Community Placement

In my second week at the library I wanted to look into what was going on around me, most of what I noticed was of the dedication of the staff doing a service to the public. But underneath that there are issues such are funding for the library, but mostly were the current underlying issues of the dispute that the public sector are now going through, an issue that the library and its staff were now slowly but surely getting themselves embroiled in whether they liked it or not.

 Maybe I may be wrong, but I have to think that it is a little more difficult for  the staff of the library as opposed to the majority of the public sector workers (or at least those that are ensconced in their offices around the country, places and people we never see, and their protest consisting of  mostly not answering the phones never hear), but the staff  at the library are face to face with the public every day, and if the public gets upset with with what is going on, they are there for them to fire at. I hope that this will not happen, it would be scant reward for all the hard work they have put in for the public.

That Friday Feeling Again

Now then Today I am off to my community placement I will and I will back track for last week the only reason i missed any blogs was because of the emense pressure we had to meet our deadlines, excuses aside I will catch up....there's something wrong with this mirror this morning... and I must remember to have a haircut...

OH MY GOD !!!

Oh my god first Happy St Patrick's Day, that aside it's my final day to finish my essay!!

 What do you mean you don't care? Some friend you are! oh your not my friend in fact you don't even know me,Well that's no excuse for not caring! look what it's doing to me, I am writing to a total stranger! You could be anybody?!

Can we have a moment of lucidity please, the madness is being created by the fact of all the deadlines coming up in the next few weeks, I am turning into a GIBBERING WRECK !!!

 there you go moment over, I blame you, yes you the stranger out there, looking in, it was all part of your plan wasn't it? ADMIT IT ! You see I knew I was right, now that you been found out you have nothing to say, HA! Who's the Blonde in the green top, introduce us, go on, not so keen on the hat though............

T G I Friday

Thank god it s friday, but I have a long day ahead of me though, so this is a short post as I wont have time or probably energy later

thursday DAY

I am sat here at my digs in front of my laptop trying not to spill my cup of lemsip over the keyboard as I am still half-awake whilst typing, bad combination. so just to say that we have Art history today from 10am hopefully in my current state I am still able to absorb something other than germs and viruses....I am now going into college still hoping to infect the lesser mortals who have not yet contracted the dreaded germ.......

Please get me put down at the vet!

Shoot me now, you lot out there in the ether are no help, i dont want this cold anymore!

Still there is some success I think everyone in the college is infected, but I don't get the satifaction of being the one who did it as I think it was one of the infected that gave it to mee!!! I WILL HAVE MY REVENGE! Calm down Ken...... you know you have to watch your blood pressure......JUST YOU WAIT I will get you..............Who was that, right i am on my way into college me and my infection so if there is anyone left in wexford that is not infected 

BE AFRAID!......Catch you later, Ha!

my dose (nose)

Well I was wrong about Sat, I was not hung over I was ill I have caught a cold or bug or something, i am slowly dying at the moment,... dont all sympathise at once, queue up why dont you. So i will make this post short as I am heading into college to go die there and infect everyone while I am doing it.

Community Placement

Now i wish to do my views on what I experienced on my placement. It was a positive one. And somewhat of a suprise. In that, it tended to go against the role I expected to see for a library, I have in my head this, idea of what a library is, and this was nothing like it, and all the better for it I may add. this place was alive, busy and noisey, but not loud and was driven along quietly but efficiently by the staff who all knew their roles well. One side of the library was dedicated to the children's books of all subjects, and the space in front was left open and a large play matt placed there every Friday and under the supervision of a dedicated member of staff the children came tumbling in to play and read from the shelves around them in a wonderful piece of organised chaos and expression, the sounds of occupied children's laughter filled this library and although the place was full with customers no one seemed to  mind in the least. There was a separate corner for the the little toddlers away from the happy rough and tumble of the bigger children, something they learned to do through experience and with the parents there helping with the chaos and laughing at the antics of their children, you could see instantly this was a great way to foster a positive attitude of the children to use the library in their lives as they grow. I will touch on more of the roles this library takes on in my next post. Thank you

THE MORNING AFTER

NEVER AGAIN....I promise never to touch another drop just dont let me feel so rough..... god is a sadist I'm sure he is otherwise why would he give me this thumping head every time i have a drink, come on now be fair....... Enough of my vision of a utopian world i have write a piece reviewing my first day at my placement, but considering my present condition I would be wise if I waited till my head cleared a bit. It may take a while!"£$%^&*.......

A little like a fish

Well I am here at my community placement, I hope I can be of some use to them and not get under thier feet they have after all got to get thier work done around me. I have been given my grand first tour and I have come in on a busy day and it has been suggested that my best course of action today would be mostly to observe and hopefully pick up on how the place is run the lady in charge has been very helpful and I have a lot of names to remember, a task Iam not very good at, I do hope they forgive me.

BACK TO WORK

Well i have to get back to work and try and retreive the losses of last night (wish me luck) I cannot fall any further behind or it will be impossible to save myself from losing it completely. Cant be having that its took me five to six years to get here dont want to lose it now! 

by the way am I alone and talking to myself or is there someone out there? 

If so please send your sympathies, (and any money you can spare) in a stamped addressed envelope to ; Kenny's Art Blog.com you never know maybe the postman will work it out and I will be rich! (as you will have I have delved into the realm of fantasy, its the pressure you see) college does that to you, don't fret, I will recover. (in a decade or two)

WAKEY WAKEY!!

DAHM! I am so annoyed with this laptop after last night, I worked on it till eleven last night, finnished the work I was doing (wrote about 1200 words) and then the thing crashed as I sent it to be printed, then I find out that the auto save no longer works so I could not recover it!!!!!.....calm...calm down ken mind your blood pressure. Now I need to wake up as I have history of art this morning at ten, (two hours of sitting on uncomfortable plastic chairs that play havoc with my hips) and i do not want to be nodding off in class, a feat I have managed to do on occasion I sadly admit.

Still Studying

Well I had a reasonably good day today, got some good work done I think, though I still hard at it at 8 in the evening in my digs so that shows I still have plenty more to do. I start my Community Based Learning placement on friday I will be working in a library,presumably with computers, but anything that will allow me to be of help will do. Iwill report more on what I may be doing when I find out

WED nes DAY

Thats me wondering who nes is and why we have to celebrate a day for him to get wed, enough of that nonsense have to go into college today and make sure i get some work done on both my art work and my research ( hope). no volenteers out there willing to do it for me? No, be like that I wont ask again!

Pressure Mounting in the course

Well it seems we are coming down to the nitty-gritty in my course now. Lets see, 12th march we hand in part one of our E-portfolio, 15th and 16th we have both review of our project and our year!! (paddy's day wed) then we have to hand in our 2000words literary review on the 18th!!!!!! POINT ME TO THE VALIUM PLEASE! Who idea was it to do this course? oh mine, you fool you !!

AAAAAAhhhh Tuesday

a day where I have had a little rest I should feel a lot better today will post later with more details on my placement

Make it go away monday

well I am here and I am tired from coming down on the bike (shoot me now get my out of my misery) my hip is killing me, I am having it replaced asap but it is playing up something cronic, especially on a monday after traveling down in this cold weather, ah well there's always the vet!

Happy March

Happy march (not). Well it is monday morning again and I have to travel to wexford on my bike, took a look out of the window this morning, bad frost again so I will do my usual safety feature of mine and delay my journey for an hour or so to allow the sun to warm and rid the world of some of the frost and make the roads a little safer for my journey (I hope) thats not me by the way (i think) so i will a tad late to college but safe, and not frozen, I hope.