In the process of completely re-hauling my whole blog - stay tuned for the new layout and content. Ciao for now.

My beloved white waterfall jacket - so sorry about it not being the right way round, I took the photograph the portrait way round and basically, my computer won't let me copy my camera files into my My Pictures folder and rotate them, so apologies! I'll rotate it as soon as I can to prevent any potential neck injuries...

So yeah, anyway, I wore this jacket to university yesterday. The sun was shining in Salford, the air was relatively warm and the birds were singing in the trees, but they might as well have been shitting all over my jacket, as when I got to uni and gave in to the temptation of the uni shop with a prawn marie sauce sarnie, I ended up spilling it down myself, watching helplessly as the sauce trickled down the wonderfully cut fabric and into a pretty little pool of pink. Well, it didn't look pretty on my jacket.

I soon realised that fate was out to get me, as when I returned to my lecture after our break, I dropped my bottle of coke on the seat next to me and it started fizzing everywhere. I can tell you something, you'd think I'd sat on a seat of spikes - I have never jumped up so fast in all my life, all in an act to save my beautiful white jacket from a not so pretty splash of sticky brown liquid.

So fate, you succeeded with the prawn sauce, but you did not with the coke. I WILL get that stain out if it kills me and I will wear my beautiful white waterfall jacket once again. I will also learn to not be so dozey, take more care when I'm eating and not be such a 'messy pup'.

Get your filthy paws off my white jacket.

Today, after finishing a nice, easy little shift at Topshop, I purchased my last two uniform pieces from the new season, at, I must say, a very, very generous price...

One of my purchases was a tailored waterfall jacket, a lovely, crisp white-ish/very pale pink colour, which I thought I'd swoop in there as soon as pos and purchase before any grubby fake tan hands could spoil all the available size tens.

And this - (the grubbiness of hands), is the problem with pale coloured jackets. I didn't really put much thought into it when I bought the jacket, it was more of a sudden, 'love at first sight' kinda' impulse. But then it dawned on me that I would HAVE to keep it as clean as possible for it to remain looking good, avoiding all who receive pleasure out of invading people's personal spaces.

So if you see me walking with my arms painfully close to my sides and I'm wearing the jacket, you'll know exactly why.

And so my wonderful love affair with the white jacket commences...

A Facebook/Twitter Tiff.

I've been using Twitter a lot, lately. More so than Facebook - the usual social networking site I sit on on a regular basis, scrolling down the so-called 'news feed', reading updated status after status on pointless things I really could not give a monkeys about. Of course, I too (on occassion), have fallen guilty of revealing to the world that I'd 'just made a cracking cuppa', or I had 'just cleaned our extremely grotty kitchen - domestic, goddess of a flatmate' - taken directly from my facebook page. Even though the latter of the two is a little more interesting, it's got to be said that noone cares if I've just made a cup of tea - I mean, why would they?

So why do we feel the need to tell all of our two thousand and odd 'friends' - (another debate), on subjects they probably really don't care about?

And why, even with people posting statuses' like this, do we still continue to scroll down that news feed, reading and reading until we eventually lose interest?

This is a question I don't know the answer to myself, as I'm guilty of it too - I'm on Facebook as I'm writing this...

Somebody posted the other day (not mentioning any names and a little re-wording is required), that they'd just been to Saltburn, had tea with the fam and were now getting on with cleaning the whole house.

Hmm...interesting subject, please do tell me more!

I often wonder whether Facebook's 'what's on your mind' question, was created with the intention that people would have something interesting to say, something creative and engaging they'd like to share with the world and create discussions and debates by commenting on each others' statuses. This does happen, I do see some really interesting things people talk about on Facebook, but when people are writing 'I'm bored', I strongly question the point of it.

Personally, I prefer Twitter at the moment. I don't use it as a platform to tell the world I've just had a ham sandwich or that I've just done the laundry, but as a platform used to directly engage with the media industry - something I hope to be useful to me in the near future in terms of employment. I use it to retweet and post news, fashion and any other type of interesting debate or event going on in the world and through that, I get so much more enjoyment than scrolling down the page and seeing 'Rate me and I'll rate ya back..twice'.

At the moment, I think Twitter's a great platform to use, whether you're trying to get yourself noticed by employers or  using it professionally or as a personal, recreational platform. I just hope the pointless rambles and rants will continue to keep Facebook flowing and not disrupting the traffic of Twitter.

Never lose hope!

Considering the title of this post, I could be deemed a bit of a hypocrit, because at the moment, I've been feeling a little less motivated and optimistic than usual about the future.

Normally, I'm as happy as can be, pushing myself to do things out of my comfort zone and striving to reach that end goal of succeeding in obtaining a job in the media industry. But lately, I've been working a lot at Topshop (my part-time job whilst at University), and I've not had a hell of a lot of energy left to do the things I really want to be doing in order to reach my goal.

That was earlier today though (or yesterday, really!), as it's now half past one in a Friday morning and I really should be getting to bed as I'm going in early to learn more about how to use Avid (oh the dedication!), before my TV lecture at ten. But one thing I've realised from yesterday, is that I really do need to stop worrying about not being able to do everything and apply for everything at once, there is so much time ahead of me and I'm still, really, in the early stages of learning about the journalism industry.

So don't beat yourself up about not being able to do anything and everything to do with journalism like I did!

I'm young, I'm still learning and I will continue to learn along the way.