Awesome Free Stuff

Was told about a couple of sites that give away free (or discounted) stuff by a friend:

http://www.anightlessordinary.org.uk

http://www.studentbeans.com

Making Websites

The plus side of desperately requiring a Mac on a Sunday afternoon is that you get to catch up with the most unlikely of people (since hardly anybody owns one). My cd might not have worked in the mac, but I did discover the graphics site Grafinke, run by a couple of my friends, and got some tips on how to make a web page- using photoshop to create the base, the scalpel tool to select areas for making buttons (and saving as web), and then dreamweaver to do all the technical bits and bobs. I'll definitely need to have a more thorough investigation of it at a later time.

LCC

I'm in the library/ computer room at LCC at the moment, awaiting the fate of my poor incomplete portfolio.


End to the 'Last minute'?
After ordering prints through the internet Monday (what was suppossed to be next day delivery- special delivery, but has yet to arrive), I attempted printing glossy at home Tuesday. However, this led to be problematic when my ink ran out. Spending the £40 I had access to that day buying more, along with paper, I remembered that college had fantastic A3 printers. Unfortunately, I could only get 8 prints out of the college printers before my remaining £8 expired, and so I had to wait for more... which arrived too late to do printing there, or here at LCC (which we also tried, but had just closed the library when we arrived). Attempting emergency prints yesterday evening, the new black ink ran out after the first print, and finally the printing rooms here opend 10 mins after they were suppossed to, and the computer took a good 5 minutes to turn on (first switch on), leaving me but 15 minutes to do some prints until the printer started flashing red, I had to find the technition, and then deposit my portfolio.
Unfortunately, the 'last minute' doesn't account for printers plotting against you.

What LCC is like
Fairly nice building.. reminds me of an art gallery's archetecture. Very simple and clean. Lovely big hallways, and cute signage on the walls. I've found the staff to be friendly and helpful, and the computer rooms i've spent most of my time in to have comfortable chairs. It's a little irratating not having labels on the menu that comes up for printing to tell you which printer you are printing to (you have to know the A3 colour printer is 'pa14' when choosing which printer to send to, rather than it being labelledf 'coloura3', but I'm sure that's easy enough to get used to, or at very least gives you a small workout checking the printers :)

More illness

I caught chilblains, and the doctor said I have 'Reynaud's Syndrome', so they asked for more tests for that, too (fortunately both sets could be done at the same time). So far, everything's come up as ok, so ima have to see the doctor again about what's actually going on? On top of everything, I have an awful cold at the moment. Runny nose, and I feel like i'm dying every time I cough- constantly thirsty, headache, and super tired, with the odd nosebleed.

Postless

I haven't posted in a while, and I thought it time to rectify that. I've had a huge lack of energy/motivation for ages- even for things I wanted to be getting on with, and so I went to the doctors about that 2 weeks back- they want me to do a blood test on the 25th to see if it's something like anemia. I'm hoping it's really obvious what it is, so it can be treated faster, and easily with meds or diet or whatever.
I had my 19th birthday- which I didn't do anything for, as I was ill.
I'm doing work on my application to university at the moment- portfolio, short essays, etc, so there isn't much interesting new work going on to put up. Hopefully i'll get all the uni stuff sorted out by the end of tomorrow, though, so I can start on a new project, and finishing some old stuff.

I'm not a child, I promise!

[If anyone finds somewhere that sells THIS stuff, feel free to get it for me. I never got to taste it, because my luggage was too heavy, but it sounds really yummy. ]

Is it just me, or was it easier to get drunk when you were underage? I'm nearly 19, and I can't go out a lot of the time I want to, as I still have no form of ID for getting into pubs/ clubs, or the like. Why, you ask?

Well. There are several types of ID available.

Passport- I don't have a British passport, and know the chances of it getting lost, or stolen, or wet, are high... unless I spend the whole evening with a hawk's eye on it, and so not enjoy myself. Since I do a fair amount of travelling, and don't have huge amounts of money to spend getting a new passport if the one I have is rendered unuseable from going clubbing, I figured there must be a better way.

Driver's liscence- Firstly, I don't drive. Secondly, it costs about £50. Thirdly, unless you have a British passport, you have to go to some far off distant place in order to get it done, if you don't want your passport sent through the post. (and we all know what the post is like over here, right?)

Citizen card- I thought this was the soultion to all my problems. Costs about £5, can get it from your local.. anywhere... and they only want a photocopy of your passport, rather than your actual passport. HOWEVER, I've been told that a lot of clubs will turn you away with it, as they only accept passports and driver's liscences.

British Passport- I think I have to study England to get one of these, and take a test on it. And it's a bit far to get a British passport just so you can go out drinking with your friends, no?

T-shirt printing

So.. I went into the printing rooms at college the other day, and they're a bit fabulous.. so I made some old doodles into T-shirt sketches, and will try out the printing rooms soonish :)