Any Colour You Like

I’ve not been writing much because I have not been doing much. The dance season is finally over with the nationals up in blackpool last weekend – good fun, a bit mental, average results, much tiredness and a fair amount of relief. I have also been stressing about my time management and whether I can really do dancing and running the kite society next year along with being a fifth year. Everything indicates that it will be far more work than this year and I have really not been coping and am still so far behind.

But I also don’t reckon I can give it up, and have already promised to train until the end of term and enter some open comps. So maybe the kitesurfing has to give? But I love the society and have worked hard for it for four years. There really doesn’t seem to be anyone that can take over. But I have to do well in my degree aswell. And it would be nice to fit in more of a social life. No idea how to sort this out…

I have taken to blagging work recently. Preparing for presentations at 1am is hardly clever and I am not good at working late at night. Of the three pieces of coursework I have handed in this term I have been extremely ashamed of two of them. I have asked for extensions for two more pieces of work.

I guess it always fixes itself in the end

How unfair isn’t it that I start a blog and everything goes topsey turvey. Got a meeting with Rolls Royce tomorrow at 8am (how inconsiderate!) and my project group have decided they need to practice before we leave… Speaking of, they are not pulling any weight and we wouldn’t even have a project if it wasn’t for my massive amount of dedication to the cause. And I still have stack loads of other things to do.

But at least I got an awesome new quickstep routine at dance practice tonight. All sorts of swooshing and charging and drama. Bring on the first comp of the year; actually don’t because it is in only two weeks and I have so much to learn. We are already practicing twelve hours per week and I am not sure there are many more hours we can wring out.

For those of you than need educating, this is a Quickstep. I won’t be quite that good =)

Next post I promise to be more jovial

And as with the weather as with work for me at the moment. How can it be possible to have three massive presentations in one week and absolutely none for the rest of the year? I wish I was doing a sensible organised degree like physics where the workload never overlaps. Instead I have to be on a course that can’t even timetable my core units so they don’t overlap with each other. I am none to keen on having to decide which lecture to prioritise every Monday and even less keen to get up in the dark mornings in order to make that decision.

But at least one of my presentations is about Steve Jobs and Apple Computer(!). I haven’t had a excuse to talk for England about such a good topic since week three of PrIB computing class, and now in 2008 I have even more ammunition. Did you know for instance that Apple earns well over half of Microsoft’s profits and three quarters of Microsoft’s revenue despite cornering a ‘measly four percent of the market’. If I had a choice between that kind of four percent, or the low margin dregs of the other ninety-something percent then I know which I would choose. The morals are (1) never underestimate your competition, (2) design sells and (3) the public can’t get enough of sexy brushed aluminium.