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| Free! |
[16 Dec 2005|11:32am] |
Just finished my last exam, which means I'm free! Until Janurary, anyway. I am however very tired, as I have had little sleep for the past three nights, and I was up at 7am this morning. Teh suxor. This is another reason I was not able to make it to November Hotel last night, which is a terrible shame because it would have been fun.
I'm currently in the IT suites (E, predictably), waiting for the world to warm up a bit because it's bloody freezing. This afternoon I shall be getting the last of my christmas shopping. I may also pick up a new book to read, as I have just finished the latest Song of Ice and Fire (or Fire and Ice? I can never remember) and will need something to do over the weekend. I have Resident Evil 4 to play, but I'm near the end of that - which happens to be very good, apart from Fucking Ashley. Bitca.
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| Procrastinaiton |
[06 Dec 2005|06:11pm] |
For the past week I have had the desire to do many things. Things like tidy my room, update my website, read my book, put up christmas decorations, go to the gym, and much, much more. Unfortunately I did not have the time to do any of these, as I had to revise for my psychology exam. Now that I do have time to do these things, I no longer care to.
I had a feeling it was just the procrastination talking, anyway.
In other news, I keep waking up at 7am. When I don't need to be up any more. When I did need to be up at 7am, my body would be quite happy to sleep in until 12. And you know what I say to that?
Veto.
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| Work |
[14 Nov 2005|10:55am] |
So, what have I been doing recently? Not a lot. Watching season 1 of Angel in a long-distance thon with Jai (I've seen up to and including Sanctuary, by the way), playing Star Wars: Battlefront 2, which has wonderful replayability, and work.
Work is quite cool. I've only done a four hour shift so far, and I can see how the six hour ones could get really dull, but there's never absolutely nothing to do, since I can just sit and watch whatever movie we have playing. Most of the time I'll be able to decide what goes on anyway. Depending on how hard I work, I may or may not get free movies - but I can always watch the sample movies anyway, which is cool because we usually get them before the movie is released (although they do have the time counter running on them).
Also attempting to get exercise, by actually going to fencing, and then going to the gym yesterday. I'm investgiating the University swimming pool, and how feasible it would be to use that once or twice a week.
I shall hopefully be going to see Harry Potter on friday, which is just one more reason why I love having most of fridays off.
And because I'm bored: This is the problem with LJ: we all think we are so close, but we know nothing about each other. I'm going to rectify that. I want you to ask me something you think you should know about me, something that should be obvious, but that you have no idea about. Ask away.
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| War Planets |
[28 Oct 2005|08:40pm] |
Anyone remember, absolutely ages ago, I went on about a CGI cartoon that I'd seen and couldn't remember the name of? Many's the hour I've spent looking for it online but to no avail.
Turns out they have a DVD of it at work. S'called "War Planets: Shadow Raiders".
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| Life is good. |
[28 Oct 2005|10:09am] |
Wednesday was a very good day indeed. On that day I got the job in the video shop (hooray!) and I also found out Stargate had been renwed for another season (yay!).
I've also remembered what I forgot to mention when updating last time. In maths at the moment we have started doing hyperbolic functions, which are written as cosh, sinh, tanh, etc, but they are pronounced cosh, shine, and than. I thus find it difficult to sit through a class without being reminded of Life of Brian, and laughing hysterically.
The lecturer also pronounces the greek letter epsilon as ep-Cylon - which it is entirely possible is the correct pronounciation, but it just makes me think of BSG.
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| Somewhat Useful Update |
[26 Oct 2005|11:37am] |
There's one or two things I've been meaning to update with recently.
Firstly, the not-so-good news. My great aunt died at the weekend. She was in her nineties (I don't know her exact age) and had been ill so often recently, it's probably for the best. It hasn't really affected me much since I didn't see her often, but it's weird to think that the number of family members that I can name is now down to eight. I have to miss the funeral (which is tomorrow) because I have a maths test I must sit if I want to pass the course, and when I asked if they could give me it at a different time they said it was 'too short notice'. Yes, well, these things usually are.
Second, the good news. I applied for a job in the local video shop, and have been to an interview. What the job entails is not much different from my current job, but bonuses include being able to sit down, being warm, an extra £1.25 and hour, and no golfers. Well, fewer golfers. It would be roughly ten hours a week - on thursday evenings and at weekends - and is, in a word, perfect. The interview was on monday and they said they'd get back to me soon.
Thirdly, the I've-forgotten-what-I-was-going-to-say news. I'll get back to this.
Finally, the end-of-the-world news. I realised I hadn't checked my phone in hours, and when I did, it was 19:19. Almost had a heart attack. Also, in the last two maths homeworks, I have recieved 19 marks. My bus passes thus far have both expired on the 19th of the month. This is getting silly.
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| Random Bored Quiz Entry |
[24 Oct 2005|01:52pm] |
| Your Hair Should Be Blue | 
Wild, brilliant, and out of control.
You're a risk taker with an eye to the future. |
Well, duh.
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| Nano |
[19 Oct 2005|10:52pm] |
Why yes, that is my brand new iPod Nano, all shiny and...er...covered in fingerprints.
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[06 Oct 2005|11:34am] |
So, obviously, the updating my LJ with crap every day hasn't happened. Which is a plus, probably. I've just resorted to surfing all of the web pages I've ever visited continuously. I actually dragged myself back to the KT the other day ("The KT Awards"? Popularity contest.) and amused myself by looking at the signitures of the people in the Critter&RP forum who are convinced that they have impressed 500 pernese dragons of all colours, shapes, sizes, and sports. Then there's the creatures they make up themselves. Really, what is the point?
