Archive for the ‘Life’ Category

Yep, LUU has once again opened their ballot boxes reminding students that it “only takes two minutes.” Which of course it does if you want to make a very uninformed decision and therefore void the entire point of a democratic election. What is worse is you have to vote for the referendum, NUS elections and union council elections all at the same time so I was unable to vote for the ones I wanted to vote for while making an informed decision at a later date about the ones I had yet to research.

As for encouraging more people to vote – I’m against it. The fewer people vote, the more my vote counts for. The system already works – the people that care already vote and the people that don’t care, don’t vote. Why force people who don’t care to vote? It therefore does not represent the opinion of what people want because the people who actually care have less of a say in who is elected. Anyway, vote for Matt hippies!

How drunk was Michelle last night?

More to the point, how do you get that drunk without consuming any alcohol? Not that I’m complaining. We got the word out that we will be looking for strippers to work in our club next year when we convert the kitchen into such a venue. I also now have quite a good list of potential people to set up an arranged marriage with Michelle.

Last night was the final heat of Old Bar Idol before the final after Easter. Computing was represented once again, this time by Hootie who also became the second person to formally fill out an application form for the circle. Kieran and Matt seemed to have a good time too as the video and photos contained on mine and Norm’s phones respectively will testify to. It was great to see everyone having fun in the midst of the winter depression. Good turn out as well, we had around fifteen of us sitting in the group.

It was about ten minutes after we had got outside after work that I began explaining how I was doing my dissertation for my phyics degree on the phenomenon known as the Hasselhoff Recusion. For those not familiar with said phenomenon, observe…

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I stood at the back of the kitchen about 1am this morning and thought to myself “I really don’t want to have to come back here again tomorrow and do this all again.”

I felt better once I got outside but still, I grow tired of the constant flow of activity. I made the mistake of giving my body a few decent night’s sleep this week (due to me feeling ill on Wednesday and then my always highly ancipated Saturday morning lie in) and now it’s got a taste for metaphorical meat – it wants treating properly all the time now.

I look forward to Easter. I’m hoping I can resist the temptation to grab more shifts at work and sleep through msot if it as I could really use the rest. My metaphorically 24-7 lifestyle is starting to reflect that of those already caught in the rat race and it’s scaring me a little.

While I’m feeling the strain myself, I’m far from alone though. We recently seem to have been hit by a wave of doom that has been getting people down. The group doesn’t seem to be our sociable selves, lunch attendance numbers are poor and even when people do come, nobody eats or drinks anything.

We only had two organised lunches this week. Two! Indeed the only reason we had a second was because Norm sent a text asking if there was some lunch plans so I threw some together. Thursday there were two of us there, myself and Michelle. Two people! What is that about? Friday also saw lunch plans though I don’t class them as “organised” as Si simply asked “are we going to The Llama?” at like 2pm so we just grabbed whoever was in DEC-10 and headed down.

I suppose the failings of Monday and Tuesday could have been my doing. With Michelle not eating anything due to the Sports Ball and Kieran tiring of The Llama, there were no backup organisers to sort things out when I didn’t, which I didn’t due to general apathy (take that Si, you’re not the only one who can use apathy in a sentence :p).

I think everyone is currently tiring of life in general though. I’m feeling lots of unease and tention from the circle. I’m hoping Easter will cure this Winter solace (I know what the word solace means and that this sentence makes no sence I just think it’s a nice word to fit there providing that you completely ignore it’s actual meaning).

Maybe we are simply seeing things through jaded glasses. I mean, we’re still hitting The Old Bar quite a bit so it’s not like the social scene for the circle had died. It simply feels lackluster at the moment.

I think I’m going to expand on this topic at a later time. Unfortunately that means you’ll have to read more of this rambling crap at a later date. I’ll try and add some silly crap too to keep you entertained.

Yep, it’s already that time again. Here is my list for this year. The top 3 where placed there in some kind of order. The rest where just randomly placed. As you’ll notice I continue my quest to get Lara Croft back into a good rank. There are of course many, many fit females missed off my top 10 though I think my choices are fairly self evident to be good ones.

