Been having a good few days here in cold, cold, very (oh so) cold Chillcompton. What can I say?
Been sleeping. Watched The Mist (great film, by the way) and saw the Christmas Top Gear and Big Fat Quiz of the Year.
Making new year plans…
Quote of the Day: “I always take my shirt off when I’m celebrating”
End of Friday: We watched the Doctor Who Christmas special, A Matter of Loaf and Death and the the new X-Files film: I Want To Believe.
Saturday: We did a bit of Scalextric, but the dust had had an effect on the track so it didn’t fair very well. Nevertheless, Alastair seemed to enjoy it… Then I got my train back to the smog of London and back home.
Sunday: After a quick overnight pit-stop, I’m back on the road, this time to Chilcompton to see my cousin. So at the moment we’re catching up.
Now you all get a very special treat, I have a video of Alastair on Christmas day playing with his new guitar toy. Hilarity ensued…
Boxing day 2008 in pictures:
Above: Alastair having a silent night. Below: Jordan being mischievous.
Above: Becky & Alastair enjoying watching the ice hockey game. Below: Alan, Jordan & Barry supporting the Steelers in full force.
Went to an ice hockey match this afternoon between the Sheffield Steelers and the Nottingham Panthers. Obviously Steelers won 5-2!!
Going back to London tomorrow :-(
But then going to see my cousin on Sunday :-)
Quote of the Day: LETS GO STEELERS LETS GO!
Here comes Santa Clause…
Got a few pictures to show you of our day:
Above: Barry and Alastair in merriment. Below: Me with my awesome new camera!
Above: Father and son. Below: Mother and son.
Above: Alastair giving the puzzle a good seeing to. Below: Becky giving the puzzle a good seeing to.
Above: Alastair finding musical inspiration. Below: Baby blues.
Above: Simply having a wonderful Christmas time. Below: Between brushing her teeth and getting ready for bed, Jordan finds time to play with one last toy…
Above: A cute baby… and Alastair. Below: The “pretend you’re doing something” photo.
Finally, a Time Lapse video of the days events unfolding. Notice the speed the presents appear, the erection of a tent, and the overuse of the spherical puzzle by me and Becky!
Quote of the day:
Mum: Have you had any champagne yet?
Becky: No.
Mum: We have (giggles).
Having a great time at my sisters. Arrived yesterday and dropped Alastair off at nursery. Feels like coming home, love it here. Millie and Daisy (AKA “the cats”) are as lovely as ever.
Today me and Baz fought the crowds at the shops (successfully, I might add). This evening I got a much needed haircut and then we all watched 24:Redemption.
As it happens, its actually Christmas Eve!!!!
Friday: Went through the test. I passed! Won’t tell you by how much, but I definitely need to look over it again when I get a chance. After we’d gone through the test I went to Rubix (the union) to stage crew for the Credit Crunch Christmas Party!
I ended up having 5 cameras to work with, it looked great and was really good fun. To keep the Christmas spirit we had 1,500 free mince pies! Needless to say I had my fair share. (Don’t tell anyone but I managed to take 12 of them away with me. They went down well with Dad!)
The party finished at 3am and then we had to pack down the mess we had made outside the union. We had Santa’s grotto on a stage, lighting, snow machines and a gazebo to disassemble.
Finally left at 4:30am. I knew that I was going home on Saturday and I also knew that if I went to sleep I wouldn’t get up before 1pm. So I did what any sensible person would have done and stayed awake. I packed my bag, did the washing up and read a few blogs.
At 7am I left for the train station. Staying awake on the train was slightly tricky (that’s were the mince pies came in handy). Got home at 8:30am.
Time for breakfast and catching up with mum and dad. Went over to church to put up candle stands and then managed to get some sleep (well 2 hours!)
Had a fabulous night at Victoria’s, great food and great company. Watching Strictly Come Dancing was fun and who’d have thought the result! Thank you Victoria for a fantastic evening.
Sunday: Caught up on sleep. This evening I’m doing a reading at the carol service.
Only 4 days until Christmas!
Yea! WOOOOO!!!! FRATELLIS!!! YEAA!!
