I'm in the corner.

(via GIRLS Caps)

So, yesterday... I got a job! I am feeling a little less Hannah Horvath than I was the day before yesterday. This now means I can worry less about where my rent money is going to come from and that I won't be stuck in the flat on my own all day. I'm hoping that the hours aren't too bad as I would still like to get to see Moon on the odd occasion, but I'm sure everything will be easy enough to arrange and for now I'm just happy that I've got a job. I'm playing it up like it's something amazing, but really it's just a customer service assistant role with Vue. So I'm still an undiscovered genius, but now I have less money worries, plus I love the cinema and will now get free tickets for myself and everyone so it's pretty sweet. Tomorrow's my induction day so I guess that's when I'll be finding out more, it seems like it's time for another CV update.
As we're on the subject of job hunting, two additional things happened to me yesterday. The first was receiving the bluntest, rudest rejection email I have had throughout the whole time I've been applying for jobs, claiming my CV was too 'Photography-biased' and that maybe if I tried harder, I might have had a shot, yeah okay. The second was a lovely telephone call from Grace at Give A Grad A Go who provided me with a great morale boost regarding my experience and CV, just before I got the offer to start with Vue tomorrow. Maybe the former was just having a bad day, but I thought it was important to mention GAGAG as I've seen them floating about since graduating and I think they need commending on their stellar advice, service and overall polite manner.

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I'll stop rabbiting on now and get the the real point of this post and that was to tell you that I might have gone and broken my clothes-fast after just under a month. Not a bad effort really, and in my defence, two of the items I bought were in the kids section and therefore super-cheap! You know what though, I might even pop out later and break the fast even more, although this time it's much more reasonable - I need dark, smart things of which I have none; smart, yes, dark, yes, but not the two combined.

Multi-way handbag, £12.49 eBay
I blogged about a similar bag last month and although I ordered it a couple of weeks after that, it only arrived yesterday. I have to say I'm slightly disappointed, but I think it might just need a bit of wearing in, as it's very 'out of a warehouse' stiff right now. It's useful to have anyway as I have a 'good' bag and an everyday bag but nothing for in-between so I'm hoping this is where it will come in, for the price I'm not complaining too much anyway. I'm also a bit excited that it doubles as a rucksack.



Dresses, Both £5.99, H&M Kids
These were a confidence boost, I took a bit of Gem Fatale scrimping initiative and ended up wandering into the kids section of H&M yesterday. I couldn't resist the cute heart print which I've seen everywhere lately, and I figured I don't really have anything block-coloured, so why not break my fast with these bargains (I didn't think they would fit anyway)? I got these in the largest kid-size 14y so that's nice to know. If you want a proper look, they're the same dress pattern as these ones on the website.


Belt, £6.99, H&M
This isn't super-exciting but I've not been impressed with my belt collection for ages, it was a toss-up between this minty one or the same one in coral, would it be wrong to go back and pick up the other one too, you can never have too many belts when you have as many dresses as I do.


Cropped blazer, £14.99, H&M
I mainly got this because of how 90s it is, but also because I was a bit bored of my other jackets. It's the perfect colour for when the sun decides to show it's face too.

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Thanks to yesterday's good news I'm not half as sorry for these purchases as I was going to be. As it was the first time I'd bought anything in ages I thought I'd share them with you anyway. Have you found any bargains in the kids section before? I'm pleased more than anything, maybe I'll take the time to browse more often.

Phoney Lyf.

Oh hai there! I've been interning at the picture desk at Ink for the latter half of the working week so I have been very tired. It's actually quite a nice job, the people are lovely and I get on really well with the other intern, as well as finding the work I have to do easy to grasp hold of.

So I'm really enjoying it, which is a shame because apparently the Job Centre don't want me to and would rather I was miserable and endlessly applying for jobs, so forget them.

It's been quite a weird week though, I mean I finally get this internship, which is both relevant and allows me to carry out work that will be potentially beneficial in the future (read; it doesn't involve filing or stapling) and I've been commissioned for a few freelance related things. Crazy that after months of applying for job after job and taking a 'wait-and-see-put-on-hold' attitude towards freelancing things have started to tick along, but I'm trying really hard not to count all my chickens.

I've just come back from shooting some headshots of a little girl hoping to join an acting agency, a job I got through my flyer, and in a couple of weeks I'll be shooting a wedding, thanks to Moon's mum. I've also had an email from the people of the Kissimmee Convention and Visitor's Bureau in Florida letting me know that they've used a couple of my images from Flickr on their website, which is pretty exciting, Flickr can be so great sometimes, they were just holiday snaps and were taken around three years ago.

I've been trying to make the effort to take photos and having my phone on me all the time is handy for that kind of thing. It's very similar to what I did when I did my last lot of work experience.

One thing I love about the early mornings is the changeable skies, on the morning of my first day it was particularly beautiful, particularly considering how dreary it's been.

I was probably a lot more excited about this than I should have been and I had to sneak this, which is why it's blurry, so that I wouldn't look like a total nerd. I have my own phone!

It's quite weird to be working in Shoreditch, it always felt a lot further away before, but now I've been going there everyday, the journey seems a lot shorter. It's quite cool to be amongst all the street art and things, even if the only place I've eaten everyday is Pret, I'll try to make more of an effort next week. Here is what I wore on my first day;

Cardigan: H&M
Dress: Primark
Belt: (w/dress) Primark
Tights: Primark
Legwarmers: Marks and Spencer
Boots: River Island
Last night, my sister and I went to see the fireworks display down the road from us, but we didn't pay, we just lurked at the side of the road across from where they were actually being held. I think I did an alright job with photos but we had a pretty shitty view anyway. Tonight we're going to proper ones this time, with a bonfire, so it might be worth the money. Plus all of my sister's friends say it's the best. I'll be taking some of Hannah Curson's fireworks photo tips with me because she took some neat ones last night too, from being in a similar situation.
I love bonfire night, this time last year I played with sparklers and watched V for Vendetta for the first time, pretty bangin'.

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