Day 207.

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What a lazy day, reunion later, I hope people I like come rather than people I don't.

Day 151.

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Another day of Moon's revision down on Southsea Common, this time with just the two of us, I kept schtum while he read over notes, we had some nice conversations over lunch. I've managed to get a bit sunburnt some how, I also took my first paddle in the sea this afternoon. It was nice to get out of the house after a couple of grim, boring, drizzly days.

Day 143.

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Today has been a bit frustrating.
I felt bad that Moon's exam went badly yesterday, but also as though I had to bear the brunt of it, luckily he got it mostly off his chest by the time he came back from the library this afternoon, so I feel a bit better now.
I spent the afternoon hunting out work for the summer, there is a lot, just in places like Manchester and Newcastle, but I'm going to keep looking, I've sent my CV off to a local portrait studio and Vice, fingers crossed I have something coming my way for summer.
There was an awesome-sounding job abroad, which I was fine with but it was for muddled months, so I left it alone.
A new CV is also what this afternoon went on, I'm not quite sure where this day has gone, oh well.

Day 121.

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So today Moon and I took ourselves to Brighton as a last bit of fun before Moon is plunged into exams for a month.
It was pretty nice, as always, it was a bit cold but was also hot sometimes too and I did buy some neat things.
Moon also discovered why my sister and I made so much fuss over the nachos we had at Ha!Ha! Bar, I realise it's a chain but the ones in Portsmouth didn't live up to expectation at all.
It's got me excited for my birthday, when we'll have more time down there.

Day 113.

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I wish I'd got as much work done today as I had planned.
I kind of have, but have really only given myself more book work, although, I have kind of done the first double page spread of the article, which is alright. InDesign is horrible.

Day 107.

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Today was quite productive in terms of work, I am up to do date and now have to start the long process of editing and putting the images and text into inDesign, as well as starting the article. I don't think this project will be good enough but then again, if they'd given us a straightforward project linking to the body, I'd probably enjoy it more. The technical sides of it are interesting though, like learning to work around shooting so quickly and a more advanced workflow.
Sorry for another Photobooth picture but nothing interesting happened today but I did spend two hours reading through one of Moon's reports and correcting spelling. Hence why my face looks like this, obviously.

Day 99.

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I am back in Portsmouth again after what feels like an all too short two weeks at home.
I arrived to my delivered ringlight, which after a stock up in Asda - for both food and batteries, I tried out, it's not what I expected, but I think I could do some quite interesting things with it.
I know it's another photograph of Moon, I also realise it's a pretty bad one, I kind of like it though, reminds me slightly of Terry Richardson.
Am I looking forward to a new term?

Day 98.

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Moon had two nosebleeds today, one in the middle of shopping just after lunch, it was so inconvenient.
It is the second of his two days off of the whole holiday, he's spent the rest of the time working, wish I had had the motivation to be that way, I probably would have finished everything ages ago, but I'll be going back to Portsmouth still having lots to do.

Day 81.

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Today I was treated to a date.
I did a pretty decent workout at the gym, and now my legs hurt.
Then I finally got to see Shutter Island, which is brilliant and has motivated me to finally watch Blood Diamond, it relates to my dissertation (loosely).
AND THEN, I went to Giraffe and had this tasty dish.
What a nice day, I even woke up early, now I am basically tuckered out, so I'll be viewing Blood Diamond from my bed, in pyjamas.

Day 74.

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I went to see I Love You Philip Morris tonight, I had wanted to see Shutter Island, but being an Orange Wednesday, I think, it was completely fully booked, so I settled for second best. It was actually really good, and nice, once you get over Jim Carrey and Ewan McGregor kissing. Due to a need to kill time, Moon and I invested £5 in Vue's ITBox, I don't think it was that wise, but it killed a bit of time. I hope I get to see Shutter Island soon.
Tomorrow I am doing my 'big' photoshoot, I hope it goes well...

Day 67.

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Yolko Ono & John Lemon.
This is a week for dressing up, I should actually get doing some work... I have this afternoon and tomorrow, I guess, but I have to break this up by returning a dumb tripod, which I will get fined for.
These costumes were for a friends party last night, the theme was 'Music Legends', I wish more people had made an effort...
I felt quite awesome anyway, and my £2 shoes sustained themselves, even though my feet were hurting from a different, more expensive pair, thank you Primark.

Day 54.

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I got an initial test shoot down for my final brief.
I bumped into Andy on the way to the studio to meet Moon and chanced it and he said he'd stand in, it was a good job too because it was a while before our model for the Sunday supplements piece showed up.
I think I have a better idea of what kind of spread I want to do, I just need to find a magazine that would use me, I'm thinking Vice but for me, that's a bit obvious, plus I'm not 100% on how mainstream the magazine has to be.
I got a few good shots, but it was mainly a test run, helping me gain more confidence in using the studio, and aside from needed a little bit of help with the light metering, it's quite fluid once it gets going.
I think I need more fashion magazines, this is getting expensive, I've bought around 10 magazines so far...

Day 51.

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I didn't have a nap today but I did get some colour prints done in the colour darkroom, which I am so proud of, I keep mentioning it on every social networking tool I have access to, seriously.

Day 43.

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Happy Valentines Day and Happy Chinese New Year (Gung Hei Fat Choy!)
I celebrated my Valentines/New Year by heading down Gunwharf to check out the Chinese Year Year festivities. Krispy Kreme were doing 'limited edition' heart-shaped doughnuts, this was pretty good, it had cream and jam in the middle, the other 11 doughnuts that came in the box will probably be just as nice.
Moon and I had lunch at Giraffe, it was probably one of the best places we've been to to eat in a long time.

Day 26.

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Tonight, as a house, we went to Big Ernie's, it is not the finest place in town to dine, this is Moon trying to figure out how to eat his 'Big Kahuna Burger', which looked pretty horrible. I have just left Stacy at Babylon with a woman, the food at Big Ernie's is a helluva lot better than her.

Day Eight.

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My print for my exhibition came today, which was a nice surprise, not only because it's Sunday but also because it's wasn't even meant to be coming until Tuesday - so theprintspace gallery did a very good job. Obviously not only in delivery but I'm pretty satisfied overall with the quality of the print, I picked a metallic paper to make the colour pop a bit and I think it does just that. It's something you've got to see in real life though.

The guy who delivered it was not the most happy of chaps but I'm not surprised considering the current weather.
I'm not even too sure why I'm so excited about getting the print because whilst it means that I will be able to get it hung up on the designated day (Monday) - the opening of the exhibition may not be as big as previously hoped due to the snow and with more apparently on the way tonight and tomorrow, it sort of brings me down, everyone has put so much effort in, and it might pale in comparison to previous years just because of weather conditions. I am really hoping it does all come together though, the forecast could be wrong, the snow they said would come today, hasn't yet, but the clouds are looking pretty heavy with snow, they were that pale-yellow colour earlier.