I have purple hair now which is awesome! Also quite expensive... i'm about the only person I know who thinks £200 spent on hair is a good investment... I'd better hope my contract gets renewed in December.

I haven't really bothered to check this page for a while.
This is mostly because I just haven't really been creative.
Every morning I get up, I float in a trance to the tube station and I stare out of the window for 45 minutes. Sometimes I manage to find a Metro newspaper and so I assault my brain with articles which i'm sure are carrying subliminal messages. Certainly I find I use the line 'in the Metro the other day it said...' far too often in my daily conversations. What a dangerously influential rag it is.
I have however recently started making shed loads of T-shirts for my bf's band 'Cassio Avenue'. I like the fact that the boys are very open to making our own T-shirts. I guess they think its a selling point that they are handmade and one offs. Maybe i'll put some photos up of any i'm particularly proud of. They've only been sold at one gig so far but I managed to shift a few which I think is quite promising.
It gives me something to think about at work as I watch the streaming crowds of tourists pour over my galleries. I have a meeting about doing volunteer work in one of the storage houses on friday which I hope goes to plan. It looks like an amazingly inspirational place. The few pictures i've seen show all these fascinatingly random objects piled floor to ceiling. From ethnographic artefacts to archaic medical instruments. Apparently there's an area known as 'The feather room' which is full of feathered headdresses and other feather adorned objects.
Some days I hate my work but equally there are days when I can't believe my luck.

Since my last journal I have completed some more artwork. A portrait kind of in the same vein as Speak or they'll speak for you with the black and red ink with pencil. However it was a present so I was unable to get a good scan. Maybe i'll borrow it back.

It has bad days but on the whole I love my new job. I am surrounded by inspiration. Sometimes its frustrating because its too busy to go around really absorbing it, or taking notes. And yet when its busy all I can do is stand there and stare at visitors. Although that in itself is interesting. I so many different kinds of people speaking exotic languages wearing all manner of clothing.
As always the 'Celtic' section is still in my heart. So on the rare occasion that I am in with that exhibition I run around taking sneaky sketches. I'm using La Tene style to create a rather complicated tattoo design for the same person I did the afore mentioned portrait for. Its a stunning design style and not used nearly as much as it should.
Anyway you should all take a visit and i'll give you a tour.

Happy New Year.

Since my last post I have changed jobs! Now I find I am working in The British Museum. Yet another fine, historical institution. At the moment I am stalking the galleries pretending to look all intellectual. In the first week of training I found myself half in love with everyone I met. Never have I worked anywhere where absolutely everyone appears to love their job. Even if they pretend they don't. And I have been so starved of historical, artistic, archaeological stimulation everything seems so beautiful to me. Its a pretty cool place to work and unlike much of London I find that I like the area. Its near Tottenham Court road which has a familiarity for me which is very soothing. It always brings me back to the times my boyfriend's old band had the privilege to play at the Astoria 2. Which was very exciting.

Anyway, stewarding can be pretty dull. Yet in the quiet galleries it gives me a chance to clean out the dusty caverns of my mind. Hopefully some new inspiration shall arise from it. I have had some really good feedback from my poster. Even some from a PR agent in the U.S. so i'm going to try to work that connection if I can. Just to see where it takes me.

Anyhoo better get on with something practical to prepare for tomorrow.
*fingers crossed* this shall be a new start for me.

This is kind of strange. I haven't logged on to here since March last year or something like that.
I just thought I may as well immerse myself in something more creative again.
Since I last posted on here I have graduated from uni (yay me) but i'm still living at home (boo). A big part of me wishes I was still there and I miss Glasgow, my flat and my friends. This is especially after a year. My old flatmate has moved back to Glasgow and i'd love to follow her but I have other commitments in Hertfordshire now.
I work for the Tower of London which is a very cool place. Alas the job itself isn't so cool. I sell tickets or take them at the entrance. I lose most of my money in travel to and from the Tower. So its a little soul destroying.
Some of the visitors are incredibly rude. Especially some who haven't worked out that flashing the back of your hand at someone with certain erect fingers is enough to get you punched in England.
However I love some of my work colleagues and the atmosphere is really positive and friendly in the Tower Staff.
So basically if you ever visit the Tower of London and see a smiley (for I do try to) brunette with huge earings and a posh voice please don't flash the middle finger up at me and say 'one!'

I never thought i'd be consorting with Beefeaters!
In my spare time I spend most of my time promoting friend's bands it seems and trying to find a more appropriate job for a graduate (but that doesn't seem to happen).
Anyway I hope someone in the world reads this because I can't see many people checking it after such a long absence. However if you do read this. Thank you for taking an interest.
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