair before but it was basically like any fair with people showcasing their products and look for buyers. Obviously, the place was swarmed with all sorts of stylish people (imagine chic mom with an even ridiculously chic son) knowing exactly what they were doing, which didn't make me feel more awkward or clueless...at all.

However, for me it was really interesting to browse (on a personal level) through emerging trends but also (on a educational level) to see how this specific side of fashion buying works.

Goodnight y'all,
Tiffany

The perks of not being me 1.0

I can actually come up with hundreds of advantages of not being me. Let me start with;

1. Socially awkward

"Hi, I'm Tiffany and I'm not able to be around people."

Sometimes I think I instinctively avoid being around people. It's not like I hate being around people, I just rather be alone (mostly...). And then I mope around for not having friends or being liked, serves me right, huh?

I just seldom ask people to do stuff together, I rarely text, I'm not on Facebook 24/7, I'm terrible at small talk, I don't know how to make funny comments, I don't have funny anecdotes to tell. I'm just really awkward especially talking in a group of people, I'm always the one smiling pathetically and swifting the weight back and forth with my feet. And now I'm beginning to understand that being the independent-headphone-girl is eventually going to be my death, at least career and relationwise.

The truth is I don't have problems approaching people, like talking to people I don't know or initiate conversations with people I know. I'm just incompetant when it comes to building up a relationship and surround myself with people.Why is that? How do you do it? Is there a Social Skill class I missed somewhere along growing up?

There you go, didn't this make you feel better? :)

Yours Sincerely,
Tiffany

Corporate communication and stuffs

I'm back in Sweden for a couple of days to celebrate the Chinese new year with my family. I'll probably be quite busy with all the Chinese hoohah, meeting friends and the Les Mis stuff me and my sis does, so I won't blog much (hem, not that I do otherwise).

Anyway, so yesterday was my first "real" in office internship day. It was interesting. They're a really small company (actually so small we were a total of 5 people in the office) and on the phone slash laptop non stop. Well I guess that's the working world now, isn't it?

So what did the intern do? Well, she got a intimitading first assignment, which was writing up a news story about a company which did theirr first live webchat for their investors (you know great stuffs). It wasn't that bad, you might think. After I was finished with the first draft of the article they told me it would be better if I got real quotes from the CEO person instead of taking quotes from the article (which my article was based on). I was like, so I need to contact him.......in person? (Heart going 1000 beats per second)

Luckily I didn't have to interview him throught he phone however I had to call the switchboard and ask for his email, which was heavy stuff too. But it went well (I think) and my article was published later that day.

Click on the link for my first attempt to corporate communication news (subedited of course): http://www.communicatemagazine.co.uk/news/2286-investor-relations-the-live-show

Toodles,
Tiffany