I have a pretty secure job and have recently managed to secure my girlfriend one too and in the current economic climate I believe this is what is needed, unfortunately most students do not have this and even more are useless when it comes to managing their finances. So while our government is busy bailing out banks with public money what is to become of an entire generation of fiscally vulnerable people, will this lead to greater unemployment and a raise in crime unseen in decades or even worse complete collapse of the western financial system. Sat in the reception area of my university building the above points of view are a regular occurrence in conversations I’m over hearing between people who come from a wide selection of backgrounds while all having one thing in common – being students.

An interesting point to note is that in history all great civilizations have been seen to peak and then catastrophically fail; a few come to mind, the Egyptians, Roman Empire and most notably the Maya, who appear to have been quite advanced before vanishing off the face of the Earth.

Still you have to laugh, a lot of imaginary money has dissapered today in less than an hour with the FTSE 100 loosing 400 point, right now back to writing articles on photography, philosophy and all that.

Moving to Coventry and attending university has changed that slightly, the line drawn between away and home has been considerably blurred to the point that I now see both locations as home, rather than one or the other. I have been asked to sum up both locations  with an object that represents them, this is a difficult task for me as I have come to feel that Coventry is as much my “home” as living with my parents at the  home they made for me. Physically the two locations are quite different, my parental home is set in rural Kentish countryside and is surrounded on all four corners by green and bird song which in Coventry is replaced with city sprawl and the noise of the seven o’clock number 41 bus rumbling at the bus stop outside. This is however a shallow comparison, physical differences between the two locations aren’t what makes one a different home from the other; arbitrary emotional attachments to both people and places in each location are what make one unique from the other.

My question to you is what means home to you? Not surprisingly to many it is a different place than that where they currently reside, be it their home-land or a place they grew up. Coventry to me is my second home its very different from the parental home but its also where my friends are, a place where I am happy and secure and while these are intangible ideas they are what makes a home for me.

Image Sources: www.freefoto.com & kent-english-homestays.co.uk

• Finish tumblr theme
• Update and publish tumblr plugin
• Update and publish zenphoto plugin set
• Finish final project for university
• Write a paper on firefly and the themes contained within
• Write a paper discussing and criticizing the medias representation/construction of “international terrorism”
• Finally get round to finishing Doom III

And I have until the end of May to get that all done!

As far as work goes I am happily plodding on with university projects. I have my final project to get done which is the front end of an online shop it has proven to be the biggest design job I have ever undertaken and as it is a major part of my degree I am excited that the amount of work I have done for it will be rewarded with a high grade. You wouldn’t believe the amount of paper work I have done for this thing! Other than that I have two papers to write, on on the status of television and another on how we have become a culture of fear dominated by a government manipulating that fear to its own ends for “our own good”. It is an issue I have a great deal of knowledge in and if you can talk for hours about a subject then writing an essay on it is going to be second nature.

Anyways I thought I owed people a little update on happenings, bbs.

So as my fingers dance over the keys of this board and tap away words of arbitrary meaning, each future post to this blog will be heavily adorned with the theoretical language which I have learnt and understood as part of my degree. Just so I am using what I have learnt in a practical manor in the hope that it will spark my brain back into working like it should, rather than doing what it has become accustomed to – just sitting there, like jelly.

It’s nice to be back in Coventry, this year I have a nice place to live, my own bathroom and some amazing flat mates. Can’t wait to get back into creating some more Joey Brannigan episodes and working on some big university projects.