Blog - June 2005
18:52 - 24/06/2005 - Ace! -
Yesterday, me, my sister and her friend Nicky (different one from last time) went down to London. Where, after driving around for 10 minutes trying to find somewhere to park because the uni car-park was closed, we cleaned up my room in halls and packed my remaining things into the car. We'd spyed a 24 hour car park on our earlier travels so we went and parked the car there (rather than leaving it on the streets of London full of my stuff). We called to High Street Kensigton where we had lunch in a italian resterant on a side street, which was extremely nice and extremely filling (and also quite expensive!) then spent the most of the time looking around the 'Urban Outfitter' store, where I bought the new Faithless' Greatest Hits album, Forever Faithless.
We then decided to get the tube to Wimbledon and queue to get in, we managed to get in after just over an hour, and then had a glance around the on going games before getting seats on court 18 to watch Nalbandian beat Kucera in straight sets (although it was a lot closer than that might imply) then went to court 2 and managed to get seats even though we hadn't paid for them, to watch most of the fifth set of double's, where an english team were winning, except failed to serve out the match and then the game was stopped due to failing light. We then ate at pizza hut (with appalling service until they undercharged us) before driving home. What an ace day (pun intended)!
23:49 - 19/06/2005 - Sun Burn -
Went to watch the AGS triathalon, made me feel pretty bad about being so unfit, if I didn't already say, my target for this summer is to substantially increase my fitness levels as since starting uni (and a bit before) I've been getting worse and worse for just doing sod all. My dad came third out of all the staff which is pretty damn impressive (given he's decades older than some of them), so well done dad!
Unfortunately I didn't wear any sun cream and it was a damn hot day, so the back of my neck and my right arm (though oddly not so much my left arm) are rather red and glowing! Thankfully my face isn't though! Once we go back from it I did just go fall asleep on the couch for a few hours, comes from going to bed very late 4 nights in a row and getting up before 9am each morning after. I saw Rachel for quite a while this evening, we got a take away and watched a DVD with my Sister and Nicky. Apart from the slight akwardness I really enjoyed her company, as I always do, which has made me, thoughtful, I guess is the best word.
03:00 - 19/06/2005 - Apple Sourz -
I'm back home! My stuff is still mainly lying in a pile downstairs but as you've guessed I've got the most important thing done which is connect up my PC! I'm just trying to decide if I want to be an uber geek and connect up one of the CRTs lying around, shame I can't have three screens really, lol. I'm going to have to go back down to London to finish off clearing out my room in halls, hand in my key, etc will probably do that thursday.
I just went out, with my Sister and her mates, had a good chat with them in the pub before moving to mainers (newport's iccle club), was a pretty fun night as I also met up with Preet and Gregs at mainers (and saw Tom [who's birthday it was], Jo, Amy, Ross & Micheal...). The blog title is in honour of a lovely drink that I had several of, and due the fact I couldn't think of anything better. Now I'm gonna be going to watch the Adams' Triathalon tomorrow which starts at 9 am! So I'm off to bed now.
13:10 - 17/06/2005 - 'Final Day' -
Today is going to be my final full day in halls, the feelings very weird, kind of comparable to when I first arrived, knowing that the foreseeable future is gonna be different from what I'm used to. Well I'm going to have to start packing soon, I just hope we're going to be able to fit all my stuff in the car / cars. There is a slight problem in coming home now, which is that I don't have anywhere to live next year, three of the people I'm going to be living with are going to be staying and looking for a place over the next week but I'm not too optimistic about that yielding results. I find it hard to be worried about it though, as I've just relaxed after my exams. I have no idea how I'm going to sort it though, it's not like it's something I can do by myself if as I'm sharing.
Last night was pretty entertaining, I invited Emma up to drink the last of my milk in hot chocolate form and we then spend about 3 hours going through the Now albums I have with me (as well as skipping through some of my older 'normal' albums) and guessing the track titles and artists, great fun with songs you've not heard in absolutely ages, and reminds you of the past and when you find songs you really liked and had completely forgotten about it's like rediscovering a (very) small part of yourself, heh. It's not certain if Em is going to be in London next year, but it seems unlikely at the moment, but I'll make sure her and Rob come down to London and see me occasionally (as long as those two are together I don't think they care where they are! How sweet). I should probably be trying to figure out what I'm going to do with myself over summer, but I'm going to ignore that and the fact I have no where to live next year for the time being and just starting packing, ignoring the problem might work... you never know! Oh while I remember a random request, can anyone that reads this entry leave a comment on livejournal with your name and possibly how often you read the site and if you read it at my site or in livejournal, I've just been wondering which people I know read this site and where, Thanks :).
00:02 - 16/06/2005 - Food & Home! -
You know what's not good for you mood in general? Not eating, you see not eating breakfast or lunch for 3 days in a row, and then eating almost no dinner means you have no energy whatsoever and the general description of your emotional and physical state can be surmised as: "meh". There is a way to combat this, Bagels! In addition Bacon & Brie, and possibly Cranberry can also be useful tools, so that's 3Bs and C, I have no idea what that might mean, someone’s A-level results maybe, but there is it.
I'm in a good mood now after having a few entertaining chats with friends and eating as much of Linstead hall dinner as I could tolerate, only 2 more meals of it, thank god. It's been a while since I posted an non-angsty blog as it were so I thought I'd take the opportunity and do it now, Carpe Noctem and all that. I'm off home this Saturday which is a partly a shame, because I won't be able to see uni people anymore & I'll miss the bright lights, unless I decide to go catch some trains that is. It's also partly a good thing, as I'll get to see all my mates from home again, yey! Now if you'll forgive me I might go to bed so I can get up earlish and go see the lab people's projects or lack of projects in some people's cases.
