Archive for the ‘Life’ Category

Well it’s not as the Coca Cola adverts haven’t been on but then again I think we maybe need to accept that they are not coming – we might have to celebrate Chrismukka without them. Still, I think I’ll live providing that the traditional values of giving multinational lots of your hard earned money to see short lived smiles on other people’s faces are upheld. Can’t wait until I’m the multinational.

Anyway let’s recap what has happened of recent. Saturday was Sarann’s birthday shindig which involved us going to Bourbon and then a series of other bars and restaurants in search of somewhere that wasn’t totally packed. Vain hope I know for Saturday night but it’s all about keeping the hope alive. We didn’t find it though and so ended up going home at 12ish as most people were too tired to brave Creation.

Then yesterday was our “students have finally gone home we can move in Bondi again” night. It kicked off with a meal at L’Oranise which was quite nice and then (after much insistance that it was important we went given flights and plans were scheduled months ago to allow us to go) we headed to Bondi via cake at Sarann’s. I didn’t have a brill time there but we ended up coming back to mine to eat the recently purchased fast food where I had a really good talk with Sarann and she introduced me to the joy of hurting people (or Taekwondo as she calls it) which was awesome.

Finally today I slept. I got to bed at like 3-4ish and slept until 10 when I got up to borrow some DVDs off Michelle before she left and then went back to bed and slept again till 3-4ish. The best part is I can continue to sleep until Saturday :D. It’s been literally months since I’ve had more than one consecutive day off so I intend to take full advantage of it.

Went to see the Lostprophets last night after Phil kindly volunteered his ticket after I was unable to obtain one myself. It was a good gig, Graham seems to disapprove of my comment that the lighting effects and technical aspect of the show were very impressive but well, they were.

The band rocked too. Although they didn’t really have flow – they seemed to just stop in between songs and occasionally strum their guitar in a quick effort to tune it or something. That said frontman Ian did his best to try and get the audience going.

We were towards the back so as usual most of the show involved me screaming my lungs out while everyone around me just stud and watched but that’s there loss :p. Plus B did her share of singing and everyone got going by the end so it’s all good. And importantly I got a t-shirt which is very important given I’ve totally run out of clean ones.

And Sarann said “what about, breakfast at Mac-ey D’s?”
I said “I think that, everything comes burger shaped”

So there we were. Sat round in DEC-10 having pulled an all-nighter on coursework. So it seems like a good idea to go to the D for breakfast. After all it was somewhat pre-planned. Last time we were walking home from town myself and Sarann discussed the idea of doing an all-nighter than going to McDonald’s for breakfast.

Si was a breakfast virgin and went for the quite solid choice of Bacon and Egg McMuffin as did Sarann. I went for the McBacon Roll. I feel it’s a classic. It’s weird how many coursework deadlines end there. I mean, me, George and Si went down after we did the first SE20 coursework and me and Sarann went down after doing the AI21 coursework. It’s quickly developing into somewhat of a tradition.

Atheist Soc is moving! We had a societies assembly today, the block bookings form is filled in, the funding request form is filled in, plans for events are being drawn up things are just generally moving! So yeah, yay.

The coursework deadlines are drawing ever closer so most of the evening was spent in DEC-10 working on SE20. I’ve got most of the code done now to the point where I have a to do list I’m working on. You can always tell when you have the bulk of a project done when you find yourself creating your own little to do list of things to finish off before you’ve achieved everything you wanted to achieve.

Around 10:30ish myself, Si and Michelle finally gave in to our bodys’ desire for food and headed off to get takeaway with the plan of hypothetically going back to labs afterwards. By the time we had finished talking which was well, nowish, we decided it was probably best to get some sleep instead :p.

Still, it’s been a really cool night. It’s cool to spend time just chilling out with people especially as people are going to be disappearing off for Christmas in a week or so. Of course now comes the inevitable choice – to go to bed or to watch some X-Files. Hmmmm.

Friday was George’s birthday so we were Otley Running it. It was going to be a costume superheros and supervillians themed Otley Run however it got cancelled in the end. Amusingly enough George decided not to spread the word that it was cancelled and so Charlie, Sarann and Claire came in costume anyway,

It was a decently successful run we made it all the way down to the union although we did skip the Arc (no loss there) and The Pack Horse. Still, usually Otley Runs fail well before there whereas the plan was to go to Fruity so we reached our destination. Those of us that didn’t have tickets (most people that weren’t George) headed back to The Library but Phil got turned down because he didn’t have ID so we went for food and dissolved.

Google has given up with Google Answers – the site has stopped accepting questions and will stop accepting answers by the time the new year arrives. Interestingly enough, Yahoo Answers is growing massively successful. I don’t want to go on another rant here so I’m going to stop and let you reach your own conclusions – see my previous blog posts about Google.

I didn’t really post this today. It’s backdated. But I couldn’t be bothered making a full post about my sister’s 18th birthday party on Saturday so I’m going to turn it into a happy birthday post and set it back a few days ;). So yeah, happy birthday Katie!

I got to The Library last night around 10ish to find that Sarann had managed to get Si to come out. I was quite impressed plus it’s always good to have someone to talk to while Michelle and Sarann were busy systematically bullying Claire (that’s a whole different story :p). By the end of the night we had talked Si into getting his car, picking B up, taking her home (she had twisted her ankle and so couldn’t walk) and then taking us to Asda – at 1am.

So yeah, we ended up in Asda at like 2am doing a food shop. I managed to somehow spend over £18 even though I’m catered though I did buy a lot of Ribena which adds a lot to the price and I got plenty of snack food too so we had something to eat on the way home.

Overall I rate Si quite highly. He of course understands all the WoW jokes and he has a car (a nice car too!) plus he has his bedroom really sorted – bed, chair, computer. Therefore I am awarding him a well deserved 4 out of 5 stars. Probably the highest score you can get without sleeping with me.

Interesting read.

The worrying thing is, it is actually believable.