OK, so it was wicked! Pictars:
Me, Dad and Josh on Brighton Pier! Had some lovely fish and chips. Went for a long walk around town, down all the lanes and around the shops. Did it all!
Best picture I have. Me and Josh went down into the “mosh pit” and rocked out! HELLS YEA!
Thursday: Exam, boo! And then setting up for Christmas Flirt in Rubix tomorrow. Only one day left of my first semester! We’re almost there people.
Today was a good day. The “Test” this morning went well, got 67% (a 2-1). Also found out that I’m on 71% for Maths this semester. Good, good.
Sorted out a few things for stage crew on Friday and then did the Comedy Night on my own. Funny as usual and nothing went wrong so I was OK crewing on my own.
Hope everyone back home is having a good time. I’ll see you all at the weekend!
Quick breakdown of what’s been happening over the weekend:
Friday – Stage Crew for gig in union
Saturday – Stage Crew Christmas party. Food. Alcohol. ‘Nuff said.
Sunday – Nothing
Monday – Nothing
This week:
Tuesday – Test thing in the morning. Comedy night.
Wednesday – THE FRATELLIS!
Thursday – Test thing in the morning. Stage Crew in afternoon. Dance show in evening.
Friday – Test thing in the morning. Stage Crew for Christmas party!
Saturday – Home!
Monday – To Becky’s!
WOW! What a cool few days.
Up bright and early on Wednesday to do a spot of Christmas shopping. Bought a few presents in town and then the rest online.
After lunch I went over to Rubix to help Stage Crew with setting up a big gig on Thursday. The Electronic Engineering Staff Christmas Party where staff bands performed to the audience and a panel of judges to win the coveted x-mas factor champions crown. There were 14 bands in all, 9 of which had at least one of my lecturers in.
As expected, I wound up doing video which was fantastic because I was the only one doing it. This meant I learnt an awful lot about setting up cameras, running cables, using the mixer and video PC. However, it did mean that I couldn’t have a pit cam (a camera operated from the front of the stage) and that required someone to man that camera as well.
I finished on Wednesday night with 2 cameras that could be operated with a controller (they were stationary but could be panned, tilted and zoomed) and the video PC to show bands PowerPoint presentations. I’d also set up the projector screen on stage to show the video and PowerPoint’s.
A 9am start on Thursday morning allowed me to put up another camera to focus on the judges, and tap into a security camera. Then I noticed that someone was planning to film the event with two HD cameras on the balcony, so I asked nicely and found out that one was going to be operated all night. I managed to get the output of that camera into the video mixer so I now effectively had a replacement pit cam.
With a total of 2 pan/tilt cameras, 1 stationary camera, 1 operated camera, a black and white security camera and the PowerPoint’s, I was well away.
The gig went very well and I thoroughly enjoyed doing it. So great to work video for 14 very different bands, got to try lots of ideas and styles. My entire cut of the evening (about 6 hours in total) was recorded and I’ll hopefully get a copy at some point.
Today was a recovery day. I’ve had a headache all day and just tried to relax. I might do some stage crew this evening, I’ll see how I feel.
(Just a cool name, in no way related to what I want to say)
My last lecture went fine, boring, but fine.
Then I helped with stage crew in the evening, was very informative and interesting. I didn’t get to mix in the end, but I helped out and got to see the mixing so I’ll be ready if I ever need to do it.
Today I had a Meningitis C booster. Not sure whether I’d had it before, so they just gave it to me anyway. That meant that I couldn’t do any climbing this evening. :-(
Doing some Christmas shopping tomorrow morning and then Stage Crew in the afternoon.
This week So it has been a pretty hectic weekend and end of week. My last lectures on Friday were my last lectures, which is always good. Confusing though, so need to definitely do some revision.
Did stage crew on Friday night, 90’s night. Very 90’s, what can I say. Had a good time. (Sounds promiscuous, but wasn’t).
Saturday was a wipe-out, as always after a Friday gig. But I did watch “The Pursuit Of Happiness” with some friends, such a brilliant film.