13:43 - 14/06/2005 - Dreams -
The oddest thing, for the last couple of years, I've very rarely dreamt anything, least not that I can remember, but recently over the last month or so I've started having dreams. None of them have been disturbing, but none have been entirely happy either, but I do think thinking about them after I've had them has given me a better idea about what's going on in my head. Unfortunately I'm not gonna share with you guys, in case someone who was in a few of them read it.
In other news I've had a hair cut, now me and Em tried to get a photo of it without me looking... well I don't photograph well, that's my excuse. Tactics included Emma going "BOOBIES!" then taking a picture, but all of those pics are far too high-res, so instead you'll just get this blurry small one, taken from my webcam this morning, well this afternoon really but it feels like morning if you know what I mean. I've got nothing else to do all day which sucks considering I've had stuff to do & people to do it with for the last few days, I'll just get some jobs that need doing done, then text a few people see what they are doing over the next few days.
00:18 - 13/06/2005 - Revenge of George Lucas -
I think George Lucas must hate anyone who actually liked Star Wars (the original three I'm talking about of course), this hate is so strong that he feels he must spend millions on creating three new films that ruin the originals and cause almost physical-pain to anyone who was just hoping to go see a good movie. You know one with a plot, good acting, and CG to back it up, just back it up, I would like to stress that just because we have CG effects, does not mean every single set & scene should be CG or have a CG backdrop. All that said I quite enjoyed Episode III, I just decided to ignore the plot and watch the lightsabres. Well okay I'll rephrase, I enjoyed the Obi Wan / Vader fight, for the rest, oh well, I had my student card with me so it wasn't as bad as it might have been. I think what made this movie so poor was that so many scenes did not follow what you might have considered to be their 'natural' path just because they had to end in a certain way, I think it would have been much better for Yoda to have been backed out of that fight with the Emperor (which he was winning) by small clone army, rather than "oh dear I fell over, better run away" or better still Master Windu should have just stabbed Anakin through the heart and then cut Palpatine's head off in one swift move and gone "Surprise!"
07:10 - 12/06/2005 - All Nighter -
I just pulled an all nighter, weyhey. I'm a little tired but I refuse to sleep out of principle, yeah.... well got quite a few photos over the evening, though I won't leave a link to them here, because I look incredibly unattractive in all of them, this is possibly because I'm quite drunk, or else just because I am incredibly unattractive. Anyway, good night for the most part, rather more expensive than I'm used to though. Well if you'll excuse me I think I'm going to do some washing up, that or go play video games.
Okay here's a link because they are taking up almost 20% of my hosting space, I've changed that hair thank god, oh and I was trying to get salt off my lips before the photo took in that first shot, was a bit too slow, anyways look 'ere.
00:29 - 11/06/2005 - Exams are Over -
It occured to me earler when I was dropping my stuff back at my room after my last exam that I haven't blogged when I've been happy recently. I was then but unfortunately since then I've depressed myself and not gone to something I paid £10 to go to. My sister helped cheer me up with a phone call, and I've got a bit more perspective of how great my life actually is by reading a bit about other peoples lives. I'm being far too self-absorbed lately, which I'm going to try and fix as soon as possible. I'm not gonna carry on blogging because I don't think anyone cares to here my depressive ramblings at the moment. I am feeling better than earlier but not quite happy again yet, so I'll go away now.
20:15 - 09/06/2005 - Almost Over -
I have my final exam tomorrow! This would be making me happy, except that I'm almost certainly going to fail it, this would be because of my extreme dislike for this 1.25% of my degree course, the best thing that can be said is that I don't need to pass it to get into my course next year but I may need to pass it to carry on doing MSci Physics with theoretical physics as opposed to MSci Physics or even BSci Physics, which isn't so good. Supporting evidence for my claim that I am going to fail this exam, is that I have not done a single classwork or problem sheet for the subject, ever, and in total I've done about 4 hours revision for it.
Now yesterday was quite fun, as most physics people don't do Maths Analysis most physics people had finished their exams yesterday so they went and got drunk, and I decided I'd join them. Although I didn't start like Nicki and Arun with 4 aftershocks, each, downed one after the other =/. I did however get reasonably drunk, enough to enjoy Chiliwedges from Southside Shop. I then decided that rather than go to bed early so I could get lots of revision done today (as I had planned and was the reason I didn't go to Minstry of Sound last night) I would play CSS with Ben and Colin and then just talk to Ben until around four thirty in the morning. This meant that I didn't get up until after 12 today and really didn't, and still don't, feel like doing any revision. Now I have the choice of going to bed early now and maybe doing a couple of hours revision tomorrow morning or taking some neurofen and doing a couple of hours now, getting less sleep and doing another couple of hours tomorrow. Unfortunately I'm very tired, so I may opt for the latter.
00:47 - 05/06/2005 - Not feeling too bad -
Considering my Computer totally fucked itself up earlier today, then after I 'fixed' it, it decided to fuck up again and lose me around 5 hours of work on de_dusk, and it's been crashing periodically since then stopping me doing anything particularly enjoyable for very long and considering I have an exam tomorrow for which I'm so unbelievable unprepared it's enough to make you want to cry, I'm not feeling all that bad. I think I've just completely run out of neuro-transmitters because I'm not really feeling anything really. So I'm going to go sleep for a few hours then do some quality last minute revision before my electronics and electromagnetism (except apparently degree students aren't clever enough for that so it's still 'Electricity and Magnetism') exam tomorrow, not that it'll do any good.
Update (11:53): I found that I'd backed the mapping file up in a separate file from the one that got corrupted, I have no idea why I did this as I never normally do, but yey! 5 hours of work restored to me, now I've just got to make myself go revise instead of doing more work on it.