A few days ago, I recieved my timetable for Uni. It kind of sucks. I have more lessons this year than I did last year. I know that sounds like it makes more sense, since it's my second year, but most people have less lessons because you're supposed to be more independant by then.
Also, my course is now located a good 25-30 minutes walk away. This really sucks. I'm not looking forward to walking to and from there four times a week.
My timetable for the week, as I said, isn't good:
Monday:
2pm � 3pm: Interactive Design3pm � 6:30pm: Design and Communication
Tuesday
9am � 12pm: Interactive DesignThursday
9am � 11am: Writing for Design2pm � 4:30pm: Design Research Methods
Friday
1pm � 2pm: Design Research Methods
9am on Tuesday and 9am on Thursday. Crappy. Also on Thursday, you'll notice that I've got a free period from 11am to 2pm. I have no idea what I'm supposed to do then because it's going to take me 30 minutes to walk home and then 30 minutes back. That means that I'd only be home an hour and then I'd have to make my way back there. That sucks. Instead, I'm probably going to end up waiting around for two hours. Maybe I can get on with my work or something.
There will be a bus available to take me to/from the new place, but only one every hour and it has to be booked in advance. Also, the bus stops at 5:15pm. That's no good for my Monday, considering I finish at the stupid time of 6:30pm. 6:30pm! No one should have to work until then. All lessons should stop at 5:30pm at the latest.
I think I'm gonna be pretty stressed.
On a bit of a lighter note, I went to pick up my keys to my place in Chester on Monday. Only Emily was there but we talked for a while. I'm quite nervous about moving in because it's gonna be a hell of a lot different than last year. Last year, I was free to just stay in my room and not have to deal with anyone. This year, I have four girls to socialise with and for me, socialising at the best of times is scary.
I suppose in a way, this is a good thing because it'll probably make me socialise more, but I'm just naturally not a socialable person and it shows to most people. I think a lot of people look at me a bit funny because of how little I may talk sometimes.
My room itself is, well, a room. It's certainly a lot bigger than my room last year but then anything would be. Even most people's bathrooms aren't as small as my room was.
On the downside, I'm now located 20 minutes walk from town, which means I'll have to walk that and then a little bit more at least once a week to get my shopping. If I can manage 30 minutes to my classes, then I guess I can manage 20 to go shopping.
It's my last week working with Spira next week. I'm both happy and disappointed by that. I'm happy because it means I don't have any responsibility to them after next week, but I'm also disappointed because it means I won't have �720 coming in every month and that money was really handy. I did want to carry on working for them even while I'm at Uni, but I don't think I'm going to be able to. I think it'd be far too much work, considering that technically, I'm supposed to work 8 hours on each module. That's 36 hours of work per week. I don't think it's possible to do that and a full time job as well. If there's any chance I can at least work part time, then I'll do that instead. �350 would still be nice.
I was due to go back to Chester today, but my Mum wants to see my place and has a bad back today so we're going tomorrow. When I do get back tomorrow, it's Tom's birthday and he, I and 1,000 other fresh Uni faces will be out celebrating Fresher's week. I'm sure it'll be pretty damn crazy. I'm hoping that this year's fresher's will be better than last year because last year, I had blisters on the soles of my feet, meaning I couldn't walk anywhere.
In more fun news, my Video Games Live concert is in less than four weeks. I'm really excited, although it does mean I'll have to miss two days of Uni for it. Even better is that I seem to have got the attention of a cute girl who is also going. Her name is Ann and she's originally from Luxembourg but studies "Scientific Illustration" at Blackpool Uni. She's such a good illustrator. Such a good drawer. The fact that she's geeky, cute and is going to VGL makes me like her even more. She's exactly my type of girl. Geeky, intelligent, cute, artistic. And, most of all, she seems free of weirdisms like so many girls I seem to go for.
We've been flirting for the past two weeks or so and have already said that we'd like to meet up once we're both in London. We've also said how if we do like each other, then maybe we'd be staying in the same bed together. It's such a nice thought and perhaps something that only happens in movies, but it's still nice to think about. I know it's not likely though. I can hope, though.
The next time I write, I will be in Chester. I don't think I'll have the net for a week or two though, which kind of sucks. I've just bought a USB wireless adapter to scout out any unsecured networks that I can latch onto while there. At least then I'll have some form of connection, even if it's not particularly stable. I'm hoping that I can convince my housemates-to-be that we need our own connection. If not, then I may just get my own connection instead. I don't think I'd mind paying �20 a month or whatever for a decent Internet connection. The Internet is too important to me not to have it for both Uni and pleasure.
I think that's it for now. See you in Chester.