Sunday I had a day learning how to operate the sound at a gig on a Stage Crew Training Day. Learnt a lot and am looking forward to working the sound desk at the next gig (either today or Thursday).
This week I have one lecture today and that is it. So I’ve signed up for 2 stage crew gigs and its the stage crew Christmas party on Saturday.
Haven’t been climbing for a week so will go along to that at some point. I also need to do some revision for my exams next week that don’t count for anything and will be self-marked (AKA “formative”).
Doing my laundry at the moment, FUN FUN FUN!
Hope everyone is having a great time and I’ll see you all soon!
It’s here! This is what I’ve been waiting for since January this year.
Amazon MP3 is an alternative to downloading music using iTunes. It is VERY cheap, you can download the new Kings Of Leon album for just £3.
So what’s the big deal? First things first, it’s only downloads, so you don’t get the actual CD. But it is incredibly cheap, whole albums from as little as £3 and singles for as little as 29p!
This is funny because last week I had a conversation with Dad and James about MP3 stores and I was saying how Amazon had promised an MP3 store in 2008, and what do you know, still 28 days to spare.
Definitely check it out, its going to be BIG. I promise you now, in 1 years time, this store will be just as big as iTunes, if not bigger. Mark my words…
Comedy night was gold this week, absolutely brilliant. It was fantastic having my brother there to enjoy it with.
Made a start on Maths revision, still got some ground to cover tomorrow, but otherwise quietly confident about the test on Thursday.
Managed to have a good day today, between having a maths lecture this morning and doing maths revision all day, I also had some good conversations with people (how vague can you be!)
It’s here! Officially! December, the time of advent, shopping, snow and cheap decorations.
Opened the first door on my advent calendar today, there was chocolate! It pretty much sums up my day, predictable and enjoyable.
Tesco has now changed the “confectionary” isle to the “seasonal treats” isle and is getting busier (or maybe that’s just Monday evening).
James is coming over tomorrow for Comedy Night, looks set to be a blast! I’ve also signed up for Stage Crew on Friday, Sunday and next Monday. This is my last week of full lectures before Christmas. But its not that simple. Breakdown:
Stuff to look forward to:
How are you celebrating Christmas this year?
PS Seriously, sign up for the e-mail alerts! I have!
Where was I… I’ve completely lost my train of thought. Either way, its great to see my sis again!
Friday evening we had a good night in. Watched some Jeff Dunham and the 198th episode of “Never Mind the Buzzcocks”.
Hope everyone is having a good weekend. Speak to you soon (except you Bex, I’ll speak to you now!)
Wey Hey! The weekend is upon us. And that means seeing my Sister!
Thursday I had another night in, watching Heroes. Yesterday I had the 4 epic hours of lectures in the morning, not that great but could have been a lot worse. No surprises there.
In the afternoon it was time for the last lab session before Christmas! It actually went very, very well, which shows from the fact that not only did they let me go an hour early, but I also got the highest marks possible, ASS, which is an A for preparation, and two ‘S’ scores for the experiment (S is one above an A). Score breakdown:
| 30% | 40% | 50% | 60% | 70% | 80% |
| E | D | C | B | A | S |
However, I also got a C in the latest Math’s test, so it pretty much evens out.
I’ve got other things to tell you about, but they’ll have to wait. I’ve got a party to go to…
PS In the mean time check out the new “Get Updates Via Email” link on the right, its awesome!
Since the enormous success of Team GB at the Beijing Olympics this year I’ve been following progress on the London Olympic Park. Its really coming along and today they released a new set of aerial photographs. Check them out.
I’m thinking that, while university life is cool and all that, you may also be interested in knowing what I’m thinking about in terms of news I’ve heard and songs I’m listening to (for example). I may be wrong, and please, please tell me if I am, but I’m going to give it a go.
So it turns out that F1 boss plans scoring revolution. While this does initially sound like a good idea, will it mean that in the future the championship will be as close as it was this year (when it came down to the last corner!!!)? Will the season be decided several races before the last race? And what about the smaller teams, how will they be differentiated?
