Yesterday evening I found out through UCAS that I have gotten a conditional offer for the 3 year Illustration Degree Level. The condition being that I finish Foundation.

So if I finish Foundation, I’ve got a place in one of the best and applied for Illustration courses in the country.

What can I say?

I’m at loss for words.

Am I dreaming?

Going to stay up late tonight due to deadline tomorrow. Will have a presentation tomorrow for the internal assessment.

Made an official complaint today to the university for their new bus service. Could write a long list why I chose to do that, but need to be working now!

Bumped in to my life drawing teacher at uni while he was chatting to someone else in a corridor. Just said “hi” and walked past. I heard him say in the background to the other person: “She is one of my best students.” I had to turn around and smile widely, couldn’t help myself. What a compliment!

Back to work.

Very quiet due to deadline this Friday.

I’ll babble more after that.

Woke up with tummy aches and decided to still have breakfast, so I combined a hot bath with food (and a book). It works wonders! Feeling better already and may even be able to go in to Uni today. Normally, I am out cold on the first day of my period due to excruciating pains, but maybe today is my lucky day. We’ll see.

Had a feeling of missing my family yesterday. Get that kind of homesickness about once a month or so, but now I could remind myself that I am going home to Sweden in the beginning of June and staying there for 3 weeks. Other than seeing friends and family, I need to visit three places.

Hospital. (Regular health check. Especially my blood value)

Dentist. (Regular check. I may have some holes. Noes.)

Police. (Need to renew my passport. Gonna miss my old druggie photo.)

I have been able to check my health and teeth here in England if I so wish, but I trust my home more. I guess it’s just more familiar to me.

Let’s see if I can get ready and go to Uni today.

Two new games for the wii:

Kororimpa (Marble through track game. Simple and amazingly addictive!)

Excite Truck (Racing, trick game with rock music :P)

Need to buy some breakfast for tomorrow and get bags ready. Otherwise it looks like a “quiet” evening at home with Tom and his brother. They are going nuts over Kororimpa. You can hear their cackles miles away. o_O

Wheeze.. Huff…

I’ve started doing simple exercises for 15 minutes in the morning and evening. To see the fat wiggle is a comical sight.

Today I am going to El’s place to have a 24 hour comic work day. Not a comic book this time, but 24 hours of working on our project. It’s going to be fun since I miss hanging out at her place with all that chinese food and tea. (I’m a leech..)

Maybe I’ll scan some of the pages which aren’t finished and post them here. Or should I wait until the project is done.. I don’t know. We’ll see.

Been watching “You are what you eat” while working. Normally I just have the TV on in the background to get some sound and movement, but this time I actually paused and looked. That show is… Educational. I learned more about how to spot Iron deficiency. Look under your eyelid. If it is a pale colour and not rosy red, you could be low in Iron and getting closer to anaemic.

I know that I’m only making excuses because I’m lazy.

If I want to make time for something, I will, but I’m just kind of dreading the thought of trying to get fit and failing horribly, looking pathetic in the end. This is a major thing in my life, to be quite honest. Very weird maybe? :D But don’t you have an inner version of yourself when you are “perfect”? I want to be confident with myself. Sometimes it doesn’t really work when things at uni go downhill or when I see someone I get jealous of. It’s like being back in school where I was envious of the prettiest girl in class. I just wanted her to be a horrible person so I could feel good about not liking her, but she happened to be absolutely wonderful. This is something I’ve always remembered from my early years, and something I will bring into my comic.

When I write a story, I want it to be familiar to people, but still extraordinary in ways. My main character thus shares many of my childhood and current troubles, but I exaggerate them. This helps me to connect with her and make her believable. So Lynn, the main character has a best friend who is absolutely gorgeous. She looks stunning, she is talented in almost everything she does, she is charming, she is generous, she gets along with anyone she meets and would be able to turn gay men straight. This is Lynn’s closest friend since primary school and she can’t just turn her back on her, but sometimes she loathes the attention her best friends recieves, only to later feel insanely guilty for doing so.

It’s an ongoing dilemma.

Man, I could write about this for ages. I love this final project.

… I kind of drifted away from my original theme there.

Alright. I seriously need to do some exercise, but it’s hard to find time for it, so I’ve decided that during the course I’ll be doing some simple things in the morning before Uni. I’m thinking of situps and similar exercises that don’t require much space.

If anyone else have any suggestions, please let me know. Thing is, I can’t really bounce around in the morning since I have neighbours to think about. otherwise I’d do DDR, jump ropes, Kinetik, dance and whatnot!

A student I’ve never seen or met before came up to me and asked me if I smoked.

I felt incredibly insulted, but didn’t show it. Just said “no” and he was on his way.

He probably just wanted a lighter or a cig, but you never know if he meant pot. The amount of drugs circling around Bristol is absolutely insane. When I lived in Lulea I never saw anyone smoking weed or anything like that. It just wouldn’t happen in such a town, but here I am almost certain the majority of Foundation students and people in my class are either smoking weed on a regular basis or have tried it out. People talk about it like it’s commonplace. I try not to look awkward whenever that happens, but I just want to ask them: “Aren’t you aware of the fact that it will damage you?”.

If I wanted to get a hold of drugs here, I would be able to within a day, I’m almost certain, but I have never felt the need to try something so stupid out and I never will.

I have to say, it went exceptionally well! The hours before, I was really nervous and had an upset stomach. I couldn’t really eat properly and had a dry mouth at times, but when it was my turn to take my final project to the two interviewers in a separate room, I felt calm. The interview itself lasted for about 10 minutes or so and was both enjoyable and educating. The ones asking the questions were the dude who had interviewed me before and the head of Illustration at UWE.

I talked about my Nebo project and how I work etc. I thought I came across exactly the way I wanted to, so this is my best chance. If I don’t get accepted, at least I know I finally did my VERY best.

Now I am going to celebrate with waffles.