Showing posts with label school work. Show all posts
Showing posts with label school work. Show all posts

Saturday, 7 January 2012

New year promises no sleep

Happy New Year!

First of all I'd like to wish everyone a happy new year and may your new year be a lot more promising than mine. (Virtual 90 degree bow)

There are two reasons as to why my blog's been dead ever since I came to Sweden:

1. My exam was moved forth one week and completely destroyed my schedule. So now I've got two assignments, one of which I've practically haven't started, and an exam for the 16th. I'm thrilled to bits and f-cking pieces! (These tears coming down my face are happy tears I swear)

2. Koreans. And worst of all: Koreans and YouTube.

So as it looks like now, I'll either have to screw the exam preparations and focus on my assignments or not sleep for one week and try to fit in all of it.

Fun times ahead. Fun times.

Sunday, 6 November 2011

The thing with designer stores

Photo: Mine
I'm just one of those people who are excessively anxious about a lot. School (no kidding), the future, school work, work experiences, socialising, not updating my blogs enough, having to change tube at Green Park (everyone living in London know I'm quite serious about this) and the things just pile up.

One of the things that I get especially anxious about is: designer stores. You see, there's a reason as to why after three years of living in London I still haven't been to Selfridge's (GASP!) and avoid Harrod's like the plague - I know my place.

There's nothing more cringeworthy than people who aspirationally wear designer clothes and particularly; bags. With other words people who shows off their designer wear (might even be real for all I care) when obviously they can't afford the lifestyle.

So when we get assignments which require you to physically visit a designer store, and believe me it happens often enough, I dread it for my life (ok this I'd say would be journalistic sensationalism but you get the idea).

Going into a designer store when you obviously aren't there to shop is probably the most self-conscious thing you can do. Imagine this: a fancy well-lit, minimalist store with huge glass windows on Sloane street with its millions of security guards and well-dressed staff. You don't even have to step into the store with both of your legs before: BANG they see you're not there to buy something. They see it on your bag. They see it on your shoes. They see it on your coat. They see it on your watch. They see.

So if you know a secret sign that says, "Hey please don't mind me, I'm just here to check the country of origin labels. Just pretend I'm invisible and don't talk to me. Cheers!', please let me know.

Wednesday, 11 May 2011

16 days to freedom

Hey, I'm still alive. Incredible.

Currently listening to Tschaikowshy and reading 'Technology: advancing retail buyer performance in the twenty-first century', and yes it is actually 6 minutes past midnight. Although I'm so tired my eyes are about to fall out I just feel really bad for not studying earlier. (This is me punishing myself)

This is to all uni stundets out there struggling with exams and coursework: It will pay off! Keep on fighting. :) (Actually this is what I need to convince myself of)

Later,
Tiffany

Sunday, 27 February 2011

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

Saturday, 20 November 2010

Caution, zombie passing.

So if you haven't noticed it's coursework period, and I've got a sh*t load of things to do. This week has been the most stressful so far and it's not even over!

Thursday was the worst. While my essay was due Friday I didn't realize until late Thursday that my essay was crap. So I spend the whole evening and night to rewrite it. Which resulted in only 4 hrs of sleep. I just want to say: I don't recommend it!

Anyway,  the next couple of weeks will be less intense (I hope) and I might even have time to blog.

I ahve to sort my life out now and it's stressful. How is it possible that so much pressure is put on students these days huh?!

Until we meet again,
Tiffany

Friday, 12 November 2010

Hey,

I just wanted to stop by and say: You don't want to be me right now.

Yours sincerely,
Tiffany