Sooo, for Valentines day me and Given toddled down to Portobello Road market and I sat and drooled over the old cameras that I wish I knew how to use. Except this time, I kinda found myself buying one. I bought a Yashica 635, a twin lens reflex camera, apparently a Japanese copy of a rolliflex. I've wanted to try medium format for ages, and this one uses readily available film and the camera itself is soooo pretty. I couldn't resist. It's a little battered and a little post-purchase research shows that I may have paid a smidge too much for it, but only a smidge. But I don't care! I got three compliments from random people just on the way home telling me they've owned one and loved it/did it still work and that it was beautiful! So I'm going to take that as approval, it's also lessened my post-purchase guilt somewhat. I've been sitting at home since just itching to go try it out, but unfortunately I hadn't any film. So tomorrow I'll be taking a hike into Bromley and buying a truck load to run around with. I can't wait!

On another note, I'm going to Northern Ireland on Tuesday to attend Givens fathers wedding and to meet the family in general. I'm very nervous, but trying to put it to the back of my mind! Hopefully the trip will be a good opportunity for taking some photographs, especially if we get time to visit the Giants Causeway. I'm muchly looking forward to it!

Also, I apologise for non-comments! I watch so many people these days and sort through deviations so infrequently that they build up and build up.

And all that jazz.

Time for a pre-Christmas entry! I've been extremely lazy with journals these days, seeing as I don't feel I have all that much to say! The angst and ranting of by-gone days has ceased and I am filled with tranquillity. Well, mostly.

My course is going pretty well. I think. I'm still not entirely sure that I shape up, and I can't say that I've been at my most creative recently. But I'm persevering, and I feel I'm learning something. It's nice to be in amongst other people trying to pursue the same thing. I just need to be more self-motivated! But when hasn't that been the case? The travelling is a bit of a drag in the cold and the dark, but hopefully the Christmas break should perk me up a bit.

I'm home at the moment! Which is really nice, but odd too. I seem to have these two separate compartments in my head, one for my family and my old life when I come home and one for college and my boyfriend and living away from home. And the two are quite separate most of the time, but it's also quite easy to slip from one to the other, even if I do feel this awful tug on my heartstrings when I'm "crossing over".
But it is really good to be home, even if it just encourages all my bad habits again! (Staying up until the wee hours *cough* eating too many chocolate biscuits *cough* sleeping in faaaar too late, et cetera.)

I've been reading again! Properly! I kind of fell out of love with books for a little while, which seems horrific to me now. But I've fallen for them again and I'm eagerly gobbling up 'Birdsong' at the moment. Fuelling my (morbid) curiosity about the first world war and whatnot.

Also. Guitar Hero - World Tour!!!!!! My brother dearest acquired it for his 19th birthday yesterday and I want it. Lead guitar is my weapon of choice, but I gave singing a bash and it's a lot of fun too. The drums are too complicated for moi, but they look really interesting, too. I hope I get a bit more time to fiddle with it while I'm at home!

Anyway, that's it for now, I've rambled a bit and filled my tri-monthly quota of junk to clutter up my deviantart page with!

Oh! Apart from mentioning this new userpage stuff. I love it! I've gotten rid of my journal from the front page altogether, played around with the layout a bit. I love it. It's clean and smoooooth and I really hope it's introduced to non-beta testers very soon. If you're a subscriber and you haven't already, go and try it out!

~Signing off.

I've been debating whether I should put some of my recent photographs up here. I started my Photography BA over a month ago now, and since I started I've been experimenting with film, something I've never so much as touched before, and I must say I do quite love it. I feel very self--conscious with it though, I'm utterly out of my comfort zone, and it's rough around the edges, unpredictable and very, very different from digital. So, I feel a little reluctant to post any of those images up here because they aren't as polished as I feel my digital work is. But at the same time it's progress, right? I'm allowed to experiment and not worry about controlling every single aspect of every image I take. Soo, I guess I'll put a few things up. And perhaps scrap them soon after. But we'll see. Don't be too harsh! I'm a beginner!

On another note, I need to get some decent journal CSS. Looking at this uglyness is making me sad. I wish I were CSS fluent, rather than patching bits and pieces together from articles or templates. Oh well, I guess I keep at it!