A Life, In a Blog...: Archive

New Year, New Blog Theme, New Yoly

Well seeing as the end of 2011 didn’t really go to plan work wise and left me feeling pretty low, 2012 WILL get off to a better start, even thought i’m feeling a little sniffly at this current moment in time *insert sympathy here* I’m planning on going to visit my dad in Bangkok for a couple of weeks to have a break from the crappy UK later this month which shall hopefully leave...

Jan 1st

Dec 20th

It's Official

I’ve passed uni! Hozah! Annoyingly though I was just over 3 marks under a 2:1. But not to worry, who actually looks at the grades you get anyways :P Which brings me to my next point, I am still unemployed, and even though you may laugh I actually have a couple of shifts (definitely almost wrote shits) at the chippy. So one might say that I have come straight from uni to work in a chip...

Jul 15th

May 15th

Welcome Back To Your Blog Yoly.

I know, I know, its been a while, but in my defence it has been a pretty busy few months. I’ve written my dissertation, i’ve finished and handed in my major project and now all is left between me and freedom is this sodding essay I can’t seem to get any motivation to do. There’s only about 2000 words left to do, but I hadn’t recieved any feedback from my first 2000...

May 15th

I Need a Good Slap!

Well, after posting my last post, everything kinda went a bit “tits up”. The day after infact, I got a Facebook message to say I have until the end of the month to find somewhere new to live and move out of my current flat in Bournemouth. Fun no? Well cut a long story short, it’s all kind of worked out for the best. I’ve moved into a friends house, finally got all the...

Feb 3rd

That's It. I Need To Get A Life.

I’ve just come up with my new years resolution. Gone are the; “to lose some weight”, “stop eating chocolate” and welcome “get out more” “give more of a shit about things” “get involved”. After reading this article on my favourite geeky website Smashing...

Dec 30th

Dec 28th

It's Ok, I Am Alive

I know, I know, its been a while. It’s not you it’s me. But lets leave all that behind us. I can’t quite remember where we left off, but i’ve re-designed my website and am a good 3rd of my way through my final year at University. Check out my uni project blog here: http://yolysmajor.tumblr.com/ In short, its a site for sufferers of breast cancer to join, upload...

Dec 28th

Aug 15th

Aug 7th

Mr Doob →

Even if this makes me sound even more of a nerd. This website is pretty awesome. All of this stuff is either done with Javascript, HTML5 or Flash. Impressive no?

Aug 7th

9-5. Me? No. Never.

Well not any more! I started my first day at Boxchilli media today and the guys there are pretty cool. I spent most the day drinking tea and eating. My kind of work! I’ve been learning how to use Joomla! which makes it alot easier to make websites so i’ve spent the day trying to get my head around it. They gave me loads of websites and tutorials to look at for making webpages in...

Aug 3rd

Aug 1st

It's All Going To Be Ok.

So, i’ve secured my place at BoxChilli media and I start tuesday. Awesome. They’re gona pay for travel. Double awesome. I’m gona pass my degree. Triple awesome! My dad’s down for 2 weeks and I got to see him for a couple of hours today, and I got me some new purfume. I also got aload of beauty products from my sis that she didn’t want. I’ve also bought my...

Jul 28th

Jul 26th

To-Do List - *tick*

Well today has been a rather productive day! I had my chat with boxchilli media and it went pretty well! I’m just waiting to hear back from them about the final decision. I then sent off all my ebay stuff and my sodding broken camera. Went to the docs to register for the summer and to make an appointment to get my mole checked out, its looking abit freaky at the moment, which is slightly...

Jul 26th

Feels As Though

Every minute i’m feeling even more flu-like. This is not good news. I’m hoping the majority of the pain in my entire body is due to me working out yesterday at the gym and my body just isn’t used to it. However, between muscle ache and flu ache, i think the reality is pretty 50/50. By Monday i’m hoping my body will have healed itself and I won’t turn up to my chat...

Jul 24th

Things Are Looking

Up! I’ve got myself a ‘chat’ with BoxChilli Media in Southsea and he even mentioned pay…Score! So yesterday of course, I went shopping for clothes to wear, I had no idea if I should go smart, casual or smart cas…disaster! So i went for smart cas, best of both worlds. Any ho, my sister asked me to re-design her flyers for her hairdressing buisness. I’ll post...

Jul 23rd

Its A New Dawn

It’s a new day…. So i’ve made a long list of companies to ring and i’ve already had some rejections and its not even 1 oclock! I’m going to wait a while untill I phone some more companies as most of them are out to lunch. Maybe I should do the same? I’m totally thinking KFC. But with what money you ask? Exactly my problem! Lets see if i can either search the...

Jul 20th

Jul 19th

So I've Pretty Much

Lost the will to live. The company that was meant to ring me back on friday. They didn’t. It’s now monday. I rang them up this morning, they said they’d ring back this afternoon. They didn’t. Motivation to actually go back to uni? Pretty low at the present moment in time. But alas, tomorrow is a new day, I’m going to get up, shower, ring around/beg/sell my body...

Jul 19th

Change Of Plan Is Good For Your Self-Esteem(ish)

So, my placement at TeamDorset didn’t work out/didn’t even start. So i’ve been franticly emailing companies in Portsmouth now that i’m back home. (the unpacking is insane) I’ve got in contact with a few companies and its looking promising… i’ve now probably jinxed it, awesome! I tried to get my brother to hook me up with a placement at Jaguar, alas that...

Jul 16th

CV - Sort Your Life Out!

In order to make myself look more professional I’ve decided to upgrade my CV to make it look more snazzy and and more like me. I’ve been looking on the internet to get some design ideas and to be honest, nothing jumps out at me that hasn’t already been done! I’m thinking, purple (of course, this is me we’re talking about), my name in a big font. Cool sophisticated...

May 18th

May 16th

Just Stuff

So, Ive managed to grab me a placement at teamdorset.co.uk and gona help out on their new project thing they’ve got going on, exciting stuff, i know! This week we had our lecture for our PDP essay we have to write, as much as I find Marian hilarious, I feel PDP abit useless, alas we have to do it! (That and it reminds me to keep updating my blog, even though I hardly do, but thats besides...

May 16th

Dissertation - FML!

Dissertation. One word I had hoped not to say for a few more years, but alas the time has come. We had our dissertation lecture thing today and the words “FML” come to mind. I have little to no idea what I actually want to do. I know I want to do something like the stuff we did with Joe in Media and Participation but I have no idea what i actually want to write about. I’ve had...

May 4th

Apr 14th

A Bit of A Change

So in order to try and sort my life out i’ve decided to do a re-design on my website : http://yolylarkin.co.uk/ It’s a work in progress so bare with! I wanted more of a grungy feel, as lets face it, I’ve never been into that flowery/pretty shizz so I feel that the new theme is a bit more me, and it looks better, theres no denying that! So thats all for now, I’m off...

Apr 10th

So, My First New Blog

After being totally lazy and never updating my old blog, I thought I’d have some change in my life and move it to tumblr. Who knows, might give me more of an incentive to sort my life out! So, if you want to take a look at my old blog, I’ll let you. http://yolee1.wordpress.com/ (please ignore how long i’ve not updated it for!) I’ve never really got into this blogging...

Apr 9th