1. Lara Croft
2. Sarah Michelle Gellar
3. Carmen Electra
4. Charisma Carpenter
5. Michelle Branch
6. Christina Aguilera
7. Mary-Kate Olsen
8. Adriana Lima
9. Holly Valance
10. Jessica Alba

Jenny’s list consisted of a little more free thinking. In no real order…

1. Jessica Alba
2. Elisha Cuthbert
3. Kate Beckinsale
4. Monica Bellucci
5. Salma hayek
6. Sarah Michelle Gellar
7. Tera Patrick
8. Angeline Jolie
9. Avril Lavigne
10. Brittany Murphy

Ms Lavigne making an appearance is probably one of the most contraversal names on the list though I have to say I agree, now she has dropped she “sk8r boi” crap she looks great.

Feel free to add who you voted for in the comments so I can shoot down your list :p.

OMG it’s already March! I thought it weird I hadn’t blogged since the 28th until I realised the 28th was only Wednesday. I got quite a lot of sleep in after finishing GI on Wednesday night as I was feeling ill so I went to bed at 10:30. Then last night I went to speak to the debate society about the debate we want to hold with the Christian Union and then spent some time in The Old Bar.

Today I’ve got an SE24 group meeting which I’m not looking forward to as our project is going nowhere though Si assures me nobody elses is either. Once that’s done I’m done for the day sort of. I’m done with formal SoC stuff like lectures and labs so I just have several hours of running around doing other tasks as my to do list is now up to three pages. Fun.

I was speaking to Kay today who said that we can get hold of the grassy area opposite the union for Rationalist Week. Next step, find a tent from somewhere. I need to speak to events as well, I’m hoping Katy will get back to me about the debate with the C.U. so that I can schedule our fundraiser.

The hippies from People & Planet were in the Green Action Zone last night. They told me they had it from 5-7, which they didn’t. Lieing hippies, you just can’t trust them. Looks like we’re going to have to re-schedule the screening of the documentary as we only got the first 15 minutes watched.

To go back to the debate point, it’s looking good, the new committee has taken over from the old one and I got a call from the new female president, Katy, saying she wanted to get things organised which is awesome, we will hopefully have it sorted for the final week of term.

Wow, I can get wireless network in Pulse. I’m down here sorting the music out for Claire’s art fund raising dealie. It’s a bit dead on the ground but it’s still very early so I’m sure it will pick up in the next half an hour or so as most people said they wouldn’t down until then anyway. I’m running two external hard drives to provide me with all the music which is pretty cool as it gives me so much more than I had with just the one last time. I need a new bigger one really.

Speaking of such events that take place in venues at night and feature music, I spoke to events about getting a club night organised. It’s not cheap to rent a union venue if you’re not a society. Maybe it’s like that in general but you basically need to charge a high ticket price and fill the venue to make it worth doing. Given most alternative nights don’t (not that I’m planning an alternative night) fill the venue I’m suprised there are any running at all.

I smear the inner contents of an apple pie over her naked flesh and proceed to slowly lick it off with my tongue.

Yep it’s another late night close which is as always followed by the appropriate late night x rated activities. As we were leaving last night Zoe remarked after washing her arms that they were so clean you could eat of them. I was dubious. But turns out she was right. One nothing I guess. Though it save me on a bit of washing up so I feel everybody won really.

It’s silly o’clock (that means it’s very late) and I’m in Eniac. Why? Coursework of course. SY23 is due in at 10am on Monday morning and having no plans to be up at that time due to the fact I am working the close on Sunday it was either come down tonight and hand it in or come down tomorrow night and hand it in. Given I would be cutting myself quite short on time if something went wrong tomorrow night I decided tonight was the best night to do it.

I was able to do most of it from home actually, using SSH I was able to upload the files (by FTPing them to my web host then individually getting each file with wget, a bit messy and slow but the easiest way I reckon) and set all the permissions and such and I was able to view the development server by making a VPN connection to SoC.

The problem that our school still requires hard copies of such things as reports though resulted in me having to drive over at 4 in the morning to hand it in. I need sleep dammit! Which is a good idea, I’m going to go and sleep now. Well, I’ll drive home first, driving while asleep is quite dangerous I’ve heard. I don’t actually know this for a fact but it is one of those things I don’t want to risk you know.