I think a better idea would be to give the winner of a race more than 2 points more than 2nd. Maybe they should get 14 points instead of 10? I think something needs to be done, but it shouldn’t sacrifice the battle between the lesser teams.
And for those of you who are interested in what I’ve been up to: Finished my work today, took a long time, but me and Josh got there in the end. Lectures went well, all is good in the world. Just got to get through labs now… Bring on the weekend is all I can say!
The usual recovering on Saturday happened. The usual trip to Tesco on Sunday and a bit of climbing (well 3.5 hours). A bit of work too.
Had a bit of a tough week so far. I have some work due in on Thursday that is very hard and taking a lot longer than I hoped it would. As a result, it looks like I won’t be able to do any stage crew this week (not very happy about that at all). However, I am still doing OK in lectures, not as good as last week, but not brain-dead yet.
I managed to finish a Programming assignment today, a whole week early, which should free up some time next week. Went climbing for an hour today, managed a hard wall which I’m chuffed about, it was worth taking an hour out of work time to go.
Over the last two days I have been listening to a new song out by The Fray called You Found Me. It’s a fantastic song and I recommend all of you to give 4 minutes to listen to it:
Tell me what you think in the comments.
What can I say? I actually enjoyed labs this week. I also understood all of the lectures on Friday, which is a first. Also managed to finish my report due in on Monday.
After labs on Friday I helped Stage Crew with setting up for the foam party. OMG! It was intense! Soo coool! Epic proportions of foam bellow onto the dance floor. I was once again at the lights so I took the liberty of putting sirens on whenever the foam came on. I also used the strobe lights to great effect. It was a great way to end an otherwise good (but worky) week. The music was great, which meant I got some brilliant lighting going on (so much easier when you know the songs). One of my favourite bits of the night was using the strobes to Chelsea Dagger (The Fratellis – who I’m going to see live next month). It was also great because from the lampy booth you can see all the people on the dance floor pushing and shoving to get to the foam. I’ve never seen the dance floor so packed!
The first two pictures show the ‘small’ foam machine. The last picture try’s to show the big one (which is 4 times the size of the small one). So funny to see people disappear under a wave a foam for 20 seconds.
Whose ever idea it was to pump thousands of litres of foam onto a packed dance floor full of drunk students deserves a medal!
Circuit theory went well yesterday, continuing my good luck this week. Managed to make another dent in my Coursework yesterday and today.
Josh and I went to Channies (the student’s union bar and restaurant) for dinner, who can say no to a chicken burger?
More work after Channies, then Heroes.
Labs this afternoon, most probably will be agony (as usual) so looking forward to that … being over.
So, Tuesday I stated work on another assignment. Programming labs are always fun on a Tuesday. Maths was fine, so another day of understanding.
In the evening Lauren and I went climbing, managed a few walls that I had failed on before, which is always good. Also managed to do “the chimney” (basically a circular wall in the ceiling) successfully. Very happy with that.
After climbing, ventured over to Comedy Night with Sophie, Lauren, Hugh, Ben, Julie, Ed and Mark. The comedians were very funny as always.
Today, just had Digital Electronics, basically telling what I already know which makes it easier to understand. Next it’s Circuit theory, to avoid being bewildered I’ve just done some re-cap of last weeks stuff, hopefully I’ll be OK.
This afternoon is Channies for early dinner then me and Josh have a work session before I watch Heroes this evening. All good.
Had a good day today. Actually understood most of my lectures this morning, which is a bonus. Got plenty of work done, but never fear, still loads more to do…
Quiet night in doing work and watching Top Gear and Stephen Fry in America. All in all, a very lovely day. Long may it continue…
What a fun afternoon. Can I just say a quick thank you to all of you for making the effort to visit me today. I had a great time (despite the condoms and mugs!) especially the wonderful meal, thanks mum!
Unfortunately, they didn’t come out very well. But still, good to see everyone together.
This week:
On Monday I managed to make my very first lasagne with the help of Becky:
MMMM… Tasty.
My first portion!
Enough there to last me about 3 days, so I’ve had Lasagne the last 2 days.
