Eek I'm in danger of blowing my cover if I'm not careful. Up until now I've been a very secret Mouse. There are only a few of you who know about me, because I just wanted to be a quiet little Mouse, but look - you can see that I'm now on a poster! Well it's a folded book thing but it has my picture on. And that's not all. I had to do a project at Uni where I had to create a character. Creating characters does not come easily to me, as I am sure you can imagine...
Anyway, a very good friend of mine called Tishy Talulah and her friend made a very funny set of comments about air conditioning and I asked her kindly if I might borrow the conversation for an art project. Being a nice, kind person she said yes of course, and so I made a little character of her to base my folded book on. Do you want to see her? Here she is...
So let me put you in the picture - the conversation I chose was about air conditioning in the office, and how peaceful it is when it's turned off. The picture of me, above, is me saying to her 'I can't believe you used noise to say how much you like silence'. Well it made me chuckle anyway. Now when I made her, I had to take her 'on location' and photograph her and so I took her to the office with me. Well we got up to all sorts - we had an international conference, we got coffee from the machine, we had lunch, we played about in the stationery cupboard, taking selfies, we raided the office chocolate supply and I photocopied my tail end for a laugh. But what I didn't know is that I would then have to submit all of this for the project. Oops. So now, quite a few more people know that there is 'Mouse'. One of my lecturers looked at me with raised eyebrows and said 'I'd like to know more about this 'Mouse'.' Oh no you wouldn't - I thought - thinking guiltily of all the things I wrote about being a fresher Mouse. I blushed from my tail to my whiskers I can tell you.
Anyway I'm fast learning that the best way to have a whole lot of fun at University is to be me, Mouse. For the first semester (yep, they have gone all American / European on us - no such thing as terms here)I had to all sorts of ridiculous things like scribbling on clothes (I nearly got UV ink on my fur! I would have glowed in the dark for weeks!), making a bird house - a bird house! I ask you! As if I want to catch some great big eagle!, oh - and making that gigantic poster of me that I've already written about and was so embarrassingly, mortifyingly bad, that I need a sherry just thinking about it. Anyway now I get to do more Mouse type projects which means I get to splash a lot of colour around everywhere (except on my fur). I do like my bright colours. Makes me wonder if I see things differently to other mice, who don't seem to like wearing turquoise ponchos and yellow jeans at the same time. I think they look beautiful.
My other job at the Cheese Factory is going well, the only odd thing is that they are all extraordinarily nice. Not a Rare Beast to be seen. I'm even managing to do the job and the course quite well together, as long as I don't need any sleep, of course. I have to say though, it was fun taking my friend in, especially when we raided the chocolate tin.
My next project is also a little book, but I think I'm going to have to write this one about my small boss, Edie, rather than myself, or I will have to take to wearing dark glasses and travelling incognito.
Disguisedly yours,
Mouse xx
Hello!
Well once again it's been a while, I hope you haven't missed me too much. Truth is I've been a very busy Mouse indeed.
I've been off on a creative adventure and it's been quite a roller coaster - ups and downs, sometimes exhilarating and sometimes just making me feel a bit sick. I've been exercising the opposite side of my brain by being creative - drawing, painting, glueing and sticking. I've learned a lot, but nothing I couldn't have learned from my small boss, Edie, but it's been a lot of fun and the fun continues.
However, I did find that in exercising this part of my brain a strange thing happened. I found that I missed exercising the other side of my brain, the side that can organise things and likes solving problems, the side of my brain that likes bossing people about in the nicest way, and bribing them with biscuits.
And then a strange thing happened - I got a call. 'Hey, Mouse, you know you used to manage the orders for the Cheese Farmers, and it used to drive you mad when they put their cheese orders in too late and you had to get into a fight with the Rare Beast to get anything done?'
'Ummm... yes?'
'Do you want to be a Cheese Farmer?'
Well! Did I? This would really put the boot on the other paw. Could I do it? Could I fit it in with the glueing and sticking? I decided to give it a go.
Things have changed a little - The Rare Beast has gone! Yes! He who took pride in not making friends in the office has gone off to not make friends somewhere else. All of the creatures in my new office are really nice and I have an opportunity to raise a cheese order which I am doing in good time. I shall show them!
So for now I am a happy Mouse, albeit a busy one! What with ordering cheese, drawing stick men and gluing in my scrap book, and of course managing the needs of my small boss, Edie, I often don't know if I'm coming or going. Which means I often look like this:-
Bewildered! But have you noticed? As I am now also an art student Mouse, my style has improved? Just look at that headband!
Creatively yours,
Mouse xx
