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Nine; here comes everything at once

 Hi,

You can always tell when I’ve been at my busiest as my blog inevitably gets neglected… but that will be fixed right now! 

I’m currently sitting in a cafe making extensive notes on my essay which has been reviewed by my tutor and also filling my note book with follow up questions and ideas on how to make it as good as possible (apologies in advance to my tutor who is about to get an abundance of questions from me this evening). As I should think anyone reading my blog knows; I am a bit of a perfectionist and hate when I haven’t done amazingly first time (which surprise surprise never happens cuz that’s just life) but I can’t lie I was disappointed in myself when I saw the notes on my first draft and in efforts to not be disappointed when the official marks come out next month, I plan to work hard on the final edits. 

I think this is where my dyslexia comes to annoy me the most; I often write for my own brain and have come to accept that what makes total sense and flows for me may not to people who don’t have dyslexia. I have slowly trained myself to write in a way that computes for both myself and my audience however sometimes  it doesn’t work out that way leading me to being confused why something  doesn’t flow well for others when for me it does. 

(Okay dyslexia rant over) 

I have been slowly but surely working on my artefact but honestly I’ve been feeling very creatively low the past few weeks so it’s been hard to make progress; hopefully that will change now that I’m working again on my essay; as I tend to use my creative side as an outlet when working academically! 

I have also taken some time to myself the past few weeks as I’ve been insanely busy with my 3 jobs, uni work and family commitments as well as some health problems 😅😅 so it’s been a lot  but onwards and upwards!! 

Oh and just wanted to put on here that I got my first professional acting job last week and I start this weekend!! I haven’t had time to be proud of myself for that so I’ll put it here ☺️☺️ 


Ok that’s me for now, picture update on my guitar coming soon, 

TD 


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