Apart from the lasagne, I went climbing today. The usual fun and enjoyment ensued.
The lectures are starting to get harder, the 2 I had on Monday morning were very difficult. If anyone knows anything about charges in electric and magnetic fields, I’m all ears. As for Effective Isotropic Radiated Power and the Friis Free-Space formula, your guess is as good as mine.
Another good week has come to an end. Plenty of work this week, but managed to have a good week none the less. On Friday me, Mariana, Lauren and Hugh went to the fireworks display the uni held. Good fun, especially the long queue for the burger van!
On Saturday I spent the whole day with stage crew setting up for The Automatic gig that night. I ended up persuading them to let me do video for the gig. Me and Ed set up cameras and plasmas and managed to do live mixing between us. One of us was in the pit with the video camera, while the other mixed the video out live to the screens around the venue. It was fantastic fun and great experience to do the whole thing from start to finish. Now I know how to do it well enough that I could comfortably volunteer to do video for the next big gig.
Today I slept. Had a house visit to Tesco and tried to steal a trolley (we failed!)
Coming up this week:
If you want to visit Mum is organising a trip on Sunday, email her for details (because I have no idea what’s going on!)
Having a good week so far. Last night I attempted to grill sausages. I say attempted because there were flames. Don’t worry mum, I’m not injured (nor is anyone else for that matter), just a small fire. All was well, except the sausages and the grill which then had to be safety checked before we could use it again.
After the minor fire, went out to comedy night and had a great laugh. Love comedy night.
Sorry this is a bit short and probably not any good, but its 1am and I want to sleep.
OK, so I understand that its been a while since I actually sat down and wrote something proper. Here goes.
Thursday was a good day, I went to a climbing shop nearby with some other people from the climbing club. I bought climbing shoes, a harness, chalk bag, chalk, belay device and karabina. It was a cool trip, finally I have my own shoes and harness to go climbing in!
Friday we left for the Peak District to start the climbing fresher’s trip. Got to camp at about 1:30am and went to sleep.
Saturday we went to a crag and did some rock climbing!
The tent about 25 of us slept in.
The crag.
Doing some climbing.
The weather wasn’t so bad.
Almost there…
Caught between a rock and a hard place.
Went for a walk and chased some sheep.
Going down.
On Sunday we went to an indoor climbing centre and climbed for 4 hours straight. Really great fun.
Today, Monday, I handed in some coursework and have been getting back into the swing of things.
This week’s roundup:
Tuesday – Comedy Night
Wednesday – Climbing (yay!)
Saturday – Big gig in the union!
This is going to be a short post as I am very busy this week. So far everything is going great, got an assignment on Monday which is due in next Monday which has been messing up my plans a little, but nothing I’m not on top of. Its not difficult either so its just finding the time to do it.
Other than that, I did the usual climbing yesterday, really great fun. Still need to work on my endurance though as after climbing for 2 hours my hands want to fall off. Looking forward to the big trip this weekend!
Becky came over today, cannot say how great it was to catch up, shame she couldn’t stay longer!
Anyway, got to get some sleep before the haunt of Labs tomorrow!
That pretty much sums up my weekend. Thorpe Park on Saturday was great fun. I love Fright Nights at the best of times, but Saturday just seemed really good. I can’t put my finger on exactly why, suppose we managed to go on all the rides we wanted to, the queues weren’t as bad as I thought they would be, and we got to see two Stealth rollbacks! (I know I’ve lost all of you on that last point, but it had to be said!)
As for Sunday, I got some work done and managed to catch up on some sleep.
This week is set to be a busy one. I have the usual climbing session in the gym on Tuesday. My sister is coming to see me on Wednesday (YAY!). Trip to a local climbing shop on Thursday with the climbing club to buy harnesses, shoes and other climbing gear. Then at the weekend I’m off to Hope in the Peak District with the climbing club (I know, a lot of climbing!) for a weekend on the rocks!
Looking forward to all of that, but it does mean I have little time to do work. Luckily I’m fairly on top of it all at the moment, so it shouldn’t be an issue.