While looking at these sigs I stumbled across one with a banner that said "Dark Fort: Live Fast, Die Horribly" and I was intrigued enough to check it out. Seems it's a PBeM where the characters are not in any way Mary Sues, and are in fact an all lot like the sort of people you might expect them to be. As in, egotistical bastards. So congrats to the Dark Fort people for doing something original.
After doing all this Pern-related stuff, I had the urge to get out my Dragonriders of Pern PC game last night. When it first came out, it took ages to load since it was pretty graphics-intensive, but that was about four years ago. So I tried installing it on my laptop and I get this error message "Problem with installation: minimum requirements not met. Game requires Pentium 2 or more."
My laptop is a pentium 4.
Eventually I found a patch that is downloadable from the Ubisoft site that makes the program recognise pentium 4, but I was mightily displeased.
So, what else have I been doing...
Oh, I have 9 o'clock starts every day which means I'm up at seven. After a year of not getting up before nine, this is quite painful and I wish it would stop. Alas, holidays are eight weeks aaway at least. On the plus side, I seem to be getting the weekends free of work, so I get long lies then.
Oh! Finished the Dark Tower. Enjoyable, though not the ending I had hoped for.
Um...oh yeah, one of my psychology lecturers looks like Dominic Monaghan, so I hope that makes some of you jealous.
Hmm. I'm fairly sure I have more to say, but that's all I can think of right now.
...and after having typed that, I looked at my icon and realised I have one more thing: Go WATCH SERENITY. In the UK it comes out tomorrow (advance screenings today), in the US and Australia it's been out for about a week. It's awesome.
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| The Adventures of Leppy McGee |
[29 Sep 2005|06:06pm] |
Heheh, I was looking through the stuff I have on the computer and I came across the beginnings of a story that I started years ago. And so I present it to you, my humble reader, edited only minimally since first written.
( Search for the Stick )
There were going to be a lot of other characters, including a Grey Bear, an Evil Scottish Munchkin, and a little yellow rubber duck called Dal, and the main villain was going to be a Mary Sue called Magenta who killed people using the colour pink.
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| Discrimination |
[26 Sep 2005|03:04pm] |
Since I was born, I've been discriminated against for a reason that most people seem to overlook. As some of you know, my surname begins with a 'W' and this means that whenever classes have to be split up and the most logical way to do so seems to be alphabetically, I am inevitably in the last group. Now, while this may not seem like such a big deal to those who have never suffered it, it can be a right pain in the arse.
Like today, for instance, where my surname puts me in a 4-5 class rather than a 3-4 class. The 3-4 class would allow me to return home, have tea, drop off some stuff and pick up some other stuff, before coming back in for 7 this evening. But because I finish at 5, I can't do that.
Irritating as hell, so it is.
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[23 Sep 2005|12:24pm] |
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Today, I have already been into town, gone to Uni, done a bit of shopping, and come home. This time last week I'd probably still be in bed.
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| Brainstem! Brainstem! |
[21 Sep 2005|11:31am] |
When attempting to learn the names of different parts of the brain I find most information goes in one ear and out the other, but not, it seems, when they are sung to the tune of Camptown Races by Pinky and the Brain.
Genius.
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| Day Two |
[20 Sep 2005|03:43am] |
This is back-to-Uni day two, and also the second day in a row that I have updated my LJ. Noticing a pattern?
Mondays, for me, are horrible. I have maths at 9-10, then a two hour wait before psychology at 12-1. Another hour and I have Philosophy 2-3, and after that there is two more hours of psychology related stuff. For almost an hour yesterday in the psychology related stuff, we did standard deviation.
This is the fourth time we have done standard deviation in psychology. Contrary to popular belief, standard deviation is not dfficult. There are four basic steps involved, which you cannot fail to complete if you have a calculator, and can make a good attempt at doing without one. It is understandable that people would need to go over standard deviation, but not four times, and especially not when you get the computer to do it for you anyway.
*ahem*
Tuesdays are almost the same, except without the added psychology related stuff. Wednesdays are just maths and psychology. Thursdays are maths, followed by philosophy tutorial, followed by a three hour wait, followed by two more hours of maths. Fridays (bless them) are just maths. All of this means that I will be bored for a lot of the time, with nothing to do except ramble on my LJ. Lucky you!
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| Tradition |
[19 Sep 2005|09:52am] |
Thus does my second year at University begin in the same way as the first - with me running around the campus trying to find my maths class. I got in ten minutes early and thought that if it wasn't in the same place as last year, I'd have time to go to the IT Suites and find out where it is...but of course, the IT Suites don't open until nine, when the lecture was supposed to be. So we (I was with a friend) thought we'd try the library instead, which also didn't open until nine, then we checked the Harris building where someone had told me there might be a maths class. Wandered around the Harris building and bumped into the lecture, with a nice man standing outside who asked us if we were looking for second year maths. Yes! We went inside.
Of course, when he said second year maths he meant second year engineering maths, so we left that class quickly. Since it was now just after nine, and the IT Suites would be open, that was our next stop. After spending five minutes or so looking around Blackboard, we found reference to a room called G5 - great, it's in the same building as we are! Run off to G5. No one was there.
Last resort, we think, is to go to the maths building. So we wander off up Perth Road to the maths building, and talk to the nice maths secretary who is a woman named Laura, who told us we were supposed to be in G8. Yes, that does happen to be two doors down from G5. To make matters worse, we had also investigated G6 and G7. But not G8, noooo.
Back to the Tower Building, and into G8 - only half an hour late. But they were only revising stuff anyway.
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