Well, it’s been a couple of weeks now since I finished university. I’ve been to Oxford to visit a friend, been to Birmingham for the Contagious training day, watched series 2 of Battlestar Galactica, applied for some jobs and continued work on my novel.
Applying for jobs is a somewhat tedious process, filling out application forms and trying to fine-tune my CV to each job that I apply for. I’ve applied for stuff at Care for the Family, BBC Wales and Confused.com, as well as for various bits of summer work – I’ll be doing a couple of days next week through the University Jobshop, which is just as well since my funds are depleting rapidly!
I’m aiming for 1,000 words a day on my novel now, and I passed 15,000 on Monday, which is probably around two-thirds of the way through the first act of the story. Russell T Davies used a couple of ideas in Saturday’s Doctor Who episode, the exciting Sound of Drums, but hopefully nobody will notice by the time anyone reads my story and when I’ve used them in a bit of a different context. Sometimes I suspect that Russell has a secret device to scan the minds of Cardiff’s inhabitants for good story ideas, hence the emotion patches in Gridlock being rather like my Emotion Emporium story. Or it could just be that great minds think alike, of course!
Later today I’ll be getting my degree classification. I’m guessing it’ll probably be a 2:1, which I’d be very happy with. I’ve perhaps got a chance of a First, but I’m trying not to get my hopes up so I’ll be pleasantly surprised if I manage it. I’ll post an update tonight or tomorrow morning.