Logic gates were the subject of choice for this week’s labs. Luckily, not only do I completely understand logic gates, but I quite enjoy using them and solving the circuits. So this weeks labs were fun and the 6 hours flew by.
As for the other lectures, its Analogue Electronics that’s letting the team down, other than that, all is well. I got 27.5/30 in my Maths test, just a few trigonometry bits that I usually rely on a calculator for that were the problem.
Nothing much else this week, I’ve really been trying to get a lot of work done in the evenings, but still it keeps coming in. Got another assignment this week, so now I’m down to 3 assignments and 5 worksheets to do. Lots to do.
Thorpe Park on Saturday will be great fun, can’t wait!
Last night I helped turn Rubix into a Laser Quest venue. We had smoke machines, strobes, lost of lights and obstacles such as barrels and a golf buggy.
It was absolutely fantastic fun watching people playing while I was operating the lights. In between games we would check the smoke machines were working and make any tweaks to the layout.
The last game was the Stage Crew game. Obviously we thought it would great if we put all the smoke machines on full. A long story short, we set the fire alarm off! But, that’s ok because by that time we’d already set the fire alarm off over 30 times that night.
Once we got back in and turned on the house lights, I took some photos.
This is the dance floor.
This is the balcony. Bear in mind this is with the strobes now off and the house lights on. During the game, I couldn’t see more than 3 feet in front of me.
Each time the fire alarm goes off, it prints the alarm information onto a piece of paper. This is said piece of paper, and yes, all that on the counter as well. By this time, the alarm was still being set off.
Good times.
So after a weekend of Stage Crew and the Grand Prix, it was back to work today. Nothing says welcome back like 5 hours of lectures. They were actually all fairly straight-forward and nothing much to worry about in terms of adding to the workload either.
I hear that there are plans for a so called “Parish Outing” in the near future where you can come down for the Cathedral Service and have a look around my new home too. The latest I’ve heard is the 16th November, but talk to Mum for the details.
You don’t wanna know, but basically I had a great last night. We stayed in with a few of my room-mates and few others. Then today I’ve helped with stage crew for the afternoon, helping to set up for a big gig on Sunday night.
0000 – Decide to get some sleep as it has been a long day and want to be awake and ready for my 6 hours of lectures on Friday.
0030 – My wonderful room-mate Mariana decides to have a loud conversation on the phone in Portuguese, whatever she was saying, her laughter made it hard to get any sleep.
0740 – A full 20 minutes before I wanted to get up, but here I am. I suppose I must’ve got to sleep after all. But why am I awake. Oh, its just that constant piercing sound of the fire alarm. OK then, dressing gown on, shoes on, don’t forget your keys. Plod, plod, plod. “What room are you in?”, so I say my address. Plod, plod, plod, Sit. AAAH. The assembly point for this drill was the court common room. If I wasn’t so tired then I probably would’ve thought that it was a nice room and the seats very very cozy, as I’d never been in there before. As it was I quickly realized that I'd said the wrong address. Feeling more the fool, I went and corrected my error.
0750 – Back to sleep.
0800 – Rise and shine.
0900 – First lecture, signals and communications. I have no idea what this guy is saying or if I should even be worried that I don’t know what he’s saying. Luckily I have a copy of the notes, so I can hope he’s referring to them as they are pretty easy to understand.
1000 – Still half asleep into the second lecture: Analogue Electronics.
1100 – Now pretty much dead from the overload of information, Again, those notes will come in handy.
1130 – Time for a snack before my next lecture.
1200 – Engineering Mechanics. Either I’m not getting something or this lecture is so easy, a 2-year-old could do it. I don’t know what I prefer: Understanding nothing and worrying you’re an idiot, or understanding everything and worrying your you’re an idiot.
1300 – Finally, lunch time. Bramble Jelly on toast, my favorite! Only 3 hours of labs to go. Unfortunately given yesterdays series of events, the next three hours are not going to be over fast enough.
(Aside: Labs are basically a torture device comprised of 30 students locked in a room with electrical equipment, components and vague instructions. They then have to follow the instructions to completion and without fault, making notes and drawing diagrams and graphs, before the end of the session.)
