I'm aware I may have abandoned this for a while. I had to look at my last post and realised the last time I actually posted something was back at the start of August. I've had 2 drafts there for god knows how long but they're not done yet and probably won't be. I also started another blog just for creative writing. I don't really get to do it that much in English and I missed doing it so hence why I set up a new one. When I eventually finish one of my short stories I'll post a link up. But for now I'm just gonna ramble on
Since my last post a lot has gone on. For one thing I'm officially in the 20s now. It's so strange. Like I don't feel 20 at all. I definitely don't look it. I don't know what age I look but I get told I look younger than I actually am. However one of my finest moments happened last week. I was in tesco and I bought a bottle of vodka and it's the first time I've never been asked for i.d in a shop. It felt like a belated achievement, but an achievement none the less! I take everything as it comes, with my luck I kinda have to. Other things that have changed since my last post have been that I'm back in college and back into the routine again. Now I thought I'd have a little bit more free time because my 3rd subject had been dropped and I had a better idea of what was going on. Unsurprisingly I was wrong. I might only have 2 subjects to worry about but it's dawned on me that this year counts. As well as that I'm on the committee for 2 of the societies, I took up lacrosse, took up Get in Gear. I'm also trying to get a job and going to interviews. There's also band and gigs and peoples birthdays and god knows what else. Free time? What is that exactly? I have gaps between lectures but that's when I meet up with friends and get food. I'm an arts student so it's a given I'm not going to do work during those gaps. I've also gotten back into creative writing. I've realised that my English modules don't really do the personal essay or short story type of essays so I've set up another blog just for that. I've 3 drafts so far and I'm working away properly on 1 of them whenever I actually do get time so hopefully I'll finish that and let you all take a look at what I come up with
Touching on one of the job interviews I have a story that happened about one of them. Now I applied for so many jobs that i couldn't remember all of them I applied for. Last week I got a phone call from one of them asking could I come in on Monday for an interview. They then sent me a text with the details of where it was and everything else. Now while on the phone I had no memory of the name of this place so I looked them up and saw it was a student agency thing. I had no memory of applying for it but I thought that I probably just forgot about it after applying for so many jobs. So on Monday I went in with the knowledge thinking it was an agency, thinking they're just going to ask me a few questions to see what I'm like and what job would suit me and so on. Grand. Went in and got asked the usual questions that come around then started to talk about my degree in college. Mainly English and what I liked about it and my writing skills and style and stuff like that. That was fine, just thinking they were interested in the English side of my degree. Got into it more that it just felt like a conversation. Then he started to ask me about sports. Now I found this a little odd but I kept going anyway and answered. Then the guy said "Now obviously for this sports journalism job you would be doing a lot of research, what do you think about that?" You know that feeling you get when you suddenly realise you've made an incredibly wrong assumption? Like you get the wrong name of someone you've know for ages or you think two people are a couple when they're not or you think Harley Quinn has to do with a motorbike rather than actually being the Jokers sort of assistant (I met someone who thought that and I couldn't believe this) or stuff like that? Well I felt like all of those things had happened to me in the space of a minute. What I believed to be an agency interview was actually a journalism job interview. I instantly remembered applying for a sports journalism job about 2 days before the phone call but there was no name for the company on the ad. Thankfully I'm quite good at thinking on the spot so I got on with it anyway and it actually went so well. Literally the name of my blog title happened to me - "When You're in Trouble Go Into Your Dance". But as soon as I left that place I laughed to myself. I just couldn't get over how I thought the interview was for something else entirely. Only that kinda stuff would happen to me. Other people I've told this to have laughed as well so it makes for a funny story. If I get this job I'll be delighted but shocked at the same time. I landed on my feet which is something I can't do physically at all
So I guess that's all I have to say. I'll try to be more regular in future but I probably won't be. Ah well. Until next time. I'll leave with this little beauty of a quote from the song Razzle Dazzle, from the musical Chicago sung by the character Billy Flynn, - "Show 'em the first rate sorcerer you are"
