Nothing’s up, really. I managed to get all my work handed in for my degree’s final year, so here’s hoping that I pass university (and don’t walk away with nothing, or even better, a HND worth £20,000 and three years of my life). I should be fine, though, as long as I can settle into a routine where I actually have to be a productive member of society. Find a shitty job, beg companies for gaming work, etc. Should be… nah, I’m not even kid that it’s going to be fun. Probably tough, but I’ll look back when I’m a successful developer (har har) and realise that it was worth the effort. I need to clean up all my final year projects, update my portfolio and CV, blog more, and start applying / networking as much as possible.
As a celebration for handing everything in a few weeks ago, me and Morti took a group of ‘special ed’ kids (affectionately known as Anicom) down south for the weekend for the MCM London Expo, and it actually went pretty well. It’s a success if nobody gets fatally wounded, in my book. I spend the weekend getting drunk, laughing at hilariously bad cosplay, and gaming – At DDR:UK‘s stall on Saturday, and at Funland in the Trocadero on Sunday. Boy, the latter place is big, and I wouldn’t mind going back there again the next time I head to the capital. The convention itself was okay, but maybe a little too big for my tastes. I definitely preferred Auchinawa and Kitacon because they feel so small and cosy, and it would be great it we can get some small groups going to other conventions over the coming year.
Haum, I seem to be going a little hyperlink crazy, but never mind. As for Anicom in general this year… *sigh*. It’s a shame it ended up like this, I was hoping we could have a good year. Several things went wrong – I fucked up the shows at the beginning, we got bad opinions from some of our advertising materials, and I ended up pretty much on my own after Christmas running the society, with the other two dealing with personal issues / work / no motivation to help the society at all. Hopefully an all-new committee should be able to sort things next year (Mole, Mizzy and Alex) and restore Anicom to it’s former glory like it was in my first year. I’ll be sticking around to help the new committee out wherever I can (although does Mole really need help? Probably not.), and no doubt I’ll be lurking around in Middlesbrough until the end of time itself.
Oh and a final note: Other people seem to be writing blogs too, so go and say hi to Allan, Dave, Kai and Emily for me :3
