The anxious waiting game...and I hate waiting!!

As the date when we FINALLY get our overall degree mark draws ever closer, the nerves and butterflies begin to kick in even more. It has been a long wait, three years in the making and now it's only a matter of 13 days until we receive the envelope with our overall degree grade in it. As I am waiting for my results I can't help but recall all the other times in my life that have been spent waiting... 11+ results when I was just 11 years old, GCSE results, A-Level results, Driving test result at the end of the test...all very important moments in my life and I still distinctively remember the nervous feeling in the pit of my stomach as I waited. Now that all too familiar feeling is back and I can't say I like it! Waiting on my overall degree mark seems to be the longest wait of my life!!!! 

These results will determine whether or not I have wasted my three years or that it was three years studying in the great city of Liverpool well spent!! :) I can only hope and pray that I get what I want and pass my degree so that I can finally relax and prepare for one of the most exciting days to come...GRADUATION of course with all my fellow LJMU Journalism friends. :) I'd like to take this opportunity to wish everyone else not only on my Journalism course awaiting results but everyone else on any other course or exams, hopefully we will all get what we want and have worked hard for.

I'm going to leave you with the JMU Class of 2011video to have a look at, great memories and also a few cringe-worthy moments for myself in the video (I hate how I sound/look recorded) Enjoy!! :D :D

The not so super....Super Injunction

I have been dying to blog about this for weeks, after finding out who it was a few weeks ago thanks to the great invention that is the internet and of course Twitter!! My interest in Super injunctions has been ongoing for many weeks now, especially when I wrote my final ever University essay on the issue and the damage that they are causing to journalism. So now that it is all out in the open I can finally say it...IT WAS RYAN GIGGS!!! Yes the Man United star was unveiled yesterday as the player who had taken out a super injunction to prevent the media publicising that he was in fact the man who was having an alleged 6 month affair with Welsh beauty queen and Big Brother star Imogen Thomas.(pictured below)

It has to be said that this was probably the worst kept secret in history as I don't think I barely came across one person in recent weeks who didn't already know that it was of course the Welsh "family man".

But the bigger picture here is not really who it was (even though I am glad it was him because I'm quite frankly sick of his wholesome projected image and the fact that most people thought he was the ultimate professional and great gentleman, doesn't look that way now does it?? (And it's not just because he's a manc that I strongly dislike him, although that is a part of it! ;) It's the issue surrounding the alarming rise in the amount of superinjunctions we have been hearing about in recent years that is the real issue. Why should these footballers and other famous celebrities have the right to gag the media just because they have a lot of money?? The media have a duty to report and inform the public of things which they ought to know and are in the public interest. And although some would argue the private lives of footballers and celebrities are not in the public interest, I would whole heatedly disagree on some areas. IF a person is known in the media and is a public figure who gains MONEY from being a 'family man' or other such interests then the public have a right to know that they are being conned! 

Ryan Giggs played up to this 'family man' image and gentleman of football for many many years, even being awarded and OBE last year and the BBC Sports Personality of the Year award in 2009 for his services to the game and just for being an all round 'good guy'. But now we see, Ryan isn't such a gentleman. The truth is that he is a cheat and liar and pretty much a coward for trying to hide behind his money and a super injunction! Even though I do not feel one tidy bit of sympathy for him, it's his loving wife and children that I do feel sorry for. His wife is the innocent victim in all of this yet she will have to deal with much more than anyone else as the media wait with baited breath to see whether or not she will leave him or give him a second chance. Her life has just been turned upside down and she never asked for any of this.Whether or not she will stay with him or otherwise remains to be seen, but one thing is definitely for certain is that Giggs is certainly not the only footballer or celebrity we will be talking about in the weeks and months to come in relation to super injunctions. My guess is that there are plenty others quaking in their boots at this moment in time wondering if their super injunction will be unmasked by the power of social media and the Internet.

I'll leave you with this EXCELLENT picture I saw posted on the internet yesterday, check out the sign beside Mr Giggs, says it all really! ;)

N.B I do not own or have any copyright of any of the pictures posted on this blog post.

xx

The long and winding road...

Well folks as I am now officially no longer a student *tear* I thought it was about time I started to look for a job, a full time proper grown up job. Although I haven't officially graduated or passed my degree yet (awaiting the dreaded results in June!! eeek) I still need a job like NOW to get money because despite the fact that I am no longer a student one thing has not escaped me...the poverty bit! I am still a poor non-student! :(

I have been searching and applying for jobs for about two months now with still no joy! I know the world of journalism is in just a bad as state as every other occupation because of the way the economy is but I really really need a job asap. And although I would LOVE to go straight into the journalism job of my dreams, or any journalism job for that matter, it's simply not that easy. I have been applying for basically everything at the minute, from retail jobs to office admin positions I just need a temporary job to keep me in money until I eventually HOPEFULLY get that Journalism job that I really really badly want! But unfortunately I haven't even managed to get just a regular part-time job at the minute despite the fact that I have applied for LOADS! :( The road to employment of any kind seems to very long and very winding, and particularly disheartening that despite getting myself into three years of University debt I cannot even get a job that does not require a degree. But despite all the negatives I WILL NOT GIVE UP!! I am going to continue applying for jobs, journalism and non-journalism related and hopefully I will be able to get something very soon. So everyone keep your fingers crossed! ;)

And in the meantime, to keep me upbeat and positive it can only be one song, by one band that sums up how I will keep on going on the long and winding road to employment!! :D

Sheena xx

It's all coming to an end...

Hello again blogging world! 

Apologies for neglecting you in recent weeks, I've been doing quite a lot actually! Since my last post, I've completed my FINAL Journalism exam...eeeek! I have also been working on my FINAL coursework essay AND I've also had my leaving night out with all my fellow journalists and some of the lecturers. So life really is moving VERY fast at the minute and I really don't know where to go from here. Suddenly it feels like I'm at the end of a very long road and I'm not sure whether it is going to keep going in a straight direction or whether I need to make new decisions and turn in a different direction (apart from back of course!)

So as I mentioned we had our course night out last week and it was really good to have everyone out together for one last hurrah in the great city of Liverpool. I've had an absolutely brilliant three years here and have met some amazing people, a lot of which I hope to keep in contact with after we all go our separate ways into the big bad world of work.

Also with ending a course, the end of my time as Deputy Website Editor of the JMU Journalism website also comes to an end. This I am really sad about because ever since I was a first year, and the website was just in it's inital stage of being set up, I knew that I wanted to be a part of it. And it truely has been great to be part of it, where else would you get such a great platform for your work when you're just a trainee and where else would you get the opportunity at such an early age of your career to fill a life long ambition to sit in the Press box at Anfield and report on a game LIVE! 

So it truely has been an amazing three years, and three that I will never forget and I want to take this opportunity to thank EVERYONE who has made my time in Liverpool so much easier, your kindness will not be forgotten! Liverpool will ALWAYS be my second home, I'm declaring myself an honorary scouser! ;)

You can have a little look at what probably will be my final byline on the JMU Journalism website here: 

http://www.jmu-journalism.org.uk/#/liverpool-life-84/4544735978 

In the words of Bill Medley and Jennifer Warnes....I've had the time of my life!!! :D xx