A Story by Request

O.K so for anyone how has read the comment below I am not being pressured to write about any old crap and make it interesting.  So here goes:

 

It was a cold and windy afternoon in autumn.  I sit in the icebox we call and office hugging the bar heater under my desk.  Ever since I discovered AM a few weeks earlier my mind has been in over drive.  Originally I had planned to apply for there winter semester which starts in January but my patience was waning.  With the thought of another six months in Admin hell my brain was sending me subliminal messages to get the hell out…..NOW!!  It was like an emergency procedure really, many things cause brain cells to die, excessive drinking, a sharp blow to the head or in my case being employed by your parents for more than 12 months.  By brain had done the math and come to the conclusion it would not survive until January.

 

Faced with this grim reality I was forced into action.  I filled out the application and set about writing my 500 word essay about me.  The one thing was bothering me most, exactly how long should one spend writing a short essay about one’s self??  I soon concluded no more than an 1 hour, my mathematical reasoning for this was that’s all it took me and I wasn’t not allowing the thought that perhaps I should have pondered on this essay for a week or more to cross my mind.  I would later concern myself for many hours with the fact that I had also talked about rodeo-ing our pet goat, I might add I received no reassurance from friends and family on this point.

 

The next day I received a test compulsory to all applicants.  I was completely unaware at the time that one could sweat so much in 10 minutes with out actually participating in physical activity.  With the test finished by lunch time I had the whole afternoon to imagine what they would discover about me from 26 multiple choice question!!   

For the next few days I checked the mail and email with much excitement, but as the days turned into weeks my excitement was beginning to fade.

 

After a few weeks I couldn’t take the uncertainty anymore, I needed to know how long this was going to take, weeks, months or don’t they reply to unsuccessful applicants??  ARRGGG!!  I needed some answers.  I sent them an email asking how long this should take.  I only gave them my first name because I was afraid they would look me up at scratch my name for being impatient.  This may sound paranoid but animation is an art of patience and….. well O.K it was paranoid thinking that they would delay contacting you to weed out the impatient ones.  Well the next day I received an email saying that they had been bogged down getting the summer intake ready as it was starting in less than two weeks but if I sent them my full name they would find out how far along my application was.  Was this a trick!!??  Ahh bugger it. 

 

The next day I received an email saying that my email had been wrong and that my acceptance letter had been bouncing for a while!!  Well to say the least I was just ecstatic to get in, in fact because my Dad wasn’t at work yet I even did a little I don’t have to work here full time anymore dance!!  (Yes I still have to work but I will be cutting back two or three days a week so my brain will not longer suffer from over exposure)  It wasn’t until much later in the day when I was showing the letter to my friend, that she noticed that they had originally sent this email on the 17^th.   Ha the 17^th I said wow that was like three weeks agoo……..wait a second.  I turned and inspected the calendar closely WTF!!  That’s the exact same day I applied!!  What I had to wait THREE WHOLE WEEKS AND I GOT IN THE SAME DAY!!  ARRRRGGGGGGG!!!

 

Oh well I guess in the end it was character building and I probably enjoyed it more because I had to wait.

   

 

Out with the old.

O.K so this used to be my personal blog but well lets just say I was slightly on the neglectful side : ( With that said I have just been accepted into Animation Mentor (YAY!!) , so I was thinking because all the students have Journal Blogs I though I should transform this into my soon to be AM Journal. Oh yeah and post my holiday goings on (Also YAY!!). With that said I'm not going on holidays until 21st of July so there probably won't be much on here until then.