update

have been trying to watch Mad Men on iPlayer, but it kept on stopping to load every minute. I imagine lots of people who have gone out tonight are coming back to watch Eastenders. Ah, going out drinking on a Friday night. What's that all about?

This week has gone really quickly. I haven't done too much job seeking this week, I probably should be doing a lot more. It's just difficult. I have a few jobs I can apply for in the next few weeks. Ach. I'm just sick of the whole thing. I seriously thought I'd be able to get a job within the first month after uni. It's February now. It's okay, it's going to happen eventually, it's just incredibly frustrating.

I've met some interesting, eccentric people in the past few weeks.
A retired gay dentist with a bald head and big grey moustache came into courtyard and we had a chat about him leaving dentistry and exploring the paranormal world. He is apparently becoming a medium. I'm serious. He's a real person who I spoke with, who was lovely.
And on Tuesday when I was in London with Rana, we went to the Poetry Library and randomly met her lovely friend Anna, who I met a while back and is great. She was there meeting a colleague of hers, who was another older bald man, this time an ex-neurosurgeon who currently works in psychiatry. But he actually wants to be an illustrator. So all four of us sat in the poetry library painting watercolours.



here is my effort. I call it "pyscho-sexual knight-mare. Is it you, G-d? Or are we through, Elizabeth?"
I am of course kidding. I was just dicking around with a paintbrush.




these are what the guy painted of us. I'm the red figure. I love the second one the most.


I found doing watercolours surprisingly relaxing. I've been doing a few at home. I'm obviously not going to be doing watercolours of landscapes with canals and houseboats and jolly farmers in them, but it's nice to be painting again. And I also made some more art. Some actual art! It's not finished yet, but I'm doing it. It's obviously not amazing and I don't expect it to be taken seriously, but I like it and I'm pleased with it so far. Need to buy some big frames though and they're expensive. If anyone wants to buy my silly art, let me know. I may indeed post pictures when it's done. So glad I went to the Tate the other day, it really got me thinking again. Trips into London just always revivify me, it's crazy. I see more people in one day in London than on most weeks out here in Hertfordshire. That feeling of being in a crowd is something I crave sometimes.

Anyway, have a good weekend everyone, love to you all!