1400 – WOO! HOO! LAB time! I start by redoing all of the work I did yesterday.
1430 – WOW! That really didn’t take as long as I thought it would. OK, now to check if it works. AHH. Better, but still not right. Whatever could be the problem………………………. Nope its none of those 17 million things I’ve just tried.
1630 – Maybe… Ahh, yes! Eureka! Right, now for the other 2/3 of the experiment.
1635 - “It looks like you’ve finally got that bit working, if you can get all the rest assembled and working by 5pm, I’ll be able to give you a good mark”
1700 - “Time to go”. Not now! I’m on a roll! Solder, component, solder, component… Why do metal detectors need so many parts!
1725 – Beep, Beep, BEEEEEP! YES!!! It works!!! That’ll be an A+ please. Thank you very much. *Skips Home*
Yesterday I went Ice Skating with Josh, how else would I have got this photo:
Everything is fine at the moment, lectures yesterday went well and I hope that the Maths test went well this morning. Struggled a little, but shouldn’t be too much of a problem.
Labs this afternoon were terrible. I assembled a circuit only to find it not working. Now tomorrow I’ll have to rebuild the whole thing from scratch. I’m enjoying it but it’s very annoying when even the demonstrator can’t get your circuit to work. Its not my fault, honest!
Having another quiet night in tonight and tomorrow in time for the busy weekend. More about that another time.
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Ah, Ha! The last thing I ate was the other half of a potato bake that I made yesterday, so there! I don’t just eat cereal.
You can see my fabulous ice-cream making skills are improving nicely, vital stuff for any student to know about.
Back to university life. It was a cool weekend, really enjoyed seeing everyone again. It was quite weird, because it felt like I hadn’t left, but at the same time I knew I had left. That probably doesn’t make any sense, but I understand. Shame about the Grand Prix, but apart from that the parties were fun.
I’m in the Launderette at the moment, waiting for the wash to finish.
I know that's a really bad picture, but that's all I got.I had a really great time and and enjoyerd it loads.
Since I was 'in town' I thought "why not go and visit all those people I used to know, like my parents. So here I am. For 1 night only.
Tonight I'm going to the Servers Party in church (hope to see a few of you there!) and then tomorrow I'm off, but this time to Birmingham for my Auntie's Birthday Party. So three parties in three days, who can complain.
So the sink was finally fixed Tuesday afternoon. Finally, I can live without being surrounded by dirty pots.
The way my timetable works is that I basically have a few lectures on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday and then pay for it on Thursday and Friday. Here’s the breakdown:
The worst part is this wonderful thing called LABS. They’re a total of 6 hours a week, 3 on Thursday and 3 on Friday. LABS ARE THE BANE OF MY EXISTENCE! They are frustrating and long and boring.
But, I can’t really complain because everything else is going really well (mostly).
As for Stage Crew, I helped out with Comedy Night (once again, very hilarious, and this time I got in FREE!) and a gig at Rubix last night called Score.
Score is essentially a themed DJ night for sports teams to celebrate their results from the last week of games. I use the word ‘theme’ in the lightest sense. It has a banner and an inflatable. However, the night was very enjoyable, I ended up on the disco lights again, when will they ever get boring to use?
Score did, however, mean a late night last night, getting sleep between 3:30am and 11am. I had to get up at 11am for a lecture at 12pm, so it only figures that the lecturer would turn up 30 minutes late.
I also went climbing yesterday, its still as fun as ever and this time I’m not aching for days afterwards.
Anyway, can’t sit here all the ruddy day, got some food to eat!
When you put hot fat down a sink pipe, the chances are that the sink pipe will not be too happy about it. Unfortunately, Sophie, one of my housemates, was unaware of this phenomenon. Since Friday evening we have been without the necessary functions of a sink. Washing has been piling up and up, until yesterday when I had to resort to using the sink upstairs to wash enough pots to make a curry.
Charles
AAAHHHHHH…
A good night’s sleep and a relaxing day is exactly what I needed. I’ve done my shopping and had a brief look over the last weeks notes and now I’m ready to face Monday!
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