You know, it's funny. If you had mentioned the Q*Bee to me last year, I'd have told you I had no interest whatsoever in it. I thought the members were elitist, very 'cliquey' and generally unfriendly. I thought you had to be an expert pixeller and all that.

...how very wrong I was.

I got curious and started visiting people's quilts, and was admiring their patches and the activities that go on. I was seriously considering joining, but I didn't have a patch yet and didn't have time to make one, so I left it. Then, Jem became Queen Bee. Being as omgz i heartz jem!1!1! Jem was a friend and claims not to have any pixelling expertise, I thought I should probably start on making a trial patch to see how it went. I asked her what she thought of my efforts and she said it was good enough to join with :D Sooo, I applied, made my quilt and got accepted on May 24th. Since then, I've joined the BBS, traded patches with loads of people, won awards, participated in several activities and made a whole bunch of new friends. :)

If you've been putting off joining because of the same reasons I did, don't worry - no one is elitist, and you don't have to be able to pixel. You just have to be able to make a 40×40 patch. I started by filling up the square with a load of different coloured dots - then gradually started changing the colours and attempting to draw a bit more. This failed, but I ended up with a patch I'm actually quite proud of. I think that with a bit of practice, I could probably end up a better pixeller... And I'd have never discovered this 'talent' if it wasn't for the Q*Bee. :P

And no, I wasn't paid to write this - it's part of the Q*Bee blog day :)

Work is leaving me rather less time to do stuff these days :( I have university classes on Mondays and Fridays, and I work all day Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Saturday, leaving me with just Sundays off to do assignments and things. Next week is the last week of uni before Christmas and every assignment under the sun is due in... Have I done any work on any of them? Of course not. When I get home from work, I'm exhausted and I pretty much go straight to bed. When I get home from uni, the last thing I want to do is study. Urgh. Although extra money is good (I haven't had a "proper" job in quite a while, uni and travelling to and fro kind of prevented me doing anything for a couple of years), I do miss my free time. If I didn't have uni work to do, this would all be great... But I do so it isn't. Meh.

Not that I'm not enjoying my new job though... I'm not doing anything exciting but I've done this sort of thing before and I really enjoyed it. This time round it's with a different company, but it's the same kind of job and I still enjoy it. That is, until people start telling me to go and put things in places when I don't know where said places are. Oh well, I'm sure I'll get used to it eventually. In the meantime, I should probably try and work on these essays. *Gloom*

That's right, Amelie has a job. :D Nothing exciting, just a little bit of temporary work over Christmas to help with present funding. But yeah, I start tomorrow (it would have been today, but I have lectures on Mondays so I can't work then). ARGH TOMORROW. I have no idea what I'll be doing, who I should report to and where... This whole job was organised in a rush on Thursday and I had a very brief induction on Saturday. I'm in at the deep end tomorrow morning at 9am sharp. O_O EEP!

In other news, I met Jem, her partner Karl and Katy yesterday :D Decided at the last minute that while Katy was there admiring their new flat, I might as well go down and see what all the fuss was about (and meet everyone all at once, woo) as well. Dragged the boyfriend with me, since I can't drive and navigate at the same time, and he ended up driving. We then got lost because Jem lives in the middle of nowhere the directions we got off some travel site shoved us down a tiny narrow road that was closed instead of down the much easier (and more open) main road. Heh. Anyway, that was fun. :)

Now I can go back to fretting about jobliness tomorrow. ARGH I START IN 12 HOURS AND 20 MINUTES ARGH