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It's been a while since I wrote in this, and I won't promise that the future holds any form of regular updating, but I will always try to post something up, even if it's incredibly short, when I remember about it. And so let's delve straight into the first entry of 2010.

As I sit here, my situation is as follows; I'm still living with my Dad, and jobwise I had a temporary position in hmv over xmas until 3rd Jan, but now I'm sending out emails and applying for the occasional media job in order to chance upon a TV production based vacancy or work experience placement. The trick to succeeding with that apparently is to send out as many emails as you can, and while I have begun this in a pretty slow manner, this will improve as the main excuse has been not really knowing how to structure the perfect email (I blame my perfectionism). Having written quite a few so far, I do appear to be getting better at it, or at least not caring so much about the final draft. I only made a single resolution this year, which was to get a job in the TV business. Hopefully this amount of emailing will get me somewhere. I should mention that I have one potential option, my friend Ceri has told me he will chat to the guys at a local production company called Telesgop and see if he can get me some work experience there, and so I must promise to myself to chase him up on that. That'd be a great headstart.

Other things that I'm currently doing are far and few between. As this is a catch up blog post, I'm cramming a lot in and so the form will have to suffer. I've booked tickets for a lengthy stay (Particularly on a dole income) in Exeter to see all the friends I haven't seen in ages. It should be good, though I've been asked to stick around until Tuesday to see a friends comedy event, and this makes me wonder if I'll be missing my own bed and privacy by then! Ah screw it, I'll enjoy getting to catch up with everyone and will treat it like a holiday.

I've still yet to finish writing a draft of 'Backstage' and for those of you who don't know what that is, it's a comedy script I've been asked to work on by a friend of mine in the business. However, I did start the whole thing again, and showed the first couple of pages to him and he told me it's the most promising he's seen it so far, which was quite pleasing to hear. I do add to it now and then but it's not going at a pace I'm happy with for the time being. It's worth mentioning that I did attempt a novel writing month challenge to write 50,000 words, but the challenge soon exceeded my capabilities and I gave up after a measly 10,000. I really should work through that while I have some free time.

Family politics now, and things are going great. My Dad is away often but that's a positive thing because he gets very agitated over the smallest things; I've put this down to him still being in the giddy phase (Though it's lasted bloody ages) of being in a relationship, and time spent away from her is grumpy time. It gives me a bit of freedom and peace when he's in Cardiff, but we still get along well most of the time. My Mum and I are on getting along really well, though there's not been a negative incident between us since at least a year ago (I think) and though I only see her once a week roughly, it's always joyful, and my little sis Emily is always ringing me on her mobile phone, I should ring her for once cos she obviously misses me and it would be nice for her to know that I care about her enough to speak to her of my own accord; thing is she won't give me a chance as she always gets there first! As for siblings, my bro plans to move out soon and we are getting along well which comes and goes, my sis Chloe is working a lot and I don't see her very much and my other sis Vicky is at Uni and in a seemingly 'controlling' relationship with her boyfriend Chris, but I don't know for sure, and I probably shouldn't even mention it, but this is a blog for me and I think I'd be interested to read this back in a couple of years and see if I was wrong about it.

I've applied for a BBC job in London for people who don't have much experience, and if they give me a chance to go to the next stage which is the interview stage, I am positive I can make them love me enough to hire me. Annoyingly I don't have much luck getting past the application forms, I need to practice that a bit.

It is way too late now, so I will finish downloading the new season of 24 and go to sleep. Night night.