Staring at a computer screen for 5 hours sends you a little crazy.

After arriving at Uni at 9am and spending 5 hours staring at a computer screen today I feel surprisingly good. Although I will probably need to spend most of the next week at Uni as well, I feel like I am finally making progress. With two assignments nearly completed, writing for the multimedia and culture of the glossy, it's just the last and probably most tedious unit to finish magazine design. 

It's caused me many tantrums, much stress and a few headaches but I finally know what I am doing. I am now however, regretting the decisions I made last term most Tuesday mornings when I woke up, most probably hungover and facing 2 hours of magazine design, to then roll over and go back to sleep. "It's nothing important, only practicing using Quark for our final double page spread," I would think. (Quark is the extremely tedious software program that we have to use to build a double page spread for a story we have written.)  Nothing Important? Oh how wrong I was. I thought I could just download the 3 month trial from the internet and teach myself how to use it. All well in good if you don't muck up the download the first time and then not be aloud to try again. I'm so clever.

This is a prime example of why staying in bed is not the best decision. Anyway, I finally know what I am doing - a week before deadline, excellent. I surprised myself a little today, and found that once I got in to it, it's surprisingly easy. I stopped thinking about what all my flat mates were up to, (probably asleep at 9am anyway) about the sunshine, spending my loan and getting drunk and instead I zoned everyone and everything out. I got quite in to building all these double paged spreads, I didn't mention that not only did I have to do my own spread I still had to do all the practice ones we'd been doing every week for 5 weeks to show our progress in our scrap books. I hadn't done any of them.

So, pretty pleased at what I have finally managed to achieve today, I definitely think I deserve a night out tonight so I am therefore forgetting about Quark and looking forward to a bit of Oceana.