March 16th, 1983 -- as Brenda Gordon
This really isn't something one typically thinks about on a Friday night after spending the majority of the time with their boyfriend, but Dad has owled about this every day this week, and since I haven't written him back.... I'm expecting another owl tomorrow at breakfast.
It is, of course, about what I'm doing after Hogwarts. I mean, it's the middle of March, he has a right to be a little concerned that I haven't said a word about it. But it's because I don't really know-
Oh, who am I kidding? I think I do know, I just don't want to tell him. I know he wants me to do something in the Ministry like him. My marks are good enough now, and if I do well on my NEWTs I'm sure I could get in somewhere. And part of me thought that I might like to go there once upon a time, but it isn't like that now.
I think I want to go somewhere like WADA and do costume design, or something. I've heard lots of good things about their design program. I mean, I already love to tinker with my own clothes and I make a lot of stuff, but I don't really wear much of it in public, you know? Well, at least not around here because we do have that uniform. Seriously though, I've been to a few theatre productions (Mum loves them and used to bring me along) and I spent more time ogling the costumes and wondering how they were put together than following the actual plot of the show. Some of them were so wild and over the top while others were very simple and basic and it was all amazing.
I think that over Easter hols I'm going to have a look see at some of the robes shops around (like Gladrags and Madam Malkins) and some Muggle shops to see if I could get any sort of work over the summer, because that is something both of my parents keep harping at me over: to get a job.
Wow, um. I guess I had a lot to say tonight!
In other news, talking to Iona is ALWAYS weird, but I'm really happy that she IS acknowledging that I do exist (even if it's not in public, I know what the rest of my cousins from that side would say). It's baby steps, but hopefully we keep progressing.
And I've officially been with Russell for a little over two months, now. Things are still brilliant there, but things generally are at the start of these things, right? I'm not going to be naive about this and think things will always stay this way especially since next year he'll still be at school and I won't and that could be a prob, but for now... I really like how things are. And no one's really given me a hard time for going with a younger bloke, either. Not that they should, but sometimes students can be a bit cruel.
Okay, now my hand hurts. I think I've written shorter essays than this!