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Well I had my library induction today and it taught me two useful things:

1. Head librarians can be weird - but very useful - people, who may sweat a lot
2. Those who run fast get book

For my £3,000 yearly fee I am clearly expecting too much - like that there will be more than 8 copies of each key text in the library. A combination of running and guile ensured I snagged four books which are deemed essential reading but I have a mere week (damn those one week loans) to read a particularly heavy going critical theory book on landscape photography… oh and did I mention I’m trying to pack and move house at the same time?

Moving day is set for next Wednesday. We get the keys on Monday and I am actually counting down the hours until I will have a shorter journey to college. A bus, two tubes and a walk can mean a journey of 16km can take anything from 1 and a quarter hours up to two hours. From Wednesday I will just have two tubes to cope with. Living on the edge of Zone 1 will have it’s perks.

My first practical classes were on Monday and Tuesday this week. Besides a disgreement with one of my lecturers they were fun. I also stuffed up my first film (”A learning experience.” Go me!) due to me not having operated this particular camera in total manual mode before. For me 35mm is SLR digital and Medium Format is for film manual. I am an apeture priority kinda gal you know. So, I downloaded the manual for said camera when I got home on Monday night. I know now you have to have a certain switch on for M mode to work fully Ah well, my workbook/sketchbook will state it all in positive outcome terms; though I think I’ve got about 6 decent frames from a 36 exp roll.

My disagreement was my tutor misunderstanding why I wanted my final project assignment for this module to be in a geographical area that I can easily get to. She gave me a speech in front of the whole class about how I must get used to toting around lots of stuff about. I think she thinks I’m just moving from one set of halls to another. No love, I’m moving a whole fricking house worth of stuff. Next week my wordly chattles will be going from SW London to SE London and the darkrooms are in NW London. Although I had my hand up for a Barbican assignment the tutor ignored me and my request (I nearly got lumbered with a Harrow on the Hill one mind). I ended up with City Airport so it could be worse.

Surprisingly the critical theory class today was entertaining, inspiring and funny. I must be more of a geek than I thought.

Tomorrow = more critical theory.

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