naysayersspeak:

I shared these with my classes last night after seeing the same mistakes repeated over and over in their essays. I think I terrified them a little bit.

1. Answer the question. You may think this is obvious. That’s because it should be.

2. Stucture! Structure! Structure! Build one and stick…

This is something that has been on my mind lately, and I’m writing to try and hash things out.

I’ve commenced a bachelor of communications through monash/griffith university, and so far everything has gone really well. I’ve managed to pull through with higher than a pass (!) maintain my relationship and keep my full time employment. Although I have that tingling feeling that my job isn’t right. 

The big thing is that I would like to embark on my career, not just work a job and I want to do it now, not at the end of my degree. 

one of the big sticking points is my resume. I’ve had series of jobs in the IT industry, and while they are great for paying the bills and taking my mind off things that I’d actually like to do in my life they are very specific jobs with a very specific skillset that I have cultivated in my four years in the industry.

I feel like I’ll be turned away if i mention to my prospective employers that I am a full time student. 

That and I am scared of moving away from my comfort zone. What if I fail? 

If I’m being honest with myself failure is the best excuse for procrastination that I know. So Project dream job commences - and if I fail I fail. at least I tried. 

Imma need one of these

(via sweethomestyle)

I just colour coordinated my DVD collection.

Yes. I bought myself flowers. Don’t judge me.

fyeahartstudentowl:

via dot-motherfucking-cotton

(via victoriaisamess)

I decided to make some curtains like these from urban outfitters. 

http://www.urbanoutfitters.com/urban/catalog/productdetail.jsp?id=16809253&itemdescription=true&navAction=jump&search=true&isProduct=true&parentid=SEARCH+RESULTS

I’m about halfway through, and I don’t think that the first one is going to work out quite as well as I had hoped. I’ll take some photos when they are finished. I didn’t realise how ambitious sewing ruffles to that scale was going to be and it’s turning out to be quite a lot of work. I am, however queen of overambitious projects, so i guess we’ll see how these turn out. 

oh, hi there, crippling self doubt and guilt. it’s been a while. 

victoriaisamess:

caite:story of my life

i buy so many.